Harry Shannon Movies

A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice...

Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown...

A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.

Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The...

Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his...

A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was...

Jeff Carter has put an end to the town's delinquency with a boys' club. Young hoodlum Danny shows up and influences teenagers Doris, Willy and Leo....

An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students,...

A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.

A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was...

An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.

A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher...

Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his...

A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.

Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex...

Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all...