Movies: Donald Novis

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston us...

Zasu & Thelma go out with two idiots to a nightclub....

When Stephen, the husband of Gerald’s mistress, Claire, discovers a pair of tickets for their planned trip to Venice, Gerald must invent a wife to cover their tracks. He is then forced to hire a woman to play “his wife” when Stephen insists he and Cl...

A narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their can...

Andre and Colette Bertier are happily married. When Colette introduces her husband to her flirtatious best friend, Mitzi, he does his best to resist her advances. But she is persistent, and very cute, and he succumbs. Mitzi's husband wants to divorce...

A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up....

An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption....

A countess fleeing her husband mistakes a count for her hairdresser at a Monte Carlo casino....

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Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the...

After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion....

The top brass at a radio station believe their popular new star singer is paying more attention to his love life than to his career....

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime....

A manufacturer and an impresario (who has promised some young people he will stage their show) are twin brothers causes a lot of confusion when the manufacturer is mistaken for his no-money brother....

An insurance salesman persuades his sister to help him meet a radio star so he can sell the celebrity a policy....

This film is a compilation, with narration by Steve Allen, of comedies from the old Mack Sennett silent studio. Sennett, himself, appears in a cameo at the end of the film....

An Irish grandfather tells his young grandson stories of his roots, his courtship with his grandmother and love of freedom through stories and song....

This Mack Sennett produced short has Donald Novis playing Danny O'Brien, a young singer whose mother takes him to a talent agent office where she demands that the owners listen to him....