Fred Kelsey Movies

Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.

A crusader tries to keep a dope dealer from corrupting children.

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get...

An eccentric, fluttery bachelor is dismayed to discover an undressed woman in his apartment.

Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setback in his usual manner, the two-dollar fine...

Believing he has only a month to live, average guy Joe McDoakes decides to live life to the fullest in the time he has left.

Michael Lanyard's faithful butler Jamison is mistaken for his boss by a gang of jewel robbers.

Patsy's working at Rumplemeyer's Donut Shop in Brooklyn. By accident she catches Mr. Rumplemeyer's trousers in the donut machine as he's leaving to...

A cloak room girl (Alice White) falls for a rich boy who may not actually be rich.

This primarily two-set programmer has a has-been criminal lawyer, Anthony Sommers (William V. Mong) wrongly accused of murder and follows the efforts...

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on...

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

Story of a rich man who backs a show for an old man and his granddaughter from the East Side who has brought joy to the money bag's crippled son.

The sheriff, Dan Beckham, and his deputy, Bud Cameron, are posting signs offering a reward for the capture of Cheyenne Harry, accused of holding up a...

A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit.

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 bank robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the...

Tom Sinclair sets out to clear his fiancée's father after he is wrongfully convicted and sentenced to hang for a murder actually committed by...

Richard Arlen is the convicted murderer and Adrienne Ames his sister who believes in his innocence. We see the murder and the framing set-up at the...

Six burglars separately break into the Vickers mansion on Long Island to loot the safe but catch each other in the act. They all pretend to be...