George Lessey Movies

An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes down with the disease.

A remake of a 1917 Dustin Farnum Western, Durand of the Bad Lands is the story a rancher falsely accused of a crime actually committed by Sheriff Clem...

The son of a sheriff is caught in the eternal battle between sheepmen and cattle ranchers.

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his stock...

This western, with its simple story set in a gold mining camp, recycles many of the elements found in David Belasco's influential play, THE GIRL OF TH...

The theft of an important document from the ambassador's residence leads his daughter to investigate the crime.

A random passer-by is invited to a bachelor party of rich men where he tells a tale of loss to those present.

Henry and his pal Dizzy become Boy Scout leaders, but a spoiled brat in their troop quickly proves to cause them no end of trouble.

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the bi...

This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother...

A woman suffers a nervous breakdown and an oppressive mother before being freed by the love of a man she meets on a cruise.

The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.

Hired actors posing as Russian royalty complicate a social-climbing mother's efforts to fix up her son with the daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher.

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast abo...

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New Yor...

Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters ous...

The eldest of three sisters protects their Fifth Avenue mansion from a developer she once married.

Jimmy and Mary get a group of kids together to play in a school orchestra. A huge contest between schools is coming up and they have a hard time raisi...

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

Kildare tries brain surgery, advised by Dr. Gillespie, and faces a rival for nurse Lamont.