
Directing
Leslie Goodwins
Born — Died
1899-09-17 — 1969-01-08
Place of birth
London, England
Known for
Directing
Credits
43 titles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leslie Goodwins (17 September 1899 – 8 January 1969) was an English film director and screenwriter. He directed nearly 100 films between 1926 and 1967. His 1936 film Dummy Ache was nominated for an Academy Award in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). He was born in London, England and he died in Hollywood, California.
Known for
5.5After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
The Mummy's Curse
1944
4.5A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
Millionaire Playboy
1940
Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end.
Better Behave
1928
5.4A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
5.3A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Tarnished Angel
1938
3.3Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
Harris in the Spring
1937
Film credits
1930s · 2 titles
Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.
Tired Feet
1933
6.3The stooges join the "Women Haters" club and vow to have nothing to do with the fair sex. Larry marries a girl anyway and attempts to hide the fact from Moe and Curly as they take a train trip.
Woman Haters
1934
Behind the camera
5.5After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
The Mummy's Curse
1944
4.5A young millionaire gets hiccups whenever he kisses a pretty woman.
Millionaire Playboy
1940
Physical comedy drives this vehicle for then-famous clown Poodles Hanneford, part of a legendary British circus family. Already pushing forty but impeccably nimble, he plays suitor to beauteous, heavily daddy-guarded Betty (Betty Walsh) and the duo try their hardest to elope. This is an essentially plotless series of gags but they're good ones, well above the producing Weiss Brothers' average at the time. While "Poodles" never quite parlayed his big-top celebrity into screen stardom, he occasionally appeared in movies as late as circus-themed Hollywood spectacular BILLY ROSE'S JUMBO. He passed away five years later in the Catskills, no doubt surrounded by a diehard old-school showbiz community to the end.
Better Behave
1928
5.4A pair of shipboard smugglers have a large diamond hidden inside a small elephant statuette, which they plant on absentminded Lord Epping to get it past customs. Now, his lordship is visiting Uncle Matt Lindsay who looks just like him. Thanks to flirtatious Diana's efforts to get the elephant back, the comic confusion proliferates, with 'spitfire' Carmelita (now a blonde) playing a prominent part.
Mexican Spitfire's Elephant
1942
5.3A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
Tarnished Angel
1938
3.3Band leader Phil Harris, through a misunderstanding, finds himself with a job as a professional escort, and a date to take a rich young society girl to a night club. She picks the club where the Harris band is playing. Phil is kept busy trying to keep the band from telling the girl who he really is, and to keep the girl distracted enough so she won't notice he is leading the band.
Harris in the Spring
1937
8.0Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
Fireman Save My Child
1954
4.8Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
Mexican Spitfire Sees a Ghost
1942
4.6An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.
The Mexican Spitfire's Baby
1941
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, and Edgar takes Frankie home with him, even though the stranger warns Edgar that the young man is nothing but trouble.
Tramp Trouble
1937
Edgar impulsively invites his boss, Mr. Markham, to his home for dinner when his boss compliments him for giving coffee money to a down and out man. At the train station Edgar intervenes, keeping another man from beating a young man named Frankie, and Edgar takes Frankie home with him, even though the stranger warns Edgar that the young man is nothing but trouble.
Tramp Trouble
1937
8.0Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.
Almost a Gentleman
1939
8.0A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
Mr. Doodle Kicks Off
1938
6.3Michael Lanyard is suspected of stealing two fabulous diamonds from a vault in Scotland Yard, where they were being held for safekeeping, but the Yard can't prove he did it. Later, Lanyard is summoned by a member of the nobility to help the latter raise money to pay a blackmailer. Lanyard later finds evidence to reveal the diamonds as having been stolen by a famous stage star.
The Lone Wolf in London
1947
6.3Errol's wife goes back to work, despite his objections.
Should Wives Work?
1937
5.8Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.
Crime Ring
1938
5.2A Texas oil millionaire, after failing to secure oil lands in Argentina, seeks out a famous racehorse in Buenos Aires and orders his representative to buy the nag at any price. The representative, Tim Kelly, has a love affair with Lolita O'Shea, the beautiful daughter of the prize horse's owner.
They Met in Argentina
1941
6.5A bayou girl (Debbie Watson) and her kin (Frank McGrath, Denver Pyle) have run-ins with some rich folks.
Tammy and the Millionaire
1967
7.0Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
The Rainmakers
1935
6.0Dennis mistakenly believes Carmelita is going to have a baby. Little does he know that the blessed event is her cat's new kittens.
Mexican Spitfire's Blessed Event
1943
4.6A draftswoman, the sister of an aging, alcoholic pilot, secretly uses her brother's ideas to solve design problems for an experimental military plane in an attempt to save the company and salvage her brother's reputation.
Men Against the Sky
1940
7.2A faded star is suspected of killing a studio executive.
Fugitives for a Night
1938
7.5Two bumbling GIs manage to get themselves invited to a dinner party at a boarding house "for women only". When the cook comes down with scarlet fever, the authorities quarantine the house and the pair find themselves locked up in a house full of attractive women.
The Adventures of a Rookie
1943
5.1Carmelita Fuentes is a fiery-Latin singer/dancer in Mexico City who has designs on Dennis Lindsay, an American publicity agent, for unclear reasons, while Lindsay's shiftless uncle Matthew Lindsay aids and abets her every step of the way to the marriage altar.
The Girl from Mexico
1939
5.7A young woman, a trio of singers, and a mystery writer are among the guests at a house long-considered to be haunted.
Murder in the Blue Room
1944
Leon's wife and her fellow amateur actors decide to play a joke on Leon, which backfires when he doesn't realize they're acting.
Stage Fright
1938
5.5Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Dummy Ache
1936
5.5Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Dummy Ache
1936
8.0Trouble ensues when a new theatre-restaurant owner discovers the backer to be a harmless and moneyless lunatic.
Paris Follies of 1956
1955
6.3A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.
Riverboat Rhythm
1946
7.5A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.
The Day the Bookies Wept
1939
NRGreen Harvest (1949) is an industrial-educational film sponsored by Weyerhaeuser Forest Products and produced by Wilding Picture Productions, using a fictional couple’s forest debate to showcase scientific forest management and timber harvesting practices. Directed by Leslie Goodwins and starring Inez Cooper, it circulated extensively in mid-20th-century educational and community venues.
Green Harvest
1949
10.0An angel returns to Earth to help a Broadway producer put on a show, so a struggling young actress will have a job.
An Angel Comes To Brooklyn
1945
6.0An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.
Let's Make Music
1941
4.0Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
Anything for a Thrill
1937
5.0Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by one they end up in the lake.
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
5.0Sailor Snub and his buddy meet two lovely ladies while on shore leave. They rent a car to impress them and drive the ladies to the park, where one by one they end up in the lake.
Here Comes a Sailor
1928
6.7Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.
Genius at Work
1946
9.0In this comic western, a Broadway star leaves his musical revue to go West and help out his troubled friend. While there, the performer finds himself forced into becoming the town sheriff. Mayhem ensues, but somehow, the crooner manages to round up a band of killers.
The Singing Sheriff
1944
Members of the Hall Johnson Choir play members of a church congregation in the deep South in 1936. THey hold an open-air tent-and-camp meeting in order to raise the funds needed to send the church pastor, played by Clinton Rosemond, to a church conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
Camp Meetin'
1936

