Directing

Ben Holmes

Known for

Directing

Credits

43 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

There Goes My Girl poster
7.5

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.

There Goes My Girl

1937

Cockeyed Cavaliers poster
5.8

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

Cockeyed Cavaliers

1934

Petticoat Larceny poster
7.0

An 11-year-old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.

Petticoat Larceny

1943

The Saint in New York poster
6.5

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.

The Saint in New York

1938

The Saint's Double Trouble poster
6.0

Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.

The Saint's Double Trouble

1940

No artwork available
10.0

An early example of the merging of silent and sound film, known as a "part-talkie", at a time when film-going audiences couldn't get enough of the new talking pictures. FLYING HIGH is part of the fourth series in a continuing film serial about The Collegians, college students who find their way in and out of adventures on campus. This short features a mishap during a flying contest in which an inexperienced pilot assumes the roll of his professional friend.

Flying High

1929

Maid's Night Out poster
5.9

A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.

Maid's Night Out

1938

I'm from the City poster
7.0

Pete Pepper is a shy, timid circus performer who is scared to death of horses, but rides like a whirlwind when he has been hypnotized by "Ollie" Finch. Pete is entered as a competitor in a wild-west cross-country obstacle race...and has to ride without being hypnotized.

I'm from the City

1938

The Plot Thickens poster
6.2

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

The Plot Thickens

1936

Pretty Dolly poster
8.0

Leon Errol plans to buy a doll as a gift for his wife; misunderstandings ensue.

Pretty Dolly

1942

No artwork available
7.0

Lew Kelly is a walking cuckoo-clock who thinks he is a judge. Leon and Eddie are two drunks who think they are drivers. They crash together, and Lew gets trapped in the middle. Leon and Eddie finally come to terms and leave Lew amidst the wreckage. The next day, Leon answers a court summons, only to find that Lew is the presiding judge, after sneaking in and taking over the job as the regular judge is absent.

Hit and Rum

1935

The Farmer in the Dell poster
7.0

An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

The Farmer in the Dell

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Edgar Kennedy comedy short.

Sock Me to Sleep

1935

No artwork available
9.0

Edgar Kennedy comedy short.

Sock Me to Sleep

1935

Too Many Wives poster
7.2

An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.

Too Many Wives

1937

We're on the Jury poster
6.2

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

We're on the Jury

1937

No artwork available
NR

The last short in The Blondes and the Redheads series.

Pickled Peppers

1935

No artwork available
10.0

Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns from a trip. His solution to pass them off as his uncle and niece from Alaska doesn't work out very well.

Say Uncle

1944

No artwork available
8.0

Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.

Little Orphan Annie

1938

Cutie on Duty poster
10.0

Leon Errol buys his wife a gift.

Cutie on Duty

1943

No artwork available
10.0

The boys try to snare an unsuspecting sucker in an insurance racket, in this riotous Clark and McCullough comedy featurette.

Flying Down to Zero

1935

No artwork available
NR

This entry of Universal's Sporting Youth series goes to the racetrack. The father of Cudgie (Sumner Getchell) has a horse entered in the Big Steeplechase. Judy (Ann Christy, Cudgie's girlfriend, learns that the jockey has taken a bride to throw the race, so she replaces him and wins the stock-footage race from a Universal feature film.

Steeplechase

1930

Melody Cruise poster
5.0

A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.

Melody Cruise

1933

Prunes and Politics poster
7.5

Edgar is running for county supervisor against his mother-in-law. Edgar, whose campaign is going nowhere, decides to try some dirty-tricks style tactics but, as usual, everything backfires on him.

Prunes and Politics

1944

Double Up poster
9.0

Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.

Double Up

1943

No artwork available
7.0

The comedic duo of Bobby Clark and 'Paul McCullough' are tailors who will keep you in stitches -- of laughter. See Bobby in a kilt play the bagpipes!

In a Pig's Eye

1934

No artwork available
9.0

Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.

Duck Soup

1942

No artwork available
8.2

Smugglers are on the loose and a thriving black market in salami is plaguing the nation. Clark and McCullough are hired to catch the smugglers. They are soon up to their ears in salami.

Kickin' the Crown Around

1933

Lightning Strikes Twice poster
5.2

An actress goes up to a dude ranch for relaxation, when she falls in love with a ranch owner recently acquitted of his wife's murder.

Lightning Strikes Twice

1934

No artwork available
9.0

Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.

Hot Foot

1943

No artwork available
7.5

A wealthy scion's dinner party becomes a shambles when two window washers, masquerading as magicians, invade the place with their pet goat.

Hey, Nanny Nanny

1933

No artwork available
8.0

A candidate for Congress visits Mr. Bowman at his farm to ask for his vote. In reply, Mr. Bowman recites the title poem. It tells the story of his son, Bill, who answered his country's call to war. When Bill went to fight, he was a whole person, but he returned wounded in body, mind, and spirit.

Whisperin' Bill

1933

Unlucky Strike poster
NR

The boys wreak havoc at a bowling alley in this riotous Chick Chandler/Tom Kennedy comedy featurette.

Unlucky Strike

1934

Alibi Bye Bye poster
3.7

The story, if you want to call it that is about a husband who tells his wife he's going hunting but actually sneaks off to fool around in Atlantic City. While the wife, says she's going to Washington D.C. but is also sneaking off the Atlantic City. once there the husband goes to a scenic photographer who fakes pictures to cover for straying spouses. Later the pictures are delivered to the hotel where all parties literally run into each other!

Alibi Bye Bye

1935

Dear! Deer! poster
10.0

Errol goes to a convention with his pal, but upon his return tells his wife he was on a deer hunting trip, and then lapses into amnesia.

Dear! Deer!

1942

No artwork available
3.5

Lawyers Blackstone and Bodgett's first case is a divorce proceeding between a wealthy husband and his wife. The wife, her lawyer and a friend are shooting for a large alimony settlement and split it three ways. Blackstone and Blodgett (up to their usual bag of Clark & McCullough tricks) wind up as heroes in the newspaper headlines.

Odor in the Court

1934

No artwork available
4.5

A mob boss is ready to kill when he discovers a pair of ex-cons pasting up his wanted poster all over town.

Snug in the Jug

1933

No artwork available
8.0

Ruth Etting is looking to get away from the glare of publicity for a few days so she heads to the countryside and takes a room in a small boardinghouse. She makes the acquaintance of the owner and her young son who works as a soda jerk in the ice cream parlor and notices that he is teased by the other kids in town so she comes up with a way to help. Ruth sings "St. Louis Blues" & "It Had to Be You".

Melody in May

1936

No artwork available
8.0

Comic short about how rumors spread.

Drawing Rumors

1935

No artwork available
NR

A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.

Foolish Hearts

1935