Pete Smith Movies

Pete Smith does his usual mocking observations while the overweight Maxine Gates goes through the trials and tribulations of losing weight. The agony...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, we take a music quiz, plus survey various unusual musical instruments.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

A series of questions testing one's knowledge of fun facts about horses and equestrian in general are asked. The questions deal with horse age and...

In this Pete Smith Speciality, the audience is asked a series of multiple-choice questions on various subjects.

Romance of Radium is a 1937 American short film directed by Jacques Tourneur, and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This short film tells the story of...

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the...

This Pete Smith Specialty short shows newsreel clips of people performing strange stunts. Among those featured are a motorcyclist driving through a...

The Green Bay Packers teach football tips.

This short features professional bowler Andy Varipapa. He first shows the correct way to grip a bowling ball and the proper form for delivering the...

La Fiesta de Santa Barbara is a 1935 American comedy short film directed by Louis Lewyn. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a series of vignettes illustrate some ways that mothers-in-law irritate, and/or cause problems for, their...

In this Pete Smith Specialty short, a husband endures the trials of being married to a wife with irritating traits.

In this final entry in the Pete Smith Specialty series, Smith pays tribute to actor and stuntman Dave O'Brien, who took many falls and spills (and...

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

An attempt to explain the economic cycle of inflation and unemployment.

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

Beautiful women allow men to crack whips and throw horseshoes at their heads.

In this short, members of the California Water Bugs club demonstrate new ways to get thrills when water skiing.

This MGM Oddity features the 1933 National Football League champion Chicago Bears. The team demonstrates various plays, which are shown first in real...