Ralph Dawson (born in Westborough, Massachusetts on April 18, 1897; died November 15, 1962) was an American film editor who also did some acting, directing, and screenwriting. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing four times, and won the Award three times.
Total trailers found: 75
14 January 1928
A press sheet printed in Exhibitors Herald and Moving Picture World in 1928 put forth the suggestion that “people in the need of a good hearty laugh should take this opportunity of getting it” by seeing a newly released comedy by Warner Bros.
01 July 1950
Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs.
27 April 1930
Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
14 March 1928
Rose Shannon, a dancing girl at "Kelly's," in the 'Tenderloin' district of New York City, worships at a distance Chuck White, a younger member of the gang that uses the place as their hangout.
21 November 1936
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
13 May 1938
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
17 September 1930
A group of strangers find themselves aboard an unmanned ship, surrounded by fog and uncertain of their destination.
01 October 1950
The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation.
03 May 1931
A stage star finds herself torn between a wealthy older man and a handsome younger one.
05 December 1948
A man kills his terminally ill wife to prevent her further suffering.
26 November 1953
Army despatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and her son living in the midst of warring Apaches, and he becomes their protector.
10 September 1949
An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to the boyfriend of a young debutante from Bel Air.
04 December 1950
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.
25 May 1944
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
01 October 1955
An American Merchant Marine captain, rescued from a Chinese Communist jail by local villagers, is "shanghaied" into transporting the entire village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
09 October 1935
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
05 October 1940
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
23 June 1939
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman.
24 October 1952
Retired rodeo champion Jeff McCloud agrees to mentor novice rodeo contestant Wes Merritt against the wishes of Merritt's wife who fears the dangers of this rough sport.
03 July 1954
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-to-San Francisco flight that takes a terrifying turn when disaster strikes high above the Pacific Ocean after the point of no return.
01 November 1949
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
01 November 1950
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama.
26 June 1937
While on leave, British officer Col. John Wister meets Julia Ashton, a widow who steals his heart despite her overwhelming grief.
30 April 1937
Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince.
26 August 1936
Based on the novel by Hervey Allen, this expansive drama follows the many adventures of the eponymous hero, Anthony Adverse.
08 July 1932
Baroness Teri von Horhenfels deals with the tedium of her aristocratic Vienna life with a long line of lovers.
01 November 1933
A newsboy enters a boxing championship where he is matched with a sick friend.
24 April 1942
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers.
22 December 1939
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
01 October 1945
Laurent van Horn is the leader of a band of Dutch refugees on a ship seeking freedom in the Carolinas, when the ship is wrecked on the coast of Cartagene, governed by Don Juan Alvardo, a Spanish ruler.
08 April 1929
French General Birabeau has been sent to Morocco to root out and destroy the Riffs, a band of Arab rebels, who threaten the safety of the French outpost in the Moroccan desert.
01 May 1948
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever.
05 September 1953
A C-47 transport plane, named the Corsair, makes a forced landing in the frozen wastelands of Labrador, and the plane's pilot, Captain Dooley, must keep his men alive in deadly conditions while awaiting rescue.
19 October 1935
Dr. Socrates gives up his brilliant surgical career at a prominent hospital following the death of his betrothed under his knife.
26 June 1947
When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, or her lover, Dr.
03 November 1934
In a Vienna apartment building, a handsome but conceited actor terrorizes a neighboring family into moving out.
15 December 1931
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner.
27 October 1928
A young doctor is accused by his pretty wife of paying too much attention to one of his woman patients when she makes a pass at him.
04 January 1941
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
10 January 1932
Gar Evans is a con artist, who pretends to be the owner of a "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber Company", and he is looking for investors.
02 February 1942
Five young adults in a small American town face the revelations of secrets that threaten to ruin their hopes and dreams.
24 December 1952
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
19 May 1951
A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishingboat realises that it's a U-boat supply ship in disguise, loaded with torpedoes.
01 April 1930
A cowboy arrives in a small town and winds up trying to help a local rancher stop a gang of cattle thieves while romancing a pretty young girl.
03 December 1949
Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to open up a mountain vacation lodge.
17 May 1947
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
16 September 1931
The adventures of a cocky con man and his beautiful accomplice.
30 October 1942
New Yorkers Bill and Connie Fuller have to move from their apartment. Without Bill's knowledge, Connie purchases a delapidated old farmhouse in Pennsylvania, where George Washington was supposed to have actually slept during the American Revolution.
04 March 1933
Showgirls Kay and June are stranded on Palm Beach when they become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who has gone missing on her wedding night.
30 September 1931
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
04 December 1937
A politician's wife plots for her husband to become the next U.S. President.
22 September 1935
Captain John Kent is a pilot in charge of the border patrol. Two crooks who head up a smuggling operation, Morley and his associate Faber, are trying to outwit Kent.
25 August 1928
Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar.
09 August 1938
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together.
05 April 1941
After a newlywed's husband apparently dies in a plane crash, she discovers that her rival for his affections is pregnant with his child.
08 October 1956
On an airliner bound for Hong Kong, Tony, a career crook who deals in stolen diamonds, agonizes over whether he should stick with his girlfriend or pursue Pamela, an intriguing novelist with whom he's instantly infatuated.
09 August 1941
Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang.
24 December 1938
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason.
29 December 1934
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star.
