Rodney Bell Movies

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.

A Montana lawyer gets distracted after moving to California with his wife and children.

A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local...

Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.

Director Peter Godfrey's 1950 drama, inspired by true events, dramatizes the crime spree of the notorious jewel thief known as "The Hollywood...

Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.

Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their...

A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.

Joe's fiance doesn't like his obsession for chasing fire engines.

Celebrated detective traces and finds beneficiaries to the will of a gold prospector murdered by bushwhackers.

A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose...

A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.

Hospitalized Eric Loudermilk Potts tells his story to a golddinging nurse. He's a bridegroom who misses his own wedding because he can't stop chasing...

When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again...

A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco's North Beach district.

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Byron Turner, a 15-year-old runaway from the Eatondale Orphan Asylum, receives a ride into the rural Missouri town of Delphi with rich land-owner...

Roy and Gilbert's fishing trip takes a terrifying turn when the hitchhiker they pick up turns out to be a sociopath on the run from the law. He's...

Jim and Connie's postwar New York building troubles keep Jim from working on his novel. Ex-WAC from Jim's army days Roberta moves in, further...

Joe MacDoakes' next-door neighbor, Marvin, comes over to help him fix his lawn-sprinkling system, but they get the pipes crossed with the gas-line...