Spring Byington Movies

  • 1939
    Too Busy to Work

    Too Busy to Work

    Too Busy to Work

    01939HD

    The Jones family females decide to teach Father a lesson. He's neglecting the family business to run for mayor, so they decide to neglect their...

    Too Busy to Work
  • 1936
    Every Saturday Night

    Every Saturday Night

    Every Saturday Night

    01936HD

    First of the Jones family movies with kids who ignore father and get consolation from mother through a series of family episodes.

    Every Saturday Night
  • 1950
    The Skipper Surprised His Wife

    The Skipper Surprised His Wife

    The Skipper Surprised His Wife

    4.71950HD

    A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

    The Skipper Surprised His Wife
  • 1947
    Little Mister Jim

    Little Mister Jim

    Little Mister Jim

    41947HD

    After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.

    Little Mister Jim
  • 1938
    Safety in Numbers

    Safety in Numbers

    Safety in Numbers

    01938HD

    The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.

    Safety in Numbers
  • 1936
    Educating Father

    Educating Father

    Educating Father

    01936HD

    Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

    Educating Father
  • 1940
    Young as You Feel

    Young as You Feel

    Young as You Feel

    01940HD

    Father sells his drugstore and the Jones family heads for New York to enjoy sophisticated city life. They lose all their money before deciding to go...

    Young as You Feel
  • 1937
    Big Business

    Big Business

    Big Business

    51937HD

    A small town drugstore owner (Jed Prouty) hopes to strike it rich by investing his savings in an oil well. Comedy.

    Big Business
  • 1954
    The Rocket Man

    The Rocket Man

    The Rocket Man

    6.31954HD

    After procuring a special ray gun, a precocious orphan helps his community by exposing the shady doings of local government, and plays a part in a...

    The Rocket Man
  • 1935
    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    81935HD

    The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

    The Great Impersonation
  • 1939
    Quick Millions

    Quick Millions

    Quick Millions

    7.51939HD

    In Hollywood the Jones family runs into crooks who convince them they have inherited a gold mine at the Grand Canyon.

    Quick Millions
  • 1951
    According to Mrs. Hoyle

    According to Mrs. Hoyle

    According to Mrs. Hoyle

    51951HD

    A retired teacher sells her apartment to a group of gangsters.

    According to Mrs. Hoyle
  • 1938
    Down on the Farm

    Down on the Farm

    Down on the Farm

    01938HD

    Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

    Down on the Farm
  • 1937
    Hotel Haywire

    Hotel Haywire

    Hotel Haywire

    01937HD

    Parkhouse plays a practical joke on a poker-playing buddy by sending him home with a lady's chemise stuffed in his coat pocket. The gag backfires,...

    Hotel Haywire
  • 1938
    Love on a Budget

    Love on a Budget

    Love on a Budget

    01938HD

    This late entry in the popular "The Jones Family" series of '30s comedies has the family contending with a troublesome (and possibly crooked) uncle...

    Love on a Budget
  • 1935
    Orchids to You

    Orchids to You

    Orchids to You

    01935HD

    An unlikely courtroom romance blooms between a flower-shop owner and her unscrupulous landlord's married attorney.

    Orchids to You
  • 1937
    Green Light

    Green Light

    Green Light

    6.41937HD

    A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research...

    Green Light
  • 1944
    Reward Unlimited

    Reward Unlimited

    Reward Unlimited

    61944HD

    Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

    Reward Unlimited
  • 1938
    A Trip to Paris

    A Trip to Paris

    A Trip to Paris

    11938HD

    The Jones Family heads to Gay Paree in celebration of the 25th wedding anniversary of Pa and Ma Jones. It doesn't take long for the Joneses to be...

    A Trip to Paris
  • 1937
    Clarence

    Clarence

    Clarence

    01937HD

    The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone....

    Clarence