Will Cowan

Short film featuring band leader Stan Kenton and vocalist Anita O'Day.

A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.

A 400 year old disembodied head hypnotizes a female psychic, who recovered it using a dowsing rod, to search for the rest of its body.

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.

This edition of Universal's "Name Band" shorts (production number 2312) features Tony Pastor, his saxophone, his orchestra, the Nilsson Twins, the...

Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra with Dottie O'Brien, The Mello-Larks and Bill Lawrence.

Production number 5302 in Universal-International "Name Band Musical" series of shorts featuring Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra, with a...

The busty blonde bombshell of big band and swing music is the charming host and lead performer of this short and entertaining vintage film featuring...

This "Name Band Musical" short from Universal (production number 3302), filmed in November of 1947 and released on December 3, 1947 (which should...

This 1946 film stars Phillip Terry as a war veteran, who is persuaded by machine politico Donald MacBride to run for alderman. Ann Savage plays the...

Saved from a lynching party by a pair of young women, an itinerant cowpuncher signs on as a stagecoach guard to protect a shipment of gold.

Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.

Short film featuring performances by Frank "Sugar Chile" Robinson, Billie Holiday and Count Basie and his sextet. From the Cinema Apart Collection.

This short film shows the musical career of Nat "King" Cole, shows the ups and downs of his career, his conquest of illness, how he switched from...

This short film shows the musical career of Nat "King" Cole, shows the ups and downs of his career, his conquest of illness, how he switched from...

A sheriff tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and homesteaders.

The beautiful owner of a silver mine in Mexico asks an employee for help when bandits keep robbing her shipments.

A partial remake of and using footage from 1941's "Rawhide Rangers" this Western short is about a ranger who pretends to turn outlaw in order to...

In this remake of and using stock-footage from 1941's "Arizona Cyclone," Tex is a daredevil freight-line driver who, with the aid of his pals Smokey...

Gloria Jean sings two songs in the Universal musical short, which also features The Sportsman Quartette, the Milt Herth Trio, the singing trio of...

The Universal Name Band Musical short (house-production number 3306) features Red Ingle and His Natural Seven Band, and band vocalist Karen Tedder....

Young man just out of college tries to persuade his father, who owns a record company, to start signing up rock 'n' roll acts.

Unable to complete the deal by telephone, advertising executive Roberts sends his assistant Ann to Cuba to lure a Cuban band, led by Desi Arnaz, on...

This entry in Universal's series of "Musical Westerns" shorts has Tex Williams, assisted by Deuce Spriggins and Smokey Rogers, bringing his six guns,...

This film and the 1950 short "The Fargo Phantom" were edited together and released as a feature called "Tales of the West #2" in 1950.

When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die because he was angry with the man. Riddled with...

15 minute musical short featuring Lawrence Welk and his Orchestra

This is an entry in Universal's "Name Band Musical" series of shorts. Welk and the band open with a medley including "Josephine", Stumbling",...

Musical western short

A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.

Restored film directed by Will Cowan in 1943

Short directed by Will Cowan as tribute to Duke Ellington

Cheyenne Jones comes to the Blue River Ranch and asks for a job as a cowpuncher. Actually, Jones's real name is Buck McCloud and he's the new owner...

This Universal "Musical Featurette" eatures a slight story line woven around the comedian Pinky Lee and Universal glamour girls Mamie Van Doren and...

Paula, the ape woman, has survived the ending of CAPTIVE WILD WOMAN and is running around a creepy old sanitarium run by the kindly Dr. Fletcher,...

Artist David Stuart is blinded by a jealous model whose portrait he is painting. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring...