Charles McAvoy

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion...

Never-wed, poor, rough around the edges Apple Annie has always written to her daughter, Louise, in Spain that she is married and a member of New...

Jackie throws his schoolbook out the window in disgust, but then climbs outside to retrieve it. Finding himself locked out, he tries various means of...

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

While on trial for her life, a young woman recalls her tough upbringing and her involvement with the men who brought her to this current state of...

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Mason is a former race-horse owner who gave up everything and started to drink after the death of one of his jockeys. One day he meets Goldie who has...

A sailor falls for a gangster's moll, leaves his wife and finds himself caught up in a life of crime.

When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.

When reporter Dan Miller is once again late to meet his girl friend, Helen Murdock, because he is working on a story, Helen breaks up with him....

In this musical short, a man tries to woo the manager of a dance troupe.

The king is a juvenile dolt who tries the patience of the shrewish queen. While she's in the throne room awaiting him, he's outside playing with...

A timid man undergoes a personality change, and turns the tables on the people who've bullied him.

Revenuers have been chasing a gang of bootleggers for years. They're hot on the trail near a gas station operated by Harry, a seemingly slow witted...

Jimmy, the owner of a failed music shop, goes to work with his uncle, the owner of a food factory. Before he gets there, he befriends an Irish family...

Patsy is coerced into faking a broken leg in order to win an insurance settlement after an automobile accident.

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One...

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to...

A sister and her disturbed twin are implicated in a murder and a police detective must figure out which one's the killer.

The gang is participating in a program sponsored by the Golden Age Dramatic League. They present their own fractured version of Quo Vadis. Things go...

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

Spanish language version of The Big Kick from Hal Roach.

As far as the rest of the world is concerned, mill heiress Deborah Chandler Clark is dead, killed in a freak auto accident. But Deborah is alive, if...

The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his...

After a good-natured Irish cop is framed for a diamond robbery and murder and presumed dead in a train wreck, he gets plastic surgery and returns to...

A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when...

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a...

A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fates.

Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers...

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain known as The Ghost, who can turn himself invisible.

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

A gang of urban street kids and a club of suburban would-be federal agents, at first rivals, join forces to rescue the father of one of the kids, the...

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll's Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading...

Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an...

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things...

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the...

A policeman doubles as a gunman to get in with the mob.

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it...

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem,...

Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.

The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the...

Two hoodlum brothers are brought into a hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one of them dies the other accuses their black doctor of murder.

Catherine Sykes disappears after a midnight drive with Professor Andrew Gentling . When she's presumed murdered, his friend Martha convinces him that...

An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in this propaganda film.

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

Rich kid Wally brings the gang back home to play, along with their mule.