Noel Madison

Security guard, wounded in a robbery of furs, arouses the suspicions of an insurance investigator.

1945 film nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Short Subject, Two Reel

The two-man Laurel and Hardy Zoot Suit Band find themselves fronting a scam for "gasolene pills" in wartime oil-short America. They are however soon on the side of the angels helping recover $10,000 for an attractive young lady whose family have themselves been swindled.

One dark and stormy night, an escaped convict, an embezzler, a runaway daughter, her intended and her father, and a gangster take refuge in a remote inn called "The Black Raven" after the nickname of a second gangster who owns it; and murder ensues.

Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.

The film tells the story of Chinese guerrillas fighting for the Allied cause in Burma during Early in World War II, Chungking schoolteacher Lin Yang is recruited to help with the dangerous mission of protecting the Allied supply line from Burma into China. In spite of the danger involved, her determination to help is strengthened when one of her young students is killed in a Japanese air raid. Some time later, she is part of a group of Allied representatives departing from Lashio, on a bus traveling the Burma Road back to China. A bridge outage forces them to spend the night in a monastery along the way, and during the night they watch in horror as a supply convoy of trucks is bombed by Japanese planes. The timing and accuracy of the raid brings them to realize that either one of their group, or perhaps the priest in the monastery, is really an enemy agent

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.

Joe Smith es el típico americano medio. Trabaja para una fábrica de aviones donde se está construyendo un nuevo bombardero. Este proyecto provoca que Joe sea secuestrado por agentes enemigos. Pero Joe Smith resulta ser todo un héroe americano, pues no sólo no dice nada de lo que sabe, sino que posteriormente ayuda a la policía en su investigación para detener a los secuestradores.

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

Like the first entry in Columbia's "Ellery Queen" series, Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery depicts its amateur-criminologist hero as an oafish ignoramus. This time around, Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to help out.

Errol Flynn es un superficial caballero de la alta sociedad. Su carácter frívolo poco hace sospechar a los que le rodean que tiene una doble vida. Compagina su faceta más exclusiva con una labor como escritor de novelas de misterio y colaborador de la policía.

Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short tells the fictitious story of a bill counterfeiting ring and explores the government's attempt to curb counterfeiting.

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty.

Chan, in Paris for a reunion with friends from World War I, becomes involved in investigating the murder of a munitions manufacturer who was supplying arms to the enemy, even as the rising clouds of World War II force the city into nightly blackout status..

John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.

Wealthy Nicky finds himself engaged to gold-digger Lady Constance, but he really loves scatty model Diana. Complications, slapstick and mountaineering are the result.

London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.

Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him

Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

Believing they can make a ton of money, a gang of opportunists uses the country's racial and ethnic tensions to start a Ku Klux Klan-type organization.

Newspaper reporter becomes involved with gang of crooks who take her for a tough American gangster.

An Italian immigrant studying the law gets mixed up with crooks.

Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.

Los magos del humor, Laurel y Hardy, interpretan a dos marineros encargados de entregar un valioso paquete en el puerto donde, por casualidad, viven sus hermanos gemelos, felizmente casados. Los gemelos y sus dos novias se intercambian, por error, con sus hermanos. Uno de los más divertidos trabajos de los míticos Laurel y Hardy, conocidos en España como El gordo y el flaco. En esta ocasión interpretan dos papeles cada uno, lo que fue posible gracias a los magistrales trucos fotográficos del cámara Rudolph Maté, uno de los grandes directores de fotografía de la historia del cine

A couple of naïve girls get themselves unwittingly involved in the gambling racket in this Poverty Row production directed by the redoubtable Phil Rosen.

A mob witness is hiding in a remote mountain cabin together with his young son.

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or die in the attempt. At the company offices, he meets Carol Carter and she, believing he is a shyster (possibly redundant) lawyer in the employ of the racketeers gives him as little help as possible. Dan visits his brother Eddie, who is mixed up with the gang and tries to make him break away. Eddie is belligerent but finally, because of the pressure brought by Dan and his wife Tonia, agrees to go straight. The gang, led by "Duke" Trotti, fears he will squeal and they kill him, plus they make his death look like an accident and plan to collect on it. Dan is closing in on the gang when Carol, who is now his assistant, comes up with some conclusive evidence, but "Duke" has plans to get rid of her before she can give the information to Dan.

The story is told in flashback. Backers want a gambler to marry a rich girl for her dowry.

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters, blackmail and murde

Famous private detective Tip O'Neil is summoned by telegram to the estate of old friend Paul Harding, but finds the telegram was sent by Paul's attractive secretary, Amy Hutchins. Paul admits his dog was shot by extortionists to show they mean business, and shows Tip some threatening notes they sent. That night, Paul's ward, Corinne, is kidnapped by two gangsters and her driver is found dead the next morning. The kidnappers contact Tip demanding $200,000, which is delivered according to instructions. Awaiting the return of Corrine, Tip learns her fiancé, Gene Leland, is an ex-convict, and he also investigates why a thug, Maratti, was found prowling around the grounds, and why Paul's brother-in-law, Jim Glenray, was seen leaving the estate late the night before. And when the chauffeur is murdered with Amy's gun as he was about to confess some complicity, Tip has to piece together various clues to pinpoint the culprits.

When gangster's bullets put an end to the career of H.J. Barton, underworld gambling czar who masquerades as a respectable member of high society, his daughter Carol is left to bear the brunt of social stigma.

Drug dealer on the run from the law meets an innocent young girl and her brother, and turns them into “cocaine fiends”.

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in order to allow a reward of $50,000 to benefit an impecunious family headed by Tony Orsatti and his three sons, Blackie, Doc and Flash.

A counterfeiter gives up her life of crime and goes straight. She gets a job in a bank, but the members of her former gang hear about it and try to blackmail her into helping them rob the bank.

Ann Grey, condenada por un asesinato que no cometió, escapa cuando un accidente de tráfico le concede la oportunidad. Recibe la ayuda de un joven abogado, que la esconde de la policía con la ayuda de su mayordomo. A la chica también la buscan los mafiosos que cometieron el crimen, pues creen que conoce el paradero de 250.000 dólares en bonos. Cuando los gangsters la secuestran, el abogado pide la ayuda del fiscal del distrito y de la policía.

Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.

Un abogado abandona su profesión para convertirse en agente del gobierno con la intención de descubrir al asesino de su mejor amigo. Las primeras investigaciones le conducen hasta un gángster que fue compañero suyo de la infancia. Mientras resuelve el caso, en escena aparece la hija de su jefe, de la que se enamora locamente.

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.

A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.

Dos niños que han perdido a sus familias en un accidente son adoptados por el mismo padre. Sin embargo, el destino los llevará por caminos muy distintos y hará que se enamoren de la misma mujer.

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.

A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.

A group of people are stuck on a schooner in the middle of the Pacific with no wind.

A doctor in New York City, who has had to raise his son without a mother since his wife died, struggles and sacrifices to be able to send the boy to a top-ranked, but expensive, medical university in Europe. His dream is that the boy will return to help him provide much needed medical care for the poor of his Lower East Side neighborhood.

Tropical "heat" drives a man into the arms of a disreputable tramp, making things tough for the woman who really loves him.

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover.

Un policía y una camarera se enamoran; el único problema es que él tendrá que ayudar y proteger a la hermana de su novia, que está liada con un gángster.

Richard Walters is condemned to death for a murder he claims not to have committed. He arrives on death row just before a brutal inmate leads the other convicts in a violent uprising. Walters gets caught up in the riot, while on the outside his friends are trying to find evidence of his innocence.

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

Vivienne Ware is defended by her ex-beau when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance.

El doctor Felix Klauber es un médico que se crió en el seno de una familia judía en uno de los barrios más marginales de Nueva York. Gracias a su duro trabajo se ha convertido en un rico doctor de Park Avenue. Un día le llaman para que opere a su padre, Meyer Klauber, de un pequeño tumor, pero un error fatal acaba con la vida de éste.

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.

La película narra la trayectoria criminal de un hombre. Rico comenzó su vida ejecutando pequeños robos y terminó su existencia como jefe de la banda de mafiosos más importante de la ciudad. Película clave del nacimiento del cine negro americano, pues a partir de esta libre adaptación de la historia de Al Capone el género basado en el relato de gánsteres vería un gran auge en Hollywood.

Lou Ricarno es un tipo inteligente: su plan consiste en organizar y liderar a las distintas pandillas de Chicago para que no se liquiden entre sí. Con el éxito del emprendimiento y su liderazgo, Louie prospera, se casa con Doris y se retira a Florida para escribir su autobiografía. Pero, en su ausencia, una guerra entre bandas comienza y le será imposible mantenerse alejado.

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a frame-up.