Charles D. Brown

1949 thriller about the hunt for a serial killer known as "the Judge" who kills his victims on rainy nights.

A Navy veteran takes up boxing and winds up killing his own friend in the ring during a championship match.

Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

Фильм представляет собой альманах из трёх новелл. Оливер Пис работает в известной газете обычным служащим, но своей жене Марте не решается открыть истинное положение вещей, уверяя её, что он вполне уважаемый репортёр. Оливер не подозревает, что Марта уже давно знает всю правду. Желая хоть как-то ускорить карьерный рост мужа, Марта предлагает Оливеру провести на улицах Нью-Йорка опрос случайно встреченных людей на тему: «Какое влияние ребёнок оказал на вашу жизнь?» и рассказанные истории опубликовать в газете. По мнению Марты подобная публикация может иметь успех у читателей, а следовательно поможет карьере Оливера. И вот Оливер, как взаправдашний журналист, начинает интервьюировать каждого, кого встречает на пути. Среди услышанных историй выделяются три: друзей-музыкантов, звезды и иллюзиониста.

Фрэнки Мэдисон выходит из тюрьмы и встречается с бывшими партнёрами. За время его отсидки старые друзья заметно разбогатели и не спешат вводить старого друга в курс своих дел.

A bumbling, long-winded and crooked Southern senator, considered by some as a dark horse for the Presidency, panics his party when his tell-all diary is stolen.

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

Maisie Revere, a showgirl stranded in Los Angeles, decides to join the local police department on the persuasion of Lieutenant Paul Scott who wants to use her as an undercover agent to expose a conman.

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

От пуль наемных убийц погибает скромный служащий бензоколонки. Страховой агент Реардон расследует это на первый взгляд случайное преступление. Раскручивая нить жизни погибшего «Шведа», Реардон раскрывает тайну кровавых преступлений и предательств, в центре которых ослепительная женщина-вамп Китти Коллинз. Он слишком близко подходит к давней загадке исчезнувших 250 000 долларов и теперь у него появляется новая задача: выжить!

Кто-то шантажирует Кармен, распутную младшую дочь старого генерала Стернвуда, и тот нанимает частного детектива Марлоу, чтобы найти и отвадить вымогателей. Тому никак не удаётся выполнить задание — всех подозреваемых поочередно убивают. Старшая дочь генерала Вивиан предлагает свою помощь Марлоу, но на чьей она стороне? Таинственная, жесткая, непредсказуемая и сексапильная красавица, она постоянно оказывается там, где не надо. Получить от неё правдивую информацию — всё равно что ограбить форт Нокс…

1946 г. американский суд приговаривает Иогана Губермана к двадцати годам тюрьмы как германского шпиона за измену Родине. Его дочь Алисия знакомится на вечеринке с агентом ФБР Дэвлином, который получает задание от руководства раскрыть нацистский заговор в Рио де Жанейро. Дэвлин решает воспользоваться помощью девушки для выполнения своего задания, и она принимает его предложение. Так начинается их бурный «шпионский» роман. Они вступают в контакт с нацистским агентом Александром, за которого Алисия должна выйти замуж, чтобы узнать о секретных планах немецкой организации, в которой состоит Александр.

Героиня фильма Марта Айверс собирается убежать с возлюбленным, но случайно убивает свою тетку. Побег не состоялся, возлюбленный исчез, а Марта унаследовала огромное фамильное состояние…

With a screenplay adapted by Lillian Hellman from her own play, director William Dieterle's 1946 drama stars Robert Young as a U.S. ambassador in Europe in the years before WW2.

A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.

A woman plots to steal secrets from her Atomic-expert husband.

The Bowery Boys come to the rescue when a corrupt taxi company puts the squeeze on several independent drivers.

A crusading reporter plans his own arrest and conviction for first degree murder, trying to show that the death sentence should be outlawed when based on circumstantial evidence alone, but his plan goes awry.

A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding attended by many of the city's rich and powerful, meets a beautiful girl named Kay who turns out to be his ticket to meeting those rich and powerful people, and he soon manages to land a job on a newspaper. He gets caught up in the "make money at all costs" game but receives a rude awakening when the stock market crashes in 1929.

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken from a bottle in the patient's pocket. The man dies and Ordway discovers that what he thought was insulin was really poison. Oops! Two other people are murdered before Ordway discovers who replaced the insulin with poison and what the motive was

Элизабет провожает Джона на войну. После ее окончания Элизабет получает телеграмму о том, что Джон был убит в сражении. Она находит утешение в Ларри и выходит за него замуж. Но Джон возвращается спустя 20 лет, у него новое имя и приёмная дочь…

Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern. Her late-night shenanigans appall her wealthy and socially conscious aunt who launches a secret campaign to shut down the bar and force her niece to reside in her palatial home.

Head over heels in love with a stern and cold older businessman's young wife, a reporter is seduced into conspiring to murder him so she can inherit his estate, while pinning the murder on another businessman.

Radio singing star, Eve Porter, wants a vacation during her show's summer hiatus, but her manager and press have booked her for additional work. She refuses and goes to Las Vegas. When she finds them there hunting her down, she manages to escape them by hiding in the car of a newspaper reporter. She comes out of hiding while he is driving, but everything she says is misconstrued, making him believe that she is a recently-escaped convict, "The Singing Widow". He plans to use this as a story to get back into the good graces of his editor. Through some comic mishaps, he learns who she really is. He then decides to take her back to Hollywood to collect the reward for her return. But now love has entered the mix, and must be resolved with his job and her engagement to another.

Newlyweds (George Murphy, Carole Landis) drag their lawyer friend (Pat O'Brien) to a mountain resort on a search for a missing magician.

Secret Command features Pat O'Brien as a onetime foreign correspondent in the wartime employ of the FBI. Under an assumed name, O'BRIEN goes to work at a shipyard, intending to keep both eyes open for potential saboteurs. To maintain the cover, O'BRIEN is given a "wife" (Carole Landis) and two children. When O'BRIEN's brother Chester Morris shows up, he can't comprehend the charade and nearly spills the beans to the Nazi spies O'BRIEN hopes to trap. Based on the short story The Saboteurs by John and Ward Hawkins, Secret Command offers a graying but still feisty Pat O'Brien doing what he does best.

A young woman from Kansas (Ann Miller) arrives in Hollywood with hopes of a movie career.

Эгоцентричный и трудолюбивый Уэдж Донован — владелец строительной компании, которая ведет реконструкции и строительство взлетных полос на островах Тихого океана во время Второй Мировой Войны. Однажды он узнает от лейтенанта Роберта Ярроу, что его безоружные рабочие убиты японцами. Решительно настроенные парни приезжают в Вашингтон с требованием получить оружие для обороны строек и организовать строительный батальон, который сможет не только строить, но и воевать. Правительственный чиновник отказывает быстро выдать оружие, мотивируя тем, что рабочие должны пройти годовой курс обучения. Раздосадованный Донован возвращается на остров, где продолжает свою опасную работу. Неожиданно на остров высаживается морской десант японцев. Агрессоры начинают теснить американские войска, обороняющие рубежи острова, и тогда Донован и его рабочие заводят моторы своих мощных тракторов, бульдозеров и экскаваторов, чтобы противостоять атаке «Самураев»…

A gangster is drafted into the Army and, soon realizing how wrong his life of crime has been, agrees to help the FBI break up a black market ring by pretending to have been kicked out of service and to have resumed his old life of crime.

A naval officer who had deserted several years earlier is drawn back to the Navy when World War II begins. He re-enlists under an assumed name, and is assigned to a minesweeper, where he has to perform hazardous duties while at the same time keeping his real identity a secret.

Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.

Flagwaving story of a new American destroyer, the JOHN PAUL JONES, from the day her keel is laid, to what was very nearly her last voyage. Among the crew, is Steve Boleslavski, a shipyard welder that helped build her, who reenlists, with his old rank of Chief bosuns mate. After failing her sea trials, she is assigned to the mail run, until caught up in a disparate battle with a Japanese sub. After getting torpedoed, and on the verge of sinking, the Captain, and crew hatch a plan to try and save the ship, and destroy the sub.

A city girl on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her city suitors.

Майор Чик Дэвис демонстрирует армии США достоинства высотного прицельного бомбометания, с помощью нового высокотехнологичного прицела, а так же организовывает школу бомбардиров. Тренировки показаны в полудокументальном стиле, скрашенном драматическими моментами из личной жизни и учебных будней курсантов.

College students attempt to solve a series of murders on campus while also trying to put together the school's big show.

In Chicago, an unemployed actor aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of ax murders, apparently committed by a lunatic.

Чтобы запустить карьеру в шоу-бизнесе, Рокси Харт признается в совершении убийства в Чикаго…

Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood. He gets back into the movie business when he overhears a conversation between producers discussing their newest prodigy. Cooper butts in and suggests the producers remake Skippy (a real-life 1931 film that made young Cooper a star). The bigwigs like the idea and then hire Cooper to become the boy's acting coach. Once back on the backlot, Cooper finds both trouble and romance while helping the young boy adjust to life as a movie star.

A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the enemy.

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer's daughter (Quigley).

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself once again out of work. She meets a wealthy playboy who hires her to be his family's new maid. Maisie soon finds herself trying to mend the family's many problems.

1854 год. Вест-Пойнт, первый Федеральный кадетский кавалерийский корпус. Джеб Стюарт — новый кадет, который с успехом начинает проходить обучение. Молодой человек находится на хорошем счету у командиров, но, тем не менее, наживает себе врага в лице кадета Карла Райдера радикального аболициониста, настроенного изменить классовую и кастовую систему Америки. Этот тайный последователь фанатика Джона Брауна, стремящегося освободить всех рабов при помощи оружия и силы, в казарме завязывает драку со Стюартом, впоследствии чего Райдера исключают из Вест-Пойнта. Самому же Джебу и его друзьям дан приказ следовать на территорию штата Канзас, где они должны прекратить противозаконные действия идеолога Джона Брауна и вооруженных до зубов его приспешников. Здесь, на одной из пыльных дорог ведущих в Санта-Фе, он вновь встретит своего недоброжелателя Райдера.

Teenager Betty Elliott has decided to take over the business and social affairs of her father Doc Elliott. She thinks her father should marry the widowed mother, Julie Harper, of her boyfriend Chris Harper. Doc has been a real friend and father to Chris, who, under his guidance, has learned to take care of all the sick animals in town, but lack of money keeps the widow from sending Chris on to finish high school and medical training is out of the question. Wealthy Grandpa Harper sends his attorney Baker to tell Mrs. Harper that all of Jimmy's dreams could be realized if the widow, whom the grandfather dislikes, would give up custody of her son. The lawyer also begins to court Julie and this throws a kink in Betty's plans to see her father and the widow get married. Written by Les Adams

A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle prize. He later regrets his actions, however, when the boxer becomes an honest champion.

Эта история началась в 1918 году, когда в Техасе произошёл нефтяной бум. Нефтяные участки появлялись повсюду, люди богатели на глазах, и именно сюда устремились два парня, в будущем известные как Большой Джон и Джон Справедливый. Эта парочка провернула немало успешных дел и смогла сколотить на нефти целое состояние. Двадцать лет всё шло как по маслу, пока в Техас не приехала Элизабет Бартлетт. С той поры словно черная кошка пробежала между некогда дружными компаньонами. Отныне миллионеры знать друг друга не хотят, делят бизнес и строят козни. И только женщина способна разрешить их спор.

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

После очередной переделки «крутой гангстер» Малыш Джон Сарто оказывается в обители Цветочного братства и принимает имя Брат Орхидея. В обители ему открываются истинные ценности этого мира, такие как любовь к ближнему, беззаветное служение обществу и прочее. В сознании Малыша Джона начинают происходить метаморфозы, в итоге превращающие его из гангстера в Человека.

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's release. As assistant to mobster Mickey Dwyer, then falls for Dwyer's girl Lucky. He winds up in the same prison as his father.

A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.

После тюремного срока за убийство, Том Джоад возвращается на свое семейное ранчо, которое к тому времени полностью разорилось и прибывает в запустении. В отсутствие какой-либо перспективы найти работу в засушливой Оклахоме, вся семья собирает свой скарб и отправляется на «землю обетованную» — в Калифорнию. Но трудный путь и тяжкие условия не приносят искомой надежды, и даже единство семьи подвергается испытанию, одному из многих, с которыми приходится сталкиваться.

On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.

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.

A New York attorney defends a young man with a criminal past who has been accused of murdering a police inspector.

Race horse owner pays so much attention to business he winds up divorced from his wife. His alimony payments are so steep he plots with his lawyer to get her married off.

Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

A baby is passed from hand to hand after her father abandons her.

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

Проходит время водевилей, на смену пришли сначала, движущиеся картинки, а потом и звуковое кино. Водевильные актеры продолжают играть по старинке, но публике нужно другое действо и на смену старшего поколения артистов приходят молодые, вооруженные своими песнями, танцами, взглядами на жизнь, которые не только отодвигают старшее поколение на задворки, но и занимают их место под солнцем. Правда, они не забывают стариков и не говорят: "Уйдите с дороги", а пытаются поддержать родителей. Хотя вопросы, затронутые в мюзикле, вполне злободневны и сегодня, и будут злободневны и завтра. Смена поколений всегда проходит весьма болезненно.

Мэри Уитмен уехала в Рино, чтобы добиться развода. Находясь там, её арестовывают по подозрению в убийстве постояльца в отеле (который специализируется на разводах). В отеле много других людей, которые хотели убрать жертву с дороги. Чарли приезжает из своего дома в Гонолулу, чтобы раскрыть убийство.

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

In Puerto Rico to investigate a glut of contraband diamonds that are flooding the world's jewel market, Mr. Moto and his sidekick, a wrestler, find themselves involved in murders by thrown daggers, the frame-up of an overstressed Army colonel, and a pirate gang led by an unknown boss who has inside knowledge of the ensuing investigation.

A good-hearted reporter attempts to find the loneliest woman in New York so he can give her an old-fashioned Christmas on a farm..

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

The Bar Association disbars attorney Tyler Cradon when it appears he was implicated in the murder of a prominent vice crusader. Cradon, not wishing to be without an income,is impressed by the way Joan Carroll handled a small-town murder, poses as a real estate agent and offers to get her into a law firm of a friend of his. Placed in the office of Roberts, running a front for Cradon, Joan is taught every trick of the trade. With her cases all prepared for her, she goes from one courtroom victory to another, soon becoming the darling of the underworld and the despair of all law-enforcing authorities.

A cocky new West Point cadet from Cambridge is given the cold shoulder by his classmates because of his rule-breaking antics.

A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently a wacky spoof of the crime movies that were so popular in the 1930s. It seems to be completely forgotten today, except by major film buffs.

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.

Молодой боксер Томми МакКой как спичка меж двух огней: с одной стороны — пьяница-отец, с другой — криминальный авторитет, с дочерью которого он начинает встречаться, хотя она не знает, чем папа зарабатывает себе на жизнь...

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car nearly runs him over.

Horse racing provides the framework of this crime drama that centers on an orphan who has been raising a promising horse.

A secretary (Gloria Stuart) solves a murder for her boyfriend (Michael Whalen) in the district attorney's office.

Алжир — это место, где жаркая пустыня встречается со Средиземным морем, и современная Европа сталкивается с древней Африкой. В нескольких шагах от нового города находится старинный район Касбах, который возвышается крепостью над морем. Его населяют люди самых различных племен и рас — скитальцы и изгои со всего мира, а также преступники, которые укрываются там от длинной руки закона. Главенствует там один человек — Пепе ле Мокко, которого давно разыскивает французская полиция. Жизнь в изгнании претит Пепе, им овладевает тоска по веселому Парижу и тем дням и даже близость с безумно любящей его восточной красавицей Инее не приносит счастья. Хитроумный детектив Слиман подстерегает момент, когда разыскиваемый решит покинуть Касбах, чтобы взять его. Габи красивая, праздная и уверенная в себе туристка из Парижа, знакомится с Пепе и между ними вспыхивает искра страсти, которая разожжёт пламя любовного романа и доведет его до фатального завершения…

Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

A woman who is a member of a gang of con artists impersonates the mother of a wealthy blind man.

Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs.

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's rather wild ways, Jackie is intent on divorcing him although she seems to bear the man no resentment. It just seems that her only reason is that it's time for a change, much like an impulse to buy a new hat. Both children are upset about her decision since they have great affection for Robert. However, daughter Lee has just arrived home from school and decides to accompany her mother to Reno to look after her. On the train west, Lee meets a young mining engineer, Tom, who is headed to a job interview in California. The two hit it off and a romance buds.

The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a disgraced politician. Reduced to working as a switchboard operator, Wanda is privy to the many secrets and indiscretions of the clients of a big-city hotel. She also finds romance in the form of handsome Tom Blake (Richard Arlen). The huge cast of characters comes in handy for the film's multitude of subplots, none of which ever get their wires crossed. Peggy Shannon acquits herself nicely in her first major role, but by the end of the decade her career was in decline.

A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.

A silent film comedy.