John Gallaudet

Узнав, что семья Клаттеров держит десять тысяч долларов наличными на своей ферме, бездомные бродяги Смит и Хикок решаются на ограбление. Однако денег в доме не оказывается, и приятели зверски убивают одного за другим всех членов семьи.

Страстно мечтающий стать журналистом молодой человек Адам Уайт соглашается вести в газете колонку советов под псевдонимом "Мисс Лонлихартс". Адам считает, что эта колонка - лишь первый шаг к карьере настоящего журналиста. Поначалу Адам снисходительно относится к своей рубрике, но когда в редакцию начинают приходить сотни искренних писем, полных боли и страданий, он меняет свое отношение к работе. По настоянию циничного редактора Шрайка Адам встречается с одной из корреспонденток, но всё оказывается не так просто. По повести Натанаэла Уэста "Подруга скорбящих"

A band of dishonest seamen plans a murderous mutiny aboard the S.S. Berwind.

Болезненно-ревнивое поведение Лайла держит Джулию Бентон в постоянной тревоге и страхе. Внезапно Джулия узнает, что Лайл несколько лет назад убил ее первого мужа. Джулия понимает, что должна уйти. Давний друг Джулии Клиф помогает ей бежать, но даже в Сан-Франциско не удается скрыться от преследований Лайла. Полиция ничего не может сделать, несмотря на смертельную угрозу жизни Джулии...

A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves.

In this crime drama, mobsters swear to get revenge upon a zealous public prosecutor as he tries to get them put into prison. The desperate mobsters try to stop him by using his innocent daughter in a blackmail scheme.

В своей квартире найдена убитой Каролин Эллинсон Грант. В ход расследования преступления выясняется, что ее смерти хотели очень многие — и богатый муж, которому она не давала развода, и любовник, потерявший из-зе нее работу, и ее помощница, жениха которой она пыталась соблазнить…

Marc Hill is the attorney for Emmet Devrey, a real estate developer with a past, who is being blackmailed by his former partner Sam Baggett. When Sam's unfaithful wife Marge cooks up a scheme with her used car salesman lover Jeff Calder to bilk both Devrey and her alcoholic husband, Sam is killed and Devrey is accused of the crime. Mark is called to prove his employers innocence.

Although the son of a skilled golfer and an outstanding player in his own right, Harvey Miller is too nervous to play in front of a gallery, so he acts as coach and caddy for Joe Anthony, his girlfriend's brother.

Пленка, которую Кенди везла в метро, содержит государственнуютайну, и она находилась под наблюдением правительственныхагентов. Они видят, как некий Скип Маккой крадет пленку, но онускользает от них. Стремясь вернуть фильм, Джой, экс-возлюбленный Кенди, и человек, использующий ее как курьера, убеждает ее искать вора. Она разыскивает Скипа через уличные связи, в то время как полицейские находят его вскоре после кражи.

A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.

After successfully swindling thousands of dollars from hapless victims, conflicted con artist Mary (Hillary Brooke) decides to go straight, but her greedy boyfriend and partner, Roger (Tom Conway), convinces her to pull off one final scam before they get married. Written and directed by Andrew L. Stone, this classic crime film finds the police struggling to keep up with the deceptive duo's exceedingly complicated schemes.

A young woman (Janet Leigh) leaves her small hometown in Vermont and travels to New York City with hopes of becoming a Broadway star.

The short-tempered manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates mends his ways in return for a little divine assistance.

A woman becomes desperate to find a pair of car thieves after her husband -- while on their honeymoon -- is killed during a robbery.

Регина — популярная журналистка, обозреватель и радио-ведущая, которая пишет язвительные и резкие статьи на злободневные темы. Ее бояться, потому что она может разрушить и карьеру и бизнес любого человека, которого она считает недостойным. Ее последней жертвой стал Майк — водитель болида, участвующий в гонках. Она пытается у него взять интервью перед гонками, но он отказывается, а поскольку он стал участником нескольких аварий, произошедших на трассе, она посчитала возможным для себя взяться за эту тему и, походя, уничтожить его карьеру…

Young auto mechanic Dan Brady takes $20 from a cash register at work to go on a date with blonde femme fatale Vera Novak. Brady intends to put the money back before it is missed, but the garage's bookkeeper shows up earlier than scheduled. As Brady scrambles to cover evidence of his petty theft, he fast finds himself drawn into an ever worsening "quicksand" of crime.

A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a few hundred dollars, it contains $30,000, and when he decides to return the money things go wrong and that is only the beginning of his troubles.

Legendary lawman Pat Garrett wins the Fourth of July buckboard race in a small Nevada town against the unscrupulous Fred Smith and pretty Lavinia White. Lavinia blames Garrett for sending her father Ivory White to jail for robbing 100,000 dollars. White, who has stashed the loot away someplace, is about to be released and plans to return the money to the express office for the sake of his children, Lavinia and Chad. Nasty Jim Judd forces Lavinia to help him rob the coach carrying Ivory and the money, counting on the fact that White will keep quiet for his daughter's sake.

Grant Jordan, bachelor botany professor, marries Katie, a widow with three kids, despite the machinations of Grant's former girlfriend Minna. But on the wedding day, Aunt Jo, who was to babysit, breaks a leg; so the kids come along on the honeymoon.

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and move to New York to become a playwright. Along the way, his car breaks down and a girl walking along the highway asks for a lift. It turns out she's a nice girl, named Perry, running away from a job at a gasoline station. Soon they're off to New York together, but part ways once they arrive. Time passes and Eddie is failing to sell his play; Perry is failing to find a job. Odd circumstances, involving an old pickpocket named Mandy, bring them together again.

The murder of nightclub hostess leads an investigator (Kane Richmond) to seedy nightspots.

A married couple who have a song-and-dance act in vaudeville are in trouble. Their struggling act is going nowhere, they're almost broke and they have to do something to get them back on top or they'll really be in trouble. They decide to put their young son in the act in hopes of attracting some new attention. The boy turns out to be a major talent, audiences love him and the act is on its way to the top. That's when an organization whose purpose is to stop children from performing on stage shows up, and they're dead set on breaking up the act.

Detective Charlie Chan springs into action when top officials of a New Orleans chemical company begin dropping like flies.

Louisiana is a 1947 American film directed by Phil Karlson. It starred Jimmie Davis and was about his life. Davis came to Karlson, wanting to be in movies and Monogram Pictures agreed to finance one based on his life. Karlson says the film helped Davis get re-elected.

In this entry in the enduring series, the suave jewel thief finds himself helping the police break up a ring of diamond smugglers. Along the way, he winds up accused of both robbery and murder.

Лос-Анджелеский частный детектив Филип Марлоу с целью дополнительного заработка пишет детективный рассказ, который отправляет в редакцию журнала «Самые ужасные истории». Придя на встречу с главным редактором, миловидной женщиной Адриен Фромсетт, Филип узнает, что его рассказ будет напечатан при условии, если он поможет расследовать некое запутанное дело, связанное с исчезновением Кристал Кингсби — жены издателя журнала Дераса Кингсби.

Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell. Actually, through his secretary, Nola Reed, Caldwell runs a matrimonial bureau and, with the aid of his associate, Lee Kirby, they defraud and blackmail a large group of lonely people. Carole, unknowingly, is used as bait for one of their victims, Walter Desmond, who "commits suicide." Reporter William Tyler thinks otherwise.

«Сорок две песни и 30 эстрадных номеров стянутых вместе кинолентой», - так отзывалась критика об этой картине.

В китайском квартале Сан-Франциско Чарли помогает двум разным людям искать их пропавших родственников и раскрывает убийство по страховой схеме.

Country girl Jane Budden goes to the big city, determined to find and marry a wealthy man. Instead, she meets and marries Herman Maxim, a struggling inventor.

A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.

Two bit hood Eddie Condon (Kane Richmond) sells babies under the counter. A highly lucrative racket he soon finds out. But when will the police get wise to this highly immoral scheme of his? And will they be able to pin a rap on him before he goes a little too far? ALL IS TOLD in this EXCITING tale of CRIME and CORRUPTION!

Мюзикл,о певце и танцоре Джиме Харди, который оставляет шоу-бизнес, чтобы стать фермером-джентльменом в Новой Англии. Однако фермерская жизнь оказывается для него слишком трудной и обыденной, и, пытаясь «убить двух зайцев», герой превращает свою ферму в загородный развлекательный клуб, широко открывающий двери в дни национальных праздников и торжеств.

The 'Dead End Kids & Little Tough Guys' are working as collectors for a finance company, when they discover the company's illegal activities and try to stop them.

Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.

Private eye Jerry Church is hired by a criminal defense lawyer after five mobsters he has gotten acquitted are apparently strangled by a serial killer.

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...

Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their alibi checks out. Far from offended by his ill treatment, Duke agrees to take the job of sheriff, retaining Pancho and Andy as his deputies. The gruesome threesome then sets about to solve a series of mysterious Wells Fargo robberies

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

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.

The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health commissioner who is out to get rid of the tawdry hookers responsible for spreading the disease.

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

The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.

Середина 18 века. Мэтт Ховард, осиротевший сын фермера из Вирджинии встречает сестру богатого плантатора Пейтона Джейн. Для них обоих это - вечная любовь, и несмотря на классовые различия к, и вражду семей, Джейн выходит замуж Мэтта. Так начинается история, рассказывающая о родственных связях, о любви и дружбе, а также о том, как изменила жизнь семьи война с британцами.

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a life-and-death journey to save his family.

In 1939, a group of Finnish soldiers defend the border from Russian invaders.

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of crime?

An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption.

Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.

An ex-con vows vengeance on the newspaper responsible for putting him behind bars, but has a change of heart when another racketeer threatens to bring the paper down..

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstake contest. With their windfall, each member of the family decides to pursue a dream.

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Джерри и Кэсс всегда соперничали. Кэсс стал уважаемым авиатором в ВМФ, как его отец, а Джерри бросает службу на подлодке и поступает в авиашколу в Класс 61 в Пенсаколе, где во время тренировок знакомится с невестой Джерри Айрин и влюбляется в неё. Поборов укачивание, страх и, совершив аварийную посадку, Джерри получает свои крылышки. Кэссу повезло меньше - он покалечился во время крушения и вынужден уйти в отставку. Кэсс конструирует новый истребитель для флота, а Джерри в Сан Диего управляет гидросамолётами. Джерри готов на всё, лишь бы показать Кэссу, что он лучший пилот, даже если для этого придётся уйти из флота, чтобы испытать экспериментальный истребитель, на котором разбился лётчик-испытатель Стив Коннерс.

By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies and local police are out to catch him with roadblocks and every car searched, but the escapee gets away. Bill Hasford, a private detective, investigating a racket finds it leads to the wanted man, and has the biggest adventure of his career.

Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but feckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through swapping and gambling. It seems the only thing all three can join in is their singing act, which Mike and Dave hate. Finally, all Joe's hopes are pinned on a race horse he's acquired swapping, but it's a bigger gamble than his family knows.

FBI agent Mac Richards takes his girlfriend, Helen Phillips, to a world championship boxing match only to learn that the event has been canceled because the titleholder has been kidnapped. Mac is entrusted with the ransom money, but the kidnappers discover that his fellow agents have surrounded the train station locker where the money was to be dropped and order the champ's manager to have the money delivered by an usher to a different location. With Helen disguised as the usher and Mac driving a cab, the pair set off to deliver the money. The gang isn't taking any chances, though - they waylay the cab and take both the ransom money and Helen to their hideout. Now Mac and his fellow agents must rescue both the champ and his sweetheart before they come to harm.

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

Sad-eyed, uniquely talented child actress Edith Fellows was Columbia's "answer" to Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and Deanna Durbin. In Little Miss Roughneck, Fellows is cast as Foxine LaRue, a tomboyish sort who is being prodded into a show-biz career by her stage mother Gert (Margaret Irving). Young Mr. Partridge (Scott Colton) becomes Foxine's agent, principally because he's sweet on the girl's older sister Mary (Jacqueline Wells). Blackballed from Hollywood because of her mother's pushiness, Foxine tries to help out Partridge and her own family by cooking up a bizarre publicity stunt, enlisting the aid of easy-going Mexican "papacita" Pascual (Leo Carrillo).

A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds that the businessman has been murdered--and that now he himself is on the killer's hit list.

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house, however, Elsa breaks the contract in favor of a more lucrative deal in Paris. Desperate, James begins showering her with flowers and candy in an attempt to woo her to the Argentinian opera house. When Elsa overhears James confess to his friend Pancho that he'd be willing to resort to kidnapping to get Elsa to Argentina, she mistakenly believes his motives to be solely romantic.

Ferguson is a rough-and-tumble hockey player who discovers that his chosen profession is nothing more than a racket, a plaything for game-fixing racketeers. When his brother is killed in a highly suspicious accident, Ferguson and team trainer Holland join forces to bring the killers to justice.

Эксцентричный миллионер, меценат Аксель Кларк хотел доказать, что все люди, в основном, честные и хорошие. После смерти, согласно его воле, адвокаты разбрасывают в разных местах города 25 кошельков, в каждом из которых $ 100, и визитная карточка с телефонным номером и адресом адвокатов. Нашлось четыре порядочных человека, которые возвращают кошельки и неожиданно оказываются затянутыми, в своего рода, лотерею. Завещание гласило — первый человек, который сможет честным путем удвоить выданную сумму в размере $ 5 000 в течение одного месяца, унаследуют все имущество Кларка. В противном случае, все имущество пойдет жадному брату Кларка, который полон решимости сорвать этот план.

This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man. Meanwhile two crooks try to destroy her production in order to force her to sell it to them for very little money. They are thwarted at the last moment.

The Hollywood Post's sports writer, Jimmy Jones (Charles Quigley), yearns to be a crime reporter, and thus looks for foul play on even the most routine assignments. In writing a piece about a girl's softball team, Jimmy discovers that their sponsor, Foy Harris (John Gallaudet), is a notorious racketeer who has supposedly gone straight. Jimmy suspects Foy is still up to no good. He begins hanging around the team to do a bit of snooping, and also to be near the cute new pitcher, Ann Casey (Jacqueline Wells).

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.

In this gangster movie, a criminal king-pin and his gang hide out in his hometown where they witness a religious revival that inspires the man to begin billing himself as a "born-again" evangelist so he can cash in on the guilty consciences of local businessmen.

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle on land for the affections of dance-hall girl Carmen (Dolores del Rio). She marries Dorgan but makes a play for Mason when her husband is on duty. The romantic rivalry is forgotten when Dorgan must rescue Mason and his crew from a sunken sub.

Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.

A fast-talking pitchman working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the owner, Elmer Woods, of the department store has a blonde-beauty daughter, Peggy, who goes to work on him.

The story of an egotistical crime writer who gets involved with the case of a notorious art thief (who is believed to be dead) while at the same time romancing a lovely young actress who's in a play that also happens to be the cover for massive jewel job. Art connoisseur and criminologist George Melville is hired to track down art thieves, assisted by perky Claire Peyton and goaded by Phil Bane, the roaring newspaper editor who has employed him. The mastermind poses as a theatrical impresario and stages a war drama, replete with loud explosions, to divert attention from his band of thieves, who are cracking safes in a bank adjacent to the theater.

A radio commentator named Perry Travis fancies himself a brilliant amateur detective. The cops wish he’d stick to his microphone and let them do the detecting. This proves impossible when a famed scientist is murdered in Perry’s studio, right in the middle of the interview. All evidence points to Perry, and he sets out to clear his name before the Shadow-like villain roaming the hallways of the radio station gets away with murder.

A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.

A down-and-out lawyer gets back on his feet with help from a singer who later retains him to defend her on a murder charge.

A cop goes undercover to infiltrate and break up a counterfeiting ring.

A theatrical star, born on the wrong side of the tracks, marries a drunken blue-blood millionaire.