Movies: Charles Halton

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way....

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon....

Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the family show their stuff....

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star....

Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go...

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business....

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out....

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom....

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing....

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda....

Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men....

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime....

Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage magician, a phoney spiritualist, and a for-real mind reader....

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try ...

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe Kravaal has killed a patient. Kravaal freezes the officials, along with himself. Years later, they are di...

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of...

A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy....

In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however, they find a letter written by George Washington that mentions the bravery of a Revolutionary War hero na...

An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer....

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression....