Ben Welden

'Boxer leaves true love for society lady, but returns.' (British Film Catalogue)

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate's heiress. The girl is...

This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles...

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas....

'Butler inherits title but keeps it secret to woo employer's daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

Government Agent Conway, posing as a crew member of a ship, is investigating the flood of counterfeit money that seemingly is originating for a...

Grant MacLaine, a former railroad troubleshooter, lost his job after letting his outlaw brother, the Utica Kid, escape. After spending five years...

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.

The second Falcon film to feature actor/magician John Calvert sees the Falcon dealing with art thieves.

The murders of a suspected thief and a rival private eye draw the attention of The Falcon.

A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through...

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

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

Fight promoter Nick Donati grooms a bellhop as a future champ, but has second thoughts when the 'kid' falls for his sister.

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's...

Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

In this drama, a 12-year-old boy becomes an orphan after seeing a detective shoot his father. Later the detective feels bad and offers to become his...

A meddlesome reporter sporting a young bride takes on a gang of modern day cattle rustlers. Donald "Red" Barry plays Dan Reilly, a newspaper...

A couple's adopted daughter has an inheritance someone else wants.

'American motor bandit takes over London garage and club.' (British Film Catalogue)

A campaign boss is looking for three delegates to the presidential convention, delegates that are too stupid to discover that his candidate, Hammond...

The boys are working at the local boxing arena where their friend, Jimmy Higgins, is boxing. During a crooked match Jimmy is killed. The boys seek...

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

Winfield College students rebel against a stodgy professor who won't permit "swing" music be played in their varsity show. They appeal to a big...

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

Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) needs to fight one more match to have enough money to get married to Angela (Olympe Bradna) and start on his dream to...

After winning the heavyweight championship, boxer Duke Foster (Allan Lane) quits the ring to marry socialite Susan Corbin (Heather Angel). When his...

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

A gangster hides out on a farm and falls for the farmer's daughter.

A fake swami and his crooked business partner, hoping to buy the land that's targeted for a new airport, convince the property's owner that he hasn't...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are...

Dr. Steven Bishop is taken to the hideout of Frank Dillon and his gang to treat the wounded Joe Madison. Joe's nurse sister Nora Madison is also...

Sent by cutthroat pirates to turn Kehane’s head while they loot his island paradise of a fortune in pearls, Ruby instead falls for the young...

A young prizefighter finds himself being squeezed on all sides to throw a fight.

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse...

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...

Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her...

Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.

A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick,...

When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to...

A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

Gangster Charlie McCormick despairs as his young brother Bobby lays near death and vows to break the quarantine of the ocean liner Pacific Queen in...

This Is the Life is a 1933 British comedy film directed by Albert de Courville and starring Gordon Harker, Binnie Hale and Betty Astell. It was made...

Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country...

After committing a robbery, a man is inspired to confess by a lovely native girl he meets on a small island.

An undercover cop finds himself on the wrong side of the law when the mob discovers his true identity.

Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express...

Spies force former jewel thief Michael Lanyard to steal defense secrets in Washington.

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office....

As part of their public feud, Bandleader Bernie pretends a girl singer is no good so columnist Winchell promotes her in his column.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major...

Filled from front to back with stock footage taken from the Columbia serials "The Phantom-1943" and, primarily, "The Desert Hawk-1944", with John...

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie...

Michael Shayne mystery involving counterfeit tickets at a race track.

A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...

'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)

'Parody of big game films: a Hollywood film director discovers that film units have civilised Africa.' (British Film Institute)

The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith...

An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she...

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods...

This lively comedy of 1933 provided an early film role for Leslie Fuller, and sees the wildly popular, rubber-faced actor and entertainer –...

A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...

Door-to-door salesman Johnny Dill, the exact double of a notorious gangster, finds himself struck between the forces of good and evil.

With the help of a WAAC group, Mr. District Attorny smashes a Nazi spy-ring that is selling counterfeit War Stamps and Bonds.

Drug store soda jerk Bert is a true-crime buff who revels in detective magazines. But he doesn't recognize the notorious gangster he waits on,...

A humble girl's rise to fame.

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him...

Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in...

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

Antar is sent by Suleiman, head of the Ottoman Empire, to Bagdad to prevent Hammam, Pasha of Bagdad, from purchasing the services of local leader...

Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new...

British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

A Duke's son plays the part of a footman and shows himself amusing in the pantry.

A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.

An evening of cocktails and frolicking lands a chap in hot water when he's suspected of masterminding a criminal gang!

A private detective is offered a job protecting a rich business man from suspected blackmail. Before he can accept the case a murder is uncovered.

Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the work is dangerous and they doubt the ability of the...

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.

A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.

Atomic scientist/pilot Doug Martin is missing after his plane crashes on an reconnaissance mission after a nuclear test. Miraculously appearing...

After surviving a murder attempt, an auto magnate goes into hiding so his wife can pay for the crime.

The story of Robin Hood, how he met his Merry Men and Maid Marian, and saved England from Sir Guy de Clairmont and his henchman. Compiled from the...

The outlaw Stragg has the town so intimidated that no one will speak against him no matter what he does. Sheriff Young heads for a nearby town, where...

A Musical film Directed by Oscar M. Sheridan.

When a 'man about town' takes a young lady back to his house they are both surprised to find that it has been turned into an illegal casino in his...

A short comedy film directed by W.P. Kellino

The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona....

A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane

Father Flanagan raises funds, helps a disabled boy, and saves an older boy from reform school.

This is a film about the life of Gus Edwards, a well known vaudeville composer, entertainer, and producer.

A British drama film directed by F.W. Kraemer

A young inventor is wrongfully accused of killing a night watchmen committed by a gang during a jewel robbery.

A standoffish actress is pursued by a low ranking Navy officer

Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by...

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.

A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his...

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

Private Investigator Philip Marlowe is hired by wealthy General Sternwood regarding a matter involving his youngest daughter Carmen. Before the...

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

The story of seven scholars in search of an expert to teach them about swing music. They seem to have found the perfect candidate in winsome...

Tough torch singer Petey Brown, visiting her family, finds a nest of troubles: her sister, brother, and the neighbor's wife are involved in various...

Three sailors finally get some shore leave, and go in search of fun and girls.

A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

A man wins $50,000 in a card game with gamblers, but is soon found dead and the money missing. Slip and Sach find the money near where the body was...

In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.

Evil Hassan slips back into his native land of Ahad and plots to overthrow his twin bother, Kasim, who has just been crowned the Caliph. Hassan...

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

A mad sculptor murders his wife and hides the body within a statue; a psychic model suspects the truth.

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.

Upon leaving finishing school, Judy Gibson goes to meet her presumed wealthy and socially prominent relatives. However they are penniless Broadway...

The ringmaster of a flea circus inherits a fortune...if he can find which chair it's hidden in.

Two window washers who are mistaken by Nick Craig, a bookie, as the messengers he sent for to pick up $50,000. Now the person he sent them to sent...

Marsha Meredith, an attorney-at-law, is nominated for a federal judgeship, but her nomination is opposed by a 'Good-Government' group that thinks her...

Rich, eccentric T.J. Banner adopts a feral cat who becomes an affectionate pet he names Rhubarb. Then T.J. dies, leaving to Rhubarb most of his money...

The building of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant. The trail...

U. S. Navy Lieutenant Gregg Masterman, of The Harvard and Boston Back Bay Mastermans, learned about the sea while winning silver cups sailing his...

Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old,...