James Burke Filmes

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the...

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the...

A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they...

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a...

Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

A farmer tries to convince a girl to leave her life on a canal boat to live with him on his farm.