Monte Vandergrift

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she...

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in...

A wealthy society doctor decides to research the medical aspects of criminal behaviour by becoming one himself. He joins a gang of thieves and...

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to...

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a...

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

The title character is a resourceful young man who knows a whole little about a whole lot of things, and who concentrates by playing his saxophone....

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a...

A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things...

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

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

A writer and an actress meet and marry without really knowing each other--they are even unaware that both bride and groom are equally famous. During...

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected...

A PR man for a low-budget movie studio comes up with what he believes is the perfect gimmick--to make a gangster picture with a real mobster in the...

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers...

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

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

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving...

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

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Kitty Lorraine has one purpose in life: turning her daughter Shirley into a star. Kitty controls every aspect of the girl's nascent career -- even...

Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through...

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks...

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

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love.

The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist...

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his...

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing...

An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert...

The heiress to a powerful newspaper owner gets a job at the paper under an assumed name and helps break up a blackmail racket.

David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave...

When a movie actor is shot and killed during production, the true feelings about the actor begin to surface. As the studio heads worry about negative...

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a...

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy...

Story of a dog that is fanatically devoted to its master.

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the...

At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr....

Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose...

A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry's office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign...

James “Brick” Davis, a struggling attorney, owes his education to a mobster, but always has refused to get involved with the underworld....

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who...

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is...

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...

A truck driver races a train to the West Coast in an attempt to determine which method of transportation is faster.

The story of seedy sideshow barker Nicky, who uses everyone he meets to get ahead. Nicky isn't even above exploiting his singing sweetheart Lily to...

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with the hands of a knife murderer--hands...

An edited version of the 4½ hour serial about a mad scientist who attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions.

Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries...

A rancher's plan to herd his horses is complicated by an uncooperative landowner.

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.