Jack La Rue Movies

Sheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Just out of prison, Benny Horowitz tries to go straight. Things are complicated by his former girlfriend and his former gangster buddies.

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried...

Director Karl Brown's 1938 circus drama stars Marjorie Main as a tough, fur-coat-wearing circus boss who raises her orphaned niece to be a trapeze...

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

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first...

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he...

The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.