Jack La Rue Movies

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they...

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

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...

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and...

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...

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.

Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. It all begins when gangsters...

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

A chorus girl gets stranded in a small midwestern town. Against her better judgement, she hooks up with a smooth-talking con artist who says he can...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

To save his daughter Manon from falling into the hands of a vicious gang of pimps, convict Jacques Costard escapes from jail. Jacques' problems are...

A gambler is about to stand trial for a crime he actually didn't commit. In order to brush up his "image", he adopts an orphaned newsboy.

A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.

A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion...

An investigator looks into the activities of a movie producer he believes is involved in smuggling Asians into the U.S.