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.

After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.

Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see...

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

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

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...

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...

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...

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

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

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

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

The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.

A man is released from prison after serving time for a murder he didn't commit. He goes to live with his brother and his family on their Louisiana...

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 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 sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

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

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry...

A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.