Lynne Overman Movies

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education and returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.

Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and...

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping...

Two Alaskan salmon fisherman find their friendship at risk when one aligns with Russian fish pirates and the other aligns with local vigilantes.

An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques...

A cabaret dancer witnesses a murder and is forced to hide from gangsters by disguising herself as a male Princeton student.

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

The son of a cattle-rustling Cossack immigrant must choose between following the straight path and helping his father escape from prison.

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

Fred Stevens is an aspiring songwriter from Schenectady who journeys to New York City, hoping to make a name for himself. On the train he meets...

Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually...

A behind-the-scenes showcase of how screen tests for studio executives are made and used in the Hollywood casting process. Some of the featured...

Kitty Reily and Lena Marchetti meet each other at an amateur Radio Show. Kitty quickly learns to greatly dislike incompetent Lena. They keep running...

Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to...

A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, may not have occurred at all.