Franklin Pangborn Movies

A wealthy man hires a poor girl to play his mistress in order to get more attention from his neglectful family.

Egbert Sousé becomes an unexpected hero when a bank robber falls over a bench he's occupying. Now considered brave, Egbert is given a job as a...

An oil-rich rube who aspires to stardom is bilked by a phony acting school.

The story deals with the college rivalry of a piccolo player and an All-American halfback on the football team who both love the same co-ed. After...

When his boss goes out of town on a big deal and leaves important securities behind, it's up to office boy Ray Cooke to get them to him tout suite.

Dot Farley is throwing a benefit for cats but hasn't any. This means she calls up her husband, Edmund Breese, to bring some. He being busy with...

Rebecca's Uncle Harry leaves her with Aunt Miranda who forbids her to associate with show people. But neighbor Anthony Kent is a talent scout who...

Penny helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum clearance project; The little miss dances with Corporal Jones.

College student, cattle baron, confused love story.

The final entry in the Torchy short series starring Ray Cooke as things go wrong at a gathering.

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down...

Walter Catlett is the cousin to some squeaky voiced Dagwood Bumstead type who can't get a girl. Can he browbeat his cousin into swiping pretty girl...

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to...

Mrs. Townes has been refused a new car by her husband for 3 years while he's driving in cabs all over town. But when Jack Townes is exposed in a...

War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with...

The three Craig sisters – Penny, Kay, and Joan – go to New York to stop their divorced father from marrying gold digger Donna Lyons and...

Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the...

Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which...

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful.