James Burke Movies

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

A crook becomes the victim of a crafty card player who works for the District Attorney.

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He...

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they...

A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on...

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his...

Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been...

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up...

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to...

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer...

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her...

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...