Esther Dale Movies

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.

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

A physician in a small town suddenly finds himself the object of vilification and persecution when one of his patients commits suicide.

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with...

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew...

Ma and Pa, along with daughter Rosie, go off to Hawaii in answer to cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers from...

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

Previously filmed in 1932, and remade a third time in 1961, this second film version of Fannie Hurst's novel stars Margaret Sullavan as a fashion...

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

Violet Barton, a femme-fatale goal-setter, fascinates men and readily returns their affection to obtain the wealth she desires, even to the point of...