James P. Burtis Movies

A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing...

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters,...

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St....

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and...

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His...

A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In...

A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.

A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of...

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.