Elisabeth Risdon Movies

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time...

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

A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.

Given a pardon from jail, Roy Earle gets back into the swing of things as he robs a swanky resort.

A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.

Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.

A young crusading reporter in a small town tackles civic corruption.

A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter.

The film is a contempary-set version of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.

A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.

A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.

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

A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is...

A PI investigates a priest's murder.

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.