Jack La Rue Movies

A wealthy young man tries to woo a university student, while her two uncles work to popularize a local club.

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

Joe Beck leaves Central America so that he can return to Texas and collect a large inheritance, but he picks a dangerous ship on which to travel.

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and...

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

A young millionaire (Richard Carlson) joins the real world and meets a maid (Jane Randolph) and mobsters.

When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent...

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One...

A man is framed for being a spy. After he is released, he sets out to find who the real spies are.

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried...

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...