Charles Halton Movies

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a...

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...

Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant....

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret,...

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible...

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a...

By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies...