Jack A. Goodrich

Movies15

• Movie6.9

  DramaRomance

  Socialite Judith Traherne lives a lavish but emotionally empty life. Riding horses is one of her few joys, and her stable master is secretly in love with her. Told she has a brain tumor by her doctor, Frederick Steele, Judith becomes distraught. After she decides to have surgery to remove the tumor, Judith realizes she is in love with Dr. Steele, but more troubling medical news may sabotage her new relationship, and her second chance at life.

  Dark Victory

  1939 · 165 votes

• Movie7.3

  DramaRomance

  When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

  The Man Who Laughs

  1928 · 231 votes

• Movie6.8

  CrimeDrama

  A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.

  Each Dawn I Die

  1939 · 64 votes

• Movie6.1

  ActionAdventure

  Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.

  Secret Service of the Air

  1939 · 6 votes

• Movie6.6

  CrimeDrama

  After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner, former detective Johnny Blake publicly punches him, convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Bugs" Fenner, meanwhile, is certain that Blake is a police agent.

  Bullets or Ballots

  1936 · 54 votes

• Movie5.8

  CrimeComedy

  Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

  Torchy Blane in Panama

  1938 · 8 votes

• Movie5.8

  DramaCrime

  Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. Wilson uses all the pressure can to keep Johnnie silent, even after he and Johnnie themselves wind up in the big house.

  You Can't Get Away with Murder

  1939 · 26 votes

• Movie5.9

  ComedyCrime

  A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens of thousands.

  Torchy Gets Her Man

  1938 · 8 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyCrime

  While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real story assignment concerning the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.

  Nancy Drew... Reporter

  1939 · 32 votes

• Movie6.8

  AdventureDrama

  A ship carrying a touring circus troupe sinks at sea, and Lorraine, a young girl, is washed up on a deserted island. Her only companion is a gorilla from the circus, Bimi, who raises her as its own. Several years later Lorraine's wealthy grandfather, who has hired a psychic to help find her, is led by the psychic to Lorraine's island, and she and Bimi are taken back to "civiliation" in San Francisco, but things don't work out exactly as planned.

  Lorraine of the Lions

  1925 · 2 votes

• Movie5.9

  ActionAdventure

  Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

  Torchy Runs for Mayor

  1939 · 8 votes

• Movie7.5

  Comedy

  When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

  Penrod's Double Trouble

  1938 · 2 votes

• Movie5.6

  CrimeDrama

  A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

  Racket Busters

  1938 · 16 votes

• Movie6.3

  Crime

  When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.

  Blondes at Work

  1938 · 10 votes

• Movie5.7

  Western

  Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.

  The Devil Horse

  1932 · 3 votes