Frankie Burke
Actor
Movies14
Movie7.5CrimeDramaChildhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood.
Angels with Dirty Faces
1938 · 368 votes
Movie5.8DramaCrimeJohnnie 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
Movie6.8DramaA paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.
Hell's Kitchen
1939 · 6 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeWhile 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
Movie6.7DramaRomanceA young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and murder he didn't commit.
Angels Wash Their Faces
1939 · 9 votes
Movie6.3DramaComedyA hobby-mad family makes their obsessions pay off.
Everybody's Hobby
1939 · 4 votes
Movie6.4DramaAfter a socially conscience reporter adopts a slum orphan after she causes his brother's gang to go to prison.
Off the Record
1939 · 5 votes
Movie6.8AdventureA famous aviator helps an amateur enter a cross-country air race for women.
Women in the Wind
1939 · 5 votes
Movie9.0CrimeDramaSheriff Holt is determined to prove that prisoners can be rehabilitated and released into society in this prison drama. In charge of a new kind of program, the sheriff places inmates in a clean environment and makes them build a road. Despite the improved conditions, the criminals continue to pull off a few shady shenanigans as an innocent man who is sent there soon discovers.
Fugitive from a Prison Camp
1940 · 1 votes
Movie5.3ComedyMysteryStreet kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Boys of the City
1940 · 14 votes
Movie5.3ComedyA scatterbrained waitress invests her inheritance in a broken-down race horse and a sweepstakes ticket.
Sweepstakes Winner
1939 · 4 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaAfter living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of his best friends goes to prison for a murder he didn't commit. The policeman tries his best to release the friend by proving his innocence.
East Side Kids
1940 · 8 votes
Movie10.0ComedyA comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
The Quarterback
1940 · 1 votes
Movie6.7DramaA young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.
Pride of the Blue Grass
1939 · 3 votes