Movies: Howard M. Mitchell

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers....

An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone due to reckless driving....

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave....

Susan is about to be married, but the wedding may get called off after her fiancé summons three former beaus. Each reveals a different portrait of Susan: one describes her as a naive country girl who reluctantly becomes an actress, another paints a p...

Joe McDoakes attempts to deal with his myriad neuroses....

Carrie Snyder is a prostitute, who is forced out of the fictional southern town of Crebillon, after forming a friendship with a young boy named Paul, whose dying mother is unable to protest against her son visiting such a woman. After Carrie has left...

Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition....

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also i...

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con man all of the family savings to find reassurance that her son is all right. When she can no longer p...

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the ...

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the ph...

An unknowing orphan idolizes the horse thief/mail robber who has shot his father....

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails a taxi, but when he gets nervous at the sound of sirens, he jumps out. Hardware salesman Peter Harris...

Short tourist film set on a tropical island where a sailor falls in love with a native girl....

Two newspaper reporters become involved with another killing while investigating a murder, which leads to the involvement of the girl reporter's father....

The further adventures of Twain's most beloved fictional characters of Tom Sawyer and his friend, Huckleberry Finn....

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years....

A melodrama about a boy who initially wants nothing to do with his stepmother....

The "new roadways" of the title refer to various projects, carried out in the USA's research laboratories, that benefit mankind. These include solar energy projects, making glass that can be rolled up like a carpet, and diet experiments with mice tha...

In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes is evicted from his apartment and decides to build his own home. As the project progresses, his dream house turns into a nightmare....