Movies: Monte Vandergrift

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

G-Man Bill Collins swings into action when a crooked sweepstakes racket begins insinuating itself upon the honest citizenry of the US. The crooks have flooded the market with counterfeit lottery tickets, reducing many an unwary speculator to poverty...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster....

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector Piper, who promptly arrests the obvious suspect. Clues multiply and everyone...

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it....

Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and refuses to let anyone leave, the studio’s publicity head and his secretary attempt to solve the murders th...

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication....

A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model....

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another,...

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze....

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime....

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for hersel...

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop....

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake o...

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's politi...

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole....

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

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians ...

Dan Adams resigns his position as prosecutor on the district attorney's staff and sets out to clean up a gang of fake-accident racketeers. He gets a job with an insurance company, and assures the company president he will get the goods on the gang or...

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap....