James Burke Movies

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife,...

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to...

Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.

After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the...

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his...

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

Dishonorably discharged from the U.S. Marines after starting a barroom brawl that gets his leatherneck buddy "Tubby" Waters killed, hothead "Woody"...

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful...

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but...

Joe and Lucky travel around New England painting barns in exchange for an advertisement on one side. The meet Madge, who is cruelly treated by a her...