Jack La Rue Movies

After Celia's father dies, a war erupts over control of his land.

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a...

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

A romance develops between a happily married middle-aged British politician and an adventurous young aviatrix.

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry...

New York City fireman Bill O'Connell is assigned to the Arson Sqaud with the job of apprehending the for-profit gang of arsonists who are spreading...

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes prominent New York City political party boss John Gilmurry. Adam's...

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

In this family comedy, the wealthy executive of a steel company must endure life with a strict, teetotaling wife, a wild daughter, and a deadbeat...

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

Jeffrey and Glenda are two lovers about to embark on a three-day cruise to nowhere. Their plan is to be married on board by the ship's captain. As...

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

Sheriff 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...

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Americans come west to California in the hope of peaceful settlement. Roy and Gabby sing a duet: "We're Not Coming Out Tonight." Other songs include...