James Donlan Movies

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame...

A reporter gets the best story of her life when she goes under cover to take down the head of a crime syndicate.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank...

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by...

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...

Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

A toothpaste magnate's mischievous daughter, tired of her father's traditional ways of conducting business, joins forces with her father's rival and...

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case.

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her...

A barber turns down a promising business venture in order to take his sick son to a drier climate out west.

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

The Jones family drugstore is robbed and it looks like the culprit is a boy the family has taken a liking to.

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where...

An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party...

A cop, who plays by his own rules, brings down a notorious gangster.