Movies: Edward Brophy

A hillbilly deacon, who is actually a cardsharp in disguise, becomes involved in a small-town fight game....

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client), Durant launches his ow...

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines....

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in which ever way is best for his needs. But when he tries to fix his adored kid brother's place on the ...

Holt plays police lieutenant McHenry, while Graves is his friendly rival, crime reporter Wally Cook. After the two men verbally duel over a variety of details, they hunker down to business, that of solving the murder of a lawyer who was in the midst ...

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own ...

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well....

Ole and Chic are comedians employed in a nightclub, but seeking to be released from their contracts to take a better job. But the prissy nightclub owner, B. J. Wagonhorn, refuses to let them go. In reprisal, they start hurling insults at the nightclu...

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee....

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness....

A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race....

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions....

An insane surgeon's obsession with an actress leads him to replace her wounded pianist husband's hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer....

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and pla...

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts....

Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he has fallen for Barbara's charms so he lets her go. As a result they are both arrested and imprisoned....

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte....

On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation....

A special agent hunts a female outlaw out West....

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step ahead of foreclosure, and clearly not paying his performers, including Bergen and McCarthy, who try t...