James Burke Movies

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St....

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

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

An ex-gang member tries to resist his old cohorts' criminal influence after he suddenly becomes a Hollywood movie star.

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He...

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

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

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

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint"...

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour...

Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

A young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

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

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the...

In Vienna, a new jazz club featuring American trumpeter Buzzy Bellew threatens the existence of its neighbor, the Waltz Palace, run by Franz Strauss...

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

Eddie Tayloe's grandfather leaves him six thousand dollars and the money belt it came in, freeing Tayloe to leave his dull newspaper job in Texas and...