Hamilton MacFadden Movies

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...

Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is...

Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be...

A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's...

Before his daughter can formally claim her rightful title, her father dies. Now her blue-blooded American suitor finds that his father refuses to...

Newly married copywriters become seduced by life with the country-club set, until mounting bills and legal troubles snap them back to reality.

A daughter and devious ex-wife complicate an executive's marriage to his secretary.

A gang of crooks wrestles with the temptation to rob the bank that they now manage.

Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.

Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.

Fox Film’s promotional short subject for the Federal Government’s National Recovery Act, in which working man El Brendel explains to his...

Disenchanted opera star Carlotta Manson falls for ruffian cat burglar Barney McGann and gives up her career to marry him. But Barney grows...

Millionaire sportsman Hiram Brighton hires gumshoe Michael Shayne to keep his spoiled daughter Phyllis away from racetrack betting windows and...

Mary Whitman has gone to Reno to obtain a divorce. While there she is arrested on suspicion of murdering a fellow guest at her hotel (which...

Beatrice Lillie shines in disguise as a private detective.

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

In Rio de Janiero to arrest a nightclub singer on suspicion of a murder in Hawaii, Charlie Chan becomes involved with the Rio police in solving the...