Movies: Berton Churchill

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost....

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectabil...

The ranchers have given money through Benton to the crooked lawyer Harkness to save the titles to their land. When Harkness gets a better offer, he steals Benton's receipt for the money and Benton is jailed. To fight back, Benton escapes jail at nigh...

A musical comedy in a theatrical boarding house....

In the late 1800s, a man is sentenced to life at hard labor for killing his wife and her lover....

A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy....

A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life. However, he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians and soon finds himself being framed for an arson and mu...

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

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account....

A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth....

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society....

The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire....

Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework. A Higgins Family comedy...

A failed actor finds success as a radio singer....

A small-town barber finds himself short of stature but a giant in the world of stock promotion. As his bank account grows, Stone's ethics diminish, and soon he's playing fast and loose with other people's money. Disgruntled investor Fay Wray is the o...

American (Churchill) in London dislikes England until his daughter (Lehmann) falls for the son (Granger) of the Lord (Drayton) with whom he wants to conclude a business deal....

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance....

Innocent Nancy Carroll falls in love with con man Edmund Lowe and the pair swindle their way across the country until they decide to settle down in a small town and give up their life of crime. He goes into business and all seems to be going well unt...

Bluford H. Smythe, who has made it big in the big city, has returned to his small hometown of Glenwood after being away for twenty years. Accompanying him is his personal secretary, Ambrose Ames. Despite it being purely a vacation to get some rest an...

When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense....