James Burke Movies

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

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

A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to...

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"...

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

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his...

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

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...

Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been...

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