Jack La Rue Movies

A policeman in need of money is persuaded to take a $1000 bribe to stay away the night a packing house is to be robbed.

Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy...

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

Granite-jawed Jack Holt performs a dual role in Columbia's Trapped by G-Men.

Cesare Campo is a hard-riding and hard-loving Argentine gaucho. Yvonne LaMarr is a famous Parisian singer on her way to play an engagement in a...

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and...

An orchestra leader turns sleuth to clear his ice-skating girlfriend for murder.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first...

When a play's two producers are murdered, the playwright tries to solve the crime.

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

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

Mexican club singer Lita Valdez is amazed to find that her younger brother Alberto is a talented boxer and is even more thrilled by his consistent...

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they...

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

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

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.