William Newell Movies

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

After Slip is drafted into the Marines, the rest of the gang volunteers so they can be with him. Sach discovers that the colonel knew his father and...

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

Judy Walker is a poor songwriter who, through mistaken identity, gets her songs played on the radio.

A Pete Smith Specialty. Chef Prudence Penny gives hints on cooking.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling...

Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also...

A serviceman returns home at the end of WWII to discover his wife has become the head of her own very successful advertising agency. Comedy.

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

Architect Hal Norton and wife Meg invite his widowed mother Louisa to move in with them, only to discover the sweet elderly lady is romantically...

A pigeon breeder is hired to train a racehorse that wins only when it drinks beer.

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

Wanting a break from his overzealous fans, a famous movie star hires a Hawaiian plantation owner to switch places with him for a few weeks.

A man takes over the identity of a dead man while on the lam from a crime he didn't commit.

In a major murder case, an innocent man is convicted. Though saved at the last moment, his sanity is gone and he kills himself. Soon, the jurors on...