James Burke Movies

After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the...

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

Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her...

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

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

A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.

Wonder Pictures has been striking out at the box office lately, causing the seedy PR man to involve main star Annabel in ever outrageous stunts for...

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour...

A businesslike syndicate runs all the gambling joints in town; least profitable is honest Mike Lee's. Under pressure to allow cheating, Mike "walks...

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

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

Singer Rose Carlton, otherwise known as 'The San Francisco Doll', accidentally kills her controlling boyfriend when he tries to prevent her from...

The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal,...

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 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.

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...