Esther Dale Movies

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr....

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

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Radio's miracle show is on the screen.

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

A man fumbles through an apartment sub-let assessment while his wife is away.

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by...