Jack La Rue Movies

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...

When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

Wellington Pike, author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see...

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

A just-married young woman attempts suicide after her husband tells her he really doesn't love her because he has become involved in an extortion...

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes prominent New York City political party boss John Gilmurry. Adam's...

Circumstances force naive Rita Adams into serving an unjust prison term, but she emerges from it a cynical criminal who rises to power in the local...

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry...

A kooky waiter and sometimes vaudevillian promises to get his employer's daughter into a Broadway show. When he kidnaps the show's star, she gets her...

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin, despite the protests of his...

A radio columnist is threatened by gangsters and later murdered during a broadcast. A detective sets out to find the killers.

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

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...

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

A relationship gradually develops between a savvy New York City street girl and a good-hearted cab driver, but other matters keep getting in their...