Francis McDonald Movies

An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The...

Bob Curtis (William Gargan), the youngest member of the New York City plain-clothes squad, is assigned to help Detective-Sergeant Doyle (Paul Hurst)...

Part of a 7-part series exploring all aspects of Hollywood.

A doctor transplants the brain of a girl who is in love with him into a girl he is in love with.

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

A petty thief who robs the very rich at speakeasies, and gets away with it because the rich don't want the bad publicity, is finally caught and sent...

With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.

A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.

Buck Colins heads a group of local ranchers who are trying to prevent the railroad from completing its line through their property. Till now they...

Heyst, a hermit on his own tropical island, plays unwilling host to red-headed stowaway Alma. Danger looms...

A young Eastern lawyer, seriously injured in a stage holdup, secures the help of Hoppy, California and Jimmy in completing his mission to his woman...

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

The boys buy a uranium mine out west, but when they get there they find that it's pretty much worthless. However, the local badmen are distrustful of...

A Canadian Mountie officer pursuing a fugitive from the law, is left in a moral conundrum when the fugitive saves his life.

The Gray Ghost is a 1917 American crime-drama film serial directed by Stuart Paton. Chapters: 1. The Bank Mystery; 2. The Mysterious Message; 3. The...

A remake of Frank Capra's Submarine (1928), Devil's Playground is a snappy Columbia "B plus" picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris....

A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the...

When Nora Nolan, a poor bargain-basement clerk, faints from the heat, she is told to take a vacation. Reporter Jimmie Norton, the son of a...