Dick Purcell Movies

A reporter gets himself sent to prison so he can solve a murder behind bars.

A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.

An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to...

A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.

Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the...

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of...

Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.

A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.

Tod Weaver finds his career on the skids and feels frustrated playing small-time venues. Tod is romantically tied to Gale Starr, an assistant...

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

Mike Douglas (Barry Sullivan), owner of a nitroglycerin concern hires his old friend "Buzz" Mitchell (Chester Morris), a race-driver of midget-auto...

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but he just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor...

A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are...