James Burke Movies

Shopgirl Mary Turner, sentenced to prison for someone else's theft, is released and takes revenge upon those who wronged her in powerful but lawful...

Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to...

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

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

A con artist attends a reunion in his hometown and discovers that his former classmates are trying to trick an old millionaire into returning to...

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

During the American Civil War, Valette Bedford waits patiently for her husband Duncan Bedford, to return home, praying that she will not become a...

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...

Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire...

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for...

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer...

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his...

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

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

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...

An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly...

A painter suffering from amnesia convinces himself that he's a famous bandleader and finds romance with a pretty singer. Comedy with music.