James Burke Movies

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.

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

Duke and Jeanie Benson, an outlaw couple hiding out under assumed names. Duke realizes that he has a winning sweepstake ticket and will win $150,000...

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies,...

The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up...

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

Private Detective Philo Vance gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been...

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by...

The Saint Takes Over, released in 1940 by RKO Pictures, was the fifth motion picture featuring the adventures of Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint"...

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

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

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

Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.

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...

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

Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.

A boy tries to protect his dog, a German shepherd that served with U.S. Army forces after it begins attacking strangers several years after the war.