James P. Burtis Movies

A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing...

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the...

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...

A well-cloistered and protected-against-reality group of college students get their diplomas in the heart of the Great Depression, and quickly learn...

Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him...

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon...

A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love...

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and...

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and...

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 slapstick comedy film starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd, and Dorothy Lee.

Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes...

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at...

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

A 12-episode serial in which Tailspin Tommy evades volcanoes, anti-aircraft shells, and time bombs as he foils a plan by corrupt profiteers to steal...