James Burke Movies

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...

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

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

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

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

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 mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

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

When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they...

Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the...

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.

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

A professor tires of the direction his life is going and wants to move west, but his girlfriend doesn't understand why he is so dissatisfied.

Harry Ashton is a superstitious gambling house owner, who relies on sprigs of heliotrope as his good luck charm. One day, Harry catches his wife,...

A thief on the run dumps some hot money in Thelma and Patsy's lap.

Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.