James C. Morton Movies

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by...

A boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with their own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.

Fields plays "Larsen E. Whipsnade", the owner of a shady carnival that is constantly on the run from the law. Whipsnade is struggling to keep a step...

The first of six films in the "Dr. Christian" series, starring Jean Hersholt as a small town doctor trying to convince local officials to approve...

Rose Sargent, a Roaring '20s singer, becomes a Ziegfeld Follies star as her criminal husband gets deeper in trouble.

Chorus girl Gloria Carroll inherits one million dollars from Broadway playboy Herbert Dinwiddle. Producer Ned McLane persuades her to advance him the...

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans,...

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.