James Burke Movies

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

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

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

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

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

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

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

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.

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

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but...

Newly arrived in the nineteenth century court of Emperor Francis 1st of Austria Countess Valerie happens to overhear a young pianist and advises him...

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...

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

1930s Thalians Club comedy.

Gillespie has to finally choose his official assistant, or Red and Lee are going to kill themselves in competition. So, it's another diagnosis...

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.

An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

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