Movies: Charles Trowbridge

A fussy shopkeeper's life drastically changes when his wife takes in two homeless boys....

A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easi...

Bob Hope stars in this laugh-packed wild west spoof co-starring Jane Russell as a sexy Calamity Jane, Hope is a meek frontier dentist, "Painless" Peter Potter, who finds himself gunslinging alongside the fearless Calamity as she fights off outlaws an...

Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint....

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page....

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of Army Intelligence arrives to take over the case. The prime suspect, Jevries, is well-known to Rogers...

Childhood chums Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly grow up on opposite sides of the fence: Rocky matures into a prominent gangster, while Jerry becomes a priest, tending to the needs of his old tenement neighborhood....

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary hostage, the convicts inadvertently cause the crash-landing of a small plane ferrying Axton's politi...

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play....

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song....

Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun....

Two South Sea Islanders fall in love, followed by a hurricane....

An undercover cop infiltrates a powerful New York based crime syndicate....

Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government....

An investigator checks into the rumors of harsh working conditions on an Amazon rubber plantation....

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles delivers a delightfully comic performance as Lance, an outwardly normal young man obsessed with detec...

An escaped lunatic, a mysterious swami, and various lovers all have designs on a famous opera singer....

An attorney enraged over the prosecution of two innocent people goes on a killing spree....

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva neve...

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency....