James Burke Movies

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

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 young girl and her uncle who run a traveling medicine show lend their efforts to salvage an old plantation.

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

A college professor and the school's star football player are both rivals for the same beautiful coed.

After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the...

No relation to the 1950 Frank Capra film of the same name, the 1943 Technicolor musical Riding High is a by-the-numbers vehicle for Dorothy Lamour...

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

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

Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for...

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire...

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 man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

After an argument with his newspaper's city editor, press-photographer Jimmy Hudson quits his job and takes up free-lancing as a street-photographer...

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

A young girl holds a special place in her heart for a place called Shamrock HIll, and she tries to stop it from having a television station built on...

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

The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

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