James P. Burtis Movies

A severely traumatized World War I veteran, believing that he's living on borrowed time, comes upon a peaceful little village and meets an old man...

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

A young radio repairman becomes involved with gangsters and one of their girlfriends when he repairs their radio.

Jack Oakie and Jack Haley are songwriters are enroute from New York to Hollywood to make their fame and fortune; Ginger Rogers, a lunchwagon...

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

A gangster is smitten with the two girls in the next apartment. With the help of his violinist friend he gets acquainted with the girls by posing as...

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed...

A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.

Piccolo player Mike Scanlon loses his girl due to his unexciting lifestyle, so he decides to commit a robbery to gain notoriety. But the robbery goes...

Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him...

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and...

Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at...

A reporter helps the police investigate the murder of a disagreeable and philandering actor who is found strangled to death in his theater dressing...

During a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone...

A Professor has an invention that will bring down planes causing them to crash and Dawson is forcing him to use it on those carrying money. When Tim...

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the...