Charles Halton Movies

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a...

Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...

A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

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,...

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep...

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.