A hotshot race-car driver gets suspended, and winds up driving for a shady bus company. Read More »
Tag Archives: Dick Purcell
Blackwells Island (1939) William C. McGann, John Garfield, Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
In a fictional version of true events at the New York prison of Blackwell’s Island in 1934 Read More »
Wine, Women and Horses (1937) Louis King, Barton MacLane, Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell
Gamblers Jim Turner and Valarie part company in Chicago and agree to meet at Saratoga Read More »
Reported Missing! (1937) Milton Carruth, William Gargan, Jean Rogers, Dick Purcell
A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed. Read More »
Public Wedding (1937) Nick Grinde, Jane Wyman, William Hopper, Dick Purcell
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake ‘public wedding’ Read More »
Missing Witnesses (1937) William Clemens, John Litel, Dick Purcell, Jean Dale
The daring of the racketeers, all working for one organization Read More »
Flight Into Nowhere (1938) Lewis D. Collins, Jack Holt, Julie Bishop, Dick Purcell
When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields Read More »
Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943) William Beaudine, Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Tim Ryan, Crime, Mystery
The Morgan family’s patriarch is soon to die. He hosts a dinner party for the family to tell them all he’s setting aside his last will to be opened by his nearly 8-year-old granddaughter thirteen years in the future when she turns twenty-one. Read More »
Mystery House (1938) Noel M. Smith, Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Banker Hubert Kingery invites fellow officers to his hunting lodge only to announce that one of them has forged critical company documents. Read More »
Men in Exile (1937) John Farrow, Dick Purcell, June Travis, Victor Varconi, Crime, Drama, Romance
When ex-convict cabbie Jimmy Carmody is framed in a jewelry store robbery and murder, an old friend arranges for him to flee the country to the island of Caribo Read More »