Ernest Truex Movies

Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his...

A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a...

In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Detective Guy Johnson's client, Willie Heywood, is framed for murder. While Guy hides him so he can catch the real killer, both of them are nabbed by...

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

The Venetian traveler Marco Polo meets Kublai Khan and foils a plotter with fireworks in medieval China.

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...

Singer/Dancer Peggy Ryan neither sings nor dances in this comedy in which she plays a secretary, whose life has no romance because she devotes all of...

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

A college professor gets into trouble when he tries to prove any animal can be domesticated, including an African lion.

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford...