Movies: Leon Ames

Jack Oakie plays Eddie Doyle, a gumball machine salesman who marries Pat Smith (Shirley Grey) knowing full well that the girl is on the rebound from a failed romance with aspiring Jewish doctor Max Silver (Leon Ames). But when Pat is nearly killed in...

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune....

A U.S. agent attempts to track down a spy ring working to destroy the Panama Canal....

An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can....

A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris Monroe, an estranged husband and wife, pursue the bear after it kills their only son, Buck....

A man's wife is put on trial for the murder of his first wife....

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true incident, in which a gangster "returned from the dead" to save an innocent young man from the electric...

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire...

Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series....

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship....

A shipful of fugitives from justice pulls up on a Pacific Island where there are no extradition laws. The island is a magnet for the scum of the earth, as well as a few honest guys who were framed. Into this den of iniquity swims socialite Dorothy Se...

A retired lawman gets back into action to fight political corruption....

A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter....

Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters....

Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped....

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get the spies that are after the invention and avenge his friend's death....

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure....

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines....

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices up with the consumers paying the freight....

On her first night as a dockside dancer, Mary Foster loses her job when she tries to fend of the advances of first mate Groder. On the street and being pursued by a Policeman who thinks she is a prostitute, Mary seeks shelter on an old freighter. S...