Edward Brophy Movies

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan....

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

After a night of wild partying at a friend's house, a couple wake up to discover the party's host has been murdered in his bed.

Paris plumber Elmer Tuttle is enlisted by socialite Patricia Alden to help make her lover Tony Lagorce jealous. With the help of his friend Julius J....

Kelly's employer, Waters, is such a keen golfer that he asks Kelly to help him improve his game at an exclusive country club.

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down.

Elmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he...

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they...

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Barbara Winslow helps her rebel brother, Rupert, escape from the king's forces by disguising herself as him. Captain Prothero captures her, but he...

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in...

A society sleuth rescues a kidnapped woman, then is framed for murder.

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

Gangsters, nightclubs and the Roaring '20s.