Charles Trowbridge Movies

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.

A former U.S. marshal rescues an instant heiress from an outlaw's gang.

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence.

The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her...

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.

A gritty crime story involving a newspaper man and crooked politicians.

A Catholic priest must convince a man to step forward to save the wrong person from being sent to the electric chair.

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,...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

A girl reporter is trying to tack down the lady-in-the-title, as a key witness in a graft trial, which involves three murder and that many failed...

The Secret Call is adapted from The Woman, a play by William C. DeMille (brother of Cecil B.) Peggy Shannon plays Wanda Kelly, the daughter of a...

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior.

A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.

Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to...

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get...

Richard Dix stars as Dave Morrell, the new marshal of Goliath, Oklahoma. Immediately upon arrival, Morrell finds himself at odds with banker Coy...

Guests at a women's residence club help a jilted small-town girl turn to modelling.