James Burke Movies

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the...

A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they...

Comedy about an Irish father, who enjoys betting on horses, who keeps interfering with his daughter's romance with a serviceman.

To improve her image, a fan dancer "adopts" an old woman to be her mother.

Drama about military doctors and nurses during wartime.

Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner...

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time. His first marriage, to Isabel, was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel has just had their...

In 1834, Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the spoiled, dissolute son of a shipping magnate, is shanghaied aboard the Pilgrim, one of his father's own...

Slip (Leo Gorcey), Sach (Huntz Hall), Bobby (Bobby Jordan), Whitey (William Benedict) and Chuck (David Gorcey) unsuccessfully try to sell a...

A couple of down-and-out British aristocrats buy an American roadhouse.

An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

Jim Vesser and his team of railroading men try to build a rail line through a mountain pass, while a group of less scrupulous construction workers...

The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up...

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.