Douglas Shearer Movies

Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.

The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton...

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.

A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.

Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge's...

While Judge Hardy handles a couple's divorce, Andy takes a shine to their shy daughter.

Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.

Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.

A husband and wife act are hoping to find success on Broadway.

A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at...

A young lawyer is determined to identify who is murdering members of a wealthy New York publishing family.

A woman in London unexpectedly inherits a Texas ranching fortune, and takes a transatlantic voyage to collect her fortune, not suspecting two men...

While in Shanghai reporting on the Sino-Japanese war, Chris Hunter, a shrewd news reporter, meets pilot Alma Harding. She does not trust him, but he...

Married book-dealers Joel & Garda Sloane try to clear a friend in the murder of a rival book-seller.

An exiled archduke (John Barrymore) tries to renew romance with a former lover (Diana Wynyard) now wed to a psychiatrist (Frank Morgan).

Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.