Writing

Robertson White

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome poster
5.5

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

1947

The Westland Case poster
6.7

A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.

The Westland Case

1937

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise poster
6.8

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a Scotland Yard friend.

Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise

1940

Mystery House poster
4.8

When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to get to the bottom of the case.

Mystery House

1938

He Couldn't Say No poster
6.5

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl, which he refuses to part with at any cost.

He Couldn't Say No

1938

Once a Doctor poster
6.5

Dr. Frank Brace (Joe King) is an important doctor with son Jerry (Gordon Oliver) as well as foster son Steven (Donald Woods). The sons are both interns at Frank's hospital. Steven is the better doctor who takes blame for Jerry's mistakes.Steven has his license revoked when he is blamed for two deaths. Steven goes through years of hell trying to redeem himself.

Once a Doctor

1937

The Witness Vanishes poster
7.0

In this mystery, a newspaper executive and three of his colleagues conspire to have the owner of the highly-respected London Sun committed to an insane asylum. The hapless publisher manages to escape. Soon after, the four collaborators begin dying one-by-one. Oddly their obituaries appear in a rival publication before they are actually killed.

The Witness Vanishes

1939

The Adventurous Blonde poster
5.3

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his reporter-fiancée, Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), reporters from a rival newspaper plan a fake murder with the idea that Torchy's paper will print the story and look foolish. The tables are turned when the fake murder turns out to be the genuine article.

The Adventurous Blonde

1937

The Footloose Heiress poster
4.7

A rich businessman brings home a homeless man who promises to tame his willful 18-year-old daughter.

The Footloose Heiress

1937

My Bill poster
6.6

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

My Bill

1938

The Lady in the Morgue poster
7.0

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

The Lady in the Morgue

1938