Morris Ankrum Movies

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before...

Left by his wife, a vain rodeo star picks up a floozy and rides a bad Brahman bull.

In bustling era of 19th-century Louisiana, sugar is as valuable as gold, and pirates like Lili Scarlet will do anything to get it. After robbing...

Husband-and-wife scientists pick up a pie-in-the-sky TV message supposedly from Mars.

A stone-encrusted body is unearthed at Pompeii, and people left alone with it keep dying of crushed skulls...

Summarily accused of murder, drifters Duke (Foran), Pancho (Carrillo) and Andy (Devine) are tossed into the hoosegow, only to be released when their...

After his mother's death, a young boy tries to help his father stop drinking.

A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband's death.

Steve Llewellyn hung up his guns after killing a man in self-defense, left Willow Creek and went on the drift for five years. Now he’s back....

Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing...

A third generation deputy sheriff doubts whether or not he has the guts for the job that killed both his father and grandfather. His doubts are...

Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment....

A young man, Facing torture and possibly death for his Christian beliefs, confesses his fears to Peter, who awaits a similar fate. Peter tells him of...

A perfumed message provides the only clue for a blind detective bent on clearing a man accused of murder.

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con...

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, we learn the story of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, the man who discovered hypnotism.

A lamb that had wandered off plays a significant part in the Nativity.

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast...

Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by thw swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the...