James P. Burtis Movies

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and...

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

A countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.

Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman...

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.

Hard-boiled newspaper reporter Larry Doyle (Robert Armstrong) goes a bit too far in celebrating a work bonus and wakes up on a train bound for St....

A young man with a checkered past struggles to make good as a fireman.

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and...

A famous detective is invited to a swanky party at an elegant mansion, but before the night is over he finds himself involved with gangsters,...

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

A small town Vermont fellow falls in love with a New York City radio singing star, but she is about to be married to the radio station owner.

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In...

Patsy tries to stay with Thelma at the hospital where she works, but Thelma is forced to pretend that Patsy is a patient.

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

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

When a confused eyewitness identifies New York City cabbie Brick Tennant as a killer, he is sentenced to death for a murder that he wasn't involved...

Bodies start mysteriously disappearing from the city morgue. An investigator tries to determine what is going on.

A young couple pose as criminals in order to get the goods on their crooked bosses.