Emory Parnell Movies

A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

A financially-strapped showboat captain struggles to stay in business.

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

In 1850 Oregon is trying to gain statehood, but a truce is needed with the Indians before it can be accomplished. A new Army commander, Major Archer,...

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Ann Martin is serving time as a jewel thief. Paroled and determined to stay clean, she quickly finds out that her freedom was bought by an old,...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news...

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

As a wealthy retired surgeon nears the end of his life, he begins to distribute his wealth to those in need, stating that "all that I have belongs to...

A hard-drinking reporter tries to help the embittered widow of the soldier who had saved his life during the war.

An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.

Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe comes to Maine to visit his son Joe, a college instructor, and his wife Connie in the hopes of persuading Joe to give up...

Willie Duggans, a tenderfoot from the east, arrives in the wild west and soon experiences its violence. Willie discovers the easy money in bounty...

A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.

Andy is going to Wainwright College as did his father. He sees a pretty blonde on the train and he is alternately winked at or slapped every time he...

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love.