Monte Vandergrift Movies

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by...

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

When the body of Violet Feverel is discovered on the Central Park bridle path, Inspector Oscar Piper is about to declare her death accidental from a...

Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal...

Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and...

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving...

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

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

John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A...

Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a...

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.

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

Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to...

Carol Corliss, a beautiful movie star so insecure about her celebrity that she goes around in disguise, meets a rugged outdoorsman who is unaffected...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

A woman convicted of fraud aims to take her revenge on the man who put her inside after being released on parole.

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.