Phil Tead Movies

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His...

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes a prominent New York racketeer named Gilmurry. Adam's sudden renown...

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...

Agatha has fond memories of her romance with college president Dr. James Merrill, when she was a student and he was her professor, and wants to see...

A young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.

Wall Street broker Robert Cain, Sr., is jailed for embezzling. His college graduate son Bob then turns to crime to raise money for his father's...

A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be...

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...

A Texas Ranger turns deputy sheriff; a woman wants him to kill her cattle-baron husband.

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents' notoriety.

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

In the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and...