Charles Halton Movies

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The...

Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret,...

Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible...

It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will...

Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as...

Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a...

A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.

Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant....

A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an...