Movies: Archie Twitchell

A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity....

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown....

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend....

Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead ...

A bank robber and his boy make a run for it during winter in a bus full of children....

A young doctor gives up big-city success to help his father set up a small-town clinic....

Shirley Ross plays an innocent young girl convicted for complicity in a crime committed by her boy friend (Lloyd Nolan). The male crook is sentence to six months on a prison farm populated by both men and women (segregated, of course). Ross is also i...

One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial opportunist Asa Barrows hopes to profit from obstructing it. Chief troubleshooter Jeff Butler has his h...

A film director travels to Kentucky to seek out local talent for a hillbilly musical film. There, he gets kidnapped....

During a stick-up, a woman is excited by the criminal and joins him on his crime spree....

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 with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh o...

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chie...

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom....

A hugely successful DA goes into private practice after sending a man to the chair -- only to find out later he was innocent. Now the drunken attorney only seems to represent criminals and low lifes....

Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub....

Roy is a Confederate officer stationed in Missouri during the Civil War. He must put an end to outlaw gangs working under the pretense of service to the Confederacy....

Walker is an undercover Pinkerton Agent and gets Lash and Fuzzy involved in cleaning up the Taggert. A mash up of old Lash films and other movies and released as an original film....

Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring. Completed shortly before America e...

A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own....

While searching the South Pacific for a missing aviator, Bob Mitchell and Jimmy Wallace are caught in a typhoon and crack up on an island, escaping unharmed with the aid of Tura, a beautiful jungle girl who is the only inhabitant of the island and is...