Movies: Charles Trowbridge

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop....

An apparent suicide by a rich woman leads her nurse and a policeman to an insurance scam....

J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard....

Determined to land Jim as her husband, footloose Nita contrives to get herself pregnant by him. This film is lost....

A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing speedboats. They are innovative and soon the Navy comes a-knocking in hopes that he will design a fast and easi...

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song....

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a p...

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair....

Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical paradise, and battle scenes between enraged California settlers and...

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page....

Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming....

A wealthy New York socialite falls for and marries a cowboy while out West. Her father disinherits her, and after trying to make a go of it as a cowboy's wife, they agree to divorce and she returns back east to her family. However, she soon changes h...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's cow did not start the great Chicago fire; Nero didn't fiddle while Rome burned; and Lady Godiva neve...

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Rodeo rider Hurricane Smith is wrongly convicted of murder and robbery, but escapes and creates a new life, but one of the real criminals shows up to claim the loot which he believes Smith has....