Dick Purcell Movies

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

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

Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a...

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of...

A detective courts a gangster's ex-wife to lure him into a trap.

When a banker is found shot dead with a gun in his hand, his daughter refuses to believe it is a suicide. With the help of a detective, she hopes to...

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited...

A cocky radio reporter sets out to prove an ex-convict is innocent in the murder of a mob boss.

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression...

An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann...

A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other...

Three women who grew up in an orphanage cross paths later in life: one unhappily married with a young daughter, one an office secretary, and one a...

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