Ernest Truex Movies

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

After retiring from movies to get an education, a man discovers his ex-staff is trying to have him expelled.

A small-town girl who's made it big in New York as a fashion model returns home, only to find that her somewhat dotty uncle has mortgaged his...

A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her...

Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his...

An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

Mike Abbott just wants to spend a quiet evening at home with his wife, but her collection of zany friends make hash of his hopes.

Four bandits swoop down on a California bank and flee with $98,000, leaving a truck as the only clue to their identity. Jane Hartman, bank secretary,...

A number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

A waitress falls for a foreign businessman (Mohr), while receiving attention from a pair of motorcycle cops, Curtis and Defore. She soon realizes...

Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

An elderly gentleman comes to a young woman's aid by pretending to be her uncle. Comedy.

Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get...

Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.