Movies: Joan Valerie

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family. The law is not content with his explanation, however....

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. ...

Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the...

Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel....

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence....

An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort....

An infatuated debutante renews a Shakespearean actor's running feud with his leading lady....

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity....

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

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew....

When Charlie's old friend from Scotland Yard is murdered when they attend a police convention in New York, Chan picks up the case he was working on....

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

Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another...

A San Francisco private eye finds himself under suspicion while investigating a prizefighter's murder....

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's fa...

An Army private proves his horse is fit for service and wins his colonel's daughter....

Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life....

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show....

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success....

Tom Turner, a naturalist, comes to the "Topa Topa" district (named for the mountain), and falls in love with widow Margaret Weston......