James Burke Movies

A washed up baseball player returns to Brooklyn to manage his old team but an old sports reporter is eager to prove that he is a loser.

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

Singer Rose Carlton, otherwise known as 'The San Francisco Doll', accidentally kills her controlling boyfriend when he tries to prevent her from...

A mother sends her young son to military school so he won't find out she's been sentenced to a prison term on a framed fraud charge.

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Rose Pierce is discontent with her life as the wife of a small town plumber and has visions of becoming a wealthy socialite. Consequently, when her...

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry...

Asaph (Charles Ruggles) is a meek, mild-mannered homebody who occasionally shows some backbone to his prudish, overbearing boss, only to be beaten...

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later,...

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting,...

Harriet O'Malley tries to solve a murder aboard a train en route to New York.

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.

Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire...

Raised in seclusion to be the epitome of mental, physical and moral perfection, Gerald Beresford Wicks is resigned to following his grandmother's...

An aspiring young writer becomes infatuated with a successful romance novelist, who realizes his life as a philandering Lothario is suddenly...

An aspiring playwright finds himself an overnight Broadway success.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.