Movies: Monte Vandergrift

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze....

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies....

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication....

Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his...

A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered....

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring....

A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days....

Bob Halsey is a first-rate pilot who's in love with stewardess Judy Wagner. He's ordered to deliver a secret formula to Washington, D.C., but a spy hears about the assignment and sabotages it by murdering Bob's fellow flyers and making off with the l...

In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians ...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him...

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another,...

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

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber....

A writer takes a job as a secretary because her scrupulous husband isn't bringing in the dough as an attorney. When her new employer is murdered, she can't seem to make up her mind as to whether she "dunnit" or not....

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sur...

A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love....

Roberta Morgan is being raised in a wealthy home where her mother is occupied with her society-club activities and her father is immersed in his business activities. She also feels that the household staff is against her and that no one understands h...

A mad scientist attempts to rule the world by creating various elaborate inventions....

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder....

A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project....