Dorothy Vernon Movies

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides—but Vance suspects foul play.

A general store clerk and aspiring detective investigates a mysterious disappearance that took place quite close to an empty insane asylum.

Curly learns that he is named in the will of his rich uncle, so the boys head for the uncle's mansion to attend the reading of the will.

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

New York store clerk joins a hobo and an illegal immigrant heading for his newly bought land in Arizona.

A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.

Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this...

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead....

Biographical film based loosely on the life of 1920s stage star Jeanne Eagels.

Mr. Schmidt's costume store is bankrupt because he spends his time on Rube Goldberg-style inventions; the creditors send a young manager who falls...

Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the...

Frank Sr. sells his supplies to Hook, but then Hook has the Bannion Boys bushwhack his wagon to get the money back. Frank is murdered, but Junior...

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Ruby falls in love with small-time con man Eddie. During a botched blackmail scheme, Eddie accidentally kills the man they were setting up. Eddie...

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot....

A young French soldier in World War I is overcome with guilt when he kills a German soldier who, like himself, is a musically gifted conscript, each...