Purnell Pratt Movies

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend's racketeer father.

The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to “beat the...

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder...

There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who...

A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his...

A wealthy mama's boy finds himself the victim of con artists involved in an oil stocks racket.

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...

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired...

It is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist. The music for the film was written by Harry Akst and Grant Clarke, except for...

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...

A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.

A ten-chapter Rayart serial about fire-fighters in the Big City.

Ma Delano runs a penny arcade in Coney Island, living upstairs with her sons and daughter. Story involves rum-running, accidental murder and a...

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful....

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she...

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.