Franklin Pangborn Movies

A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by...

A beautiful woman suspected of being a jewel thief is actually a detective tracking down a ring of bond thieves.

Ellery Queen solves a mystery involving a valuable stamp.

Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited fifteen years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep....

A New York City lawyer finds himself falling in love with the daughter of a screwball South Carolina family.

Believing his wife to be unfaithful, a husband deserts her and his child. Destitute, the woman is forced to take a job as a tango dancer.

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.

Nightclub gangsters hire a vaudeville act called the Three Funny Bunnies (Ritz Brothers).

Ice skating is the theme; at the Tropical Ice Garden, in Westwood Hills, are seen a flock of skating stars including Irene Dare and Phyllis Ann...

A gang of inept crooks and even more inept lawmen search for a cache of hidden money.

Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the...

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Because Thornwood's portraits of comely model Sally Dennis are in such great demand, he is obliged to spend virtually all his time with Sally, which...

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house,...

A chef helps a housewife cook a duck dinner that will not give her husband indigestion.

A small-town girl tells a small fib to a wealthy businessman; complications ensue.

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry....

Mrs. Topper's friend Mrs. Parkhurst has convinced Mrs Topper to file for a divorce from Cosmo due to the strange circumstances of his trip with ghost...