Charles Halton Movies

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant....

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he...

Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...

A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is...

Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost...

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named...

A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his parents who are being deported for what turns out...

A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...