Dorothy Peterson Movies

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

A high-spirited and short-tempered Texan woman storms her way through life until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the error of her ways.

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

A young woman who works in the movie business buys a sweepstakes ticket that turns out to be a winner. Her stroke of luck changes her life...

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the...

A love story about two teenagers who fall in love, have a child, and escape from their families in an attempt to make life for themselves in New York...

Elliot's affair prompts his wife Doris to love millionaire Bruce. After a messy gathering, a flat tire stops Doris from chasing Bruce's departing...

Long-missing Bill Cardew returns to find his wife Vicky remarried...and in no hurry to settle for just one husband.

A day in the maternity ward from the lens of accepted morals and medical attitudes of 1932. The ward includes women from all walks of life and...

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner...

The ghost of a murdered man returns to Earth to help a young couple find his killer.

The first of four films in the "Five Little Peppers" series, based on Margaret Sinclair's popular book, about a widowed mother and her five children....

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

Love happens between the son of Polish immigrants settled in Maine and the daughter of a neighboring farm family.

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man.

A Mild Teenager gets a job as a timber guard.