Esther Dale Movies

Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

Caddish lawyer Lee Gentry is going out with Katy Costello, but carrying on an affair with dancer Carmen Brown. When he wants to end the dalliance...

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew...

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and...

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.