Esther Dale Movies

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...

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

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

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

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

A society girl tries to make a go of her marriage to an archaeologist.

An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.

A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.

In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman,...

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

Fugitive Chris Hale starts over in a small Midwestern town in Ohio, where he befriends Elaine Corelli, a kind-hearted heiress left disabled after a...

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

Fraternity brothers enter one of their own into a scholarship lottery after a women's college insults them. Though the Zeta boys are celebrated for...

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

Ma and Pa are trying to raise enough money at the county fair to send their daughter Rosie to college. Ma competes in baking and Pa enters a trotter...

Eric Wainwright, a busy impresario, is besieged by hordes of wannabe concert stars, eager for their big break. One of them is Cynthia Potter, a...

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

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