Purnell Pratt Movies

There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who...

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired...

The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on...

Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story. Girard and lawyer Redfield throw a party for...

Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her...

Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

A writer bets a publisher friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The publisher takes the bet, and gives him the "only key" to his...

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he...

A salesman gets in trouble with a party girl and a debutante in Detroit.

On her first anniversary, Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character that she used to be intimate with, and...

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend...

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

The rebellious daughter of an army general gets involved with a Communist agitator, mainly to annoy her father. He arranges to have her kidnapped and...

During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield....

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

A lawyer devises a plan to fake a breach of contract suit against a wealthy womanizer.

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder...