John Litel Movies

A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.

Why did the Governor want to resign?

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Joe Kovak is a test pilot for military-aircraft designer Sam Bentley, who thinks of Joe as a son. A competing plane company is seeking the same Army...

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent...

A priest relates the tale of his friend, a WWI veteran, to the Post-War Planning Committee. Unable to get a job upon his return from the war, he puts...

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

Pastoral fantasy about a hermit who prefers the serene company of the woods and its denizens to the world outside.

Gangsters and police cross each other, including murder, in an attempt to cover up crimes.

A plain-Jane math professor (Joan Davis) at a small midwestern college is talked into journeying to New York on behalf of a colleague who has written...

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her...

At a small hotel, Judith Barrett and Norman Peck are eloping; John Litel and Addie MacPhail are quarreling because of his constant jealousy; and Eva...

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Cuban Fireball is a vehicle for the combustible talents of Estelita Rodriguez, here cast as "herself." The plot finds Estelita arriving in Los...

An honest guy gets trapped into the world of horse racing and his once prosperous life becomes a downward spiral into the underworld.

A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is...

Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.