Dorothy Adams Movies

Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate...

A man waits on death row while his son and friend try to prove that he did not kill a grocer with an ax.

11 year old Davy discovers that a chained gentle dog, Buck, is badly wounded around the neck because of the thick, tight collar he is made to...

Bill Lawrence wins a bevy or prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them all in order to pay the taxes he's incurred.

An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money...

A Catholic priest fights against his colleagues' immediate acceptance of an ambiguous “miracle”.

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con...

The Fight for Life was documentary filmmaker Pare Lorentz' first "dramatic" film, utilizing the talents of several top New York stage actors. A...

Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian...

Three jurors are ripe for bribery by the lawyer of a playgirl up for murder.

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.

A fresh-faced young detective gets set up, framed for murder, and alibied by a smart blonde.

An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

The (O)ffice of (S)trategic (S)ervices' Cmdr. Brady (Patric Knowles) forms Operation "Applejack" (based on a composite of actual incidents during...

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

A determined newsman pursues his hunch that a charitable maternity hospital is running a ruthless adoption racket.