Jack La Rue Movies

Patrolman Jim Trent (Jack La Rue) hears the screams of a woman and rushes to her aid in an upstairs apartment. Inside, he is hit on the head and...

In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he...

Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is...

A young Iowa woman inherits her late estranged father's New York business, but the dead man's crooked associates think they can outwit the naive heir...

A reporter out to break up a criminal gang finds time to make a play for a mobster's girlfriend.

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.

The film depicts what happens when a rich boy accidentally meets a crude girl on New Year's Eve.

Though he was protecting her when he accidentally killed a man, Mabel Kane (Thelma Todd) refuses to testify on behalf of her dance partner Jerry...

A European Ruler falls in love with an American.

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

A young violin prodigy is assumed kidnapped after he runs away from home.

Two troublesome boys grow into very different men, one becoming a hoodlum and the other embracing college but both are in-love with the same girl.

Miss Madeline Fane is a famous California screen star who has been devoted to her baby son Michael since her husband's death the previous year. One...

Assistant District Attorney Jeffery Powell has just sent an innocent man to prison for the murder of a gambler. Powell is in love with, Marion...

Investigators crack down on a gang of nightclub con artists that has been victimizing wealthy bachelors.

Murder results when a group of houseguests converge on a chateau, each plotting to steal a valuable Gutenberg Bible.

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they...