Frank Jaquet Movies

German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

A man is given the choice between having fabulous wealth or saving an innocent man from the death penalty.

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

Escaping the law, Jim Parker arrives in a town that is controlled by Dalt Higgins and his crony judge. When he stands up to Higgins, he's made...

A greedy businessman tries to block the building of a new railroad in his area.

A doctor and his staff in a hospital on the Philippine island of Corregidor shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor try to treat the sick,...

Lawyer Butler, wanting Jeff Carson's ranch, has the Sheriff and his gang frame the bank holdup on him. Then they kill a witness that could free...

Jerry Blake (aka Federal Operator 99) teams-up with Joyce Kingston to thwart the plans of escaped crime boss Jim Belmont.

A prospector discovers natural cement and suggests it should be used for a new dam. But this is the last thing the badmen of Trail End want, as they...

A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

U.S. agent Major Tom Blake is sent to Tripoli to uncover who it is in Washington that is tipping off the pirates as to what's being shipped where. A...

The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health...

The plot revolves around a group of ex-convicts who try to start life anew by relocating in a small town under assumed names. The mayor of the town...

An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.