Joan Woodbury Movies

A movie actor playing a detective gets carried away with his role and starts trying to solve real-life crimes.

Pepe Le Moko is a notorious thief, who escaped from France. Since his escape, Moko has become a resident and leader of the immense Casbah of Algiers....

When the outlaw El Toro saves Hoppy's life, Hoppy agrees to find his missing grandson.

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help...

A murder is committed during the auction of a valuable statue. The prime suspect is Boston Blackie, whose reputation for living on the edge of the...

American correspondent Mike Malone uncovers a Nazi plot for an uprising of the Arab tribes in Lybia. Pursued by Sheik David and his men, Mike takes...

Andy gets into hot water because of his frequent lodge meetings.

Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.

A condemned inmate's premature death places officials under suspicion.

Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.

A medicine show pitchman investigates a small town murder in Arizona.

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case,...

A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.

In his film debut Ritter is sent to investigate miners being killed and their mines confiscated. The culprit is Evans and after Tex joins the gang,...

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

Bad guys plot to trick a newly arrived Eastern girl out of a ranch which belongs to her infant ward. Roy, of course, saves the ranch for the girl....

Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela...

To solve the murder of a man shot in a locked room, Chan must wade through a Fun House, the writings of an unscrupulous author, and chess pieces.

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.