Dick Purcell Movies

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.

After a mine cave in, the rescue crew risks their lives to search for two trapped miners.

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

When headstrong pilot Bill Kellogg disobeys orders and takes a plane to photograph potential landing fields in uncharted Latin American country, he...

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not...

Richard Arlen and Phil Terry star as Skimmer and Tommy, two lifelong buddies who've invented a lightweight, high-speed torpedo boat (hence the...

A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are...

Gamblers try to pressure a star hockey player into throwing a game.

An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

Two daredevil pilots go after the same girl.

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

A married insurance claims adjuster investigates a gang of accident-fraud racketeers, but they retaliate by targeting his wife.