Dick Purcell Movies

Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the...

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

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...

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of...

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

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.

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

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

An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

In this entry in the "Weaver Family" series, the town of Farmington is being plagued by a crime wave. The angry citizens are ready to impeach the...

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

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

An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents....

A tank driver explains the nature of the armored combat vehicle and the techniques of how the infantry can deal with them in combat.

After causing his friend's death, an animal trainer marries the man's daughter to atone.