Charles Lane Movies

There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself....

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

Dr. Kildare treats and falls for impoverished ex-con Janet Haley, widow of a bank robber, who can't find her baby. Later she helps Kildare sew up...

A Russian waiter in New York City becomes a national celebrity after he develops a "system" for winning at contract bridge.

A former government agent in France, who has failed at an assignment and been disavowed, is deported back to the USA, where he can only find work at...

Racketeer Jim Barnes is trying to force the independent taxicab-drivers to join his "protection service" at the cost of five bucks a day. Champion...

A woman's life falls to pieces when she's caught cheating on her husband.

A drunken attorney tries to sober up in order to defend a friend in murder case.

Kurt Anderson is the tyrannical manager of a New York department store in financial straits. He thinks nothing of firing an employee of more than 20...

A retired surgeon starts giving away money to religious causes and his family tries to file suit, claiming that he's incompetent.

Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.

A down on his luck young man stumbles into a gang of robbers who all get landed in prison. Will he be reformed, or is he ensnared into a life of...

100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.

A bumbling detective chases an escaped convict in an amusement park haunted house in Coney Island.

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the...

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.

After losing their Missouri home during the Great Depression, the Skitch family pulls up stakes and heads west to California to begin life anew....