James P. Burtis Movies

Reporter Nicholas Ranson is jubilant when, on 17 Dec 1903, in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville and Wilbur Wright take their first airplane flight....

Lee is a fresh young kid from the South when he gets a job with The Press. His first assignment on gangsters gets his name in the paper, the police...

A fancy masquerade party is the scene of a jewel robbery, and later several suspects in the robbery are discovered to be aboard the same train.

A Treasury agent gains the trust of a mob gunman while working under cover to smash a crime syndicate.

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

Intending that her son, Herbert, marry debutante Mildred Vane, Mrs. Consuelo Carter is most dismayed when she learns that Herbert has fallen in love...

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

A race-car driver whose career is on the skids because of his drinking falls for a rich society girl. That motivates him to clean up his act and...

Dancer June Page is charged with the murder of gangster "Honest Ed" Baker. Allan Perry, an ambitious journalist at the dawn of his career, seeks at...

A young man looks for a thoroughbred horse that was got lost during a train wreck.

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

During a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone...

Jeanette and Eddie get married, but their wedding night is a fiasco. First, their wedding guests follow them, resulting in a police chase, then the...