Esther Dale Movies

Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

A fugitive from a chain gang becomes an oil-well firefighter and meets the man who framed him.

When her husband is accused of murder, an actress tries to prove his innocence.

An American soldier pleads to the folks at home to conserve scarce wartime resources.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

A young woman who owns a coffee shop falls for a handsome young customer, unaware that he is a gangster.

A beautiful female doctor visits her small hometown on her way back to Chicago. Her overworked uncle, who is the town's doctor, wants her to stay and...

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

When gangster Phil Daley gets rid of his chief Paul Burgess he has everything that money can buy, except the respect of his parents and his...

Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Hubert Abercrombie Gumm, a flighty, eccentric screwball acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less...

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Follows a crew as they work under a deadline set by their boss to complete the demolition of a building. Touches on the lives of several of the crew...