Frank Jenks Movies

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.

Aspiring singer Ann Carter visits her stepbrother in New York, hoping to make it on Broadway.

After Pearl Harbor, convicts at Alcatraz prison live in fear of bomb attacks, driving Champ Larkin and his pal Jimbo to a desperate escape attempt...

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens.

A mysterious hypnotist reverts his beautiful assistant back into the form of a prehistoric sea monster that she was in a past life.

Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening...

A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her...

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...

A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to...

Jane Frazee made her starring film debut in the Republic B-plus musical Melody and Moonlight. The plot is motivated by the show-biz aspirations of...

Late one night, secretary Paula Young (Ann Harding) leaves the office of her boss, Stanley Whittaker (Douglas Dumbrille, locking the door and taking...

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's...

A theatre critic teams up with a cop to investigate the murder of a Broadway actor.

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice...

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.

A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.