Frank M. Thomas Movies

A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at...

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless...

On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

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...

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead.

Wheeler & Woolsey comedy about two moronic ditch diggers, recruited for an archaeology expedition, getting mixed up with jewel thieves and an ancient...

An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police...

A teenager who's been raised and home-schooled at her father's Texas ranch must adjust to her new surroundings and being with other students when...

A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.

After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He...

Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.

Stolen way back in 1880, a sack of United States mail is discovered in an old attic in 1942. The letters are finally delivered, profoundly affecting...

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.

Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.

Hildegarde Withers and Inspector Piper try to solve a murder while attending a popular Broadway show.

When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

Judge Kirby is being blackmailed and forced to let outlaws go free. He was once the partner of Roy's father and when Roy reads in the paper that he...