Movies: Charles Trowbridge

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations....

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, then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out. Typical of 20th Century Fox biopics of...

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use....

Joe and Ethel Turp are up in arms when their faithful old mailman is fired. Unable to get satisfaction on a municipal level, Joe and Ethel plead their mailman's case to the President himself....

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page....

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a p...

A man who has been railroaded into prison is framed for the murder of a fellow inmate and must prove his innocence....

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars....

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe....

A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown....

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land and gold-crazy Americans. Farmer Joaquin Murrieta revenges the death of his wife against the four Ameri...

J. Carrol Naish plays a slimy villain again; this time he's running a casino on a ship and smuggling furs past the Coast Guard....

Musical comedy star Jimmy Leighter wants to get away from show biz and his leading lady Winnie Clark, so he joins the Army. There he gets the order to put on a show, Winnie Clark appears in a camp show, hears about his task and offers him his help. H...

A lawman tries to find the source of a juvenile delinquent's bad behavior....

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate exp...

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless....

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit....

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler....

Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they disc...

Tom and Cora Elliott love their active social life so much that they neglect their daughter Mary and son Les. Fred Mason, Tom's neighbor and the doctor at the defense plant employing Tom, worries about the effect that Tom and Cora's drinking and soci...