Movies by Percy Helton

Spook Chasers

Spook Chasers

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted.

Never Trust a Gambler

Never Trust a Gambler

A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.

The Stooge

The Stooge

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his pals advise him to make Ted an equal partner.

Under Mexicali Stars

Under Mexicali Stars

Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers.

Fury at Gunsight Pass

Fury at Gunsight Pass

An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery.

Wabash Avenue

Wabash Avenue

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy's revenge comes unravelled.

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap

Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.

The Offenders

The Offenders

Girl is held at mercy of gang of crooks, her only friend being a half-wit. A murder is committed and blame shifted to the girl. The half-wit has seen it but cannot remember. When he is cured, his testimony frees the girl.

The Prisoner of Swing

The Prisoner of Swing

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king.

Jail Busters

Jail Busters

Slip and Sach (Bowery Boys) go to prison to help a reporter with a story.

At Home

At Home

Down Laredo Way

Down Laredo Way

Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way

The Phantom Stagecoach

The Phantom Stagecoach

A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible.

The Silent Partner

The Silent Partner

When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors Playhouse series, sponsored by Kodak, and in association with Screen Directors Guild.

Insinuation

Insinuation

About a woman whose life is almost ruined by the insinuations of a small-town gossip and a brother who falls in with bad company. The film ends with the woman being saved by her upstanding physician husband, whom she meets when her theatre troupe becomes stranded in the town.

The Fairy and the Waif

The Fairy and the Waif

Viola Drayton (Minter) has a fascination for fairies, but real life intervenes when her father, a colonel (W.T. Carleton), is called off to the European War (that's what they called World War I in early 1915). He leaves Viola in the care of the Nevisons (Herbert Wilke and Ina Brookes) and gives them thirty thousand dollars to invest on her behalf. When word arrives that Drayton has been killed in battle, Mr. Nevison takes Viola's money for himself, but he squanders it and his wife has to take in boarders. Viola hates her life at the Nevisons...

Let's Live Again

Let's Live Again

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother.

Free For All

Free For All

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.