Movies by Charles C. Wilson

Broadway Scandals

Broadway Scandals

Ted Howard, a vaudevillian left, stranded in a tank town. A local girl, Mary (Sally O'Neil), proposes to finance a new act with her savings and the team succeeds in a minor way until Ted is discovered by Broadway femme fatale Valeska (Carmel Myers). Not wishing to stand in her partner's way, Mary nobly resigns from the act and instead accepts a minor role in the show. She proves a sensation on opening night, however, and a jealous Valeska demands her ousted. But Ted, who is in love with Mary, reorganizes their old act and they begin a new li...

The Mine with the Iron Door

The Mine with the Iron Door

Having acquired the controlling interest in the Eureka Discovery Corporation for five-hundred dollars, and selling half of it to a detective for two-hundred dollars, Bob Harvey sets off with his new partner to find the buried treasure of San Capello---with very strange consequences.

Fighting Thoroughbreds

Fighting Thoroughbreds

A prize-winning stallion breeds off-guard with a mare owned by his rival. The colt is trained to race from birth, eventually running in the Kentucky Derby against another horse owned by its sire.

Larceny in Her Heart

Larceny in Her Heart

In the second of the PRC "Michael Shayne" series,civic crusader Burton Stallings hires private detective Michael Shayne to locate the former's missing step-daughter Helen. Shayne discovers that Stallings himself has had Helen confined in an asylum in order to obtain her money.

The Gentleman from Louisiana

The Gentleman from Louisiana

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.

Federal Fugitives

Federal Fugitives

A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.

The Spider's Web

The Spider's Web

Pulp hero "The Spider" seeks to destroy all criminals. In this serialized adventure, he battles The Octopus, who intends to replace the government of the United States.

Mary Stevens, M.D.

Mary Stevens, M.D.

A woman doctor decides to have a baby without benefit of marriage.

Four Hours to Kill!

Four Hours to Kill!

A detective who has "four hours to kill" before delivering his prisoner, an escaped killer, spends the time in the lobby of a Broadway theater where a musical is playing. The film focuses on the relationship between the two men, and also between various characters in the theater audience, staff and cast.

The Return of Doctor X

The Return of Doctor X

When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.

No Marriage Ties

No Marriage Ties

An unemployed reporter, fired because of his drinking, takes a job at an advertising agency. Drama.

The Hell Cat

The Hell Cat

Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.

Acquitted

Acquitted

A doctor is wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison.

Meet Mr. Mischief

Meet Mr. Mischief

Harry, who is known as a practical joker, finds himself being chased by a headhunter, and doesn't know if it's a joke or not.

Getting a Ticket

Getting a Ticket

Eddie Cantor tries to fix a speeding ticket.

When Were You Born

When Were You Born

A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.

Legion of Terror

Legion of Terror

Two newly-appointed postal inspectors, Frank Marshall and 'Slim" Hewitt, set out to track down the sender of a time-bomb to a U. S. Senator and, during their investigation, run across a hooded organization that is terrorizing an American city. They also meet Don Foster, who is loud in his condemnation of the terrorists, and his sister, Nancy, who fears for her brother's life.

The Public Menace

The Public Menace

1935 comedy in which an immigrant (Jean Arthur), a reporter (George Murphy) and a gangster (Douglass Dumbrille) cross paths.

They Wanted to Marry

They Wanted to Marry

Newspaper photographer Jim Tyler sneaks into a society girl's wedding, and the bride's sister decides she prefers him to her upper-crust suitors. She even likes his pigeon, who travels everywhere with him.

Blazing Across the Pecos

Blazing Across the Pecos

This time the Durango Kid confronts an expert gambler.