Movies by Berton Churchill

Stagecoach

Stagecoach

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the process.

A Night at the Ritz

A Night at the Ritz

A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

The Avenger

The Avenger

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.

Under Your Spell

Under Your Spell

A famous singer, bored with music and fans, goes to live in Mexico. His manager sends a woman to bring him back. They fall in love.

Six Cylinder Love

Six Cylinder Love

After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.

So This Is Africa

So This Is Africa

Broke lion tamers travel to Africa to make a movie about Amazon women, from a distance.

$10 Raise

$10 Raise

A timid, overworked and underpaid bookkeeper needs a $10 raise to marry his sweetheart...

Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth

A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.

Secrets of a Secretary

Secrets of a Secretary

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

The Way of All Flesh

The Way of All Flesh

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is tagged as easy-pickings by a con-game gang and Mary Brown, gang accomplice, proves he is. Waking up in the morning he discovers he has been robbed of the securities and, when he confronts the gang, he is hit on the head and taken out to be left on a railroad track. He comes to, struggles with the henchman and the man is killed when a train comes roaring ...

Her First Mate

Her First Mate

A camp butcher on an Albany night boat dreams of the South Seas.

Murder in the Private Car

Murder in the Private Car

Ruth Raymond works on the telephone switchboard of a large NYC office building. One day, a private detective informs her that she is actually the daughter of railroad tycoon Luke Carson, and that she had been kidnapped as a baby 14 years ago by Luke's vindictive brother Elwood, and placed with strangers.

Danger on the Air

Danger on the Air

Trouble begins when a hated cad of a sponsor is found murdered during the climax of a live radio show. A radio engineer then tries to solve the murder.

Afraid to Talk

Afraid to Talk

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Parnell

Parnell

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to ruin all his dreams of freedom.

Golden Harvest

Golden Harvest

A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire. Outgrowing his humble farm beginnings, Chris makes a bid for respectability by marrying Chicago socialite Cynthia Flint.

Three of a Kind

Three of a Kind

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.

Sing and Be Happy

Sing and Be Happy

Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.

Week Ends Only

Week Ends Only

A recently impoverished but formerly wealthy young woman ends up working as a nightclub hostess. There she meets a handsome, sophisticated and wealthy fellow who hires her to help him spice up his weekend parties. She begins helping him and regains her lost wealth and posh lifestyle.

The County Chairman

The County Chairman

Based on George Ade's play which, in part, was based on an incident in a 1902 election in Wyoming, with women's-right-to-vote playing a large role. Here, Jim Hackler, local party-boss in a Wyoming county, has to decide to do what's right and lose the election, or what's wrong and win it.