Movies by Patricia Ellis

Love Begins at Twenty

Love Begins at Twenty

A henpecked husband tries to help his daughter marry the man she loves and his wife loathes.

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.

Sing Me a Love Song

Sing Me a Love Song

A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls for a pretty employee in the store's music department. Comedy with songs.

Elmer, the Great

Elmer, the Great

Elmer does not want to leave Gentryville, because Nellie is the one that he loves. Even when Mr. Wade of the Chicago Cubs comes to get him, it is only because Nellie spurns him that he goes. As always, Elmer is the king of batters and he wins game after game. When Nellie comes to see Elmer in Chicago, she sees him kissing Evelyn and she wants nothing to do with him anymore. So Healy takes him to a gambling club, where Elmer does not know that the chips are money. He finds that he owes the gamblers $5000 and they make him sign a note for it. ...

Down the Stretch

Down the Stretch

A jockey tries to overcome the reputation of his father, who once threw a race.

The Narrow Corner

The Narrow Corner

An Englishman sought for murder, tries to escape fate to South Seas island.

Big Hearted Herbert

Big Hearted Herbert

After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.

Romance on the Run

Romance on the Run

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process also gets involved with a secretary at the insurance company.

Postal Inspector

Postal Inspector

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Freshman Love

Freshman Love

A star rower is forced to join a good school under a pseudonym because his wealthy dad doesn't like schools that have high academic standards.

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Affairs of a Gentleman

Affairs of a Gentleman

When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.

Summer of Mesa

Summer of Mesa

Summering on Cape Cod in 1985, precocious young Lily befriends an enigmatic girl her age named Mesa. Through their shared time biking the quaint land and exploring the depths of their true selves, they unearth powerful feelings for each other.

Venus Makes Trouble

Venus Makes Trouble

A fast-talking, street-wise con-man forsakes the tank-towns of Pennsylvania for the greener pastures in Manhattan, and gains fame-and-fortune as New York City's number one merchandise promoter. A model and a society girl provide some complications along the way.

The Lady in the Morgue

The Lady in the Morgue

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

The St. Louis Kid

The St. Louis Kid

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an act of solidarism with the farmers. The farmers start an boycott action against this dairy, so the owner has to bring milk from elsewhere to his dairy, but the farmers closed the road, and Kennedy is arrested once more. He leaves jail at night to meet Ann, but meanwhile the owner has asked some mobsters to deliver the milk. One of the farmers is murdered,...

Fugitive at Large

Fugitive at Large

George Storm is a reputable construction engineer but his life changes the moment a bandit trio holds up the company payroll car. And that is because the daring holdup is successful because the gang leader, Tom Farrow, is an exact-double for Storm.

Melody for Two

Melody for Two

A singing bandleader signs on with an all-girls band.

Hold 'Em Yale

Hold 'Em Yale

A pretty young socialite falls for a charming but shady hustler, who abandons her when he finds that she has been disowned by her wealthy father. Three of the hustler's partners, who have also been left high and dry by heir former associate, come up with a plan to get her to the annual Yale-Harvard football game to reunite with her former sweetheart, an honest but nerdy bookworm.