Movies by James Ellison

Next Time I Marry

Next Time I Marry

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.

Mother Carey's Chickens

Mother Carey's Chickens

A financially-strapped mother and her children relocate from the city to a small rural town.

The Plainsman

The Plainsman

Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane and Buffalo Bill go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

The Texan Meets Calamity Jane

The Texan Meets Calamity Jane

A western in which Calamity Jane's rightful ownership of a gambling hall is challenged. She nearly loses the business to a shady crook, but Texas lawyer Ellison puts up a legal battle to help her stay in charge. After a sensational fight, the letters proving her right are discovered.

Whistling Hills

Whistling Hills

Johnny Mack Brown was recruited by Chet Norman, the owner of a stagecoach line, to end the heist perpetrated by a mysterious knight who plays strange notes with a hiss of money before robbing them.

Zenobia

Zenobia

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter's upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Trail Dust

Trail Dust

Hoppy, Johnny and Windy are fighting a malicious gang trying to stop a cattle drive from reaching a drought-stricken North.

Play Girl

Play Girl

When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

Charley's Aunt

Charley's Aunt

In 1890, two students at Oxford force their rascally friend and fellow student to pose as an aunt from Brazil--where the nuts come from.

I, Superbiker: The War for Four

I, Superbiker: The War for Four

Mark Sloper directs this feature-length documentary taking you through the thrills and spills of the 2013 British Superbike season. This year saw riders Shane Byrne and Ryuichi Kiyonari battle it out for the chance to become the first ever four-time champion.

Hostile Country

Hostile Country

In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war.

You Can't Fool Your Wife

You Can't Fool Your Wife

Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.

G.I. War Brides

G.I. War Brides

Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...

23 1/2 Hours Leave

23 1/2 Hours Leave

Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies (and a happy tangle with the general's daughter) before the bet is finally decided.

Play Girl

Play Girl

A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.

Almost a Gentleman

Almost a Gentleman

Saving a dog from the pound gets a man mixed up in murder.

Ice-Capades

Ice-Capades

Bob Clemens is a cameraman for newsreels. Assigned to shoot the Swiss ice skater Karen Vadja, he arrives too late, so decides to film a woman skating on a different New York rink and pass her off as Karen. The scheme backfires when promoter Larry Herman takes a look at Bob's film and decides to make the skater a star. Unfortunately, it's actually amateur (and illegal immigrant) Marie Bergin in the newsreel footage, not the great figure skater from Switzerland. Chaos ensues as Bob tries to straighten everybody out.

Dixie Dugan

Dixie Dugan

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization of Woman Power for War. He takes a cab driven by Dixie Dugan, who hopes that being a cabbie while the country's men are away fighting will help the war effort. Her incompetent driving, however, results in an accident for which Roger must take responsibility in order to reach the radio station in time. Dixie then returns home, where she lives with her fath...

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Johnny Doesn't Live Here Anymore

A young girl rents an apartment from a man who has recently enlisted in the Marines. The trouble is that he's given out keys to a half-dozen of his friends, and they all keep dropping in.

Sorority House

Sorority House

A young girl begins to wonder if she really fits into the upper-class sorority she's trying to join.