Movies by Donald Douglas

Murder, My Sweet

Murder, My Sweet

After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.

Deadwood Dick

Deadwood Dick

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

The Zero Hour

The Zero Hour

A celebrated Broadway actress and a wealthy widowed businessman are brought together through their shared affection for a young orphan.

Tomorrow's Children

Tomorrow's Children

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed "defective" by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her siblings are disabled, have mental problems or are imprisoned—she is ordered by a court to undergo sterilization so that her family's "defective genes" won't be passed on to any further. Her boyfriend Jim and a kindly priest search desperately for a way to stop the forced surgery before it's too late.

Smashing the Rackets

Smashing the Rackets

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile, he meets wild debutante Letty Lane, girlfriend of mob mouthpiece Steve Lawrence; and Letty's much nicer sister Susan. Now the slot machine gang brutally beats Jim's friends Franz and Otto. And Jim finds a way to use his nominal position to go into the racket- busting business. But his success puts Letty in deadly peril...

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Cheers for Miss Bishop

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of missed chances and wrong choices. As she reaches old age, she reflects back and realizes she allowed the years to go by without achieving what she believes to be her true fulfillment. However, her years have not been without glory, and her moment of triumph arrives when her numerous now-famous students from over the years, return to honor thei...

Mercy Island

Mercy Island

The beautiful Florida Keys provide the setting of this adventure that tells the tale of a fun-filled fishing trip that becomes a nightmare when the charter boat is wrecked on an isolated island. Unfortunately, there are very few provisions and the group must fend for themselves. They are eventually assisted by a hermit, but before that one of the group goes insane, and another is eaten by an alligator.

The Love Department

The Love Department

In this musical short, a love columnist can't find her own love connection.

Diana: Her True Story

Diana: Her True Story

Television film telling the story of Diana, Princess of Wales, based on the publication of the same name by Andrew Morton.

Show Business

Show Business

Musical about vaudeville performers, from 1944.

The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Grissly's Millions

Grissly's Millions

An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

Behind the Rising Sun

Behind the Rising Sun

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

Melody Lane

Melody Lane

In this musical, four entertaining farmboys from Iowa head for the Big Apple to find fame and fortune but find themselves in trouble when a radio sponsor finds himself accused of kidnapping a girl. Songs include: "Septimus Winner," "Peaceful Ends the Day," "Cherokee Charlie," "Let's Go to Calicabu," "Swing-a-Bye My Baby," "Changeable Heart," "If It's a Dream Don't Wake Me," "Since the Farmer in the Dell," "Caliacau," and "Listen to the Mockingbird."

A Shot in the Dark

A Shot in the Dark

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

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.

Headin' East

Headin' East

A cattle rancher comes to the aid of farmers by heading to NYC to stop the racketeers hijacking their produce shipments.

Forgotten Victory

Forgotten Victory

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of Mark Carleton, a worker for the USDA who travels across the world trying to find wheat that farmers can grow despite various disasters.

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

Doctor Who: The Sontaran Experiment

Sontaran Field Major Styre is conducting experiments on the survivors of future Earth in preparation of a full-scale Sontaran invasion of the planet. Can the Doctor defeat Styre and save the world?

The Great Swindle

The Great Swindle

In this mystery, an insurance investigator must find the arsonists behind the burning of a warehouse. The detective does get some good photographs as evidence, but they are stolen from his apartment. He really isn't a great sleuth and winds up accusing everyone but the real culprit of the crime. As a result, he loses his job and must perform the investigation on his own.