Movies by Ralph Murphy

The Great Flirtation

The Great Flirtation

An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.

The Notorious Sophie Lang

The Notorious Sophie Lang

After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief. A New York police detective who's been trying to nail her finally comes up with what seems a foolproof scheme--to catch her off guard by having her fall for a handsome and suave jewel thief who happens to be in the U.S. traveling under an assumed name.

Never Trust a Gambler

Never Trust a Gambler

A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.

Red Stallion In The Rockies

Red Stallion In The Rockies

Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...

Men Without Names

Men Without Names

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Girl Without a Room

Girl Without a Room

A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy. The enterprising artist immediately changes style and begins painting highly-abstract moderns.

I Want a Divorce

I Want a Divorce

Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.

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.

Florida Special

Florida Special

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.

Rainbow Island

Rainbow Island

Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.

Panama Flo

Panama Flo

An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.

Night Plane from Chungking

Night Plane from Chungking

Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border. Passengers include a European of unknown nationality, a missionary a French officer, and a White Russian. There is also an ancient Chinese lady on an important diplomatic mission to Indian and her traveling companion. The trip is halted when Japanese planes bomb the road and hit a munitions truck and kill many Chinese soldiers. The Chinese commander puts the wounded soldiers on the bus and directs it to a nearby se...

70,000 Witnesses

70,000 Witnesses

College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.

Night Club Scandal

Night Club Scandal

When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....

One Hour Late

One Hour Late

A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.

Top of the Town

Top of the Town

In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"

Strictly Personal

Strictly Personal

Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town. Even during the Depression years these were often "clip joints" - places where people with money but no mate got taken by someone offering the promise of companionship. However, Soapy and Annie are strictly on the level - and they have more than one reason to want to stay on the level. You see Soapy escaped from the law years ago, had some plastic surgery and changed his name, and has been living on the lam with his wife ever since.

Menace

Menace

A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.

Partners in Crime

Partners in Crime

Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.