Movies: Oscar Apfel

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find t...

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a police...

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reci...

A circus wild animal trainer searches for the son who was taken away from him by a meddling relative years earlier....

A man framed for murder escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence....

The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together....

A man dodges jewel thieves while carrying a fortune in diamonds on the Orient Express....

A wealthy man relates how gambling had tragic consequences for his family....

A grocery clerk, longing to become a cowboy actor, goes to Hollywood in search of fame and fortune. Unfortunately, his acting ability is non-existent....

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall after prominant financier George Ferguson is killed. Two types of New York City journalists descend on ...

A priceless Cellini silver cup is stolen from a local museum with both Hildegarde and Oscar on the case....

A feisty, independent young woman, Damophilia Illington ("Phil" for short, hence the title), the daughter of a progressive university professor, is devastated by the sudden death of her father. The town's banker, an arrogant stuffed shirt, wants to m...

Jackie is the perpetually adolescent mother of two grown children - daughter Lee and son Jeff - who are in their early 20's. In spite of the fact that fourth husband Robert is a good provider, good step-dad, and all-around good sport about Jackie's r...

A lawyer is haunted by a previous case in which he manipulated evidence and convicted an innocent man....

Margot Rande, a basically decent woman, is led down the path to perdition by her bank robber husband....

Jack must prove himself before Beatrice's father will allow him to continue seeing his daughter....

A rancher's son finds himself helping another rancher who is at odds with his father--all because of the father's crooked partner....

A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"...

A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention....

Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone....