James Donlan Movies

An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.

On a slow news day, the wisecracking staff of a newspaper write articles about the serious safety issues of a local excursion steamboat line.

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to...

A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

Tony, the son of Italian immigrants, works in a smoky steel mill in Gary, Indiana. He wins a company scholarship which will enable him to attend Yale...

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs...

Johnny Quinlan is so desperate for a job that he takes a gig as a "bag man" for the mob. Meanwhile, his beleaguered wife has to deal with her...

Head railroad man Dan is as ugly as he is honorable. When he spots a drifter who'd hopped a freight held up by a landslide, Dan offers the man a job;...

A California Highway Patrolman gets involved with a smuggling ring.

A reporter and his newspaper's attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Egyptologist, Dean Lambert, accused of car-theft, skips bail and begins a cross-country trek to join a group in New York headed for Egypt. With the...

Fate brings a job at Boulder Dam and romance with a saloon singer into the life of a young man on the run.

A gambler falls for a fake countess.

Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...

Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.

A reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit.

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans,...