Fred Essler Movies

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Peter Lorre

The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Reynolds

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Steve Allen

Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmond O'Brien

When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenn Ford

An opportunistic Texas gambler and the exiled Creole daughter of an aristocratic family join forces to achieve justice from the society that has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gary Cooper

After his kid brother is killed in a street race, a champion drag-racer quits racing. However, a new kid comes to town determined to force him back...

Genre: Action

Cast: Lori Nelson

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Glenn Ford

The Unwritten Code is an offbeat, better-than-average Columbia wartime "B" picture. Though Ann Savage and Tom Neal are top-billed, the central...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Savage

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Mitzi Gaynor

An Army corporal and his con-man sidekick take a shortcut to heroism in World War II France.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Walker

Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Bray

The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: June Allyson

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Donna Reed

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Cary Grant

Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sonja Henie

Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Danny Kaye

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open up a nightclub when he gets out of the army. Tulsa may lack the capital for such a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elvis Presley

Poignant true story of Pastor Armin Ritter, who is sent to build a church in a backwoods community and rebuilds the faith of the residents. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Beal

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kay Kyser

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

Genre: War

Cast: Margo

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Genre: War

Cast: Walter Huston

When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Lukas

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tallulah Bankhead

WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

Genre: War

Cast: Faye Emerson

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oilfields when he hides a valuable map in plain sight.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

During the many challenges in preparing for Thanksgiving holiday festivities, Anna and other family members forget the real meaning of the day. That...

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Cast: Forrest Taylor

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Humphrey Bogart