Cast: James Burke
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring James Burke. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
A Desperate Chance for Ellery Queen
1942 · Movie · 70 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast William Gargan · Margaret Lindsay · John Litel · Charley Grapewin
Plot Detective Ellery Queen tries to find a missing man, and gets embroiled in a case of murder and embezzlement.
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The Day the Universe Changed (TV Miniseries)
1985 · Documentary · 52 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robin Bextor
Cast James Burke
Plot James Burke explores key moments in Western History where new knowledge in science changed the way the modern Western world thinks.
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Buck Benny Rides Again
1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United States
Direction Mark Sandrich
Cast Jack Benny · Ellen Drew · Eddie "Rochester" Anderson · Andy Devine
Plot Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on...
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Ticket to a Crime
1934 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Lewis D. Collins
Cast Ralph Graves · Lois Wilson · Lola Lane · James Burke
Plot A Man is found murdered at the Lido Country Club and, although several people are under suspicion, including Elaine and Willis Purdy, the police can not find the murderer; but...
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High, Wide, and Handsome
1937 · Movie · 110 min. · United States
Direction Rouben Mamoulian
Cast Irene Dunne · Randolph Scott · Dorothy Lamour · Elizabeth Patterson
Plot The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when their wagon catches fire, they...
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Philo Vance's Gamble
1947 · Movie · 62 min. · United States
Direction Basil Wrangell
Cast Alan Curtis · Vivian Austin · Frank Jenks · Tala Birell
Plot Private Detective Philo Vance (Alan Curtis) gets involved with a succession of murders and a mystery concerning the disappearance of an emerald that has been smuggled into the United States....
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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery
1941 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Anna May Wong
Plot Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb (Noel Madison), is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen (Charles Grapewin) asks his son Ellery (Ralph Bellamy) to...
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The Mystery Man
1935 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction Ray McCarey
Cast Robert Armstrong · Maxine Doyle · Henry Kolker · LeRoy Mason
Plot When he runs short of money, a newspaper reporter pawns a police revolver he was given after he helped the police solve a case. Later on the gun is used...
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The Unholy Wife
1957 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction John Farrow
Cast Diana Dors · Rod Steiger · Tom Tryon · Beulah Bondi
Plot Wealthy vintner Paul Hochen meets blonde bombshell Phyllis in a bar...and marries her. In due course, Phyllis is bored by Paul, and finds an exciting new lover in rodeo rider...
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Shady Lady
1945 · Movie · 91 min. · United States
Direction George Waggner
Cast Charles Coburn · Robert Paige · Ginny Simms · Alan Curtis
Plot A professional gambler is caught cheating and sent to prison. Eventually paroled, he decides to make a fresh start and takes his niece, an aspiring singer, to Chicago. Once there,...
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Ellery Queen, Master Detective
1940 · Movie · 69 min. · United States
Direction Kurt Neumann
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · James Burke
Plot The mysteriously ill John Braun makes a new will, leaving out his daughter Barbara, over the protests of his wife. The trouble began when the daughter wanted to marry Mr....
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Her Bodyguard
1933 · Movie · 71 min. · United States
Direction William Beaudine
Cast Edmund Lowe · Wynne Gibson · Edward Arnold · Alan Dinehart
Plot The "sugar daddy" of a Broadway star hires a bodyguard to protect her from thieves out to steal the jewels he's given her and also from the attentions of other...
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Little Nellie Kelly
1940 · Movie · 98 min. · United States
Direction Norman Taurog
Cast Judy Garland · George Murphy · Charles Winninger · Douglas McPhail
Plot Irish colleen Nellie is in love with handsome Jerry Kelly, even though her father objects. Nellie and Jerry soon marry and announce plans to move to New York, which again...
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Million Dollar Baby
1941 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Curtis Bernhardt
Cast Priscilla Lane · Jeffrey Lynn · Ronald Reagan · May Robson
Plot An older woman discovers that her multi-million dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman...
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The Painted Woman
1932 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction John G. Blystone
Cast Spencer Tracy · Peggy Shannon · William Boyd · Irving Pichel
Plot After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton's ship. When he learns what happened he dumps her on a South Sea island. Tom Brian marries her, and...
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The Leathernecks Have Landed
1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Howard Bretherton
Cast Lew Ayres · Isabel Jewell · James Ellison · James Burke
Plot A tough ex-marine joins a smuggler shipping arms to Chinese bandits. When his old outfit takes on the outlaws,he has a change of heart.
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Sisters Under the Skin
1934 · Movie · 65 min. · United States
Direction David Burton
Cast Elissa Landi · Frank Morgan · Joseph Schildkraut · Doris Lloyd
Plot Millionaire John Hunter Yates (Frank Morgan) tries to recapture his youth by abandoning his business and going to Europe. His wife Elinor (Doris Lloyd) refuses to go with him. Yates...
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Fast and Furious
1939 · Movie · 73 min. · United States
Direction Busby Berkeley
Cast Franchot Tone · Ann Sothern · Ruth Hussey · Lee Bowman
Plot Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens...
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Laughing at Trouble
1936 · Movie · 67 min. · United States
Direction Frank R. Strayer
Cast Jane Darwell · Brook Byron · Allan Lane · Sara Haden
Plot A man convicted of murder escapes from jail and hides out in the home of a small town newspaper publisher who has befriended him. She knows who the real killer...
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Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime
1941 · Movie · 68 min. · United States
Direction James P. Hogan
Cast Ralph Bellamy · Margaret Lindsay · Charley Grapewin · Spring Byington
Plot Ralph Bellamy makes the third of four appearances as "master detective" Ellery Queen in Columbia's Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime. The principal villain is crooked stockbroker John Mathews (Douglass...
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