Direction: Herbert I. Leeds

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Robert Sterling · Joan Dixon · Ricardo Cortez · Douglas Fowley

Synopsis Told in semi-documentary style, this film deals with a little-known section of the Los Angeles Police Department which is assigned solely to checking on the activities of fortune tellers, swamis, palmists, and other occult societies, missing only Sciencetology. The primary...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Peter Lorre · Jean Hersholt · Amanda Duff · Warren Hymer

Synopsis Puerto Rico has become the back door by which a criminal syndicate smuggles inexpensive contraband diamonds from South America into the United States, dramatically driving down the price of legitimate gems. After they have ruthlessly murdered a special investigator, Moto...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Warner Baxter · Lynn Bari · Cesar Romero · Henry Hull

Synopsis Cisco is attracted to Ann Carver and is soon involved in her and her Grandfather's problems. Sheriff McNally has taken their money, their deed, and thrown them in jail. After breaking them out he makes a deal to buy back...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds · Leslie Goodwins · Irving Brecher · Edward Stevens

Cast Jackie Gleason · Rosemary DeCamp · Lanny Rees · Sid Tomack

Synopsis TV Series (1949-1950). 1 season. 26 episodes. Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems. His stock answer to every...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Carole Landis · Cornel Wilde · James Gleason

Synopsis When the Japanese capture the principal radio station of the American Radio Communications Company in the Philippines, the staff manages to escape into the jungle, tie up with a band of Filipino Scouts (Moros) and make their way to the...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Marjorie Weaver · Helene Reynolds · Henry Wilcoxon

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Mary Beth Hughes · Helene Reynolds · George Reeves

Synopsis In order to win back his girlfriend, Mike Shayne promises to give up his detective practice and get a job as riveter in an aircraft plant. He quickly finds himself investigating the theft of industrial diamonds from the plant's safe...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Raymond Walburn · Walter Catlett · Gary Gray · Jane Darwell

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast The Dionne Quintuplets · Jean Hersholt · Claire Trevor · Cesar Romero

Synopsis Hot on the trail of a missing heiress, ace New York reporter Duke Lester outwits his rival, Christine Nelson, and causes her to lose her job. Christine strikes back by butting in on his "Pulse of the Public" radio broadcast...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Heather Angel · Doris Merrick · Ralph Byrd

Synopsis A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. The private eye soon finds himself up to his ears in fights,...

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Sidney Toler · Lynn Bari · Richard Clarke · Harold Huber

Synopsis While in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of an hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Lloyd Nolan · Marjorie Weaver · Phil Silvers · Janis Carter

Synopsis Private detective Michael Shayne (Lloyd Nolan) is serving on the jury trying Lillian Hubbard (Janis Carter) for the murder of Harley Forsythe. A witness with information that could clear Lillian is killed by a knife hurled from inside the courtroom....

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Cesar Romero · Marjorie Weaver · Chris-Pin Martin · George Montgomery

Synopsis An orphan whose father has been killed by bandits inherits a mine. Cisco saves the mine and the child and also finds the child's real mother.

Direction Herbert I. Leeds

Cast Jane Withers · Gloria Stuart · Henry Wilcoxon · Helen Westley

Synopsis Jane breaks into the film business while also reviving the flagging career of her film director uncle and getting him hooked up with his secretary.