Leon Ames Movies

Murders in the Rue Morgue

64/100

A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.

On Moonlight Bay

71/100

During World War I, a teenage girl begins a romance with a college student, but his unconventional attitudes cause friction with her father.

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

71/100

Marjorie Winfield's engagement to Bill Sherman, who has just arrived home from fighting in World War I, serves as the backdrop for the trials and tribulations of her family.

The Monkey's Uncle

60/100

Midvale College is in fear of losing its college football team. The players have grades lower than the norm. Judge Holmesby, the team's biggest fan, is at a loss for what to do. Enter ... See full summary »

The Happy Years

70/100

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperdink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have... See full summary »

The Misadventures of Merlin Jones

64/100

Merlin Jones, a precocious and intelligent high-school boy, experiments with hypnosis and creates a mind-reading machine. However, his experiments land him in deep trouble with the law.

Cattle Drive

66/100

A cowboy finds the spoiled son of a railroad magnate lost in the deserted hills and teaches him survival skills and hard work values.

Watch the Birdie

62/100

A cameraman helps a heiress to get rid off her finacial adviser, who wants to get her money.

Merton of the Movies

65/100

A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.

Let's Do It Again

59/100

In this 1953 musical remake of "The Awful Truth" Wyman is married to womanizing composer Milland and sets out to give him some of his own medicine. She has an affair, but her ploy backfires... See full summary »

Claws

41/100

Hunters wound a grizzly bear in a national forest in Alaska. Soon after, the wounded bear goes off and kills several other hunters, hikers, campers, the sheriff and a little boy scout. ... See full summary »

Undercover Maisie

65/100

Streetwise but kind-hearted Maisie Ravier has put her vaudeville life behind her, but not its associated outward good looks, flash and glamor. Trying to get to New York for a job, she ... See full summary »

East Side Kids

57/100

A young street kid grows up and becomes a cop when he realizes that crime doesn't pay. One of his childhood friends is in prison for a murder he didn't commit, and the cop looks for ... See full summary »

The Iron Major

58/100

Coach Frank Cavanaugh returns to college football after World War I, then gradually goes blind.

The Great Morgan

53/100

The Great Morgan is an 1945 American musical-comedy film released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The film is considered one of the more unusual in the MGM canon in that it is a compilation film ... See full summary »

Death in the Air

53/100

Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark mansion.

The Marshal of Mesa City

64/100

School teacher Virginia King, annoyed by the unwanted attentions from Mesa City sheriff Jud Cronin, resigns and departs for Yuma. Her stagecoach is attacked by a gang led be Cronin's ... See full summary »

So frei wie der Wind

75/100

Brave wilderness man lets wolves live, who later rescue him from an attacking bear. Awesome.

The Timber Tramps

55/100

Claude Akins plays a tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman, who likes fighting only slightly less than working.

The Meal

25/100

Deadly Encounter

Panama Patrol

53/100

THe head of the cipher bureau, Phillip Waring, is about to marry his secretary, Helen Lane, when he is informed that the state department has discovered a message that must be decoded. With... See full summary »

No Greater Sin

54/100

A local health official tries to stop the spread of VD in a town.

Come On, Leathernecks!

52/100

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.

Toklat

79/100

A poor old mountain man returns to the wild Oregon countryside to find a grizzly bear he named Toklat. He recalls his old days with the bear, from rescuing him as a cub to teaching him how ... See full summary »

Ship of Wanted Men

A gang of escaped convicts hijacks a ship and heads for a remote island. On the way they pick up a young woman who's been shipwrecked.