Ruth Donnelly Movies

A Slight Case of Murder

72/100

Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses.

Alibi Ike

61/100

Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.

Ever in My Heart

67/100

World War I brings tribulations to an American woman married to a German.

Hard to Handle

69/100

Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is ... See full summary »

Private Detective 62

67/100

A down and out private eye falls for a woman he has been hired to frame.

More Than a Secretary

66/100

When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant. Drawn to him, she accepts the position.

The Amazing Mr. Williams

66/100

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary. Or isn't he rather married with his job? For each time he has a date with his ... See full summary »

The Affairs of Annabel

62/100

Wonder Pictures' seedy publicity man Lanny Morgan has put the studio's biggest star, Annabel Allison, in one crazy stunt after another. His latest scheme has Annabel pretending to be a maid... See full summary »

Annabel Takes a Tour

57/100

Movie star Annabel Allison has further comic adventures with her wacky publicity agent.

Personal Maid's Secret

65/100

A maid helps her employers climb the social ladder and has a secretive interest in one particular socialite.

The White Cockatoo

66/100

Sue Tally waits for a brother she hasn't seen in twenty years to meet her in a French hotel. By proving her identity, she'll share in a $2,000,000 inheritance. But others are anxious to get... See full summary »

In Old Sacramento

65/100

Dashing Johnny Barrett has a secret identity: Spanish Jack, the masked bandit. Always one step ahead of the law, Barrett effortlessly balances his double life--robbing by night, romancing ... See full summary »

Cross My Heart

72/100

A compulsive liar admits to a killing she didn't commit so her husband, a lawyer, can clear her and build a reputation for himself.

Fatal Lady

76/100

Scatterbrain

64/100

Eddie MacIntyre is a press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J.R.Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girl friend, ... See full summary »

Sleepy Lagoon

72/100

Transient workers are pouring into Sleepy Lagoon by the thousands to work in the local defense factories, with no means of finding good clean fun in a town that has been moribund as its ... See full summary »

The Ghost Goes Wild

61/100

Monty Crandall is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. His troubles are multiplied when a pretty wife forces her ... See full summary »

Little Miss Broadway

76/100

Judy Gibson Jean Porter), upon leaving finishing school, goes to meet her relatives, whom she believes to be wealthy and socially prominent. Actually, there are penniless Broadway ... See full summary »

Roaring Timber

67/100

Jim Sherwood (Jack Holt), toughest logging boss in the timber country, takes on his toughest assignment when he agrees to cut an enormous volume of timber for Andrew MacKinley (J. Farrell ... See full summary »

The Gay Vagabond

Arthur and Jerry are twin brothers, one weak and introverted, the other a womanizing adventurer returning from China. Roles become switched.

Millie's Daughter

81/100

Joanna Maitland, living in Boston with her very conservative relatives, runs away to Palm Beach to be with her mother, Millie Maitland, whom she has been forbidden to see. Robert Lattimer, ... See full summary »

Petticoat Politics

82/100

Pa Higgins has decided to retire but winds up being forced to run for mayor. Ladd is both boyfriend to the Higgins girl and the son of Pa's opponent.

Meet the Missus

Gran Higgins falls under the spell of a love-starved widow.