Edward Brophy Movies

A detective tries to prove that a woman is killing her spouses with a spiked umbrella.

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the wings awaiting a cue. Lois Collier is the girl-on-the-spot of...

Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he's come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He'll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns int...

An attorney falls for the woman he's representing on a murder charge.

Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall who was arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. With the help of nightclub singer Pat Abbott and crime boss Tony Gazotti (a former client),Durant launches his own investigation of...

When a Hollywood producer is murdered, the most likely suspect is a man who is smitten with the victim's fiancee.

A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to conf...

Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along the way, he revives a failing Gilbert and Sullivan troupe.

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

The daughter of a formerly wealthy man tries to get a job singing on a radio show, but gets involved in a feud and murder.

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald...

Agent Pete Garland is fired by society singer Monica Barrett after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds...

Two young people meet at a wedding and begin dating, each thinking the other is extremely wealthy. Comedy.

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

A profligate, polo-playing playboy (Henry Fonda) is married to a beautiful but superficial heiress (Mary Brian). They divorce, and the wife gets all the money. But the humbled (and impoverished) Fonda finds true love in the arms of Pat Paterson, who cares noth...

Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.

A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.