Most Popular Ralph Murphy Trailers
Total trailers found: 53
01 December 1950
A group of outlaws posing as Southern sympathizers and led secretly by freight-line owner Jim Maroon are raiding stagecoaches, and this is a threat to the Union communications.
22 January 1936
A Broadway playboy inherits an almost bankrupt girls' school and tries to save it by a big show.
05 October 1944
Three merchant seamen fleeing the Japanese take refuge on a Pacific island, where they come across a doctor and his daughter who take care of the natives, a hostile tribe that wants to kill the sailors for trespassing on their sacred ground.
01 October 1942
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
13 August 1951
Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
20 July 1934
After an extended stay in England, Sophie Lang returns to America. She is beautiful, sophisticated--and a notorious jewel thief.
10 July 1931
A popular jockey is disbarred from racing after he's accused of throwing a race.
04 July 1952
A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.
31 December 1931
A young man runs into trouble when he buys an auto court, only to find out that its located next to a swamp that drives away all potential customers.
21 September 1933
A play by Nina Wilcox Putnam was the source for the empire-building drama Golden Harvest. Ambitious grain trader Chris Martin corners the wheat market and becomes a millionaire.
12 March 1935
Dan McFadden builds an apartment house in a working-class neighborhood on New York's East Side called "McFadden's Flats.
22 November 1934
A psychotic man stalks three innocent people whom he believes are responsible for his brother's death.
20 September 1940
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
17 March 1933
Soapy Gibson (Edward Ellis) and his wife Annie (Marjorie Rambeau) run a lonely hearts club in a small town.
17 March 1943
Press agent Jimmy Gates gets an idea while watching a New York parade, for a returned war hero Sergeant Buzz McAllister, with his chief client, singer Judy Ames; Dona Drake, leader of an all-girl orchestra; his photographer Foggy, and his secretary Myrt.
08 April 1932
A newlywed discovers her husband is a cheating phony.
27 April 1933
This drama centers on the fight for certain post-Prohibitionist groups to gain total control over the liquor industry.
08 December 1933
A Tennessee art school student wins a scholarship to paint in Paris. He is thrilled until he arrives and discovers that his style is hopelessly passe and is considered trashy.
24 December 1945
Murder occurs when several of the most popular radio personalities of the '40s converge on a desert resort.
23 June 1948
A pretty, tomboyish teenager comes of age in an American small town.
05 March 1942
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddies, Pop enlists the aid of the studio's dizzy switchboard operator in pulling off the charade.
08 July 1931
It is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
31 December 1941
Falsely convicted of murder, young Robert Draper escapes custody during a practice blackout drill. Under cover of darkness, Draper hopes to find the real killer, who turns out to be a member of a Nazi sabotage ring.
31 October 1936
A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.
26 April 1934
"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions.
06 February 1931
After a tumultuous first marriage, Millie Blake learns to love her newfound independence and drags her feet on the possibility of remarriage.
05 October 1945
Set in New York's Lower East Side during the Gay '90s, this lively low-budget musical follows the exploits of a feisty and talented saloon owner's daughter who loves nothing more than to perform in her father's tavern.
03 October 1947
The story of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis, two All-American football players at the U.S. Army Military Academy at West Point.
29 June 1935
A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.
01 May 1936
A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue when one of the passengers disappears while carrying $11-million in unset jewels.
05 December 1941
Hedda Hopper plays hostess at a party for her (grown) son William (DeWolfe Jr.). Hopper, attends the dedication of the Motion Picture Relief Fund's country home and goes to the Mocambo.
14 December 1934
A secretary catches the eye of her amorous boss while her regular boyfriend keeps trying to propose marriage to her.
15 June 1934
An actor is jealous of his wife's stardom.
27 August 1952
In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella.
13 July 1951
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
28 March 1941
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub.
05 December 1941
Former child star Jackie Cooper headlines this sentimental behind-the-scenes comedy drama. He plays an ex-child star who now jerks sodas for a living in Hollywood.
19 January 1945
A British doctor and painter must kill for the glands he needs to stop the aging process.
31 May 1943
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chunking to the Indian border.
02 May 1949
Horse story with Dynamite, The Red Stallion...
24 November 1939
A small town drugstore owner considers selling one of his children for money.
11 December 1937
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named after the title sea creature.
08 October 1937
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
15 December 1944
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
09 September 1932
College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies.
19 February 1941
100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character.
19 January 1932
An engineer makes a thieving entertainer work off her debts as a housekeeper at his jungle mining camp.
11 November 1937
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.
07 March 1954
An adventure set deep in the Indian jungle as explorers seek out an ancient idol.
17 April 1937
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper.
11 May 1934
"Private Scandal" is a 1934 American Pre-Code comedy film directed by Ralph Murphy and written by Vera Caspary, Garrett Fort and Bruce Manning.
16 February 1954
A group of religious fanatics in India, the Tughs, prey upon Europeans and natives alike, capturing and offering them up in sacrifice to their frightful goddess, Kali.
01 January 1958
When a massive Soviet battleship negotiates the treacherous Oslo harbor without a local pilot, American counterespionage agent David Harding suspects that the enemy has developed a secret navigational tool and orders his operatives to find a local frogman to take pictures of the vessel's hull when the ship makes a goodwill tour stop in England.