James Dunn Movies

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha…

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

In this Producers Pictures Corporation production, distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation (and both company names would soon become Producers Releasing Corporation, both as a production and a distributing company), air-race…

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa’s alcoholism. We come to know these people well through big and little troubles:…

Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom…

A skip tracer–someone who collects late payments from people who’ve purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don’t pay–repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who’s skipped…

When a maid is accidentally hit by a car and killed, her young orphaned daughter is forced to live with the snooty couple she used to work for. A custody…

A mug and a jane: Dorothy knows that every guy is going to make a pass at her; Eddie knows that every gal wastes her money on good times. He’s…

A newlywed couple winds up spending their honeymoon night in an old, dark, spooky mansion.

Wise-cracking ex-detective Nick Trayne is called in to try to find the whereabouts of wealthy kidnap victim Walter Craig. Craig unexpectedly turns up alive but with apparent brain damage, leaving…

Irene Roma, a young Russian teacher at an American mission near Shanghai, is entrusted with an amulet by her brother Peter Roma, who has been wounded by Igor Sargoza, a…

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond’s sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands…

Joe is a reporter who is looking for his big break and he gets it when he takes over George Gorman’s sports column. Marty is a hood who would fix…

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry,…

Catherinde and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering through the Depression. The new secretary soon…

The sensational expose of the complicity of Britain, USA and Australia in the continuing genocide in East Timor.

Down-on-his-luck film director Jimmie Dale takes a job at a fly-by-night acting school. He is drawn into the plans of the school’s owner to bilk a wealthy young man out…

A would-be playwright and a young woman escaping from a job at a gas station meet cute and fall in love.

The film begins on Mother’s Day, 1938 when 14-year-old Ziggy Brennan (Mona Freeman buys a gardenia for her mother. Ziggy’s youthful exuberance disappears when she enters their apartment and finds…