Frank Jenks Movies

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Philo Vance is hired to write a true-crime mystery... but when the facts about an unsolved crime are about to be brought out into the open a murder...

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral...

When his employer goes to Florida, a butler masquerades as a millionaire and winds up getting involved with an heiress.

Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

Nikki Martin, a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an...

Director Ted Brooks and comedians Jack Norcross, Dandy Joslyn and Phil Miller are part of a troupe of promising young players rehearsing for a WPA...

18-year-old Angela, reared in a New England town by her Aunt Betsy, receives an inheritance which she uses to go to New York, ostensibly for voice...

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up...

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

Joe is scheduled for the big fight as usual. This one has more fight sequences than plot.

An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.

McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it...

A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.

Gildersleeve has jury duty.

Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case,...