Purnell Pratt Movies

When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he...

A woman and her children escape severe poverty and abuse. She successfully betters her family's condition while living with the secret that she...

An ex-convict working for a wealthy oil baron uncovers trouble while his brother becomes involved with the boss's daughter.

The dim-witted son of a heroic fire chief tries to follow in his late father's footsteps, only to become the unknowing pawn of corrupt politicians.

New York City cop Phil Donlon leaves the force to join the U.S. Olympic team. When he falls for a Marine colonel's daughter he gets kicked off the...

The philandering Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital and given 24 hours to vacate the state. He sets himself up in...

A barber tries to find the winning lottery ticket he hid from his moralistic wife.

A foreword warns against the peril of yellow journalism, and the story illustrates it by following events in the upstate New York town of Cornwall...

Mary Turner gets a three years prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Once released, she plots to get back at the man responsible for her...

A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.

Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.

A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company's funds.

The setting is a small town in 1870s Pennsylvania. Sally Waterson and her father have stopped in town with their traveling medicine show, but when...

Dr. Ralph Snyder and Dr. Frank Blake open an office together but soon split over a rivalry for nightclub singer Diana Wayne and a difference over...

A New York playboy, Wayne Carter, dates wild women until he falls for a hard-working stenographer, Helene Andrews.

Ex-convicts try to stop a Chinese smuggling ring.

Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.

A young woman new to the big city gets a job as a man's companion. What she doesn't know is that the man is a notorious gangster.

Previously filmed in 1930 as True to the Navy, Kenyon Nicholson's old stage farce Sailor Beware returned to the screen in 1936 as Lady Be Careful....

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.