Movies: Elisabeth Risdon

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman....

In Roy Rogers' Down Dakota Way, the deadly hoof-and-mouth disease has struck the herd owned by evil rancher H. T. McKenzie (Roy Barcroft). To avoid an expensive quarantine on his stock, McKenzie plans to murder the local veterinarian (Emmet Vogan) be...

John Hoyt plays a high-ranking Nazi being prosecuted by an army tribunal in the aftermath of World War II. Sentenced to death, the general appeals to the American investigating Major (Ray Milland), claiming mitigating circumstances, and providing the...

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife sail to Hawaii in search of business. The fifth entry (of eight) in the "Mexican Spitfire" comedy series....

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse....

A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is tossed headfirst into the world of small-town politics. Sized up as a patsy by crooked politician Ki...

George and Mary Elizabeth Cugat are about to celebrate their second wedding anniversary and dream of having a child. Although they live comfortably on George's earnings as a bank official, Liz's scatterbrained handling of their finances constantly pu...

The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56)....

An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence....

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world....

Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb....

A wife decides to take revenge when she learns her husband has been unfaithful....

An elderly grandfather proves to be heroic when he takes a stand against local city corruption....

Alan Mowbray and Donald MacBride reprise their roles in "Curtain Call" as theatrical producers Donald Avery and Geoffrey 'Jeff' Crandall. This time they try to con a millionairess into funding their latest show by posing as old friends of her lost lo...

A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another....

A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?...

Standard tale of husband and wife living a party lifestyle. He works in a gambling hall and she occasionally models and sings. Because they want to start a family wife feels the need to change their situation. Situation is changed and husband gets a ...

A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence....

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan, on the night he has decided to go straight, finds himself caught between the gunfire of two rival gang...

A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs....