Leon Ames Movies

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices...

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career,...

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

A two-bit gambler somehow claws his way to the top. His love for riches is only matched by his love for his wife, but he is sometimes confused by...

An "imaginative biography" of Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago who was killed in the line of fire during an assassination attempt on President-elect...

Radio commentator Dan Clifford takes desperate chances to save the life of a young girl who has been kidnapped.

Life gets complicated for a taxi driver when it's discovered that he's the spitting image of the murdered heir to a fortune.

Part of the Crime Does Not Pay short series.

A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.

A grizzly bear who is wounded by three hunters in one year goes on a killing spree in the woods, taking revenge on humans as a whole. Jason and Chris...

A soldier returns with his pal from fighting in the Pacific during World War II only to discover his fiancee has married someone else. However, he...

In this crime drama a wealthy business tycoon serves a sentence for tax fraud. While there he becomes good friends with his cellmates and after they...

Frank Morgan is hired to put together a movie using odds and ends from the MGM vaults. He does so by splicing together a string of completely...

The dangers of the dread venereal disease syphilis are depicted in this earnest drama from the 1940s. The story centers upon an intrepid health...

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by...

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get...

The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.

A wealthy playboy winds up getting himself involved with mobsters and a search for buried treasure.