Charley Grapewin Movies

An underworld character wins a Broadway nightclub in a card game.

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...

A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.

WBLA is on the air, presenting the live music, the sudsy dramas and the sell-sell-sell of commercial interludes that keep consumers buying and...

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts...

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man...

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

A young man from a small town hits New York City, bound and determined to become a radio star. Amazingly, he achieves his ambition, but in the...

When a small-town girl's boyfriend leaves in disgrace, gossips spread false reports of her pregnancy.

Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.

When a night watchman is mistaken for a wealthy college alumnus, his family and friends help him go along with the pretense.

Chane Weymer, an Arizona rancher, goes after a gang that is trapping wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures.

A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.

An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him...

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a...

Glenn (Glenn Tryon), is trying to get into a secret fraternity in order to impress his girlfriend, Fanny (Helen Mann). But his rival is the president...