Charles Trowbridge Movies

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A disruptive Annapolis naval cadet refuses to tow the line and so gets booted out of the prestigious academy. Later, he takes to designing...

An ambitious attorney (Edward Norris) tries to prove a man (John Litel) who killed to protect his wife's (Margaret Lindsay) honor was justified.

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.

Fake fortunetellers win the confidence of clients and then get them to part with their money by buying mining stocks which are worthless.

Two card sharks, pretending to be brother and sister, clean out a small-town banker, then take over a crooked gambling joint.

Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal...

Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office....

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

In this short film, a small-town newspaper editor struggles with what to publish on his paper's front page.

The portrait of Russian composer Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky focuses on his failed love affair.

After being criticized by the Citizens' League for his inability to cope with a crime wave, Police Captain Haines orders his men in the Homicide...

Determined to land Jim as her husband, footloose Nita contrives to get herself pregnant by him. This film is lost.

The editor of a sleazy tabloid newspaper has been borrowing money from his lover, the wife of a rich theatrical producer, and promises to marry her...

Jealous Ben attempts to destroy the engagement of his alcoholic brother, Dick, to the teetotaler Hattie by repeatedly sabotaging Dick's sobriety and...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

A recently-fired advertising executive starts his own company, Confidential Services, to help clients solve their unusual and problematic situations.

Middle-aged couples try to reclaim their youth at a college homecoming.