Lee Phelps Movies

Prophetic tale of a mother in 1940 trying to keep her son out of war.

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony...

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Socialite Letty Lynton is returning to New York, abandoning one-time lover Emile Renaul in South America, when she strikes up a shipboard romance...

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land...

A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.

After committing a murder, Kay assumes a new identity and boards a ship. But, Kay is unaware that Sam, a skirt chasing detective, is following her...

A drunken college student invites a dance hostess to the big college dance and then forgets he asked her. When she shows up at school, he tries to...

Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation...

Corrupt politicians resort to murder and blackmail when a young boy accidentally witnesses them taking payoffs.

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie...

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

A railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the...

Hattie Leonard sets out to break a criminal gang controlling the dry cleaning business.

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

An agent searches for a psychopath guilty of robbery and murder, and falls in love with a murder victim's sister.

A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.

Defense Atorney Gerald Waring uses great skill and ingenuity in his efforts to save the life of a young man charged with the murder of his father....

A New York policeman helps a hungry and penniless young woman start life anew by arranging to get her a job in "The Follies".