Frank Orth Movies

A rising stage star's ambition causes trouble.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.

The Gas House Kids, the very poor man's Bowery Boys, head for Hollywood.

An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

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

Frank Orth strikes a conversation with a lady feeding imaginary birds.

The Cisco Kid is captured while keeping a rendezvous with cantina dancer Dolores but is released by his captor, the commander of a U.S. Army...

Salesman develops a fake stock plan in new invention before it is finished.

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Frantic screwball comedy about a meek personal assistant (Frank McHugh) who is promoted to managing editor of a newspaper features syndicate that is...

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

In this Vitaphone one-reeler, husband-and-wife team Frank Orth and Ann Codee in one of the many co-starring shorts they made together for Vitaphone,...

Shows how so-called "minor" lawbreakers can do more damage than major criminals.

A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.

A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication.

A young man allergic to horses decides he has to learn to play polo in order to impress the girl he loves. Comedy.

Horse-breeder Howard Chamberlain has many superstitious quirks but his primary one is that he believes orphans are bad luck and a jinx to be around....

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with shady companies selling fake merchandise.