Harry Hayden Movies

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

A young man forges a check in order to help his mother, but is caught and sentenced to 14 years in prison...

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

Searching for ratings at any cost, an unscrupulous radio-network owner forces his program manager to air a serial based on a past murder, tormenting...

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

Residents get suspicious when a shady character takes over the local hunting lodge right after the two old-timers who own it disappear.

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...

Danny Mitchell and his canine pal Rusty befriend blind girl Penny Moffatt. Feeling cheated by life, Penny resists all efforts to cope with her...

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.

High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.

This Crime Does Not Pay entry focuses on fake spiritualists. A mother is worried about her son, who is missing in action. Over time, she gives a con...

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out...

Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested...

An American fugitive flees to Rome and eludes capture by masquerading as the American priest he met enroute.

Gangsters frame Joe on a drunk charge and a murder rap so they can put their own fighter into a big event. Joe investigates in an attempt to prove...

Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He...

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public...

A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.