Dick Purcell Movies

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of...

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.

A private detective, soon to enlist in the army, is drawn into one final case when his police officer father is killed in the line of duty. Soon his...

Russ Evans, A WWII veteran army pilot, decides to check up on the widow of an old war buddy of his, Elaine Graham. The logging company she inherited...

A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber.

An ambitious but financially strapped taxi driver becomes involved with mobsters to obtain money to buy a gas station.

A gang is sabotaging planes so that when they crash, the corpses can be robbed.

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

Tod Weaver finds his career on the skids and feels frustrated playing small-time venues. Tod is romantically tied to Gale Starr, an assistant...

An episode in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series. Dave Miller, an aircraft plant worker, is actually selling secret bomber plans to foreign agents....

In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes...

A newspaper columnist and host of his own national network radio program, interviewing more film personalities on his show than any other...

A girl decides to consult her natural father, whom she's never seen, for advice on her mixed-up love life.

A tank driver explains the nature of the armored combat vehicle and the techniques of how the infantry can deal with them in combat.