Charley Grapewin Movies

A power-company troubleshooter has his brother get him out of prison by running high voltage to the bars of his cell.

Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

Loud-mouth hamburger flipper, Cooky, thinks he can box. His big chance comes when everyone else quits the gym when it is inherited by a dame.

Famed detective and crime novelist Ellery Queen solves a case involving the suspicious death of a rich man whose inheritors fight over his estate.

When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles...

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made...

"Duke" Gordon (Robert Armstrong), a circus lion-tamer, tries to tames his wife, Laura (Sally Eilers), just as he does his lions. But she is a one-man...

An underworld character wins a Broadway nightclub in a card game.

Armed robbers invade the home of a crippled boy and his grandfather and the effect the boy and his surroundings have on them is reforming.

A plumber wins big at the racetrack but then his luck runs out and almost ruins his business. His manicurist girlfriend stands by him and helps him...

Chinese ventriloquist Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son Ellery to...

The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by...

Filming of a character sketch by the well-known vaudevillian Charles E. Grapewin. On a bare stage backed by a dark curtain, a man dressed in a...

An auto mechanic suspects sabotage in a recent series of fatal racecar accidents.

Amateur sleuth Ellery Queen learns the truth about a businessman's two long-lost daughters.

A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.

The life of an avowed bachelor who tows garbage is changed when he meets a runaway taxi dancer.

Early 30s pre-code comedy about a woman attempting to get her two ex-husbands to pay back alimony.

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Rubber-legged comedian Leon Errol made his talkie starring bow in Paramount's Only Saps Work. Based on a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film casts...