Phil Tead Movies

Sassy and ambitious waitress Mary Evans amuses and befriends amiable seldom-sober Hollywood film director Max Carey when he stumbles into her...

A family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Escaped convicts Jack and Judy stumble upon an airstrip on the Western ranch of arrogant business tycoon Gerald Axton. Taking Axton and his secretary...

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.

Idealistic attorney Anton Adam makes headlines when he successfully prosecutes prominent New York City political party boss John Gilmurry. Adam's...

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

In this romance, a slightly crooked and highly ambitious mayoral candidate convinces a woman to help him blackmail the incumbent by using a little...

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

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to...

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California...

A young boy living at a mountain lodge witnesses a murder, and is then targeted himself by the killer.

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

When Marie Callender is left a fortune by a wealthy old admirer on the condition that she marry the man she loves, Marie targets Ernest Lismore but...

A charlatan posing as Baron Munchhausen is invited to be guest speaker at a girls' school.

A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be...