Esther Dale Movies

Starting with a cruel joke – a couple of callow men make a bet that one of them can seduce the woman sharing their train compartment –...

A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.

The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders...

A tough prosecutor who has sent dozens of criminals to prison finds himself framed on a bribery charge and winds up in prison himself.

Things get under way when Blondie Bumstead demands that her husband request a raise from his boss Mr. Dithers, so that she can afford to hire a maid....

Timothy (Dickie Moore), an orphan, is sent with his sister, Gay (Sally Martin), to a farm run by Vilda Cummins (Elizabeth Patterson, an old maid with...

A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.

A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.

Handsome Laddie Stanton courts neighbor Pamela Pryor, meeting opposition from her stern military father, recently immigrated from England.

A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...

Dan Martin, an unemployed college graduate, drifts into the town of Lyndale, only to learn that the town and everything in it are dominated by...

Clint Barkley first sees Smoky as a runaway, and drives him back to the ranch where he meets the owner, Julie Richards. He is given a job on her...

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

A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.

A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.

Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton...

An out-of-work professor gets a break from an old college buddy to teach at an exclusive girl's school. But events conspire against him: he finds an...

Because of a very unhappy affair she had earlier in her life, a woman shuts herself off from the rest of the world.

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping...

A shoplifter gets sentenced to a women's prison.