Charles Tannen Movies

Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States. The film was made...

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces,...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the...

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

Burlesque queen Doll Face Carroll is dismissed from an audition for a legitimate Broadway show because she lacks culture. Her boss/manager Mike...

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy...

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the...

"Docudrama" about the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941 and its results, the recovering of the ships, the improving of defense in Hawaii...

An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a...

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

When a small town veterinarian discovers that his just-graduated daughter is a gold-digging elitist, he devises a plan to help her rediscover...

A musical comedy based on several Damon Runyon short stories. When a bookie on the run, Robert 'Numbers' Foster, falls for a pretty country songbird,...

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts...