Erville Alderson Movies

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to...

Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

An innocent, young, small-town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted, and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a...

Mary Carlton, who lives with her invalid father on a cotton plantation, receives a letter from Bob, her brother, in New York, stating that he faces...

A short historical drama about the Louisiana Purchase.

In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...

Merle Oberon plays a Norwegian resistance figure in a small town, married to a Nazi commandant. When his superiors begin to suspect her, the Allies...

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the...

A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between two feuding families.

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio...

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.