William Gargan Movies

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...

Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.

A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.

Looks at the stereotype-breaking films of the period from 1929, when movies entered the sound era, until 1934 when the Hays Code virtually neutered...

Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.

Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...

Adults who grew up as slum kids meet later in life, but murder disrupts their reunion.

The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual...

Tough Aggie gives a street guy polish and a rich kid gumption.

A naval officer gets more than he bargained for when he adopts a recently orphaned young boy, the son of his late best friends. Despite the...

A newsreel photographer neglects his love life to get the perfect shot.

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.

A private detective and a blonde acquaintance whom he has rescued from a misdirected murder charge, discover a body in his beachside cottage; only...

Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.

A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.

Detective Ellery Queen aids Free Dutch agents battle Nazi spies over a prize of industrial diamonds.