Edward Brophy Movies

Gruff boxing manager "Square Shooting Murph" Murphy manages a naive boxer from Indiana, Homer Baston.Homer is willing to give up his boxing career...

A broken-down alcoholic prizefighter struggles to keep custody of his adoring son.

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for...

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...

A power-broker ward-heeler, Bill Grimes, wields more power than the elected politicians and has no problem in getting matters-of-the-city handled in...

Steel-worker brothers compete for the same woman.

When Prohibition ends, a barber tries to get in the liquor business only to come up against mobsters.

After bank president David Dwight makes a vast loan to himself to build a remarkable skyscraper, his board questions the propriety of the loan....

A (rather shady?) private detective specializing in recovering highly insured items gets involved in recovering a stolen necklace. In the process...

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

The town of Primrose, Arizona is beset by outlaws, so the towns people hire Fletcher Bissell III (A.K.A. The Silver Dollar Kid) as their new sheriff....

Jimmie Allen, a shady bookie, is in love with Pearl Proctor, a greedy dance hall girl. He schemes to get her back after she rejects him; and along...

A gangland murder is the motivating factor of this fast-moving crime drama. George Murphy stars as reporter Kent Shevlin, whose investigation of the...

Gerry, Connie, and Franky are small-town girls seeking wealthy husbands in New York City. But, while Connie and Franky are reckless with their...

A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.

A lawyer tries to clear his wife's lover of murder charges.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...