Frances Morris Movies

Bucolic lawyer John Wayne takes on big-city corruption in A Man Betrayed. He sets out to prove that an above-suspicion politician (Edward Ellis) is...

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

A small-town newspaper editor defies threats to expose the mob.

A beautiful heiress is an excellent poker player. Her comfortable life changes when her father and his fortune die during market crash of the 1800's.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

Christine Hunter kills an intruder and tells her husband and lawyer that it was an act of self-defense. It's later revealed that he was actually her...

A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.

Helen Chernen pushes her younger sister Katherine into show business in order to escape their small town poverty.

Raised by Natalie Brennan, a flamboyant and irresponsible mother, Ziggy Brennan gets involved in hustling men at a young age. She hangs around with a...

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...

Frank and Joe Hardy are the sons of Fenton Hardy, a famous private detective. Finding everyday life at home in Bayport dull, the boys hope their...

A mother from Arkansas is very possessive of her grown son. To prevent him from getting married she has him drafted into WW I.

Someone is murdering the cast and crew of a new Hollywood movie, and the leading lady may be next. As a police detective locks down the lot and...

Jed Potter looks back on a love triangle conducted over the course of years and between musical numbers. Dancer Jed loves showgirl Mary, who loves...

Arriving at Medicine Bow, eastern schoolteacher Molly Woods meets two cowboys, irresponsible Steve and the "Virginian," who gets off on the wrong...

A cop-turned-bail bondsman gets involved in a murder investigation involving a former flame.

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

A nightclub singer uses alcohol in excess to sooth her painful life.

After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer...

The Jones family patriarch, also mayor, is swindled into thinking the town swamp is a rich mineral deposit.