Ernest Truex Movies

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board.

Elmer Whippet inherits the Whippet Pickles company and sets out to meet the two stars, Mary Reynolds and John Stowe, of the radio program sponsored...

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

The son of a strict Navy officer falls for the daughter of a musical-comedy star.

A mystery writer and his sweetheart are held hostage by a fugitive gangster, who hopes to enlist their help in devising the perfect murder.

A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

Undeniably talented on the gridiron, Bob Potter is equally undeniably an arrogant pain in the posterior. So swell-headed does Potter become that he...

Suburban Paradise Park becomes a heaven for social-minded Mrs. Alice Summers (Mary Boland), when she accidentally causes the apprehension of two bank...

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

Daisy, the Bumstead's mischievous mutt, makes the family a little extra cash when she wins a contest to become a model for the Navy. From there she...

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones)...

In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...

While attending stenographer school, Tillie Jones meets office boy Mac, who falls in love with her at first sight. Though Tillie likes Mac as a...

Farce of identical twins and a wife who takes up real estate business.

A fast-talking philanderer and sometime reporter gets caught up in an octogenarian antiquarian's scheme to steal a classical masterwork, the famous...

When her sister dies, a nightclub singer is left with her children. In order to raise the children properly, she leaves her singing career and takes...

A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.

A patriotic but short American man tries without luck to qualify for the Army, but can't get in until a knock on the head raises a lump high enough...

Ernest Truex reluctantly turning nudist in this Al Christie Educational short.