Leon Ames Movies

This entry in MGM's "Crime Does Not Pay" series deals with racketeers shaking down small grocers and horning in on the relief tickets, forcing prices...

A photographer falls for a rich girl and gets mixed up with crooks.

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to...

George Burns stars as a former vaudevillian who befriends a young runaway, played by 14-year old Brooke Shields, who is being chased by drug dealers.

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.

A young doctor proves his worth at a metropolitan hospital.

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896,...

Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.

Two American-army officers are working on a new type of machine-gun for anti-aircraft warfare, when one of them is murdered. The other vows to get...

The younger brother of an officer in a secret government code-breaking unit gets involved with a gang of spies and a beautiful double agent.

Aircraft are being shot down by a large black plane with a big "X" painted on the wing. The chief suspects are invited for the weekend to an old dark...

Fresh from "business college" a young man learns a little about relationships and a lot about "S & H Green Stamps."

A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a...

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Anything can happen during a weekend at New York's Waldorf-Astoria: a glamorous movie star meets a world-weary war correspondent and mistakes him for...

This Universal programmer was based on a Collier's Magazine story by journalist Quentin Reynolds. This story in turn was ostensibly based on a true...

A tough, hard-drinking Alaska logging foreman likes fighting only slightly less than working.

After living all his childhood in the street, a young boy rapidly notices that crime doesn't pay, leading him to become a policeman. One day, one of...

A temporary laborer who helps bring down a mob-sponsored employment racket