Melville Cooper Movies

A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.

Roland Dane finally retires to his childhood home. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lark, he wishes not to be disturbed in his last days. However,...

Sweeney Bliss, champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to...

Celebrated 18th-century British actor David Garrick receives an invitation from the Comédie-Française in Paris, but they mistakenly...

The owner of a professional help agency poses as a poet at a wealthy patron's ball and prevents a necklace from being stolen by thieves.

Sherlock Holmes gets the clues he needs to solve a murder, and to prevent another one from occurring, when he finds out that a doctor owns a...

A British peer's romance with a ballerina courts scandal in 1890s London.

Years after the death of her husband, Kitty McNeil takes her son and flees from the home of her wealthy and controlling mother-in-law. Alone and...

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

A gangster takes a doctor and his family hostage.

Miss Moffat, a schoolteacher in Wales, realizes that one of her working-class pupils is extremely gifted.

Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at...

When upper-class Parisian Charles Dupont and his family hire Tina and Michel as their servants, they have no idea that the domestics are in fact...

An artist famous for his calendar portraits of beautiful women becomes fascinated by a prim and proper professor and tries to get her to pose for his...

On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester...

A Swiss hotel ski instructor falls in love with a man who goes skiing every morning.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

Lord Fancourt Babberley is forced to disguise himself as a woman - his aunt from Brazil, "where the nuts come from".

The Grand Hotel formula that was so overworked in the 1930s made an encore appearance in 1940's Escape to Glory. The story is given timeliness by...