John Ridgely Movies

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

This short follows the political career of Theodore Roosevelt, beginning in 1895, when he was appointed police commissioner of New York City. In 1897...

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector...

A notorious counterfeiter passes himself off as a Secret Service agent to Steve and gets him to unwittingly help him bilk the racetrack out of tens...

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook...

An inventor and his bride get testy in the city as they try to make ends meet.

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

An escaped criminal pretends to be a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in order to prove his innocence of murder. Star Dennis Morgan plays...

Balkan Prince Henry has two wishes, to meet Lauren Bacall and see the "real" America. He befriends cabbie Buzz Williams and, without knowing the...

Little David Gordon lives in the jungle with his parents Ruth and Fred, along with their servant Nona. David likes living there while his father...

Ensign Murphy is ordered to his first duty in the U.S. Navy. He learns (often the hard way) the means of transporting himself properly from one...

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to...

A doctor tries to rescue a young innocent from Nazi agents.

Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative...

An embezzler's wife begs his boss for forgiveness, only to fall in love with him.

This entry in Warner's "Broadway Brevity" series of shorts is based on Damon Runyon's short story, "The Old Doll's House". Racketeer Lance McGowan,...

A bored millionaire matches his daughter with his partner in a gas station.