Percy Helton

Legend of the Northwest (1978)

Set during the old west, Bearheart the dog witnesses his master, an old mountain man being murdered by bandits. Forced into the wilderness to survive on his own he meets a family who gives him friendship and a loving home. ...

The Day of the Wolves (1971)

A group of six thieves selected from different areas are sent a letter that promises them a minimum of $50,000 and includes a plane ticket. The letter instructs them to grow a beard. After being given a blindfolded ride from the airport, they arrive at a g ...

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

As the west rapidly becomes civilized, a pair of outlaws in 1890s Wyoming find themselves pursued by a posse and decide to flee to South America in hopes of evading the law. ...

Head (1968)

In this surrealistic and free-form follow-up to the Monkees' television show, the band frolic their way through a series of musical set pieces and vignettes containing humor and anti-establishment social commentary. ...

The Big Mouth (1967)

A fisherman crosses paths with a diamond-smuggling gangster–who is his doppelgänger—and inadvertently takes his place at a resort hotel where he meets a special girl. ...

A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966)

A naive traveler in Laredo gets involved in a poker game between the richest men in the area, jeopardizing all the money he has saved for the purpose of settling with his wife and child in San Antonio. ...

Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)

A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture. ...

The Sons of Katie Elder (1965)

The four sons of Katie Elder reunite in their hometown of Clearwater, Texas for her funeral and discover that the family ranch is now in the hands of Morgan Hastings, a corrupt businessman who wants to exploit the area around the town. ...

Zebra in the Kitchen (1965)

A young boy lets the animals out of their cages at the Zoo, to set them free, but the animals start taking over the town. ...

Get Yourself a College Girl (1964)

A young music student faces expulsion after her instructors learn she is moonlighting as a pop-music writer. ...

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative. ...

4 for Texas (1963)

In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with ...

The Wheeler Dealers (1963)

Henry J. Tyroon leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but, in the ...

The Music Man (1962)

Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town. ...

Ride the High Country (1962)

An ex-lawman is hired to transport gold from a mining community through dangerous territory. But what he doesn't realize is that his partner and old friend is plotting to double-cross him. ...

Where the Boys Are (1960)

Good girls Merritt, Melanie, Tuggle and Angie - all students at mid-western Penmore University - are planning on going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida for spring break to get away from the mid-western snow despite not having much money to spend once there. On ...

Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960)

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like ...

Ask Any Girl (1959)

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-day New York. After losing her suitcase at Penn Station, being kicked out by her roommate, and changing bosses because her boss made a pass at her, she finds ...

Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)

Harry Bannerman, a Connecticut suburbanite, becomes involved in various shenanigans when his wife Grace leads a protest movement against a secret army plan to set up a missile base in their community. ...

The Proud Rebel (1958)

Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's unfairly ...

The Sheepman (1958)

A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to r ...

Last Stagecoach West (1957)

The coming of the railroad to Cedar City spells the end of the stagecoach as the government gives the mail contract to the fastest means of delivery. McCord loses the stagecoach line gambling with the new buyer, but has enough hidden money to buy a ranch a ...

Spook Chasers (1957)

Sach and the gang (Bowery Boys) find stashed cash in an old farmhouse apparently haunted. ...

This Could Be the Night (1957)

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub. ...

The Vintage (1957)

A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence, France. ...

The Phantom Stagecoach (1957)

A stagecoach is plagued by robberies, but it takes an undercover Wells Fargo agent to discover that a rival company is responsible. ...

Jailhouse Rock (1957)

After serving time for manslaughter, young Vince Everett becomes a teenage rock star. ...

Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1956)

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock 'n' roll palace for teens. ...

Terror at Midnight (1956)

A newly promoted police sergeant discovers his girlfriend my be involved with a gang of car thieves. ...

Fury at Gunsight Pass (1956)

An outlaw terrorizes the citizens of Gunsight Pass while he searches for stolen bank money that mysteriously disappeared after a robbery. ...

Diane (1956)

Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France. ...

The Silent Partner (1955)

When a great film director accepts an Academy Award, he reflects on a comedian he worked with in the early film days, owing his success to him, not realizing that man is now destitute, watching the show on TV from a barstool. Part of the Screen Directors P ...

No Man's Woman (1955)

A greedy, scheming woman is found murdered in her studio, and the police find that there is no shortage of suspects who wanted to see her dead--among them a rich husband she wouldn't divorce unless he paid her a huge settlement, a lover she caused to be fi ...

Trial (1955)

A Mexican boy accused of rape and murder becomes a pawn for Communists and red-baiters. A courtroom drama set in 1947 and underlying post-WW2 acute problems facing the USA such as stormy race relations and the growing threat of local communism. ...

Jail Busters (1955)

Slip and Sach go to prison to help a reporter with a story. ...

Kiss Me Deadly (1955)

One evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to semi-consciousness, he hears Christina be ...

Crashout (1955)

Convict Van Duff engineers a large-scale prison break; the six survivors hide out in a forgotten mine working near the prison, then set out on a long, dangerous journey by foot, car, train and truck to retrieve Duff's bank loot. En route, as they touch the ...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

A ship sent to investigate a wave of mysterious sinkings encounters the advanced submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by Captain Nemo. ...

White Christmas (1954)

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who comprise a sister act. ...

A Star Is Born (1954)

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. ...

The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954)

In Ispahan, Persia, Hajji Baba is leaving his father's shop to seek a greater fortune, while the Princess Fawzia is trying to talk her father, the Caliph into giving her in marriage to Nur-El-Din, a rival prince known far and wide as mean and fickle. Her f ...

About Mrs. Leslie (1954)

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved. ...

Lucky Me (1954)

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy oilman to finance a musical he is scripting, promising them stardom if it comes to fruition. ...

Geraldine (1953)

Music manager Janey Edwards poses as a co-ed to get the rights to a song from one of the professors. ...

Wicked Woman (1953)

Drifting floozy Billie Nash gets a bar job where she seduces the owner's husband by convincing him to defraud his drunkard wife in order to elope together to Mexico, but a sleazy neighbor with designs on Billie jeopardizes her plans. ...

How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)

Three women set out to find eligible millionaires to marry, but find true love in the process. ...

The Robe (1953)

Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion. Marcellus has never been a man of faith like his slave, Demetrius, but when Demetrius escapes with the robe, Marcellus experiences disturbing visions an ...

City of Bad Men (1953)

Outlaws plan a robbery to take place during a championship prizefight in Carson City, Nevada. ...

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)

Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says she's in dreamville, does not share her affection for Dobie. An English essay which almost revolutionizes Engl ...

Down Laredo Way (1953)

Rex Allen against diamond smugglers down Laredo way ...

Vice Squad (1953)

A Los Angeles police captain ties the case of a slain policeman to a bank robbery, all in a day. ...

Ride, Vaquero! (1953)

Two Mexican outlaws, Rio and Esqueda, raised as stepbrothers, have a showdown over the issue of whether to evict new settlers from their Texas border territory. ...

Ambush at Tomahawk Gap (1953)

Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and dea ...

Scared Stiff (1953)

A nightclub singer and his partner escape mobsters by fleeing to Cuba with a beautiful heiress, who has inherited a haunted castle on an isolated island. The trio hunt for a hidden treasure and encounter a ghost, a zombie, and a mysterious killer... ...

Call Me Madam (1953)

Washington hostess Sally Adams becomes a Truman-era US ambassador to a European grand duchy. ...

Three for Bedroom C (1952)

After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a handsome biology professor. Comedy. ...

I Dream of Jeanie (1952)

The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster. ...

The Belle of New York (1952)

In squeaky-clean New York at the turn of the century, playboy Charlie Hill falls so much in love that he can walk on air. The object of his affections is beautiful Angela Bonfils, a mission house worker in the Bowery. He promises to reform his dissolute li ...

A Girl in Every Port (1952)

After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated. ...

The Barefoot Mailman (1951)

Sylvanus Hurley is a swindler who's been swindled: he's been given a deed to a large plot of mangrove swamp in the out-of-the-way community. So he decides to con the locals, some of whom are not as honest as he.... ...

The Stooge (1951)

Bill Miller is an unsuccessful Broadway performer until his handlers convince him to enhance his act with a stooge—Ted Rogers, a guy positioned in the audience to be the butt of Bill's jokes. After Ted begins to steal the show, Bill's girlfriend and his ...

The Family Secret (1951)

When his son accidentally kills someone, a lawyer must defend the man wrongly charged with the murder. ...

Chain of Circumstance (1951)

A childless couple adopts a baby girl, but a crime committed by the husband's secretary could cause them to lose custody of the infant. ...

The Tall Target (1951)

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861. ...

Darling, How Could You! (1951)

Two absentee American parents get to know their three children again after spending five years in Panama. ...

Never Trust a Gambler (1951)

A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house. ...

Night Into Morning (1951)

Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son. ...

Three Guys Named Mike (1951)

A stewardess becomes romantically involved with an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman...all of whom are named Mike. When the three find out about each other, she has to decide which one she loves the most. ...

Inside Straight (1951)

A tycoon rises to the top in 19th-century San Francisco through greed and corruption. ...

Under Mexicali Stars (1950)

Cowboy T-man, Rex Allen, and his partner, Homer Oglethorpe (Buddy Ebsen), go undercover to track down some gold smugglers. ...

Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)

France, 1640. Cyrano, the charismatic swordsman-poet with the absurd nose, hopelessly loves the beauteous Roxane; she, in turn, confesses to Cyrano her love for the handsome but tongue-tied Christian. The chivalrous Cyrano sets up with Christian an innocen ...

Copper Canyon (1950)

A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they're wron ...

The Sun Sets at Dawn (1950)

A reporter investigates the story of a young man who may have been wrongly convicted and sentenced to be executed. ...

A Life of Her Own (1950)

A young woman from Kansas moves to New York City, becomes highly successful at a prestigious modeling agency, and falls in love with a married man. ...

Fancy Pants (1950)

An American actor, impersonating an English butler, is hired by a rich woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes the actor/butler to be an earl and President Roosevelt decides to ...

Riding High (1950)

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race. ...

Wabash Avenue (1950)

Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike's business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike's position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike's motor-mouthe ...

Harbor of Missing Men (1950)

A smuggler hides from hit men with a Greek fisherman and his daughter. ...

Tyrant of the Sea (1950)

In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagsh ...

The Secret Fury (1950)

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen ...

Free For All (1949)

The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor. ...

My Friend Irma (1949)

Prototype dumb blonde Irma and her slacker, wheeler-dealer boyfriend Al interfere in the love life of Irma's level-headed room mate Jane. ...

Thieves' Highway (1949)

Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get ev ...

Red, Hot and Blue (1949)

In her attempts to make a splash on Broadway, a lively would-be-actress lands herself in hot water with the mob. ...

Lust for Gold (1949)

A man determined to track down the fabled Arizona gold mine known as The Lost Dutchman has an affair with a married treasure hunter, whose pursuit of the mine has lead her to double-cross her husband. ...

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff (1949)

Lost Caverns Hotel bellhop Freddie Phillips is suspected of murder. Swami Talpur tries to hypnotize Freddie into confessing, but Freddie is too stupid for the plot to work. Inspector Wellman uses Freddie to get the killer (and it isn't the Swami). ...

The Crooked Way (1949)

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past. ...

The Set-Up (1949)

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter. ...

Alias Nick Beal (1949)

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foste ...

Criss Cross (1949)

An armored-car guard must join a robbery after being caught with his ex-wife by her gangster husband. ...

Chicken Every Sunday (1949)

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband's harebrained financial schemes. ...

That Wonderful Urge (1948)

When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she's met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they're married. ...

Larceny (1948)

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Mason falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons ...

Hazard (1948)

A compulsive gambler bets her freedom against a $16,000 debt to a crime boss…and loses. But before he can collect, she skips town, with a private detective hot on her trail. ...

The Naked City (1948)

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder. ...

Let's Live Again (1948)

The brother of a nuclear scientist dies but is reincarnated as a dog so he can return to Earth to protect his brother. ...

Call Northside 777 (1948)

In 1932, a cop is killed and Frank Wiecek sentenced to life. Eleven years later, a newspaper ad by Frank's mother leads Chicago reporter P.J. O'Neal to look into the case. For some time, O'Neal continues to believe Frank guilty. But when he starts to chang ...

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while o ...

At Home (1939)

The Prisoner of Swing (1938)

Musical satire based on Anthony Hope's Ruritanian novel "The Prisoner of Zenda" in which a commoner takes the place of a lookalike king. ...

Du Barry Did All Right (1937)

A woman living in Paris feels neglected by her husband, so she decides to go to New York City and enjoy herself. ...

Frankie and Johnnie (1936)

The story of a woman, Frankie, and the man who has done her wrong, Johnnie. ...