Charles Tannen Movies

In China, a singer and a journalist meet while traveling on a train attacked by bandits.

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

A young husband schemes to regain his wife, who earlier had left him and now is involved with a European playboy.

When the elderly woman sponsoring a treasure hunt is murdered on board her docked ship, Charlie Chan must deal with a treasure map in four pieces,...

Five passengers in a stagecoach are abandoned by their driver in the desert. Trying to survive, they struggle with illness, thirst, hunger, and the...

Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.

A West Point cadet and his bandleader brother fall for a singer in the band.

Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.

An unscrupulous private investigator with a penchant for blackmail is found dead in a car and the leading suspect is Janet Bradley, the daughter of a...

Three World War II fliers face financial obstacles threatening to ground their fledgling air-freight business.

Private eye Mike Shayne encounters a large amount of trouble while attempting to guard a murder witness.

Five closely knit showgirls sign a pact to reunite one year after the closing of their Broadway production, but the lives of all five take many...

During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.

Austrian church bell ringer Freyman loves music and wants his two sons (both played by Ameche) to love it too. The first goes to America and the...

Jones family romp with father trying to convince son to follow him as a druggist, rather than becoming a pilot, until the son's piloting skills come...

This Passing Parade entry looks at several historical "truths" that just aren't so: Steve Brodie never jumped off the Brooklyn Bridge; Mrs. O'Leary's...

An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on the run -- attempting to prove his innocence.