Charles Waldron

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a wealthy family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail--and what might be love.

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.

An aspiring reporter is the key witness at the murder trial of a young man accused of cutting a café owner's throat, and is soon accused of a similar crime himself.

A young man is haunted by the murder of a neighborhood pawn broker and hounded by the local police inspector who suspects that he is guilty.

A cantankerous old man takes in his beloved, orphaned grandson, whom he must protect at all costs with the help of an agent of Death and a magical apple tree.

Austrian refugees Dr Braun and his daughter Leni join the town's plan to relocate to Oregon. The town leader falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped them escape from the Third Reich.