Erville Alderson Movies

The Fortune Hunter is a lost 1927 silent film comedy directed by Charles Reisner and starring Syd Chaplin. It is based on the 1909 Broadway play The...

In order to learn the location of a fabled Aztec treasure, a professor kidnaps his colleague, the only man able to read the ancient Aztec script that...

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

Captain Braddock of the Los Angeles Racket Squad schools a group of cadet policemen by telling them of three precarious and dangerous cases of con...

A Senator, accused of bribery on circumstantial evidence and sent to prison, decides to commit suicide so that his daughter will feel free to marry...

Wealthy young Southern aristocrat Joseph graduates from seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, goes out and see what 'the real...

The story of President Monroe's response to attempts by Spain to interfere in South America.

Film version of a play about a Mexican bandit.

After John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Maryland and was discovered hiding in a barn. After he refused to...

A young woman graduates from a New York City law school, returns to her small hometown, and finds her first case is defending a childhood friend...

A scientist's obsessive jealousy about his wife, a professional opera singer, endangers their marriage.

A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.

Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...

A nobleman returns home to Southern California after the Mexican American War to find his people mistreated by unscrupulous Americans.

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the...

A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.

Walen plays Dan Sparling, a convicted embezzler who becomes editor of his prison newspaper. After serving out his sentence, he sets up an independent...

An ambitious tenement girl forced into a life of crime has a change of heart when her victim tries to kill himself.

In this short western, a gang of outlaws plots to gain control of the town of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

A mother starts to get worried when she finds out that some wealthy friends have been invited to dinner with her somewhat screwball family.