Erville Alderson Movies

Abe Lincoln in Illinois is a 1940 biographical film which tells the story of the life of Abraham Lincoln from his departure from Kentucky until his...

Judge Hardy takes a business trip to Washington, DC, where Andy promptly falls for the French ambassador's daughter.

A European immigrant becomes a master of industry but almost loses his family.

Irish politician Charles Stewart Parnell struggles to free his country from English rule, but his relationship with married Katie O'Shea threatens to...

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

Bryce Cardigan struggles to protect his Redwood inheritance from a railroad-owner, who is also the guardian of the woman Bryce loves.

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending British invasion of Washington D.C., Dolly Payne...

"Teddy" Connor, a woman recently orphaned, leaves her uncle's Midwestern farm for Chicago, where she meets "lumber king" John Meade. John takes her...

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging...

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...

This film tells the history of the United States from pre-Revolution through 1939.

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as...

Steven Kenet, suffering from a recurring brain injury, appears to have strangled his wife. Having confessed, he's committed to an understaffed county...

Charlie attempts to solve a triple murder in which a dead man's finger prints show up at all three murder sites, and all three victims were connected...

A wealthy woman moves to Appalachia to educate illiterate mountaineers, but gets caught up between two feuding families.

Sixth of the Judge Hardy series. Judge James K. Hardy is brought the fabulous news from attorney George Irving, that he could be the heir to 2...

Ernest, a young drifter, joins a troupe of mystics led by a Professor Xeno in a carnival. Ernest learns that his colleagues are burgling homes in...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Paramount's highly-fictionalized 1945 musical biography of Texas Guinan, the Roaring '20s New York nightclub owner and celebrity with alleged...

Judge Hardy guides Andy through problems with girls, money and an essay contest.