Louis Jean Heydt Movies

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John Sutter. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

The "Our Gang" kids encourage a shy man to take a widow and her son to a picnic.

Former Coastguardsmen Jim Benson is about to lose his boat when a couple approaches him for a fishing charter. Jim departs just ahead of the Sherrif...

Film based on the story of Al Jennings, a former train robber turned attorney.

When the Alaska fishing season ends, a crooked cannery owner, who owes a huge delivery of salmon to a Seattle company, manipulates local Natives, who...

A policeman makes the startling discovery that his girlfriend is involved in a waterfront smuggling racket.

An elderly schoolmarm makes a hit in New York after a bandleader jazzes up her corny song.

A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.

This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous...

Journalist Marion Hargrove enters the Army intending to supplement his income by writing about his training experiences. He muddles through basic...

A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.

When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

An innocent nightclub singer becomes mixed up in illegal drug dealings shortly after witnessing her husband's death and the murder of a couple of...

One of the four films in the Pine-Thomas series based on radio's long-running "Big Town." This time out, society editor Lorelei Kilbourne is assigned...

Johnny Barrows, a young man heading toward a life of juvenile delinquency as his home life spirals out of control, sneaks into the 1948 World Series...

A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.

A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.

Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can...