Dorothy Peterson Movies

A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only...

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

Police Chief Jim Fitzpatrick is after gangster Sam Belmonte. He uses his own corrupt brother Ed to watch over Daisy who was associated with Belmonte.

A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.

The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.

After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.

"Happy" MacDonald and his unfaithful wife own a Prohibition era night club. On this eventful night, he is threatened by bootleggers, and the club's...

A jockey struggles against gamblers with the help of the stable trainer and horse owner's daughter.

The second entry in the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the family struggling to keep their copper mine when their elderly business partner...

A construction company foreman's life changes--not necessarily for the better--when he is promoted to an executive position.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

Documentary/training film depicting the duties of a pilot in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War as he flies reconnaissance missions over...

A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.

Best pals Penrod and Sam are leaders of a super-secret neighborhood society, the In-Or-In Boys Club. Troubles arise when a pompous prig tries to join...

A lame boy's uncle tries to rescue him from his over-protective parents.

A high-spirited, short-tempered, young woman hates her father and loves to rebel against him. She marries a man whom her father hates but her...

When her doctor advises her to move West because of her health, Mrs. Pepper takes her five kids and relocates to Oregon to live with her sister. But...

The last of the four "Five Little Peppers" films finds the children having a hard time adjusting to their new boarding school.

Impoverished Jane Miller is loved by millionaire Roger and newspaperman William. Though William warns her otherwise, she goes with the millionaire to...