Fred Essler Movies

Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really...

The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. She...

Anabel Sims is determined to find the perfect husband. She thinks she's found her man in Madison Brown, a handsome pediatrician. She then prepares an...

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman can sing! Her agent lures him away to New Orleans...

A freedom-loving French journalist sacrifices his happiness and security to battle Nazi tyranny.

A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul....

A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.

A private detective foils the plans of villains attempting to take over Panamanian oil fields while he searches for a valuable map hidden in plain...

Stationed in West Germany, soldier Tulsa McLean hopes to open a nightclub once he's discharged. Although he may lack the capital for such a venture,...

When half a million dollars disappears from a doctor office's safe, the cops assigned to the burglary case, Joe and Pete, decide to find the money...

Young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a music professor. He is advised to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny...

A U.S. Army sergeant is home on leave to reconnect with his girlfriend he hopes to marry. However, in the years he's been away, she's gotten a huge...

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

Ex-WAVE encounters four fun-loving, work-hating men, all of whom want to marry her.

The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfrey Godfrey at the docks and, fancying him and...

Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.

Detective Mike Hammer's investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.

After her father's funeral, Ann Chapin thinks back over the last five years of his life, years of apparent political and personal failure dominated...

An Army corporal and his con-man sidekick take a shortcut to heroism in World War II France.

This semi-film within a film opens in the office of producer George Jessel, who never saw a camera he couldn't get in front of, who is holding a...