Elisabeth Risdon Movies

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen...

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

The film is a contempary-set version of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

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

An eccentric wealthy man is murdered, and the police set out to find his killer.

The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).

Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the...

A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.

Twelve people are aboard Coast Airline's flagship the Silver Queen enroute to South America when the airplane encounters a storm and is blown off...

Comprised of eight unrelated episodes of inconsistent quality, this anthology piece of American propaganda features some of MGM Studios' best...

Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...

Attorney Joshua Scranton hires "Budge" Edwards and Larry Donovan, who has just bought into Edwards' detective agency, to protect Estelle Hudson, a...

Harriet, Walter Craig's wife, is an upper-class woman obsessed with control, material possessions and social status whose behavior makes difficult...

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...

An advertising executive and his temperamental wife adopt a war orphan who turns out to be a beautiful woman.

A southern town is rocked by scandal when teenager Mary Clay is murdered on Confederate Decoration Day. Andrew Griffin, a small-time lawyer with...

The small-town prudes of Lynnfield are up in arms over 'The Sinner,' a sexy best-seller. They little suspect that author 'Caroline Adams' is really...