George Irving

Ellory Bugs has offered a massive donation to his old alma mater, which will only come if his son, interested in the band, becomes a football hero.

A hypochondriac heiress visits the sanitarium she's inherited, not realizing it's now a front for bootleggers and a hideout for criminals on the run.

Detective Ellery Queen investigates two murders and the theft of a missing, rare Chinese stamp valued at $50,000 in the penthouse of a hotel.

Using Abraham Lincoln as his model for courage, a newsboy and night-school law student fights off hoods to make his dreams in the big city come true.

A flirtatious Southern belle finds her new romance compromised by her father, who wants to kill her suitor for not meeting his high standards.

Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them, as Raymond stands by his native Virginia while Kenneth remains on duty as a Northern officer. Kenneth's uncle, John Ericsson, designs a new kind of ship, an ironclad he calls the Monitor. Eventually the war pits Kenneth, on board the Monitor, against his friend Raymond, serving aboard the South's own ironclad, the Merrimac (as it is called here). A naval battle ensues, one that will go down in history.