John Butler Filmes

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor....

Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social...

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her...

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father...

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

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...

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each...

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.