John Burton Movies

The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa...

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again...

This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the...

Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was...

A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.

An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check...

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.

After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is...

This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.