John Butler Movies

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted...

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

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

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

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

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.

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the...

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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...

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

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...