John Butler Movies

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

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...

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...

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

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

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...

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

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

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 mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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

In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West...

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

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

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

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 man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

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