J.P. McGowan Movies

Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.

Helen, a "diamond runner," reaches South Africa.

Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she chops her way into the ice chamber and reaches the...

Mrs. Herton, a widow, lives in comfortable circumstances with her son, Roland. Over forty years of age, she is still an attractive woman, but lacks...

Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang....

A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the...

A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher.

A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.

In The Scarlet Brand, a young cowpoke tricked into rustling cattle and hell-bent on getting revenge against the poacher who set him up.

A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.

A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any...

Wharf-master Buck Elliot is the leader of a band of murderous crooks. The gang shoots down a policeman in a wharf side scuffle, and Detective Donovan...

Crooked Bluff Hardcastle is appointed by the court to take care of the business affairs of pretty young Helen Saunders' ranch, which is about to go...

In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs...

Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him.

Pampered Easterner Tom Ransom is sent West by his father, a meatpacking tycoon, to buy a large herd. Tom soon comes into conflict with the agents of...

Jack is a cowboy posing as an outlaw in order to infiltrate the gang of counterfeiters who has kidnapped Barbara.

A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of...

Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought...

Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and...