John Butler Movies

One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

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

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just...

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

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....

Officer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad...

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

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...

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...

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

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

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

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...

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

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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