John Butler Movies

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...

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...

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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

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....

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

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

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

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

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of...

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

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

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.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the...