John Butler Movies

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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...

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

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

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

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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

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

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....

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

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

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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 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...

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can...

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

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is...