J.P. McGowan Movies

A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he...

Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a mail contract. He opens a waste valve on the tank...

Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep...

Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.

A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde...

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

Learning his father's railroad business from the ground up, layabout Leonard Hathaway undertakes to win a large ore-hauling contract by making his...

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land...

"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's...

The Bandit Tamer is a 1925 American silent film directed by J.P. McGowan.

Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle...

Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtual...

The Algerian consul solicits the aid of the Chief of the Secret Service in the apprehension of the sultan's brother, Abdullah, who has fled with the...

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

Union raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train. Early film version of the Civil War incident on which Buster Keaton's The General and...

Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.

When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

Northwest Mounted Police Corporal Jerry Hale is assigned to take over the district of a fellow-officer, and is puzzled as he had worked this district...

Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter's boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the sheriff in a robbery. Boyfriend saves the dough,...

Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's three...