John Butler Movies

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

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

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

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

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

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

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 newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

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

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

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

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.

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

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

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

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

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

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...