John Butler Movies

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

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

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted...

A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

A man violates company policy by getting married.

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

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

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

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

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...

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

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

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

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 mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

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

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...

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

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.