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.

In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West...

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

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

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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

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.

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...

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

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...

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