John Butler Movies

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her...

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

A man violates company policy by getting married.

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

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

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

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

A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...

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

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

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 young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.