John Butler Movies

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

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

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

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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

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....

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

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...

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

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

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

An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

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.

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

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

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

Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.