John Butler Movies

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

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 man violates company policy by getting married.

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

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

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

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

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

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

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

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

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 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....

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