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.

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

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

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

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Officer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad...

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...

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

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