John Harron Movies

Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to...

A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making...

When a singing, song-writing prizefighter is framed for murder and sent to the state pen, his girlfriend sets out to prove his innocence.

George Newell Jr. is the son of wealthy parents. In the days leading up to World War I, he disgraces himself and his family. In order to redeem...

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In...

A shipping clerk falls under the spell of a socialite, but eventually returns to the girl from his own social class who really loves him.

This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile...

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Small-town photographer Joe Coleman marries Ann Harris quickly, only to find himself financially supporting her entire lazy family. After moving to...

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale,"...

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his...

To increase profits for his shipping company, Lynch has goaded the Indians to attack both the telegraph line and the new railroad. When Lynch sells...

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...