John Butler

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

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

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

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

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 child.

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 and that the crash occurred on his birthday, three women begin to ponder if it's the son each gave up for adoption. As the three await news of his rescue at a mountain cabin, they recall incidents from five years earlier and why they were forced to give up their son.

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

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 that he meets the lovely Ellen of the Yellow Cab Co., he also meets the crooked lawyer named Creavy. Pirdy is an inventor and when Creavy learns about elastic-glass, his new invention, he makes plans to steal the process. With the help of another con man named Doksteader, and the boys, he will steal this million dollar invention no matter who gets hurt.

Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the guise of a respectable firearms merchant. Hoping to eradicate the lawlessness plaguing the newspaperman Fred Gately prints a letter asking the president to visit the area. But Fred's killed by secret gang leader Champion, who also plans to assassinate the president. Undercover officer Rocky Lane teams with his assistant, Nugget, and Fred's spunky daughter to combat Champion's head gunslinger.

밸보아 마을에서 살고 있다. 어느 이른 아침, 하퍼 부인(Lucia Harper: 조안 베네트 분)은 급히 차를 몰고 LA로 향한다. 하퍼 부인은 LA의 허름한 한 호텔에서 테드 다비(Ted Darby: 셰퍼드 스트루드윅 분)를 만나 더 이상 딸을 만나지 말 것을 경고한다. 다비는 그린 부인에게 돈을 요구한다. 집으로 돌아온 하퍼 부인은 비트리스(Bea Harper: 제랄딘 브룩스 분)에게 다비가 돈을 요구했다는 사실을 말하지만 이미 다비에게서 전화를 받은 비트리스는 엄마의 말을 믿지 않고 오히려 화를 낸다. 그날 밤 다비는 비트리스를 찾아와 돈 얘기를 꺼낸다. 엄마의 말이 사실임을 깨달은 비트리스는 말다툼 끝에 다비를 밀치고 도망쳐 집으로 돌아온다. 비트리스는 엄마에게 사실대로 말하고 다시는 그를 만나지 않겠다고 약속한다. 그 다음날 아침 보트 창고로 확인을 하러 나갔던 하퍼 부인은 닻에 찔려 숨져있는 다비를 발견한다. 딸의 짓이라고 믿는 부인은 시체를 보트에 싣고 늪지대로 가 시체를 유기한다. 그 다음날, 도넬리(Martin Donnelly: 제임스 메이슨 분)라는 사람이 찾아와 비트리스가 다비에게 쓴 편지를 건네며 5,000달러를 주지 않으면 경찰에 편지를 제공하겠다고 협박한다. 그때부터 하퍼 부인은 동분서주 돈을 구하러 뛰어다니지만...

코디 자렛과 그의 어머니를 포함한 갱들은 열차 강도를 한 후 산 속에 숨는다. 코디는 발작적인 두통에 시달리고 있다. 한편 갱의 일원 중에는 보스가 되길 원하며 코디의 부인인 버나를 탐내는 빅 에드라는 인물이 있다. 경찰에 체포된 코디는 감옥에서 빅 파도와 친해진다. 그러나 빅은 사실은 비밀 수사를 하고 있는 경찰이다. 코디는 빅 에드와 버나가 자신의 어머니를 살해했다는 사실을 전해 듣고 충격을 받는다. 그는 빅의 도움을 받아 탈옥을 감행한다. 30년대 갱스터 영화와 전후 필름 느와르의 교차점에 위치하는 범죄영화의 걸작. 라월 월시의 대표작일 뿐만 아니라 영화사상 최고의 터프 가이로서의 제임스 캐그니의 연기도 눈여겨볼 만하다.

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 child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

자신의 아들들마저도 철저하게 자신의 사업 목적에 이용하는 냉혹하기 그지없는 한 사업가의 이야기를 그린 드라마. 원래 로빈슨은 서부 영화나 범죄 영화들에서 악당 역할들로 유명한 험악한(?) 인상의 배우이다.

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

스토커라 불리우는 권투선수 빌 톰슨은 아직도 이길 수 있다고 주장하고 나선다. 그의 아름다운 아내 역시 그의 주장을 옹호한다. 그러나 그의 메니져 티니는 그가 질 수 밖에 없닥고 말한다. 그는 리틀 보이라 불리우는 겜블러에게 이미 대전료를 받아 챙긴 상태. 빌에게는 한마디 상의도 없이 말이다. 그가 맞붙을 상대는 타이거 넬슨. 그의 승산은 희미하기만 한데.

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 to seek information, but is frustrated when all he finds are terrified witnesses and corrupt police officers.

제니 마쉬는 살인 혐의로 5년간을 복역한 후에 집행 유예로 풀러난다. 보호감찰관인 그리프 마라트는 그녀에게 자신의 눈먼 어머니를 돌보는 일자리를 준다. 그녀는 법원의 접근 금지명령에도 불구하고 옛 애인 헨리 웨슨과 계속해서 은밀히 만나고 있다. 하지만 그녀는 헌신적인 그리프와 사랑에 빠져 결혼에 이르게 된다. 사뮤엘 풀러의 통속적이지만 힘 있는 각본과 서크의 경제적인 연출이 잘 어우러진 숨겨진 걸작. 영화의 결말은 제작사인 콜럼비아의 강요로 인해 애초의 의도와는 달리 해피엔딩으로 끝낼 수밖에 없었다고 한다.

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.

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

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

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is kidnapped by enemy agents who are determined to get military secrets out of him by any means possible. Will Joe keep quiet or betray his country...

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of what little they have.

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

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter with a penchant for sticking his neck out too far. Frank Albertson costars as a cub reporter fresh out of journalism school, whose presence is resented by Nolan and his fellow workers. But it is Albertson who, after running afoul of the law, is instrumental in breaking up a ring of racketeers. Behind the News was remade by Republic as Headline Hunters (55).

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

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when Jeff Thompson, a potential suitor, uncovers the deception and decides to show up at Margot's family home posing as her husband!

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

A man violates company policy by getting married.

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

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 York. He's on his way with the invention of an early form of the stock market ticker.

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

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. The law is not content with his explanation, however.

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 him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

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

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

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

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

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

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

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it. The loan sharking business has that want for money on both sides. He tells the story of one such loan shark, Stephen Hanley, who tried to pass his company off as a legitimate loan business, but who charged exorbitant rates, and used extortion and fraud to get out of his customers even more than what they may have owed on paper.

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

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

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

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his knowledge by the hospital's top dog, Dr. Leonard Gillespie.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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 become a major clue.

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 despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.

"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his ever-loving girlfriend Judy Williams in favor of sexy blonde Rose Whitney.

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

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

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

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

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

Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social secretary, but is reluctant to tell her about his past.