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.

Detetive embarca em trem que leva centenas de pessoas para o primeiro discurso de Abraham Lincoln como presidente dos Estados Unidos por suspeitar de conspiração para assassiná-lo. Durante a viagem, evidências parecem confirmar a suspeita.

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

O pistoleiro Choya (Alan Ladd) deixa-se convencer, por um par de vigaristas, a se passar pelo herdeiro de um rico rancheiro, cujo verdadeiro filho foi raptado, ainda criança, e criado por bandidos nas montanhas. Mas, rapidamente, Choya se arrepende e parte, então, em busca do filho desaparecido.

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.

Após a morte acidental do amante indesejável de sua filha, Lucia Harper (Joan Bennett) esconde o corpo para proteger sua família. Após um tempo, o parceiro do morto (James Mason) aparece e começa a chantageá-la. O conforto e a segurança de seu mundo está em perigo, logo tudo começa a desmoronar.

Um criminoso psicopata com um complexo-mãe (Complexo de Édipo) faz uma fuga ousada da prisão e depois lidera a sua antiga quadrilha num assalto à folha de pagamento de uma fábrica de produtos químicos. Após o assalto, os eventos tomam um rumo louco.

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.

Gino Monetti (Edward G. Robinson) é um banqueiro ítalo-americano que trata sem muita consideração seus quatro filhos, que já são adultos. Gino participou de várias atividades ilegais para construir seu negócio e agora está preso. Embora os filhos sempre estivessem sabendo dos negócios questionáveis do pai, eles lhe recusam ajuda para ficar fora de prisão. Liderados por Joe Monetti (Luther Adler), o filho mais velho, três dos filhos assumem o negócio. Apenas Max Monetti (Richard Conte) se mantém leal ao seu pai, em razão disto seus três irmãos conspiram e Max também é mandado para a cadeia. Max promete ao agonizante Gino que irá se vingar dos seus traiçoeiros filhos, mas quando ele é libertado não consegue se vingar, nem mesmo depois que um dos seus irmãos, Tony (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), tenta matá-lo. Max deixa seus irmãos e ruma para a Califórnia para ter uma nova vida com Irene Bennett (Susan Hayward), sua noiva.

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

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

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.

Depois de ter cumprido 5 anos de prisão, por ter matado um homem enquanto defendia seu amante de má reputação Harry (John Baragrey), Jenny Marsh (Patricia Knight) está pronta para a liberdade condicional. Seu oficial de condicional, Griff Marat Cornel Wilde está determinado a fazer Jenny andar na linha. Por falta de outras perspectivas, Griff arruma um emprego para Jenny em sua própria casa, algo totalmente contra os regulamentos. No começo, Jenny ainda tem sentimentos por Harry, mas como Griff mostra mais compaixão e cuidado, ela se apaixona por ele - o que Harry parece encorajar, porque ele tem planos de acabar com Griff e seus sonhos de cargo político, e a situação logo se torna ainda mais perigosa.

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.

Maria Antonieta (Norma Shearer) é uma linda princesa austríaca com casamento marcado com o herdeiro do trono francês Luís Augusto (Robert Morley), casamento este arranjado por motivos políticos. Já no palácio francês, Maria encontra-se caída entre as intrigas da família real, principalmente entre o Rei Luís XV e seu maléfico primo, o Conde de Orleans (Joseph Schidkraut). Para alívio de Maria, Luís só poderia casar-se com ela caso ele se tornasse Rei. Certo dia, em um cassino, Maria conhece o Conde Axel de Fersen (Tyrone Power), e ambos se sentem atraídos imediatamente um pelo outro. Sentindo-se realizada com seu amante, Maria recebe uma notícia que não esperava tão logo, o Rei Luís XV havia morrido. Sabendo então que o Conde poderia manter um caso com a noiva do príncipe, mas não com a Rainha da França, Maria teria então que decidir entre seu coração e a realeza.

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.