John Payne

A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.

A U.S. lawman busts Copenhagen counterfeiters to help his sister, falsely accused of murder.

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The Mason clan then flees but Gray Mason, feeling remorse, decides to return to the town. He winds up at the home of John and Nora Willoughby who, unknown to him, are parents of the dead boy. Nora recognizes him as one of the Confederates but keeps quiet, wishing to avoid more violence. However, when John learns of Gray's true identity, he determines to avenge his son's death

A Marine officer (John Payne) goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife (Mona Freeman) gave him in the last war.

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.

A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no other friends at all. But he's saved from murder by a lonesome cowpoke ('My friends call me Cowpoke'), in town to meet his fiancée Goldie on the steamboat. When she arrives, there's a mysterious undercurrent between Goldie and Tennessee, whose newfound friendship with Cowpoke is destined to be severely tried...

The Mayhew brothers flee from one Texas town to another as older brother Bill repeatedly attempts to keep younger brother Sam out of jail. Bill finally gives up on his younger brother and heads for Colorado. He gets a job and all is well until his brother shows up and takes a job that puts them on opposite sides of the law.

A disgraced Indian scout and his partner are hired to escort a wagonload of guns through Indian territory.

After being dumped by his fiancée, hard-drinking and depressed Mark Cormack loses his job in the Los Angeles district attorney's office and serves as bouncer in a Las Vegas casino. A wheelchair-using stranger Barzland hires him to locate a ruby that disappeared in a Caribbean plane crash. He lures Cormack into doing the job by telling him it may be in the possession of the very woman who jilted him. The ex-detective flies to remote island Santo Rosario to find the stone and investigate the mystery. When he finds his old flame he finds that her husband is in prison. Cormack, again falling for Janet, is convinced into helping him break out of jail. But Janet has other plans.

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance who, as a US Marshal, arrests Ballard for the murder of his brother and the theft of $20,000. Ballard seeks to stall McCarty while tracking down evidence that will prove his innocence.

A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.

A former boxer --now taxi driver-- gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida (Donna Reed), intending to trade her to her fiancé, Capt. Jose Salcedo (Gerald Mohr), for a handsome ransom. But Barbarossa falls in love with Alida, who meanwhile discovers that the roguish swashbuckler is more honorable than her erstwhile betrothed.

Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her Nevada property.

Бывший заключенный Джо Рольф обвинен в вооруженном ограблении банка. Бандиты использовали цветочный фургон, принадлежавший Джо. За отсутствием у него похищенных денег, а также веских доказательств, Джо отпускают на волю. Гонимый жаждой мести, он собирается узнать, кто и зачем подставил его. Вскоре он узнает, что следы грабителей ведут в Мексику. Постепенно в своем расследовании Джо сталкивается как с беспощадными бандитами, так и продажными полицейскими…

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick Lindsay, to help him invade MacAllister's fortified island. The latter falls in love with MacAllister's daughter,Christine.

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed by preacher Jacob Karns. Tensions and hardships grow as the travelers continue to trek toward California across dry, desolate country.

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.

In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.

Texas Ranger Todd Crayden is assigned a suicide mission South of the Border, to smuggle a government agent into Mexico...

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy. Accused of deliberately scuttling his ship during a typhoon, Captain China hopes to clear himself by signing on as a common seaman on a vessel captain by his former first mate Brendensen. There's no love lost between the two men, and their mutual animosity is intensified when both fall in love with beautiful passenger.

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his criminal past.

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends him on an errand to El Paso, Texas to get the signature of Susan's father, Judge Jeffers, on a legal document. Once there he finds the judge has become a drunk and a laughing stock, doing the bidding of local magnate Bert Donner and his running dog, Sheriff La Farge. Just as Clay starts straightening out the town's problems, events occur which force him to abandon the legal system and instead adopt the murderous tactics of a vigilante.

In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist Eric Busch, finally stands-up to him.

John Payne is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow (Joan Caulfied) into giving up her savings for a nonexistent memorial. When Payne falls in love with the widow he has pangs of conscience, but he reckons without his con-artist boss (Dan Duryea), who tends to bolster his arguments with muscle and bullets.

Во время парада, устроенного крупным магазином в канун Рождества, актер, который был должен играть Санта Клауса, обнаружен встельку пьяным. Режиссер парада уговаривает прохожего старика Криса Крингла занять место Санты. После успеха парада Крингл получает работу в магазине. Однако когда менеджер магазина говорит, чтобы Крис пытался продать детям залежавшиеся игрушки, тот приходит в негодование. Вместо этого он отсылает детей в другой магазин, принадлежащий их конкуренту. Это провоцирует большие неприятности. Но все усугубляется тем, что Крис настаивает, что он настоящий Санта-Клаус. Ему приходится доказывать это не только словом, но и делом, свидетелями чего становятся Дорис и ее скептически настроенная дочь Сюзан. Растущая без отца Сюзан пытается сделать так, чтобы ее мать и их сосед, юрист, жили вместе. Крис, считающий самым главным на свете счастье детей, пытается помочь Сюзан в достижении ее цели. Постепенно он преодолевает недоверчивость Сюзан в своем настоящем происхождении...

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

Начало двадцатых годов прошлого века. Обеспеченный молодой человек по имени Лэрри Даррелл , в одночасье разрывает свои отношения с близкими людьми и, раздумав жениться на своей давней подруге Изабель, решает искать смысл жизни в путешествиях в дальние страны. Поиски просвещения приводят его в Гималаи. Насытившись впечатлениями, герой решает вернуться в родные пенаты, но он и не предполагает, что его возвращение сродни шагам по лезвию бритвы… В этом «Оскароносном» фильме за взаимоотношениями персонажей, страстей и натур отчетливо проступает художественно-философский анализ «вечных» тем мировой литературы: смысла жизни, назначение искусства, любви и смерти.

Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely holds the WB house record for a 20-minute film containing footage from the most different titles in their inventory. It's theme of a singing guided tour of the lot (and some of the footage) is from 1944's "Musical Movieland", the former title holder, and it contains clips from 1939's "Quiet, Please" and "Royal Rodeo"; "Sunday Roundup" from 1936 and 1940's "The Singing Dude." Pieces from "Out Where the Stars Begin" and "Swingtime in the Movies" may also be used, but it's hard to tell since they all tend to run together and show up in a lot of places during the 1940's Warner shorts. Its title of "Movieland Magic" is most apt considering the sleight-of-hand performed by the WB Shorts and Sales departments in once again selling the same film clips for the 3rd, 4th or more times.

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She decides to adopt the child so that her husband Bill will not be alone when she dies. Unfortunately, Bill is not charmed by Hitty.

Эта история началась в 1904 году, когда две сестры близняшки Янси и Рожичка под чутким руководством своего дядюшки начинают исполнять танцевально-музыкальные номера в венгерском кафе, выдавая себя за сестер из Будапешта. Проходят годы и они становятся звездами мирового масштаба и это все благодаря своему изворотливому дядюшке-импресарио, который умудрился обмануть самого Оскара Хаммерстайна - постановщика бродвейских шоу и добиться прослушивания для своих протеже...Сестры Долли реально существовавшие люди. Это были девочки-близнецы Роуз и Дженни, рожденные в Венгрии в 1892 году и эмигрировавшие в США в 1905 году. Они начали зарабатывать деньги, выступая в пивных залах еще в 1907 году. Девочки вынуждены были покинуть Нью-Йорк в связи с запретом на выступление несовершеннолетних и гастролировать с "Orpheum circuit" до 1909, пока они не дебютировали в водевиле, а в 1911 году уже подписали контракт с шоу Зигфилда на два сезона.

A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.

This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant Anderson is normally the co-pilot of this B-29, but as part of the readiness regimen for aircraft crews, he is being tested as the backup fight engineer. The actual flight engineer monitors his work, helping Anderson follow the checklists for flight preparation and takeoff. Throughout the 10-hour training flight, Lt. Anderson will be required to operate a multitude of engine controls and to monitor instruments on a variety of engine functions. Throughout the flight, his pilot and flight engineer watch over his work, correcting mistakes and reminding him of necessary actions.

Сан-Франциско, начало ХХ века. Джонни Корнелл и его друзья — артисты водевильного жанра — оказываются без работы. Он берет их судьбу в свои руки и, обладая незаурядным талантом продюсера и шоумена, быстро добивается успеха. У него свои рестораны и танцевальные салоны, он занят только шоу-бизнесом и не замечает любви очаровательной Труди Эванс. Джонни страстно мечтает попасть в высшее общество Сан-Франциско, но за «вход» туда ему потребуется заплатить большую цену…

"Первый отряд, два шага вперед! Второй отряд, шаг вперед! Третий отряд стоит на месте! Четвертый, шаг назад!" Это - легендарная учебка в Сан-Диего - именно здесь проходили азы большинство морских пехотинцев США. Здесь проходит службу Крис Винтерс - дерзкий плейбой и волокита из богатенькой семьи. Но армия - это не вечеринка, а сержант Дикси Смит - это не подружка Смита медсестра Мэри...

Broadway partners Vicky Lane and Dan Christy have a tiff over Christy's womanizing. Jealous Vicky takes up with her old flame and former dance partner, Victor Price, and Dan's career takes a nosedive. In hopes of rekindling their romance and getting Vicky back on the boards with him, Dan follows her to a ritzy resort in the Canadian Rockies, where she and Victor are about to open their new act. But things get complicated when Dan wakes after a bender to find that he's hired an outlandish Latin secretary, Rosita Murphy, which makes Vicky think he's just up to his old tricks again.

Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to Katina. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him.

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts paying attention to beautiful chorus girl Pat Lambert. Pat's boyfriend Bill Smith isn't impressed with Tommy even though Tommy gets him a boxing part in the show. When Tommy finds out that Pat and Bill were secretly together the night before the show opens, he angrily plans to turn the boxing scene with Bill into a real bout.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.

Джей Уильямс - сотрудник корабельной компании, которая получает известие о судне, налетевшем на риф во Флориде. Все пассажиры отказываются от круиза , за исключением Нэн Спенсер, продавщицы универмага, которая хочет провести свой «отпуск» сейчас, а не потом. Джей берется за ее досуг и развлечения, и вскоре влюбляется.

Веселая музыкальная комедия, в которой героиня Сони Хени в составе оркестра Глена Миллера отправляется в Солнечную долину. Забавные приключения, комедийные ситуации и великолепные композиции Глена Миллера легли в основу этого фильма, который первоначально был задуман как рекламный ролик для музыкальной темы, но усилиями Брюса Хэмберстона был доведен до размера полнометражного кино. Мистера Морри, владельца горнолыжного курорта в великолепной солнечной долине, для нового сезона ищет модный джазовый оркестр «с именем».

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne, Lionel Atwill and Edward Brophy.

A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.

A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace.

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

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

Джерри и Кэсс всегда соперничали. Кэсс стал уважаемым авиатором в ВМФ, как его отец, а Джерри бросает службу на подлодке и поступает в авиашколу в Класс 61 в Пенсаколе, где во время тренировок знакомится с невестой Джерри Айрин и влюбляется в неё. Поборов укачивание, страх и, совершив аварийную посадку, Джерри получает свои крылышки. Кэссу повезло меньше - он покалечился во время крушения и вынужден уйти в отставку. Кэсс конструирует новый истребитель для флота, а Джерри в Сан Диего управляет гидросамолётами. Джерри готов на всё, лишь бы показать Кэссу, что он лучший пилот, даже если для этого придётся уйти из флота, чтобы испытать экспериментальный истребитель, на котором разбился лётчик-испытатель Стив Коннерс.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.

Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

The plot concerns a female press agent who must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk, who doesn't want to play along until he is given the honor of choosing his own Miss Brooklyn.

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.

The first musical comedy from the Grand National assembly line, Hats Off stars John Payne and Mae Clarke as rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen. Both have been assigned to stir up publicity for separate expositions at the 1936 Texas Centennial (newsreel footage of which predominates throughout the film's short running time). To throw Jimmy off the track, Jo pretends to be a schoolteacher, but by the time the ruse has been revealed, the two leading characters have fallen in love.

Король автомобильной промышленности Сэм Додсворт уходит от дел, чтобы насладиться радостями жизни в обществе жены. Они отправляются в путешествие по Европе, но относятся к нему по-разному: Сэму быстро все наскучило, а Фрэн наслаждается новизной. Ни флирт с повесой, ни обиды от опасного авантюриста, ничему не научили ее. Она просит у Сэма развод, чтобы выйти замуж за молодого барона...