John Butler Movies

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...

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

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

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...

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

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

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...

Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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.