John Harron Movies

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...

Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold...

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

Army Private Eddie Pratt smuggles his new bride into camp in hopes of having a happy wedding night. Instead they discover a murder. Colonel Rogers of...

A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.

Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead. When new owner Spud arrives from...

In post-World War I Vienna, a confidence trickster falls in love with a struggling waitress.

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

Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective,...

Actress Marie Lamont (Phoebe Hunt) has been living well due to a string of lovers and has kept her daughter, Dorothy (Gloria Hope) sequestered in a...

Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.

A socially-ambitious mother is pushing her younger daughter into a life-style that will satisfy the desires of the mother but the older daughter,...

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 1925 film directed by Sidney Franklin.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a...

A young writer saves a desperate young woman from committing suicide. They eventually fall in love and marry, but their marriage faces some serious...

When a brutal murder occurs, all the evidence points to a phony spiritualist, who is eventually convicted of the crime--but he may not have done it....

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