John Butler Movies

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his...

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

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

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

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

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

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

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