John Butler Movies

One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.

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

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

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

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

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

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

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

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

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 becom...

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

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

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 a...

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...

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 wh...

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

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

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

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...

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates fore...