John Butler Movies

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...

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

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 scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her...

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

Officer James O'Malley, a true believer in law and order, treats even the smallest offenses with the utmost seriousness. But O'Malley brings bad...

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...

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

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...

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

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

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