John Harron Movies

An inept inventor and his stoic wife believe an oil well investment has paid off and that they've become wealthy overnight.

A two-fisted Canadian Mountie leads lawmen in pursuit of the thieves who stole an Edmonton-bound freighter's cargo.

T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.

When the ballerina star of a musical feature walks off in a huff, aided by the fit-throwing director, her understudy steps in and a star is born.

This short subject is a lavish costumed color production which dramatizes the birth of the American Bill of Rights. It depicts leading political...

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 businessman buys trouble when he hires his wife"s best friend as his secretary.

Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend...

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

Leslie is being chased by the gangsters, the police and the insurance investigators. He is on the run. Falsely accused of a murder, he embarks upon a...

The plot, old-hat though it is, does provide an opportunity for that wonderfully seedy villain, David Dirby, to do his dirty work and more...

Torchy Blane joins her police-detective fiance to solve a series of murders involving a set of Chinese grave tablets taken and sold to a collector...

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

Gus, the trusty family retainer, has hopes of riding his boss' horse, Big Boy, to victory at the Kentucky Derby.

A temperamental director multiple times completely changes the concept during a movie's production.

When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for...

Football scout for the Chicago Packers Rusty Walker signs Harry Lynn, a legendary broken-field runner. Harry won't leave his home town without his...

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

Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to...

In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match...