John Butler
Birthday: 1884-05-01
Place of Birth: Canada
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Pride of the Blue Grass
A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion....
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It Happens Every Spring
A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets ou...
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Home Movies
A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies....
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The Set-Up
Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his ...
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John Smith
Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, ...
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The Undercover Man
Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime bo...
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An Hour for Lunch
Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunat...
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Mental Poise
In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself....
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The Reckless Moment
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measure...
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Shockproof
Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye o...
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The Unknown Man
A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty....
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Code of the Silver Sage
Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Ch...
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The Yellow Cab Man
Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is alway...
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Young Dr. Kildare
A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigo...
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Hollywood Cavalcade
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marr...
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Our Very Own
During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted....
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Stronger Than Desire
An attorney handling a murder case is unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing....
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Too Late for Tears
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and i...
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Frontier Marshal
Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized versi...
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He ...
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Midnight Court
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car ...
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Missing Witnesses
A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City....
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The Great O'Malley
His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly a...
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Exposed
A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue...
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White Heat
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his ol...
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Torchy Runs for Mayor
Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform can...
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Edison, the Man
In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story star...
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Money to Loan
The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks ab...
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Special Agent
A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express....
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Florian
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by...
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Third Finger, Left Hand
Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleague...
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Behind the News
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom...
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The Wild North
In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged a...
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You're a Sweetheart
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production...
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Branded
A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by...
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Sinister Journey
Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy ...
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Silent Conflict
One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being ...
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Northwest Rangers
Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a no...
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How to Watch Football
Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game....
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Roadblock
An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime....
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I Stole a Million
A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways....
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Mr. District Attorney
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case....
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Slightly Dangerous
Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a ne...
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American Spoken Here
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American sl...
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They're Always Caught
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of...
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Opening Day
The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day....
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Three Secrets
A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California...
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Sorrowful Jones
A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her fath...
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Sucker List
In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk...
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The Tall Target
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
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Buck Privates
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop ...
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China Clipper
An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China....
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Black Legion
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining ...
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Marie Antoinette
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, ...
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The Mad Miss Manton
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police ...
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Eyes in the Night
Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an o...
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Joe Smith, American
Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a...
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House of Strangers
Ruthless Italian-American banker Gino Monetti is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three o...
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Some Blondes Are Dangerous
"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty o...
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Fly By Night
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t...
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Strangers on a Train
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit th...
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The Lawless
A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers....
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