John Harron Movies

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

When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

The third of nine Torchy Blane movies. Angry that police detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) is giving preferential treatment to his...

Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton's...

A lowly office clerk angers his fiancee and future mother-in-law by spending money intended for marriage furniture on a statue of a pretty girl,...

Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets...

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.

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...

Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.

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...

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a...

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Choreographer Bob Connolly and prolific screenwriter Crane Wilbur teamed up on the direction of Warner Bros.' The Patient in Room 18. Patric Knowles...

When a brutal murder occurs, all the evidence points to a phony spiritualist, who is eventually convicted of the crime--but he may not have done it....

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In...

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

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.