John Harron Movies

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...

Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.

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...

Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective,...

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.

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

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

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

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.

Silent military comedy whose only print exists in the Library of Congress.

This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile...

A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.

Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's...

A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.

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

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...

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

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

A young lady plans her devious revenge on a Russian aristocrat of fantastic wealth, who will not give her his permanent affections.