John Maxwell Movies

Berkeley university professor adjusts (using alcohol) to tragic fire deaths of wife & son.

In 1904, Doc Tilbee, medicine show huckster and champion tall-tale teller, gives a ride to a young boy escaped from an orphanage, where bad...

A reporter is constantly in trouble for jumping to conclusions.

When the testimony of a crippled child sends a murder suspect to prison, a friend of the accused sets out to investigate the crime on his own.

A young woman living in Manhattan pretends to be the mother of an infant in order to get a seat on the subway.

An eccentric Civil War widow is accused of being insane.

Two smart marketing people resurrect some old films starring cowboy Smoky Callaway and put them on television. The films are a big hit and the star...

Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

Los Angeles is paralysed with terror when a lovesick murderer takes to the streets with a pair of garden shears

The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.

While investigating a diamond heist, disgruntled cop Harper falls for Holly, the top suspect's main squeeze. When she convinces him to kill her...

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

An arson investigator goes undercover to break up a ring that sets fires in order to collect the insurance.

A radio reporter begins to suspect that a commentator at his station may be using her position to broadcast shipping information to enemy spies. With...

A trio of thieves make their getaway by kidnapping a young hot-rodder, and take over a mountain cabin for a hideout after overpowering its occupants.

Framed by her stepmother for manslaughter, a convict turns to a parole racket.

A deranged killer escapes from a mental institution. Intent on locating the psychiatrist whose testimony sent him to the asylum, he holds the patrons...

A district attorney sets out to vindicate his son who's been accused of murdering a nightclub singer.

Former Hopalong Cassidy sidekick Russell Hayden retains his nickname of Lucky in this average entry in his short-lived starring series for Columbia.

A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the...