Movies: John Dilson

Charlie Dugan is a quick-thinking boss of a traveling circus playing small towns in Missouri and Kansas....

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reac...

Thelma and Patsy are reporters who investigate a hospital....

A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled....

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity....

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away so...

A charming racketeer seduces the DA's stepdaughter for revenge, then falls in love....

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's fa...

Tom Joad returns to his home after a jail sentence to find his family kicked out of their farm due to foreclosure. He catches up with them on his Uncle’s farm, and joins them the next day as they head for California and a new life... Hopefully....

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony Baxter's car. Tony realizes Ann is innocent, so he vows to help her prove it, risking his neck in the p...

In this Crime Does Not Pay series entry, John Jones is an up and coming businessman who drinks too much but denies he has a problem. One day he mixes drinking and driving, and the tragic consequences hit very close to home....

A rancher (Tim McCoy) and his buddy (Joseph Sauers) scare rustlers out of business....

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom....

Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbows traces the history of aluminum in brief, dramatic episodes. It shows the challenges presented to the youth of the 1940s of the opportunities in the...

A reporter turned tax agent infiltrates a crime ring to catch a racketeer, working with the mobster's bookkeeper. When she agrees to testify, an informant exposes them and she's kidnapped....

Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI....

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt Grayson, a war veteran and watchman at the plant, catches two men breaking into the machine shop. The men ru...

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A se...

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States....

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce....