John Harron Movies

The final feature in the "Dead End Kids" film series finds a youth trying to adjust to life at a military school.

A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

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

1930s Thalians Club comedy.

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

Stephen Lee doesn't want his nephew Wally Sanders to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, because he believes all chorus girls to be ruthless gold...

The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into...

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

A shipping clerk falls under the spell of a socialite, but eventually returns to the girl from his own social class who really loves him.

Jim is torn between his family's legacy of bravery and his own fear, which leads to his disgrace. He works in a steel mill before overcoming his...

Slasher falls off the train that is carrying him. He is found, broken in spirit, by Donald Cass. The dog is regenerated by Donald's love.

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

A widowed woman marries her husband's brother, who soon proves to be a tyrant stepfather to his adopted son.

In post-World War I Vienna, a confidence trickster falls in love with a struggling waitress.

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....

Santa Fe, a tramp, is saved from a jeering mob in the desert town of Caliente by Annette, the sheriff's daughter; and after adopting Pard he gets a...

"I hope people see me as an artist, not a blind artist." Tou suffered a severe eye injury in an accident at a young age. The journey into complete...