John Butler

A young man is determined to turn his beloved racehorse, which is blind, into a champion.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edith Fellows

A scientist discovers a formula that makes a baseball which is repelled by wood. He promptly sets out to exploit his discovery.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ray Milland

A comedy short staring Robert Benchley. He tries to show us how to make our own movies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

Expecting the usual loss, a boxing manager takes bribes from a betting gangster without telling his fighter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Ryan

Upon being released from prison, Lawrence Hilliard takes the name of John Smith and looks for work, and falls in love with Irene Mason, a social...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eugene O'Brien

Frank Warren is a treasury agent assigned to put an end to the activities of a powerful mob crime boss. Frank works undercover, posing as a criminal...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenn Ford

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Mason

Jenny Marsh, recently released from prison for killing a man, finds herself under the watchful eye of her parole officer, Griff Marat, who helps her...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Cornel Wilde

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Walter Pidgeon

Arizona Territory is in the grip of outlaw terror and killer outlaws, secretly organized by Hulon Champion, who covers his power ambitions with the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Allan Lane

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Red Skelton

A medical school graduate takes an internship at a big city hospital, only to be subjected to a rigorous (and sometimes embarrassing) testing of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alice Faye

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ann Blyth

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Powell

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Virginia Bruce

Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lizabeth Scott

Wyatt Earp agrees to become marshal and establish order in Tombstone in this very romanticized version of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.

Genre: Western

Cast: Randolph Scott

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ann Dvorak

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: John Litel

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

A magazine reporter exposes a crooked District Attorney, resulting in his trial. Complications ensue, however, when the man is acquitted.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glenda Farrell

A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After...

Genre: Crime

Cast: James Cagney

Wayward youths get out of trouble thanks to a policeman.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dick Foran

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.

Genre: Action

Cast: Glenda Farrell

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

Genre: History

Cast: Spencer Tracy

The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Alan Dinehart

A man violates company policy by getting married.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lana Turner

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: William Eythe

Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Young

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lew Ayres

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Myrna Loy

As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lloyd Nolan

In the Canadian mountains, a trapper goes on the run accused of a crime and is pursued by a rugged and determined lawman of the Royal North-West...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Stewart Granger

A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Alice Faye

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

Genre: Western

Cast: Alan Ladd

Lee Garvin has eloped with the daughter of a railroad man who didn't approve of the marriage. Hoppy steps in when the young man is framed for murder.

Genre: Western

Cast: William Boyd

One of Hoppy's Bar 20 ranch hands is tricked into participating in nefarious activities after being subjected to hypnosis.

Genre: Western

Cast: William Boyd

Boyhood friends grow up into different professions: one a dedicated Canadian Mountie, the other a notorious gambler.

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Craig

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Charles McGraw

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

Genre: Crime

Cast: George Raft

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lana Turner

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Brent

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.

Genre: History

Cast: John Nesbitt

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Stanley Ridges

The City Treasurer stands in for the mayor, throwing out the first pitch on Opening Day.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Benchley

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Victor McLaglen

A five-year-old boy is the sole survivor of a devastating plane crash in the mountains of California. When the newspapers reveal the boy was adopted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eleanor Parker

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bob Hope

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a man and his racketeer buddies devise a scheme to bilk those already seemingly desperate for money of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lynne Carver

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Glenn Ford

A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gig Young

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train ride headed for Washington in 1861.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Dick Powell

Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bud Abbott

An aviator ignores skeptics to make the first commercial flight from San Francisco to China.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pat O’Brien

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Humphrey Bogart

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Norma Shearer

When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Barbara Stanwyck

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Edward Arnold

Joe Smith is an ordinary American family man who works in an aircraft factory. Shortly after being a promoted to a much higher position, Joe is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Robert Young

Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Edward G. Robinson

"Iron Man" Mason is a talented but rather dimwitted prizefighter. Against the advice of his crusty old manager George Regan, Mason dumps his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Gargan

Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Richard Carlson

Having met on a train, a smooth-talking psychotic socialite shares his theory on how two complete strangers can get away with murder to an amateur...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Farley Granger