John Dilson Movies

On a cruise ship from Honolulu to San Francisco, the famous Chinese detective encounters four more murders while trying to figure out the murder of a...

Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations....

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Amelia is a gifted violinist who is in danger of quitting the Brissac Academy of Music. Julius arranges to have a scholarship given to her through...

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.

A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as...

By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.

Fay Weston, a radio singer of no consequence, pretends to be the daughter of a recently deceased Broadway stage star in order to hoodwink Broadway...

When Jesse learns that Krager is cheating settlers, he and his gang rob trains to obtain money for them to purchase their land. Krager, finding a...

A blackmail mob is waiting for you to go out with one of these girls.

A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a...

A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.

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

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe...

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which high school students are asked to submit a news story, Nancy Drew intercepts a real...

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the...

A trucker with a pregnant wife fights a New York mobster's protection racket.

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.