John Dilson Movies

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the...

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

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

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

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

The screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent...

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's...

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...

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...

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...

In this MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short, a protection racket preying on milk distribution is broken through the persistence of law enforcement...

Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work as power company linesmen. Hank is injured in an accident and subsequently promoted to foreman of the gang....

A temperamental singer's murder leaves a nightclub full of suspects.

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

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.