John Dilson Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

A meat inspector sets out to rid his town of payoff deals affecting the quality of meat being sold to the public.

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...

A sweet, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a...

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 reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to...

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

Calvin Drake employs a group of low-lifes to drive away land owners along the path of a new railroad; Red Ryder opposes this strategy.

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral...

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...

An Iowa drugstore owner becomes embittered when his son is killed in World War II. The druggist believes that the boy's life was cut short before he...

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

A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the...

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...