John Dilson Movies

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

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

A young woman marries a man who turns out to be a bank robber.

A newscaster gets demoted for exposing the town's criminal activities over the airwaves.

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

Young Andy develops a crush on his drama teacher. When his play is chosen as the school's annual production, Andy seizes the opportunity to spend as...

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

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York...

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

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...

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

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.

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.

When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his...

Berle plays a mystery writer who forever writes himself into corners and is never able to finish a story. While visiting his wife (Mary Beth Hughes)...

A reporter gets himself sent to prison to expose a mobster.

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

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

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't...