J.P. McGowan Movies

  • 1932
    Lawless Valley

    Lawless Valley

    Lawless Valley

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    A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.

    Lawless Valley
  • 1915
    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    The Death Train

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    The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives...

    The Death Train
  • 1928
    The Chinatown Mystery

    The Chinatown Mystery

    The Chinatown Mystery

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    Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought...

    The Chinatown Mystery
  • 1911
    Railroad Raiders of '62

    Railroad Raiders of '62

    Railroad Raiders of '62

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    Union raiders infiltrate Confederate territory by train. Early film version of the Civil War incident on which Buster Keaton's The General and...

    Railroad Raiders of '62
  • 1932
    Flaming Gold

    Flaming Gold

    Flaming Gold

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    Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.

    Flaming Gold
  • 1916
    The Manager of the B & A

    The Manager of the B & A

    The Manager of the B & A

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    Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of...

    The Manager of the B & A
  • 1930
    The Hunted Men

    The Hunted Men

    The Hunted Men

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    Spitzer wants the Gordon ranch, so he has his men waylay and rob him as he returns with money. Dick finding the body also finds a blood soaked money...

    The Hunted Men
  • 1914
    The Girl at the Throttle

    The Girl at the Throttle

    The Girl at the Throttle

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    Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train...

    The Girl at the Throttle
  • 1925
    A Desperate Chance

    A Desperate Chance

    A Desperate Chance

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    Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by...

    A Desperate Chance
  • 1929
    Below the Deadline

    Below the Deadline

    Below the Deadline

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    Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested,...

    Below the Deadline
  • 1915
    Blackbirds

    Blackbirds

    Blackbirds

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    Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt). She meets English crook Nevil...

    Blackbirds
  • 1926
    The Brown Derby

    The Brown Derby

    The Brown Derby

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    Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns...

    The Brown Derby
  • 1911
    The Colleen Bawn

    The Colleen Bawn

    The Colleen Bawn

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    A young Irish boy has fallen in love with a poor girl and wants to marry her, but his mother will stop at nothing, including murder, to see that he...

    The Colleen Bawn
  • 1927
    The Outlaw Dog

    The Outlaw Dog

    The Outlaw Dog

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    When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bill...

    The Outlaw Dog
  • 1929
    The Last Roundup

    The Last Roundup

    The Last Roundup

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    There is trouble on the Bar D ranch as cowhand Mile Ahead plans to rustle the herd. He starts a fire on the opposite side of the ranch to keep the...

    The Last Roundup
  • 1927
    Red Signals

    Red Signals

    Red Signals

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    Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to...

    Red Signals
  • 1911
    Rory O'More

    Rory O'More

    Rory O'More

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    Based on the story of the real-life 17th Century Irish rebel and the eighteen century ballad about him, this one-reeler is one of the Kalem pictures...

    Rory O'More
  • 1930
    The Man from Nowhere

    The Man from Nowhere

    The Man from Nowhere

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    A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde...

    The Man from Nowhere
  • 1932
    Tangled Fortunes

    Tangled Fortunes

    Tangled Fortunes

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    A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the...

    Tangled Fortunes
  • 1910
    When Lovers Part

    When Lovers Part

    When Lovers Part

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    A young couple’s love is forbidden by the girl’s father. He forces her to write a farewell letter. Three years later, the Civil War...

    When Lovers Part