John Dilson Movies

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...

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

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

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

Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a...

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.

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

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

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career,...

A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.

While playing baseball, Mickey runs into the street to catch a fly ball and is struck by a car. When the gang visit him in the hospital they are...

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.

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

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

While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough...

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

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...

Pioneers of the West is a 1940 American Western "Three Mesquiteers" B-movie[1] directed by Lester Orlebeck.