John Alton Movies

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

A conman arrives in town trying to sell his miracle methods of weight loss to the ladies. It's left to the good Dr. Christian to expose this fake and...

A women's prison provides the setting for this drama that centers around a naive small-town woman framed by a man whom she met in a nightclub in the...

The citizens of the small town of Midburg are thrilled when one of their native sons, Dan Flannery, becomes a war hero while serving in the Merchant...

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

The history of color photography in motion pictures, in particular the Technicolor company's work.

Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by...

A sultan's lovely daughter finds herself courted by a handsome American.

On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

A doctor fights an epidemic that breaks out in the poor section of town and tries to get the rest of the town to help out.

A warehouse employee travels to Buenos Aires with the purpose of rescuing the young woman he is in love with from a gang of criminals.

A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to...

In 1915, Atlantic City is a sleepy seaside resort, but Brad Taylor, son of a small hotel and vaudeville house proprietor, has big plans: he thinks it...

As sixteen year old Ann Winters begins a relationship with an older actor to further her career, lookalike fan Penelope Ryan is recruited by a group...

When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.

Opera singer Ina Massine tries to win back former husband Dr. Lincoln I. Bartlett.

Four young performers form an act and get a job in a nightclub. Before long, one of them gets the idea that the act is all about him, and his changes...

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace,...