John Dilson Movies

A mild-mannered insurance salesman gets mixed up with gangsters.

By stripping all the timber from the land, a lumber baron threatens everyone with flooding. Gene won't let that happen.

Produced by the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa) in 1940 and released in 1941 , Unfinished Rainbows traces the history of aluminum in brief,...

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

A theatre actor makes the crossover to movies and becomes a star, but his new-found fame puts his family relationships at risk.

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 young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

The story of a young man's discovery of his father.

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 doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Joyce and Fred MacNeil's honeymoon comes to an abrupt and unsatisfying halt when Fred is accused of murder. Railroaded into prison through the...

Story concerns railroad tycoon J.B. Matthews (Jed Prouty) taking over a rival line, being sent on an R&R vacation by his doctor, falling off his...

A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Honeymooners find a dead radio producer in their suite.

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter...

Scientists assembled to prove their methods are effective in criminal investigation try to solve a series of murders.

A shifty boxing promoter places an amateur in fixed fights, then hands his contract over to an suspicious female investigative reporter as a raffle...

When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.