John Harron Movies

A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

An elevator operator in a swanky apartment building falls in love with a homeless girl who sneaks in one night looking for a place to keep warm. In...

A famous international actress wants to marry the love of her life, a millionaire but is blocked by a renowned woman-hater who actually ants her for...

A sports store clerk poses as a famous jockey as an advertising stunt, but gets more than he bargained for.

Film follows the romantic exploits of two depression-era manicurists, one of whom is being woo'd by a true gentleman of means, the other of whom lets...

The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their...

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

This short chronicles Abraham Lincoln's presidency from his inauguration through delivery of the Gettysburg Address.

Government agent Red Barton is sent to a small western town to find both the source of a recent series of gold robberies and the method they use to...

In this comedic short, when a waiter accidentally knocks out boxing champ Tiger Dorsey in Slapsie Maxie's restaurant, Maxie arranges a boxing match...

The old men meet a young girl, broke, hungry and discouraged, in the park. Colonel Henry Randolph Ransome (Henry B. Walthall) bluffs his way into...

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

It's carnival time, crowds gather for horse races and the games and food of a midway. Bobby the singing jockey will be riding the favorite Stardust,...

Mort Bradley, New York political boss and underworld czar, controls not only the city's most popular nightclub but also much of the press; however,...

Two lazy screenwriters need a story for the studio's cowboy star. A studio waitress turns out to be pregnant. This gives them the idea for a movie...

A giant condor decimates a herd of sheep, and Rin-Tin-Tin is accused of having turned killer.

Wealthy but unhappy Patricia Belmont meets fun-loving insurance salesman Bill Smith (and his fun-loving friends Sam Ragland and Betty Harkness)on a...

A young girl working as a dance-hall hostess gets mixed up in a scheme that smuggles illegal Chinese aliens into the country.

A young man uses tips from an absurd book to woo a woman he fancies.

Beautiful Dot Walker is part of a ring of crooks in San Francisco, who use her to lure impressionable young men into a crooked card game. Young...