Screenplay: John K. Butler

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John K. Butler. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Outcast

1954 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast John Derek · Joan Evans · Jim Davis · Catherine McLeod

Plot Jet Cosgrave returns home to claim the ranch that was stolen from him, after his father's death.

5.2

64 votes

5.2

64 votes

Drums Across the River

1954 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction Nathan Juran

Cast Audie Murphy · Lisa Gaye · Walter Brennan · Lyle Bettger

Plot The once booming gold town of Crown City, Colorado has fallen on hard times. The only gold left is across the river, on Ute Indian land. Crown City resident Sam...

4.9

75 votes

4.9

75 votes

Ambush at Cimarron Pass

1958 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Jodie Copelan

Cast Scott Brady · Margia Dean · Clint Eastwood · Irving Bacon

Plot The survivors of an Army patrol ambushed by Indians hook up with a group of cowboys who have also been attacked, and together they try to get to safety at...

4.6

24 votes

4.6

24 votes

The Vampire's Ghost

1945 · Movie · 59 min. · United States

Direction Lesley Selander

Cast John Abbott · Charles Gordon · Peggy Stewart · Grant Withers

Plot In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a old man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life"...

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Down Dakota Way

1949 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · Dale Evans · Pat Brady

Plot Rancher H. T. McKenzie is informed by veterinarian George Fredericks that his cattle are carriers of the hoof-and-mouth disease and must be destroyed. McKenzie hires Steve Paxton to kill the...

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My Pal Trigger

1946 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Roy Rogers · Dale Evans · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Jack Holt

Plot Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape, Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed....

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Headline Hunters

1955 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William Witney

Cast Rod Cameron · Julie Bishop · Ben Cooper · Raymond Greenleaf

Plot City Editor Ned Powers assigns student reporter David Flynn to veteran newsman Hugh Woodruff, primarily to get on Woodruff's nerves. David has long admired Woodruff, but is saddened to see...

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When Gangland Strikes

1956 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Raymond Greenleaf · Marjie Millar · John Hudson · Anthony Caruso

Plot A big-time gang leader's trial is moved to a small town. The town's prosecutor discovers that the gangster knows about a secret the prosecutor has been trying to keep hidden,...

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I Cover the Underworld

1955 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Sean McClory · Joanne Jordan · Ray Middleton · Jaclynne Greene

Plot John O'Hara, a divinity priest student endeavors to help the police, rolling up a gang of criminals. John poses as his twin brother Gunner O'Hara a gangster, who is in...

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Terror at Midnight

1956 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon

Cast Scott Brady · Joan Vohs · Frank Faylen · John Dehner

Plot Neal Rickards (Scott Brady), a young police detective is investigating a big interstate hot-car racket. His fiancée, Susan Lang (Joan Vohs) becomes a victim of circumstances involving the owner, who...

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Annie Oakley (TV Series)

1954 · Series · 30 min. · United States

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Secret Service Investigator

1948 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Lynne Roberts · Lloyd Bridges · George Zucco · June Storey

Plot Lloyd Bridges plays disillusioned ex-GI Steve Mallory, who falls in with a gang of wily crooks. Convincing Mallory that they're U.S. secret service agents, the villains persuade our hero to...

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Tarnished

1950 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harry Keller

Cast Dorothy Patrick · Arthur Franz · Barbra Fuller · Jimmy Lydon

Plot Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of...

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Harbor of Missing Men

1950 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Richard Denning · Barbra Fuller · Steven Geray · Aline Towne

Plot A fishing-boat owner, Jim "Brooklyn" Gannon, cuts a deal with a gangster syndicate to deliver a load of contraband firearms. The money for the transaction is stolen, and Gannon is...

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Affair in Reno

1957 · Movie · 75 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast John Lund · Doris Singleton · John Archer · Angela Greene

Plot Gloria Hall, an irresponsible heiress, is in Reno for her second divorce, and falls for Tony Lamarr, a fortune-hunting gambler and casino owner. J. B. Del Monte,her father in New...

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Charlie Chan (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Leslie Arliss · Don Chaffey · Charles Bennett

Cast J. Carrol Naish · James Hong · Rupert Davies · Hugh Williams

Plot Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan is called in to help solve baffling cases, aided by his #1 son. The first five episodes were filmed in the US, then production switched to...

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Hell's Crossroads

1957 · Movie · 73 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon

Cast Stephen McNally · Robert Vaughn · Peggie Castle · Barton MacLane

Plot An imprisoned gunfighter is offered parole on one condition--that he track down and bring in Jesse James.

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The Girl Who Dared

1944 · Movie · 56 min. · United States

Direction Howard Bretherton

Cast Lorna Gray · Peter Cookson · Grant Withers · Veda Ann Borg

Plot A young woman seeking adventure, and several other people have to outwit a mysterious killer on a remote island.

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Don't Fence Me In

1945 · Movie · 71 min. · United States

Direction John English

Cast Roy Rogers · Trigger · George 'Gabby' Hayes · Dale Evans

Plot Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of...

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