Screenplay: John K. Butler

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


Toughest Man in Arizona

1952 · Movie · 85 min. · United States

Direction R.G. Springsteen

Cast Vaughn Monroe · Joan Leslie · Edgar Buchanan · Victor Jory

Plot In Arizona, Marshal Landry and captured outlaw Girard find three survivors of a wagon train massacre but, later, Girard escapes custody and robs stagecoaches with his gang, prompting Landry and...

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Casey Jones (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George Blair · Lew Landers · Abby Berlin · Sidney Salkow

Cast Alan Hale Jr. · Eddy Waller · Dub Taylor · Bobby Clark

Plot Television version of the classic train story of Casey Jones, the engineer of the steam-engine powered "Cannonball Express".

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The Blonde Bandit

1950 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Harry Keller

Cast Dorothy Patrick · Gerald Mohr · Robert Rockwell · Charles Cane

Plot A pleasant programmer that features Patrick as a sweet young thing who has come West to marry a man. She then learns that her fiance has been married several more...

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Sunset in El Dorado

1945 · Movie · 65 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

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

Plot The story involves a rather odd flashback by Dale who is visiting El Dorado, home of her grandmother. She dreams about her grandmother's adventures including a romance with a cowboy...

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The Phantom Speaks

1945 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction John English

Cast Richard Arlen · Stanley Ridges · Lynne Roberts · Tom Powers

Plot The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.

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No Man's Woman

1955 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Franklin Adreon

Cast Marie Windsor · John Archer · Patric Knowles · Nancy Gates

Plot Carolyn Ellenson double-crosses five people who cross her path and is murdered by one of them. After marrying Harlow Grant for his money, she leaves him but carries on her...

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The Gallant Legion

1948 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Joseph Kane

Cast Bill Elliott · Lorna Gray · Joseph Schildkraut · Bruce Cabot

Plot When power-hungry Faulkner and Leroux want to divide Texas into smaller sections, instead of allowing it to enter the Union as a single state, Gary Conway and the Texas Rangers...

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Tell It to a Star

1945 · Movie · 67 min. · United States

Direction Frank McDonald

Cast Ruth Terry · Robert Livingston · Alan Mowbray · Franklin Pangborn

Plot A smooth-talking old "colonel" finagles his way into luxurious living and tries to smooth the path for his lovely and talented niece as well.

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26 Men (TV Series)

1957 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Reg Browne · Oliver Drake · Russell Hayden · Franklin Adreon

Cast Tristram Coffin · Kelo Henderson · Hal Hopper · Bob Pollard

Plot TV Series (1957–1959). True stories of the Arizona rangers around 1900.

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Beyond the Last Frontier

1943 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

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Hideout

1949 · Movie · 61 min. · United States

Direction Philip Ford

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Lorna Gray · Ray Collins · Sheila Ryan

Plot Hannah Kelly and Edie Hanson vie for the attentions of the naive attorney George Browning. Browning wises up in a hurry when he takes on a gang of jewel thieves....

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The Gene Autry Show (TV Series)

1950 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction George Archainbaud · Frank McDonald · D. Ross Lederman · Wallace Fox

Cast Gene Autry · Pat Buttram · Bob Woodward · Frankie Marvin

Plot The already legendary singing cowboy rode with his comic pal Pat from town to town bringing justice, song and his horse Champion to the old Southwest.

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