List of the best John Dilson movies: Marked Men(1940), The Man With Nine Lives(1940), Across the Sierras(1941), Trouble in Sundown(1939), Wildcat(1942), Escape by Night(1937), The Silver Streak(1934), Charlie Chan at the Circus(1936), You Can't Escape Forever(1942), Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise(1940) ... ...
Drama
USA
1940
66 Minutes
Dr. James Prentiss Harkness
Warren Hull Isabel Jewell John Dilson Paul Bryar Charles Williams Lyle Clement
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Bill Carver is a young medical-school graduate wrongly confined in prison. He escapes and finds a haven and romance in an Arizona small town. But his hopes of happiness and freedom are ... See full summary »
Horror
USA
1940
73 Minutes
John Hawthorne
Boris Karloff Roger Pryor Jo Ann Sayers Stanley Brown John Dilson Hal Taliaferro Byron Foulger Charles Trowbridge Ernie S. Adams
A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.
Western
USA
1941
58 Minutes
Dan Woodworth
Bill Elliott Richard Fiske Luana Walters Dub Taylor Dick Curtis Roy Mason Ruth Robinson John Dilson Ralph Peters
Bill saves his friend Larry from hanging and then tries to get him to join him in becoming a rancher. But Larry joins up with outlaw Carew and when Bill goes after him he accidentally ... See full summary »
Western
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Edward Simmons
George O'Brien Rosalind Keith Ray Whitley Chill Wills Ward Bond Cyrus W. Kendall Howard C. Hickman Monte Montague John Dilson Otto Yamoaka
The bank has been robbed, the night watchman killed and the safe opened. The townspeople want John as he was the only one with the combination. Clint gets John out of town but before the ... See full summary »
Action
1942
70 Minutes
Gus Sloane
Richard Arlen Arline Judge William Frawley Buster Crabbe Arthur Hunnicutt Elisha Cook Jr. Ralph Sanford Alec Craig John Dilson Will Wright Jessica Newcombe
A broke oilman (Richard Arlen) meets a con woman (Arline Judge) and her partner (William Frawley) on his way to hitting a gusher.
Drama
USA
1937
64 Minutes
William Hall Anne Nagel Dean Jagger Steffi Duna Ward Bond Murray Alper Charles Waldron George Meeker Anthony Warde Ralph Sanford Arthur Aylesworth
Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1934
85 Minutes
Sally Blane Charles Starrett Hardie Albright William Farnum Irving Pichel Arthur Lake Theodore von Eltz Guinn "Big Boy" Williams Edgar Kennedy Murray Kinnell James Bradbury Jr.
The crew of the Pioneer Zephyr diesel train has only a few hours to deliver an iron lung to an injured man at the Boulder Dam construction site.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1936
72 Minutes
Warner Oland Keye Luke Francis Ford George Brasno Olive Brasno Shirley Deane John McGuire Maxine Reiner J. Carrol Naish Paul Stanton Boothe Howard
While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.
Crime, Drama
USA
1942
77 Minutes
George Brent Brenda Marshall Gene Lockhart Roscoe Karns Edward Ciannelli Paul Harvey Edith Barrett Harry Hayden Charles Halton Don DeFore George Meeker
When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he fries. She calls in a story about his death and gets transferred ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
75 Minutes
Sidney Toler Victor Sen Yung Marjorie Weaver Lionel Atwill Robert Lowery Don Beddoe Leo G. Carroll Cora Witherspoon Kay Linaker Harlan Briggs Charles Middleton
Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.