J.P. McGowan Movies

A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo, and learn something about each other in the...

After healing the leg of the murderer John Wilkes Booth — responsible for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln — Dr. Samuel A....

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...

A traitor is lurking somewhere aboard the USS Carolina, and Lt. Tom Randolph is determined to find the offender. First a revolutionary new piece of...

An American adventurer goes into the interior of Africa on a quest for the great starfire diamond.

Tod Walker takes Rex Carson's map to a gold mine and leaves him in the desert. Carson recuperates at Jean Walker's ranch and she takes a liking to...

Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is...

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

On the coast of Africa, the captain of a ship is about to make a deal to sell a white captive to an African chief as a slave. A cabin boy who...

Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.

Mystery Valley is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Buddy Roosevelt.

French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.

A movie serial in 12 chapters: After gold is discovered in the town of Nugget, the titular band of thieves and cutthroats inundates the frontier...

A U.S. soldier goes after bandits in California, although it is still owned by Mexico.

A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

Trail Riders is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Lafe McKee, and Betty Baker.

A proud, pro-capital punishment district attorney with a 90% execution rate, finds himself wrongly convicted of murdering his estranged wife and...