J.P. McGowan

Skinner and his gang are grabbing land from the ranchers. When they go after Kerry's ranch Ken stops them. Skinner frames Ken for rustling but the ...

23 de jan. de 1933

A cattleman's association hires a range detective to track down and capture a notorious rustler known as El Lobo.

03 de mar. de 1932

The Hawk has broken out of prison and the Sheriff and Sorrenson have a plan to have Whitlock pose as the Hawk, infiltrate the gang, and recover the...

05 de mai. de 1933

A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the smugglers. ...

08 de abr. de 1913

Quando seu pai é morto em um acidente de trem, Larry Baker promete desmascarar um criminoso misterioso chamado "The Wrecker", que provocava "aciden...

01 de ago. de 1932

Leary is using the Express Agent's liking for alcohol to enable his men to steal insured packages. Then he claims the insurance. Railroad Agent Har...

01 de nov. de 1929

A couple of war veterans search for the family of a fallen friend.

01 de abr. de 1927

A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of cr...

26 de fev. de 1922

Sinclair has a government lease on range land that is about to expire. George Ringold wants the land and hires Roberts and his men. But they turn o...

01 de set. de 1937

Not only is Cody cheated out of his valuable property, he also faces trial on a charge of robbery and murder.

08 de jun. de 1925

Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help o...

25 de set. de 1916

Kidnapping and marital reconciliation drive this action film set on a millionaire's private train.

28 de jul. de 1925

Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, however, desires not only Helen but also the pl...

02 de jan. de 1915

There is trouble on the Bar D ranch as cowhand Mile Ahead plans to rustle the herd. He starts a fire on the opposite side of the ranch to keep the ...

30 de jun. de 1929

A young ranch foreman, Bud Drake aka The Kid, is wrongfully arrested for the theft of six-thousand dollars from ranch-owner "Hardshell" Beckett. He...

10 de fev. de 1932

Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep are on his land. Attracted to Mildred, he not onl...

25 de ago. de 1930

The Llano Kid is robbing stages but only taking money from Montana Slade's Cottonwood Mine. He then gives the money to those cheated by Slade. The ...

14 de jan. de 1933

Despite past friendliness, cattle ranchers Tom and Jim Bledsoe, father and son, fence off their range to prevent its use by neighboring sheep ranch...

10 de jun. de 1930

Helen, overhearing Tony and his accomplices plotting to derail the pay train and steal its money, is thrown into a cattle car; grabbing a revolver ...

11 de jun. de 1915

As the freight train on which are riding Mike and Leary, two knights of the road, passes the station at Hynes, the tramps steal the mail bag which ...

27 de nov. de 1915

The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February...

24 de fev. de 1917

Flora Hawks is in love with the overseer of Tarzan's African estate. After a search for a legendary city of diamonds, Tarzon races with his pet lio...

20 de mar. de 1927

A Cattlemen´s Association hires a detective (Bob Custer) to look into a series of cattle rustlings. To dismantle the plot, an undercover agent will...

01 de ago. de 1928

Dave Brandon (Tom Tyler) tries to break away from his life of crime, but his old gang won't let him.

01 de jun. de 1930

When Jim and Scrubby arrive to see Scrubby's sister, they find her murdered and suspect it was her no good husband Jake. But Jake and his men have ...

14 de ago. de 1937

When his master is attacked and left speechless, Ranger is held responsible. On the lam from the Law, the canine hero links up with telegrapher Bil...

22 de mai. de 1927

Beau Nash is a "gentleman crook" who headquarters his gang of jewel thieves in a run-down boardinghouse. When one of his gang, Mike, gets arrested,...

02 de jan. de 1929

A young man joins the army to impress his girlfriend. He soon finds out that his sergeant is actually an enemy spy, but before he can take any acti...

15 de abr. de 1928

Adventure serial starring Eddie Polo in 18 chapters. 1. The Scarlet Confession; 2. The Night of Terror; 3. In Death's Clutches; 4. On the Trail of ...

07 de jun. de 1920

Wharf-master Buck Elliot is the leader of a band of murderous crooks. The gang shoots down a policeman in a wharf side scuffle, and Detective Donov...

06 de nov. de 1921

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.

17 de mar. de 1919

Helen is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she chops her way into the ice chamber and reaches the...

26 de jun. de 1915

A tramp cowboy butts in on a western family fray where a step-brother is trying to wrestle an estate away from a sick man and falls for the blonde ...

04 de abr. de 1930

The Dale's need money for their sick mother and Bart Travis, having found gold, says he will provide it. Duke Remsden learns of the strike and wayl...

10 de jan. de 1932

Rand, a vengeful discharged fireman, tampers with the airbrakes of a large freight locomotive making them useless on the long descent from the summ...

09 de jan. de 1915

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 ...

01 de mar. de 1930

Jim Warren is starting a range war by getting his boss Duke Bradley to fence off part of the range used by other ranchers. This pits father against...

21 de set. de 1933

Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has tricked short-sighted John 'Dad" Saunders to sign a ...

24 de nov. de 1931

Vincent Barton, the son of the vice-president of a railroad company, takes a job as the depot agent at Bynes. He fires one of Tony Sharkey's henchm...

29 de jun. de 1925

When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's ...

26 de mar. de 1925

The old sheriff dies. In jest, the mountaineers nominate Kaintucky Bill, the worst moonshiner in the state, for the office. Considering it a huge j...

07 de jul. de 1914

Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt). She meets English crook Nevil Tr...

14 de out. de 1915

A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigator...

17 de set. de 1917

An 18-episode movie serial

02 de jan. de 1919

RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when Gene's horse is found riderless. A "quota quic...

02 de jun. de 1936

Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes the package and throws it into the river. In or...

05 de jun. de 1915

Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-gra...

16 de out. de 1930

Helen, informed of the danger which menaces an excursion train because another engine on the same track is running wild, mounts a motorcycle and sp...

07 de mai. de 1915

Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.

18 de nov. de 1918

It shows how a scheming bank employee manages to get an alibi and fix the guilt of his theft on the assistant cashier.

29 de jun. de 1914

Lynne Reed, Jack Manning's fiancée, is stagestruck and wants to go to New York for a career. She is encouraged in this delusion that she is a great...

02 de fev. de 1938

Two men in love with the same girl race to save her when she is trapped aboard a ship on fire in storm-swept seas.

01 de jul. de 1923

Story of a Cowboy who met challenges with action! He matched his fists against another man's diabolical brain!

29 de mai. de 1929

In this film Helen Holmes was clearly rehearsing for the role that brought to her fame and recognition in a serial that started getting released tw...

28 de ago. de 1914

Tiring of hunting big game in the jungle, Jack Lodge, son of a wealthy man, seeks adventure in the underworld district of a big city.

08 de jan. de 1921

A Desperate Adventure is a 1924 silent film western directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Franklyn Farnum.

25 de set. de 1924

In a trapper's cabin, Sergeant Stone finds a fellow Mountie murdered and is given the assignment of locating the killer.

05 de abr. de 1931

Prison inmates are leased by the state to a lumber company, which makes them work under atrocious and dangerous conditions and treats them as virtu...

09 de fev. de 1924

A silent serial with the following chapter titles: 1. Fangs of Jealous; 2. Doomed; 3. Tricked by Fate; 4. Master and Man; 5. Terrors of the North; ...

24 de jul. de 1922

Concern for her father, who is being slowly ruined by cattle rustling, prompts Mary Benson to do some investigating in a distant cattle town, where...

15 de fev. de 1929

Elmo finds himself in 18 different hair raising and dangerous adventures always escaping in the nick of time!

02 de jan. de 1920

01 de jul. de 1925

Eddie King goes up against a villainous circus owner in this action adventure which was directed by genre specialist J.P. McGowan and released in 1...

02 de jan. de 1920

15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.

02 de jan. de 1916

Two children--a brother and sister--are the only survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and are soon separated. An army officer adopts the...

01 de out. de 1929

A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher.

24 de jan. de 1930

Two rival mountain clans that have been feuding for years begin a new battle over the moonshine whiskey trade. A young man and a girl from each of ...

31 de jul. de 1916

The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives capt...

06 de mar. de 1915

Sharky, a rival road agent, plots to spoil a trial run to be made on Helen's road that will win a mail contract. He opens a waste valve on the tank...

24 de abr. de 1915

a cowboy seeks revenge for the murder of his father.

19 de ago. de 1929

Bob Steele is a young rancher who refuses to give in to a gang that is seeking to deprive he and his partner of the contract for supplying cattle t...

15 de mai. de 1930

Their demand for money having gone unheeded, Garibaldi and his gang wreck Number One. Howard, who attempts to interfere, is battered into insensibi...

13 de jul. de 1915

With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the crash. The scoundrel cleverly contrives to thr...

18 de nov. de 1914

Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter's boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the sheriff in a robbery. Boyfriend saves the dough, c...

10 de jul. de 1930

Under the influence of liquor, Griffin foolishly displays a roll of bills. Wheeler and Walter, yeggmen, see the money and trail the traveler to the...

03 de jul. de 1915

A border saloon - half in California, half in Nevada - is a hangout for frontier gangs.

01 de out. de 1930

Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, the railroad officials order all employees to ke...

17 de jul. de 1915

Spitzer wants the Gordon ranch, so he has his men waylay and rob him as he returns with money. Dick finding the body also finds a blood soaked mone...

01 de abr. de 1930

Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fireman, are both rivals for the hand of the girl. ...

06 de nov. de 1915

Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to ...

01 de mar. de 1927

Eighth of a series of 8 features produced by Morris R. Schlank starring Helen Holmes and directed by J.P. McGowan for Anchor distribution.

01 de jul. de 1925

Cowboy Jack Horton searches for the killer of his father and brother, both of whom were found with an ace of clubs pinned to their bodies.

14 de jul. de 1925

When Dick, an aeronaut is wrongly accused of shooting Dan, a trouble-making, quarrelsome cowboy, Helen aids his escape on the outgoing Black Diamon...

19 de dez. de 1914

Pampered Easterner Tom Ransom is sent West by his father, a meatpacking tycoon, to buy a large herd. Tom soon comes into conflict with the agents o...

13 de fev. de 1924

A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The count...

28 de set. de 1926

Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he lear...

04 de jul. de 1926

A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack ...

07 de out. de 1914

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 i...

05 de jun. de 1916

Mounties O'Malley and Calhoun are sent to see why miners are not returning with their gold. Arriving, they recover the gold from a robbery attempt.

01 de jan. de 1930

Swashbuckling serial starring Eddie Polo. Chapter titles: 1. Shanghaied 2. The Pirate's Slave 3. Hidden Treasure 4. The Lost Fortune 5. The Missing...

13 de jun. de 1922

A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the...

22 de mar. de 1932

King attempts to tighten the brake of a freight car standing near the summit of a steep grade at Lone Point. Suddenly, the brake chain snaps and th...

03 de abr. de 1915

A rancher has left his spread to his long lost son, but only if he shows up to claim it. A mean-fisted fugitive from justice looks just like the mi...

30 de jul. de 1925

Restored by the George Eastman House in 2001, this 1928 serial was considered a “last hurrah” for the silent-era serial, and brought together some ...

01 de set. de 1928

When easterner Jack Steel gets into trouble with the law again, his father sends him to his ranch out west. There he and Alice Duncan become attrac...

01 de out. de 1928

Mrs. Herton, a widow, lives in comfortable circumstances with her son, Roland. Over forty years of age, she is still an attractive woman, but lacks...

11 de jan. de 1913

Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.

15 de nov. de 1930

A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.

25 de mai. de 1937

A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.

22 de out. de 1926

A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A ...

09 de abr. de 1917

Ranch owner Tex McCloud is convinced there is oil under his property and brings in a drilling rig and equipment to drill for it. But a gang who wan...

01 de jan. de 1929

Story of a cowboy tracking down his father's killer

01 de out. de 1929

Deputy Sheriff "Smoke" Sanderson (Bob Custer) is after a gang of smugglers, led by Brad Vogel (J.P. McGowan) operating along the Texas/Mexico borde...

01 de fev. de 1930

A masked bandit being chased by a posse is wounded but manages to lose them. He is taken in by a female saloon owner and nursed back to health.

15 de mar. de 1935

The bad blood existing between Reardon and Haley results in a fight in which Reardon is worsted. Reardon, vowing vengeance, climbs back aboard his ...

10 de jul. de 1915

Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by...

01 de jul. de 1925

In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood sprin...

21 de nov. de 1914

After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by ...

01 de jan. de 1925

Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train ...

28 de nov. de 1914

Dick Carlysle returns home to find that his mother has married Brute Kettle who is really out to get the Carlysle ranch. First Kettle gets Bennett ...

26 de dez. de 1929

Bill attempts to apprehend the villain who killed his brother. Unfortunately, a crooked border-town sheriff is in his way.

01 de ago. de 1929

Attempting to prevent an armed robbery in the paymaster's office, Helen is bound and gagged, and the thieves escape on a hand car. With her feet st...

16 de jan. de 1915

Jim, determined to ruin a box car brake test, hides inside, removes the flooring, and ruins the brake apparatus. As a result, the box car runs wild...

01 de mai. de 1915

A cowboy is ambushed by a gang of outlaws and later falsely accused of being one himself. He ultimately proves his innocence by displaying a tattoo...

01 de nov. de 1929

Helen spotting two jewel robbers sever the telegraph wires and hop onto a passing freight, jumps into a racing auto and takes off in pursuit. In th...

22 de mai. de 1915

Brandt, a defaulting cashier, hiding in Lone Point in his effort to throw detectives off his track, cuts the wires of Helen's telephone to prevent ...

26 de dez. de 1914

Jack is a cowboy posing as an outlaw in order to infiltrate the gang of counterfeiters who has kidnapped Barbara.

27 de set. de 1929

In The Scarlet Brand, a young cowpoke tricked into rustling cattle and hell-bent on getting revenge against the poacher who set him up.

10 de abr. de 1932

A 1921 movie serial directed by J.P. McGowan. Chapters: 1. The Buccaneer's Bride 2. The Hornet's Nest 3. The Secret of the Sea 4. The Hidden Dange...

02 de jan. de 1921

Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a...

12 de dez. de 1914

Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle ...

27 de mar. de 1915

When informed by Helen that the rival railroad proposes to cross the Salt Lake's tracks, McKay, Division Superintendent, rushes a guard of men to L...

24 de jul. de 1915

In the first entry in the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, the night telegraph operator at Lone Point, relieves Benton, the day operator, se...

14 de nov. de 1914

The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff are just some of the action

05 de ago. de 1914

Lockwood, the old, one-armed flagman at Lone Point, tells Helen and a young soldier of his experiences during the Civil War, and how he lost his ar...

20 de mar. de 1915

Down and out, Bob, an engineer, drifts into town. His condition excites Helen's sympathy. Using her influence, the girl secures him a position with...

23 de jan. de 1915

A crooked mine owner attempts to hijack his rival's shipment of ore, but Helen foils his plot by jumping onto the engine and pulling the throttle w...

17 de abr. de 1915

When Helen learns that wiretappers have make a prisoner of Henry, the relief operator, she severs the wire being tapped, boards a freight train, un...

29 de mai. de 1915

Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's thre...

02 de jan. de 1915

While Hastings, the engineer of Freight No. 3205 is at lunch- in the Lone Point station, Bobby Heywood, the son of an engineer, climbs into the cab...

30 de jan. de 1915

Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a notorious swindler, is headed for Montville. An...

20 de fev. de 1915

A quarryman, dismissed because of intoxication, blames Billy, the mail clerk, and seeks revenge. He steals several sticks of dynamite, climbs to th...

19 de jun. de 1915

Benton, railroad detective, is assigned to run down the crooks who have been breaking into freight cars near Hobart. Helen, the telegraph operator ...

27 de fev. de 1915

A wagon load of powder explodes, destroying the railroad trestle under which it is passing; Helen, knowing that a passenger train is due within a f...

10 de abr. de 1915