John Payne Movies

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the...

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will...

The title character, played by John Payne, is a ship's captain whose embittered behavior after losing his lady love seemingly leads to tragedy....

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance...

Ex-confederate officer Clay Fletcher jumps at the chance to reunite with his once lady-friend, Susan Jeffers, when his father, Judge Fletcher, sends...

A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.

A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace,...

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for...

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that...

Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.

A war veteran suffering from amnesia, returns to Los Angeles from a San Francisco veterans hospital hoping to learn who he is and discovers his...

When Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. When...

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and...

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and...

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.