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.

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

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...

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...

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

Chronicle of a spoiled rich boy who joins the Marines with an off-handed attitude and finally becomes a battle-wise soldier.

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...

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

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...

In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his...

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...

In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist...

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

A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's...

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

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

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...