John Dilson Movies

The Canadians have discovered a valuable substance called Compound X, which can cure infantile paralysis. When a country at war with Canada learns...

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...

While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

An escaped circus lion provides the impetus for the meeting of carnival owner Nick Coster and Matt Varney, a small-town man who suddenly becomes a...

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'),...

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the...

The night before his grandson, Tommy Grayson, a mechanic at the Midland Aircraft Corporation, is to marry Gail, a former showgirl, Major Matt...

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are...

A news reporter-commentator at a combined radio-television broadcasting station gives up his stand against the election of a corrupt mayoral...

Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops...

Dick Tracy's foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various...

A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century,...

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't...

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their...

The crimes of a tabloid publisher are exposed by a reporter, his secret illegitimate son.