J.P. McGowan Movies

When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

The Algerian consul solicits the aid of the Chief of the Secret Service in the apprehension of the sultan's brother, Abdullah, who has fled with the...

Janet Allison witnesses Art Holden and his gang hold up the Station Agent. When she identifies Holden to the Sheriff, the Sheriff gives Holden an...

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

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

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

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...

Lane Cartwright arrives and is immediately arrested for being the mysterious Phantom Bandit. Cleared by the Sheriff he later finds a dead man and is...

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

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-grant...

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Suspected of having killed the father of the girl he loves, Trooper Moran of the Northwest Mounted Police is given a week to find the culprit or else...

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

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...