J.P. McGowan Movies

New Yorker John Holmes, who has made a fortune on Wall Street, receives an urgent message to go West because a California gold mine in which he has...

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.

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

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.

Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.

The Wrecker wrecks trains on the L & R Railroad. One of his victims is Larry Baker's father. Baker wants to find the evildoer, among a host of...

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...

Notorious racketeer Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own. Joe escapes through a window and hails...

Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

A U.S. soldier goes after bandits in California, although it is still owned by Mexico.

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

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...

Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang....

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

An Arizona Ranger's investigation results in his having to arrest the brother of the girl he loves.

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 young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

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