John Payne Movies

After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A...

Conceited World Champion boxer Tommy Lundy decides to test his popularity in a Broadway show. Tommy always has an eye for the ladies and he starts...

A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.

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 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...

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

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed...

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...

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

When Hollywood film studios reject her because she's too young, an Arkansas woman sets out to build a career as an actress on her own.

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

Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to...

A waiter who sings gets in a fight with rude customers and overpowers them. A boxing promoter sees this and transforms him into "Kid Nightingale,"...

Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely...

A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.

In California's Death Valley a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy...

Estranged brothers (John Payne, Richard Arlen) find themselves on the same lumberjack crew hired by a feisty widow to clear the timber from her...

This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant...

A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace.