J.P. McGowan Movies

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

Donald Custer loses in a poker game to 'Ace High' having forged his father's name to a check. Knowing the game was crooked, Buck returns to retrieve...

Crooked Bluff Hardcastle is appointed by the court to take care of the business affairs of pretty young Helen Saunders' ranch, which is about to go...

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

Story of a Cowboy who met challenges with action! He matched his fists against another man's diabolical brain!

15-episode serial directed by Paul Hurst and J.P. McGowan.

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

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

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,...

Swashbuckling serial starring Eddie Polo. Chapter titles: 1. Shanghaied 2. The Pirate's Slave 3. Hidden Treasure 4. The Lost Fortune 5. The Missing...

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...

Separately released feature version of the 1935 Serial, Call of the Savage.

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...

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

Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.

A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.

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

Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make...

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along...