John Payne Movies

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no...

Two sisters from Hungary become famous entertainers in the early 1900s. Fictionalized biography with lots of songs.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...

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...

A man with a dog helps a young woman being chased by hoodlums in the desert.

A Marine officer goes through Korea with the bottle of Scotch that his wife gave him in the last war.

In order to get his way, New York producer Matt Saxon manipulates and controls everyone around him but his latest protégé, novelist...

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...

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...

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...

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

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

Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's...

An Air Force major feels a volatile mixture of relief and anger when he is excused from performing a dangerous test in a new aircraft.

An actress becomes taken with Hitty, a young orphan prone to dreaming. Julie soon finds out that she is ill and has only a short time to live. She...

A ship company employee, Jay Williams, is sent to Florida where one of the company cruise ships is stuck on a reef off of the coast. He obtains...

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for...

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.