John Harmon Filmes

A native boy plays Cupid for a shark fisherman and a South Sea Islands princess.

A Hillbilly hits the big time in Las Vegas.

Unable to sign boxer Joe Louis to movie contract, Republic Pictures had to make do with the losers of Louis' heavyweight championship bouts. One of...

A police detective (Robert Armstrong) and his wife (Mae Clarke) adopt the wayward son (Gary Gray) of a slain gangster.

Ted Daniels, a ranch hand working for a rodeo, captures a magnificent wild horse that he tames and trains. As Ted is recovering from an accident that...

Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

Nicholas Rood, dishonest mine owner, finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former...

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.

Scotty Hamilton is a reporter who works for a crooked editor. Bill Banning is another reporter who is about to expose the editor's ties to the mob....

Howard is mild-mannered and slightly simple-minded, with a habit of picking up teenage hitchhikers while driving his delivery routes. Sometimes the...

Young bright medical student Fred has a dark secret - he's a peeping tom!

A newlywed young woman learns that her husband is a pimp, and ultimately goes to work for him as a call-girl...thus begins her rapid downward spiral.

An actor is recalled to active duty with the Army's C.I.D. to find the thief who stole historical jewels in occupied Germany and the trail leads to...

Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by...

Slammin’ Sammy Menacker is killed in the ring, and Gorgeous George is arrested for murder. Out to clear his name is his manager Lorraine and...

A veteran, Joe Hilton, returns from the war to find that his brother Jeffrey Hilton, a gangster, has been killed. His quest for revenge leads him to...

A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.

Fearing nuclear war, an insurance man moves to a cave with his wife and family.

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.