John Dilson Movies

A down-to-earth pilot charms a European princess on vacation in the United States.

In flashback, fifty years after inventing the light bulb, an 82-year-old Edison tells his story starting at age twenty-two with his arrival in New...

A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local...

Mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe...

A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.

Dr. Henryk Savaard is a scientist working on experiments to restore life to the dead. When he is unjustly hanged for murder, he is brought back to...

A southern aristocrat clashes with a driver transporting stolen slaves to freedom.

Edgar decides to do a home plumbing job himself.

A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Modern meteorology and a hard-working government weather team put their science and organization to work as a cold front moves from Alaska toward the...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short features a big city crime boss's attempt to use his crime "machine" to fraudulently win reelection for the...

When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.

J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out...

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

A woman rents a gloomy basement apartment in Greenwich Village thinking it will provide the perfect atmosphere for her mystery writer husband to...

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

A kindly, enthusiastic, newly-arrived American immigrant from Hungary is forced to turn to a life of crime after his face is badly disfigured in a...

A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.