Jack W. Johnston
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1876-10-02
Locus Natus: Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland
Et ut: John William Michael Johnston, J.W. Johnston
The Cost of Hatred
Justus Graves (Theodore Roberts) is a mean-spirited human being, so it's no surprise that when he returns home from a business trip, he finds his...
release : 1917.04.09popularis : 2.236
The Eternal Mother
Maris, having married Lynch, a worthless man who deserts her, taking their daughter Felice with him, marries mill owner Dwight Alden after receiving...
release : 1917.11.26popularis : 0.885
Destiny's Toy
Young Nan was rescued from a shipwreck by a man who becomes her foster father. Years later, when he dies, she moves to a nearby city and unknowingly...
release : 1916.06.15popularis : 0.949
The Land of Promise
Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.
release : 1917.12.09popularis : 1.229
On the Quiet
Young couple gets married in secret because her family objects to the match. To escape the family the couple goes into hiding.
release : 1918.09.01popularis : 0.468
The Test of Honor
After serving a term in prison for a crime he did not commit, a man exacts revenge upon the two people who framed him.
release : 1919.04.16popularis : 2.58
Channing of the Northwest
A foppish Londoner joins the Royal Canadian Mounties and tries to break a smuggling ring.
release : 1922.04.10popularis : 0.626
Borrowed Hero
A struggling lawyer is named as special prosecutor in a racketeering case.
release : 1941.12.05popularis : 4.627
The Black Diamond Express
Dan Foster, the engineer of the Black Diamond Express express train falls in love with Jeanne Harmon, whose snobbish, high society mother, Mrs....
release : 1927.06.04popularis : 0.878
Obey Your Husband
An inveterate gambler is charged with killing a card sharp.
release : 1928.05.15popularis : 1.645
The Lass of Gloucester
With a parting kiss, Betty Lane, a fisherman's daughter, and John Monroe, promise to meet later in the day at their trysting place on the seashore....
release : 1912.10.16popularis : 0.727
Lady on a Train
While watching from her train window, Nikki Collins witnesses a murder in a nearby building. When she alerts the police, they think she has read one...
release : 1945.08.03popularis : 5.215
Backbone
When Yvonne de Chausson comes home from a trip to France, she is told that her grandfather, lumber magnate Andre de Mersay, has been stricken with an...
release : 1923.04.30popularis : 1.135
Flying Luck
A naive young man joins the Army in order to become a pilot.
release : 1927.12.04popularis : 2.595
The Trail of the Silver Fox
A real life drama enacted in the Yukon region where the rigors of battle for existence reduced it's human characters to it's primitive. The girl's...
release : 1913.02.12popularis : 1.581
The Woman the Germans Shot
The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
release : 1918.10.27popularis : 1.129
Unseeing Eyes
The sister of a silver mine owner hires a renegade pilot to fly her to her brother's rescue.
release : 1923.11.18popularis : 1.992
Partners Of The Sunset
Supposedly wealthy, Patricia and Vi Moreland find themselves penniless and dependent upon relatives when their father dies. They accept an uncle's...
release : 1922.02.01popularis : 0.273
The New Klondike
Tom Kelly, a small-town baseball pitcher, is sent to a minor-league team in Florida, and fails to make the team. He starts dabbling in real estate,...
release : 1926.03.14popularis : 2.003
Desert Valley
Seeing cattle dying of thirst, a stranger shoots a hole in Hoades water pipeline. Hoades is hoarding water trying to drive the ranchers away. Hounded...
release : 1926.09.25popularis : 1.376
Union Pacific
One of the last bills signed by President Lincoln authorizes pushing the Union Pacific Railroad across the wilderness to California. But financial...
release : 1939.05.05popularis : 7.246
Miracles for Sale
A maker of illusions for magicians protects an ingenue likely to be murdered.
release : 1939.08.10popularis : 4.626
The Lost Weekend
Don Birnam, a long-time alcoholic, has been sober for ten days and appears to be over the worst... but his craving has just become more insidious....
release : 1945.11.29popularis : 16.18
The Lady Eve
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean...
release : 1941.02.25popularis : 7.542
The Woman in the Window
A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder.
release : 1944.10.25popularis : 11.205
The Virginian
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best...
release : 1914.09.07popularis : 2.144
Where the Trail Divides
Col. Landers adopts two children, "How," an Indian boy, and Bess, whose parents were killed in an Indian uprising. When the children are grown, How...
release : 1914.10.12popularis : 1.717
Arise, My Love
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
release : 1940.11.08popularis : 3.222
Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
release : 1943.09.25popularis : 4.442
The Sawdust Paradise
She dances- The Dance of Death. She Sings- The song of Life. Scintillating, Fascinating, Desirable, Swifty She Weaves the Web of Destruction and then...
release : 1928.06.28popularis : 2.523
The Twin Pawns
A drama about twin sisters Daisy and Violet, who grow up unaware of each other's existence, one with their wealthy father and the other with their...
release : 1919.03.18popularis : 2.113
Fifty-Fifty
Naomi is a young aspiring artist known to her Bohemian friends as "The Nut." Naomi's alleged nuttiness does not in any way impede the efforts by...
release : 1916.10.21popularis : 1.037
The Rose of the Rancho
Esra Kincaid takes land by force and, having taken the Espinoza land, his sights are set on the Castro rancho. Government agent Kearney holds him off...
release : 1914.11.15popularis : 2.414
The Broken Melody
Stewart, an art student in the "bohemian" Greenwich Village in New York City, lives next door to his girlfriend Hedda, who wants to be a singer. One...
release : 1919.12.01popularis : 0.623
The Rage of Paris
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problems is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of...
release : 1938.06.09popularis : 2.615
The Valley of Silent Men
The hunter becomes the hunted, an officer of the Royal Mounted, fleeing, fighting for his life. Guided to a secret valley in the frozen North by a...
release : 1922.09.10popularis : 0.619
God's Half Acre
Leaving his wife Rose for a few weeks and eager to do research for his new novel about the elderly, Henry Norman goes to live in a home for the aged,...
release : 1916.08.01popularis : 0.216
The Moment Before
The film begins by presenting the elderly and elegant Duke and Duchess of Maldon, engaged in charitable acts in a Dickensian village. The following...
release : 1916.04.27popularis : 0.633
The Ghost Breaker
Carmen, a maid, steals a locket belonging to the Aragon princess Maria Theresa and sells it to Gaines, a New York art collector, not knowing that the...
release : 1914.12.07popularis : 2.474