Payne B. Johnson Movies

When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

Studio publicist discovers Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

A farmer's widow takes on the land and her late husband's tempestuous son.

In the 1810s, an old maid poses as her own niece in order to teach her onetime beau a lesson.

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

Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're...

Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, and the happy husband of Anna and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver...

Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the...

A doctor has a rough time obtaining the money for his services in a lumber town until he delivers quintuplets.

Outdoor drama about a newly-hired lumberjack discovering that his former girlfriend is now his new boss's wife.

Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the...

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed...

A 4F military school teacher's lie about being accepted for active duty causes problems on the home front.

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.

A con man and his partner inherit a dead gangster's precocious daughter.

In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young...

Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...

A Depression-downtrodden waif uses her brains instead of her body to rise from tyro con artist to crime boss.