John Litel Movies

A man is framed for embezzlement and runs off to San Francisco. His wife hires Ellery Queen to try and track him down before the police get to him.

Aesop of fable fame poses as an old man and woos away a princess who wants a king for his gold.

There's something very odd about Romano, a notorious gangster serving time in the federal pen. For one thing, Romano doesn't sound much like himself....

The Cisco Kid and Pancho set off to find the missing owner of a devoted little dog in this western adventure. From the vanished man's sister, the...

The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.

This documentary, the final film directed by Frank Capra, explores America's plans for the future of space exploration. It was produced by the...

Porky Pig balks at learning the Pledge of Allegiance until Uncle Sam appears to him in a dream and gives him a lesson in American history.

This Crime Does Not Pay short shows how cooperation among all the nations of the Americas helps the war effort. In this case, a US government agent...

Why did the Governor want to resign?

This drama is an updated version of Ulmer's 1944 film Bluebeard. It is set in New York and follows the exploits of an eccentric Parisian painter who...

An impoverished widow fights scandal for the sake of her four children.

Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business....

Mountie Matt O'Brien is assigned to escort Miss Owens to a remote outpost. But when he finds an illegal mining operation there that is smuggling gold...

A prison chaplain (John Litel) rescues a young convict (Glenn Ford) on a misguided mission of revenge.

Perception vs. reality in a tale of a scoundrel and user whose jovial manner masks his true nature until a climatic redemption.

Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.

Mary Dugan is a young woman accused of murdering her billionaire lover. In the process, his defense lawyer acts wrongly against them, and is replaced...

High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.

Teenager Henry Aldrich decides to take matters into his own hands when his high school principal forbids the student band from playing swing music.

Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...