John Kelly Movies

In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.

Two rival newspaper editors try to scoop each other through their different methods of integrity on reporting the news.

Elizabeth Rimplegar inhabits a household populated by virtual lunatics. Her mother, Nellie, mishandled the family fortune, and, alas, the stock...

A young bride tries to rebuild her life after she learns her husband has been killed in the war.

"In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was...

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

University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters,...

A sculptor who doesn't want to have any part of World War I is shamed by his girlfriend into joining the fight. He becomes a fighter pilot, and...

A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.

Just after a jury finds Ann Grey guilty of murder, the car carrying her to prison crashes into another car. Ann escapes and ends up in lawyer Tony...

Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray...

Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but has to go to Egypt to claim it.

Three US sailors aboard a decoy ship fight German U-boats in World War I and try to win Sally who works on the Coney Island midway.

A prosecutor quits his job and becomes a defense attorney when he finds out that a man he got convicted and executed was actually innocent.

A Navy pilot gets involved in a romantic triangle while stationed in Hawaii.

Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a...

Police set up a dragnet to trap an outlaw's wife whom they believe to be his accomplice.

Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans,...

A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.