Payne B. Johnson Movies

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

Theater manager James Guthrie's (Melvyn Douglas) career depends on famed soprano Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) singing in his Buenos Aires opera house,...

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

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

An accused killer is granted a reprieve when his victim returns to town in the flesh after an eight-year absence.

Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.

A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.

A comedy-drama about marriage and divorce. A wife does not want children, her husband leaves her and marries a woman who does.