J.P. McGowan Movies

With ruin staring him in the face, Manning, of Manning and Company, commits a theft which averts the crash. The scoundrel cleverly contrives to throw...

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

Trailin' Back is a 1928 American silent Western film directed by J.P. McGowan and starring Buddy Roosevelt, Lafe McKee and Leon De La Mothe.

Story of a Cowboy who met challenges with action! He matched his fists against another man's diabolical brain!

A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of...

Upon learning that a gang of smugglers are using freight cars to bring Chinamen across the border, the railroad officials order all employees to keep...

Elmo finds himself in 18 different hair raising and dangerous adventures always escaping in the nick of time!

Wanderers "Ramblin'" Raymond and "Restless" Roberts meet up with eastern millionaire J. Addington Fiske and his daughter Corliss. Fiske is always...

A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.

Whispering Smith, a railroad detective, is sent to Medicine Bend to suppress the looting of cars.

A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the crane at Bell Station. Two hobos find the sack...

Irrepressible Helen Rhinelander, the daughter of a railroad president. A dastardly villain, Segrue, however, desires not only Helen but also the...

Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.

A group of "Phantom Raiders" interfere with a cattle drive from Texas to Abilene; fortunately, U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok is appointed to ensure...

Cattle rustler Nevada dreams of living like an emperor in the West. Hoppy and the Bar 20 boys aim to put an end to his dream.

An Indian girl is in love with French trapper Pierre, but he is interested in a French orphan, Marie.

The Hawk has broken out of prison and the Sheriff and Sorrenson have a plan to have Whitlock pose as the Hawk, infiltrate the gang, and recover the...

The holdup of the Fast Mail; the runaway train, and the leap on horseback from a fifty-foot cliff are just some of the action

Helen, the operator at Hobart, warns her friend Anna, the operator at Montville, that Tim Hudson, a notorious swindler, is headed for Montville. Anna...