John Payne Movies

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the...

An adventurous young man goes off to find himself and loses his socialite fiancée in the process. But when he returns 10 years later, she will...

An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that they want very different things from life.

Dan Ballard, a respected citizen in the western town of Silver Lode, has his wedding interrupted by four men led by Ned McCarty, an old acquaintance...

Rick Mason is the no-good lowdown rat who tries to capitalize on postwar patriotism and grief. He finagles a war widow into giving up her savings for...

Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s, and sold into slavery, by Andrew McAllister, and...

In 1805, the United States battles the pirates of Tripoli as the Marines fight to raise the American flag.

A former boxer turned taxi driver earns the scorn of his nagging wife and gets mixed up with jewel thieves.

A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that...

A crusading politician falls prey to the temptations of power.

Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace,...

A man returns to his home -- a post Civil-War village -- and finds the law is in the hands of a few scrupulous people.

After staging a mutiny and commandeering his own ship, famed pirate Barbarossa (John Payne) takes hostage a spirited Spanish noblewoman named Alida...

In 1863, having escaped from a rock-quarry prison in Salt Lake, six inmates led by convicted murderer Pete Black take over a small wagon train headed...

Released as part of a series of WB shorts under the collective title of "Technicolor Specials" (WB production number 2003) this short most likely...

A sailor gets his boat stolen from him after he's set up for a crime.

A tough, womanizing high-stakes gambler known only as Tennessee has an uneasy relationship with Duchess, madam of a thinly-disguised bordello, and no...

A waiter becomes a singing prizefighter.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast...