J.P. McGowan Movies

Helen catches two yeggmen who have broken into a freight car which has been detached from a train because of a hot box and are attempting to rifle...

RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when Gene's horse is found riderless. A "quota...

Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant...

Ranch owner Tex McCloud is convinced there is oil under his property and brings in a drilling rig and equipment to drill for it. But a gang who wants...

A young rancher falsely accused of kidnapping his own stepfather, the aptly named Henry Pennypincher.

The Hazards of Helen is an American melodramatic adventure film serial of 119 twelve-minute episodes released between November 7, 1914 and February...

Tommy Burke, a good-natured young plumber who refers to his monkey wrench as his pipe organ, is unaware of his inferiority complex. One day he learns...

Tiring of hunting big game in the jungle, Jack Lodge, son of a wealthy man, seeks adventure in the underworld district of a big city.

Girl's father who is in sore financial straits because of a corporation man is aided by stranger who reveals that his father was ruined same way by...

A 1921 movie serial directed by J.P. McGowan. Chapters: 1. The Buccaneer's Bride 2. The Hornet's Nest 3. The Secret of the Sea 4. The Hidden Danger...

Helen is operator at Bells. Jerry McGuire, engineer on the local freight, and Tom Thornton, his fireman, are both rivals for the hand of the girl....

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 is captured by two yeggmen who throw her into a refrigerator car; finding a meat hook, she chops her way into the ice chamber and reaches the...

Whispering Smith is a virile, fearless type of the true American whoso theory of life is to give every man a chance to show what is in him. There is...

A section boss for the railroad sets out to catch a gang of thieves who have been stealing ore shipments from his company's trains.

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...

In The Scarlet Brand, a young cowpoke tricked into rustling cattle and hell-bent on getting revenge against the poacher who set him up.

In the second entry of the popular Hazards of Helen series, Helen, is temporarily assigned as a telegraph operator at Quarry Depot; bad blood springs...

Deering and his gang rifle the station safe and gain possession of some valuable gems; Helen seizes the package and throws it into the river. In...

Dan Oakley becomes a railroad manager and his attempt to slash expenses by layoffs and lengthening hours incurs the workers' wrath. With the help of...