John Abbott Movies

The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who...

A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial...

Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance...

A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on...

Ex-thief Lone Wolf and his valet don turbans to solve a museum jewel theft.

Travelers find themselves marooned on an island with a maniacal self-made ruler.

An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

A Treasury Department agent on the trail of an international jewel smuggling ring joins a carnival that he thinks the gang is using as a front. He...

When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.

Portrays the conversion to Christianity of a young Zealot, Joel, and the Roman soldier Longinus through the teachings of Jesus in his Parable of the...

Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds....

Swindlers con a lunchroom clerk into doing them a favor, supposedly on behalf of the FBI.

The small English town of Penny Green is swarming with scandal when textbook author Mark, unhappily married to the shrewish Mabel, cultivates a...

After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.

When a rich man dies, some items from a collection of his are stolen- an ancient Egyptian gold amulet and the mummy that was wearing it. The police...

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side,...

A satirical film on fads in the US. A TV host on a late night show tries to convince his viewers that they should return to Rome and Roman ways.

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...

A newspaper reporter keeps beating the police to clues in a current murder case. This makes the police think he may be involved in the crime.