Johnnie Morris
Actor · 1887 – 1969 · New York City, New York, USA
Movies13
Movie8.0Drama"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named Elizabeth. Attracted to Elizabeth (although he is engaged to a street girl named Annie), Bill confesses to a bank robbery, has a spiritual revelation, and decides to go straight. His cast-off sweetheart reports him to the police; then, contrite, she warns Bill of the impending danger. Bill is captured immediately, but he escapes and sacrifices his life to save Elizabeth and the Salvation Army nursery when the rest of the gang use them as a human barricade against the police.
The Street of Sin
1928 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Half a Sinner
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.1DramaCrimeAfter killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, and reach Canada.
Beggars of Life
1928 · 43 votes
Movie7.3A wealthy society girl must live on $150 a month to prove to her father that she can stand being married to a poor man.
The Luckiest Girl in the World
1936 · 2 votes
Movie6.0WesternThe owner of an Alaskan gambling boat and her business partner help thwart a crooked businessman who attempts to steal claims from local miners.
Queen of the Yukon
1940 · 4 votes
Movie6.1ComedyLi'l Abner becomes convinced that he is going to die within twenty-four hours, so agrees to marry two different girls: Daisy Mae (who has chased him for years) and Wendy Wilecat (who rescued him from an angry mob). It is all settled at the Sadie Hawkins Day race.
Li'l Abner
1940 · 14 votes
Movie6.3DramaA boozy former veterinarian and a teenage orphan team together with dreams of entering a broken-down horse in the big race.
Stablemates
1938 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ThrillerActionPostal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.
Postal Inspector
1936 · 5 votes
Movie10.0ComedyStrong-willed Kathleen O'Hara, believes in equality of sexes, makes a pact with her sweetheart, Jim Donahue, when they become joint owners of a California gold mine. According to the agreement, Donahue will do the housekeeping while Kathleen runs the mine; the first to call for help loses his share of the mine.
The Fifty-Fifty Girl
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaComedyA go-getting bank messenger falls in with unsuccessful gambler.
Big Money
1930 · 1 votes
Movie10.0WesternActionThe "gentleman" is played by John King, but the star of the show is J. Farrell McDonald, cast as a chronic gambler named Coburn. When the old man loses every penny he has, wandering cowboy Pokey (King) comes to the rescue by grooming a wild stallion for a successful racetrack career. Everything comes to a head during the climactic Big Race, with the expected (but still satisyfing) results. Ruth Reece and Joan Barclay share the leading-lady responsibilities, while the villainy is in the capable hands of Monogram's ace utility actor Craig Reynolds.
The Gentleman from Arizona
1939 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyIn love with political candidate Anthony Cowles, heroine Nancy Blair gets wind of the opposition's scheme to ruin Cowles' reputation. At the risk of her own good name, Nancy decides to turn the tables on the crooked politicos by framing Cowles' opponent in a compromising situation. Things don't go quite as planned.
Love and Learn
1928 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA rich artist has never completed a master painting because he could not find a model for the face, sees the wife of a man in hard luck begging on the street so she can buy milk for her baby, and the artist secures just what he desired.
The Madonna of the Slums
1919 · 1 votes