Francis McDonald Movies

In the 1840's Mexico has ceded California to the United States, making life nearly impossible for the Mexican population due to the influx of land...

A seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.

A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

A Los Angeles newspaperman seeks a woman's sister and finds a black-market baby ring.

Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich...

Naïve insurance agent 'Cyclone' Case falls in love with Sylvia Martine, whose father has a dispute with gangster Mike Slade. When Sylvia is...

Bill Sanger has his men out raiding and killing to obtain the ranches along the route that he knows the new railroad will use. He then kills the...

Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police...

A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.

Funloving Pearl White, working in a garment sweatshop, gets her big chance when she "opens" for a delayed Shakespeare play...with a comic vaudeville...

King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the...

Sassy manicurist Eve Fallon is recruited as an even more brassy reporter and she helps police detective boyfriend Danny Barr break a jewel theft ring...

In the face of rebellion in Russia, Czar Alexander II sends soldier Michael Strogoff 2,000 miles away, with a critical message for Grand Duke...

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

To get the Delaney ranch Cole's henchman Anders has started a phony range war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. After killing Delaney, he tries to...

A maid has romances with a two-timer, a boozing millionaire and the master of the house.

In 1923, Ernst Lubitsch convinced Mary Pickford to let him make a film of the Faust story, a long-cherished project, but he only got as far as...

A 1913 short directed by Stanner E.V Taylor and starring Marion Leonard.

An aristocratic but destitute southern family attempts to swindle an insurance company by faking the theft of a valuable emerald necklace. The...

Autry is drawn into the plot when he's given power of attorney in a property settlement involving his old pal and a gang of land swindlers. The pal...