J.P. McGowan Movies

  • 1915
    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril

    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril

    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril

    01915HD

    Blake, a quarrelsome lineman, and a widower with two daughters, is in love with Helen, but she rejects his advances. Helen spies Myra, Blake's three...

    The Girl Telegrapher's Peril
  • 1914
    The Flying Freight's Captive

    The Flying Freight's Captive

    The Flying Freight's Captive

    01914HD

    Helen receives a cypher message about a jewel robbery and trails the yeggmen to their lair. Discovered, Helen is bound and gagged and thrown into a...

    The Flying Freight's Captive
  • 1914
    The Stolen Engine

    The Stolen Engine

    The Stolen Engine

    01914HD

    A pair of crooks steal a valuable package, hold up the crew of a freight engine, and compel the engineer to aid their escape. Learning this, Helen...

    The Stolen Engine
  • 1914
    The Girl at the Throttle

    The Girl at the Throttle

    The Girl at the Throttle

    01914HD

    Helen, the telegrapher at Downing Junction, receives word that an engineer has been accidentally shot by a partridge hunter, and the runaway train...

    The Girl at the Throttle
  • 1914
    The Plot at the Railroad Cut

    The Plot at the Railroad Cut

    The Plot at the Railroad Cut

    01914HD

    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...

    The Plot at the Railroad Cut
  • 1915
    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    The Death Train

    01915HD

    The smashed corner of a trunk containing counterfeiting paraphernalia reveals to Helen that there is treachery afoot at Lone Point. Detectives...

    The Death Train
  • 1914
    The Operator at Black Rock

    The Operator at Black Rock

    The Operator at Black Rock

    01914HD

    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

    The Operator at Black Rock
  • 1912
    The Shaughraun

    The Shaughraun

    The Shaughraun

    01912HD

    Robert Ffolliott is a young Irish lad who is done out of his land and sent off to a penal colony in Australia following false accusations by the...

    The Shaughraun
  • 1929
    The Invaders

    The Invaders

    The Invaders

    01929HD

    Two children--a brother and sister--are the only survivors of an Indian attack on a wagon train, and are soon separated. An army officer adopts the...

    The Invaders
  • 1930
    The Oklahoma Sheriff

    The Oklahoma Sheriff

    The Oklahoma Sheriff

    01930HD

    Sheriff has a crooked deputy, also objects to his daughter's boyfriend. Crooked deputy kills the sheriff in a robbery. Boyfriend saves the dough,...

    The Oklahoma Sheriff
  • 1929
    Plunging Hoofs

    Plunging Hoofs

    Plunging Hoofs

    01929HD

    Jed Campbell, a "skypilot," and Nanette, a dance hall girl, meet when each goes to rescue Rex, "King of the Wild Horses," from a trap.

    Plunging Hoofs
  • 1917
    The Hazards of Helen

    The Hazards of Helen

    The Hazards of Helen

    01917HD

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

    The Hazards of Helen
  • 1917
    The Railroad Raiders

    The Railroad Raiders

    The Railroad Raiders

    01917HD

    A silent movie serial now lost. CHAPTER TITLES: 1. Circumstantial Evidence; 2. A Double Steal; 3. Inside Treachery; 4. A Race for a Fortune; 5. A...

    The Railroad Raiders
  • 1925
    Outwitted

    Outwitted

    Outwitted

    01925HD

    After being captured by T-Man Jack Blaisdell and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor on a counterfeiting rap, Tiger McGuire is sprung from jail by...

    Outwitted
  • 1928
    The Black Ace

    The Black Ace

    The Black Ace

    01928HD

    Story of a a Texas Ranger whose foster-father has been falsely accused of a series of crimes.

    The Black Ace
  • 1925
    Barriers of the Law

    Barriers of the Law

    Barriers of the Law

    01925HD

    When a woman who belongs to a bootlegging gang asks the gang for help when her father is arrested, they refuse. She quits the gang, but the gang's...

    Barriers of the Law
  • 1929
    Headin' Westward

    Headin' Westward

    Headin' Westward

    01929HD

    Concern for her father, who is being slowly ruined by cattle rustling, prompts Mary Benson to do some investigating in a distant cattle town, where...

    Headin' Westward
  • 1913
    The Pursuit of the Smugglers

    The Pursuit of the Smugglers

    The Pursuit of the Smugglers

    51913HD

    A short smugglers’ drama in which a new employee of the harbour police starts working for an export trader, so as to keep an eye on the...

    The Pursuit of the Smugglers
  • 1937
    Empty Holsters

    Empty Holsters

    Empty Holsters

    01937HD

    Ace owns just about everything around except for the Bank, which is owned by John Ware. Ace also has his eye on Judy, but Judy only has eyes for...

    Empty Holsters
  • 1928
    Ships of the Night

    Ships of the Night

    Ships of the Night

    01928HD

    In search of her fugitive brother, who wounded a man who was later murdered, Johanna Hearne encounters pirates, a Chinaman with a harem and criminals...

    Ships of the Night