John Abbott Movies

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

The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.

Orphan prodigy singer runs away from her oppressive aunt and tricks a rural couple into adopting her.

Merchant seaman Archie Gibbs manages to survive when his ship is torpedoed by a German submarine. Disguising himself in the uniform of a dead Nazi...

Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Oppenheim novel The Great Impersonation. After...

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...

Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort. With rationing in...

Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true...

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

Biff and Jeff, two American G.I.'s on furlough in Australia during The Second World War, are enjoying their time the way most soldiers on leave do....

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

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...

A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord,...

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.

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 wounded soldier discovers his hospital is secretly run by the Nazis.

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

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.

A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him.