J.P. McGowan Movies

Two competing teams of scientists search the African jungles for a secret formula.

Two friends working a jungle oil field clash when one marries a lady of the evening.

The life of Jesus is played out in tableaux shot in the Holy Land.

John Bishop discovers a plot to rob a silver mine belonging to his girlfriend Mary's father and, to foil the evildoers, he joins them.

An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time...

Canadian Mountie goes undercover to catch his brother's killers.

Cattle are being routinely stolen from a local ranch, and suspicion centers on a local mountain family. But the Three Mesquiteers are wise to the...

Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along...

Cattleman Benson finds Mildred and her brother George living in one of his cabins and their sheep are on his land. Attracted to Mildred, he not only...

Two safaris enter the African jungle intent on finding a white girl who is the heiress to a fortune. One safari, led by Jungle Jim, wants to make...

A cop hesitates in using his gun to stop a robbery, & the robbers get away. He is forced to quit the police force, and he turns to a life of crime.

A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.

When a group of World War 1 buddies head west to farmstead, they run into trouble.

Assigned to catch a gang of outlaws, officers Bruce Kenton and Paddy Halloran rescue Helen Morgan when her wagon is attacked by the very same gang....

O'Brien is "Whispering" Smith, so named because he speaks softly but knows how to fend for himself. The son of a railroad president, Smith is...

Eddie King goes up against a villainous circus owner in this action adventure which was directed by genre specialist J.P. McGowan and released in 18...

Unable to legally capture and sell a herd of protected wild horses, corrupt rancher Rance Macgowan uses his trained killer horse, Volcano, to...

A train that is carrying the formula for a valuable form of granulated gasoline disappears before it reaches its destination. Railroad investigators...

A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home.

Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.