Francis McDonald Movies

Zorro's Black Whip

67/100

Hammond, owner of the town's stagecoach line and a leading citizen, is opposed to Idaho becoming a state, and kills Randolph Meredith, owner of the town's newspaper, for endorsing it. ... See full summary »

Pawnee

54/100

Pale Arrow is a white man raised since a boy by the Pawnee Chief. With wagon trains now encroaching on Pawnee land, the Chief sends Pale Arrow to be with the white people. Now known as Paul... See full summary »

Hidden Valley

57/100

A cowboy is hired by an archaeologist to help find "Hidden Valley", where an Indian gold treasure is supposed to be buried. Just when he finds it, the archaeologist is killed, and the cowboy his charged with his murder.

Texas Buddies

61/100

Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, ... See full summary »

Trailing the Killer

48/100

While the original title, "Trailing the Killer" isn't a misnomer, it was a bit misleading since the "trailer" is a dog named Caesar Caesar the Dog) and the killer is a mountain lion, aka as... See full summary »

The Gun Woman

71/100

A saloon owner loans her lover the money to buy a house, which he has led her to believe they will live in after they're married. Instead, he takes the money and buys a saloon in another town.

Burning Up

61/100

Racecar-driver Lou Larrigan gets mixed up with a crooked gang of racetrack promoters, and is in love with Ruth Morgan, whose father is marked as a victim by the gang.

Captain Fly-by-Night

67/100

Men of the Timberland

58/100

Tim MacGregor, unscrupulous lumber operator, obtains by bribery a contract to cut a vast quantity of timber from land owned by Kay Handley, rich débutante. When Dick O'Hara, forestry ... See full summary »

Puppets of Fate

In Line of Duty

An RCMP officer is on the trail of a woodsman accused of murdering a man who wronged him. Circumstances arise in which the fugitive saves the Mountie's life, and the Mountie falls in love ... See full summary »

The Voice on the Wire

Chapter 15: "The Living Death" - Chapter 14 ends with the floating hand writing a message to John Spencer and Polly Marion that all would be made clear in next week's episode. Tom and Polly... See full summary »

Black Orchids

Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive.

The Final Close-Up

The Buster

The Confession

A priest hears a murderer's confession but can't reveal the truth, even though his brother is being tried for the crime.

The Wreck

Trooper O'Neill

Northwest Mounted Trooper O'Neill (Buck Jones) is sent to bring in the killer of Jacob Dell. He goes to Skatehewan country posing as a trapper, and meets and falls in love with Marie (... See full summary »

Honor of the Mounted

Tom Halliday(Tom Tyler), of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police,is implicated and framed on a murder charge.The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no ... See full summary »

The Ghost Flower

Giulia, a Neapolitan girl, much against her will, becomes the mistress of a wealthy gangster. Her "protector" is stabbed to death by Giulia's hot-headed musician lover Tony (Francis ... See full summary »

The Valley of Hell

The Answer

His Debt

Prudence on Broadway

Prudence's ( Olive Thomas ) parents send her from their Pennsylvania Quaker colony to a fashionable girls seminary, hoping she can learn about the devil's tricks, instead she engages in ... See full summary »

Puppets