Movies: John Burton

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does....

A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official....

Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil...

This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the daughter of the English Isles" against these forces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Su...

A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper....

A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder....

A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions....

Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution....

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America....

The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed....

This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France....

This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II....

After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is apprehended. A woman prosecuting attorney makes a compelling case against him, and he is given a ten-year ...