John Hiestand Movies

An astronaut goes into space with a chimpanzee. When they return to Earth after their orbit, it is discovered that the chimp has the brains of the...

An alcoholic film star attempts a comeback. Director Walter Lang's 1940 comedy stars John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Anne Baxter, John Payne,...

The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game

A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins...

Three Navy Cadets become friends, support each other and struggle to survive the rigorous training.

Told in flashback, this drama follows the training and personal lives of three recruits in the Army Air Corps: a wealthy playboy, a college jock, and...

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to...

The Ritz Brothers pretend to be Kentucky hillbillies in order to get a booking on a radio show.

Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with...

Will Parker has been destroyed by a local politician and now must steal to feed his family. He steals a steer from the Three Mesquiteers.

To spite his girlfriend, the owner of a successful bus company, an auto racer goes to work for her rival.

King of the Candian riding police is up against Japs and Nazis who are about to invade Canada. They just want to clear the way with a new futuristic...

Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.

When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the "Masked Countess", because he estranged husband is a...

The devil poses as a business tycoon to try and raise the price on home living to start another war and it's up to John Q to stop him.

Cold War-era cartoon aimed at convincing workers that increased productivity brings about greater purchasing power.

A detective and his bumbling sidekick join the crackdown on racketeering in '30s New York City.

In this musical comedy, two star-struck small town kids head for the Big Apple and become famous for their jitterbug act. Their fame doesn't last...

A documentary about the laying of the first transatlantic telephone line.

Promotional film about Lockheed aircraft using test pilots and speed records to show how Lockheed was at the forefront of aviation technology during...