John Ford weaves three "Judge Priest" stories together to form a good- natured exploration of honour and small-town politics in the South around the turn of the century. Judge William Priest is involved variously in revealing the real identity of Lucy Lake, reliving his Civil War memories, preventing the lynching of a youth and contesting the elections with Yankee Horace K. Maydew.

As Mormon settlers head to the promised land at the San Juan river in Utah, they hire horse traders Travis Blue and Sandy as wagon masters. They have to forge a trail across unknown territory and face many hardships along the way. They quickly come across some stranded travelers, a medicine show run by Dr. A. Locksley Hall which includes the attractive Denver. Along the way however, they are also joined by Shiloh Clegg and his murderous clan of robbers and thieves. An encounter with the Navajo leads to an invitation to their camp but after one of the Clegg boys gets a whipping for attacking one of the Navajo women, Uncle Shiloh plans his revenge. It's left to Sandy and Travis to protect the travelers and get them to their destination.

In the 1870s, fugitive outlaw Johnny Drum is confronted by Sheriff Sam Borden inside a general store. Drum shoots the sheriff in front of customers Lin Conner and Julie Ann McCabe. The two women are saloon dancers and Julie happens to be the girlfriend of another wanted outlaw, Whit Lacey. He's wanted for raiding Eben Martin's mining operations. After escaping the town, Drum takes to the trail where he's followed by the sheriff deputies and their posse. He manages to elude them but he's attacked by a band of Sioux. Fortunately, Drum is aided in the ensuing firefight by bandit Whit Lacey who happened by. The two outlaws become friends and partners. They plan various robbery schemes. Lacey needs the money to move to California with his sweetheart, Julie Ann McCabe. Unknown to Lacey, Drum actually is an undercover army officer who only pretended to kill the town sheriff in order to create a cover story in his quest to find and apprehend Lacey. Eventually, Lacey finds out the truth about Drum but allows him to leave their hideout unharmed. Later, Drum and the town's deputies capture Lacey and take him to the nearest army fort. They want Lacey tried but some angry citizens at the fort want to lynch him, despite Drum's fierce opposition. The lynching is interrupted by a major Sioux attack on the fort. Now, they all have to forget their differences and defend the fort until reinforcements arrive. Drum and Lacey find themselves fighting, once more, side by side.

Monte Hale is a stagecoach driver for Jed Baker's stage-line. Jed believes his brother, Ralph, is behind the many hold-ups of his stagecoaches but has no proof. Ralph, in turn, blames Jed for the attacks on the linemen of his pioneer telegraph company. Big Bart, a ruthless gunman and outlaw-gang leader working for crooked banker Jordan Weatherbee, is actually behind the troubles of both companies. Bart plans to frame Jed for a double-murder and then kill him. Monte saves his life and, together, they devise a plan of their own to bring an end to the reign of lawlessness along the timber trail.

Fanning has his men rustle horses and then blame it on a wild horse named Wildfire. Happy and Alkali arrive and immediately get into trouble with Fanning and his men. When Alkali is shot, Happy catches the outlaws but the Judge not only releases them, he discharges the Sheriff and tries to arrest Happy for rustling. Happy escapes and he and the Sheriff then set out to prove who the real rustlers are.

A private detective gets mixed up with a phony spiritualist racket.

In the 1890s, white-skinned Ruby Taylor (Frances Farmer) makes a strange journey from Singapore to Pago Pago and meets Kehane (Jon Hall). son of the chieftain (Pedro de Cordoba) of the island natives who have lived for centuries knowing no thought of greed or evil...But Ruby's companions have their own plan for the future of Kehane and his brothers. Driven by greed, Brutal Captain Bucko Larsen (Victor McLasglen) is systematically crippling the young men of the tribe by making them dive deep into treacherous waters for the pearls he brings to Ruby in an attempt to buy her love. Roused by Larsen's ruthlessness, the young men of Kehane's tribe rebel against his domineering cruelty. A vicious battle ensues, in which the crude weapons of the natives are pitted against the firearms of the white men. The battle rages on to a violent culmination when Kehena turns the white men's weapons against them.

A posse of nine and Sheriff Bill Cummings set out after a renegade named Apache Jack, who has murdered the wife of Lopez, one of the posse members. The others are Rayburn, Chic Lyman, Billy Sweet, Bob Mulford, Curley Tom, Eaton, Garth and an old prospector named Cluff. Apache Jack leads them into Indian country where they come across an oasis in a gully wash. They not only find water but also a natural of vein of silver. Sheriff Cummings prevents any of them from returning to town to file a mining claim. The next morning, Eaton is missing and all of the horses are gone. Then Cluff is killed in an ambush. The posse is trapped by an unseen enemy.

Tony Martin goes to Kentucky to find talent to boost radio ratings. There it is learned that the Ritz brothers are really from New York and only pretending to be hillbillies to get on Martin's show.

Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he ...

Withers is an immigrant who learns on arrival in the U.S. that her mother is dead. Friends help her survive as an entertainer, and success is a good argument against the immigration ...

In a film where the leading character is a composite of several American-frontier lawmen (mostly Wyatt Earp,) Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.

When a good-for-nothing man named Dan is stabbed to death and his arm broken, Charlie Chan is on the case. His first clue comes from the victim's sister, who noticed a prowler wearing a glow-in-the-dark wristwatch.

A possessive mother pushes her son into World War I service rather than see him get married.

Brant frames Destry and has men testify against him. Found guilty he vows to return. Back from prison he goes after the man that framed him. When the Sheriff is shot before he can talk, Destry chases down the killer and learning Brant is the man, heads out to get him.

Jack Manning (Tim McCoy) arrives in a midwestern town from Gold Creek in Califonia. He brings a message from Goerge Woods (Francis Ford) to his brother Tom Woods (Francis Ford), in a dual role, and niece Mary (Allene Ray, informing them he has struck gold and asking them to join him in California via a wagon train. Jack and Mary fall in love to the great displeasure of Rance Carter (Wilbur McGaugh) who has a yen for Mary himself. Jack and Mary not only have to be wary of Carter's crooked ways and machinations, but also of Indian uprisings, caused by Carter.

Among the residents of a theatrical boarding house is the last member of a once great acting family, down on his luck. When an offer to star in a London "Hamlet" comes, he takes lessons from a faded former star, and goes on to huge success as he forgets his old friends.

The Mystery of 13 is a 1919 American drama film serial directed by Francis Ford.

The Craving is a 1918 American silent drama film written and directed by John and Francis Ford. A 35mm print of the film with Dutch intertitles survives in the EYE Film Instituut Nederland film archive.

The Broken Coin is a 1915 American adventure-mystery film serial directed by Francis Ford. This serial is presumed to be lost.

Lincoln is first seen as a rail splitter in the country, and even then, he is a peace-maker. His life as a storekeeper and his meeting with Ann Rutledge follow. He proposes to her, and his suit is unsuccessful. She dies, and Lincoln is seen in his first great sorrow, mourning over her grave. Abe is seen debating with Douglas, and after a lapse of time, he is soon in the presidential chair. The Federal Army under Burnside is retreating towards Washington. Lincoln visits McClellan, and is cheered by the weary soldiers. Grant is placed in command of the Federal Army, and the Confederates are driven back. Many big battle scenes are shown. Lee surrenders and with the return of the decimated Federal Army Lincoln's mind goes to the battlefield and the army of dead. The story ends when close friends of the martyred statesman read of his death and the country is thrown into mourning.

At the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. She meets Harry and together they take a coach to the Southern town they have selected to spy upon. A prominent colonel in the Southern army deals with dispatches, and it is this man that Grace investigates while Harry awaits events. The colonel has a sweetheart, May, and Grace manages to got an introduction to her at a ball by purposely tearing her dress and appealing to May for help. This leads to an acquaintance with the Colonel, and she practices all her woman's wiles and fascinations upon him and he is impressed with her. Grace learns that important dispatches are to be forwarded and plots to get into the colonel's house. She manages matters cleverly, and contrives to have her carriage break down before his residence. The colonel endeavors to get rid of her, but she stalls him off until the arrival of May, when he has to hide her in the next room. May comes to warn him about Grace, for she is suspicious and her woman's intuition tells her that Grace is there for no good. The colonel tries to defend Grace, who gets a chance to change the dispatches for false ones, but drops a letter by mistake, and escapes by way of the window, giving the dispatches to her brother. May sees the letter of commendation from the North. A servant has seen Harry. The colonel rides off after him. He catches up with him as they ride into the battlefield, and in a hand-to-hand duel Harry is killed by the colonel, who is himself mortally wounded by a stray bullet. Grace returns to Washington and receives compliments and rewards. She returns to her home with a clouded conscience, and while sitting looking at her reward, the specters of Harry and the colonel appear and beckon her. She is forced to go with them, and together they appear on the battlefield and they show her their own bodies, and slowly they fade away and their specters enter their dead bodies. She comes to and staggers to the stairs to get assistance. She faints and falls down the stairway and dies.

Jim Ward, a southerner, is engaged to Edith Blake, and escorts her to a dance on Christmas Eve. His brother, Jack, hangs a sprig of mistletoe on the veranda and entices the girls underneath it, when he kisses them. Edith has just fallen a victim to Jack's trap and he has clasped her in his arms, when Jim, ignorant of the true state of things, looks out. Angry and hurt, he goes home without a word and thereafter avoids Edith, who is puzzled at his actions, but too proud to ask an explanation. She accepts the attentions of Jack, who falls in love with her. The war breaks out and Jim is among the first to answer the call for men, being made a Hententot. Thrilling scenes of battle are shown in which Jim takes part. Jack marries Edith and stays at home, and, the family fortunes having dwindled on account of the war, he is unable to meet a mortgage held by Silas Green. Green makes a demand for payment, and as he leaves Jack's home he is captured by northern soldiers, who draft him into the service. His cowardly heart revolts at the prospect of risking his life, and he offers to purchase a substitute. Accordingly, he persuades Jack to take his place, agreeing to cancel the mortgage. It thus happens that Jack is seen fighting under the stars and stripes, while Jim is battling under the confederate emblem. In a sensational charge the federals capture a number of prisoners, among them Jack, who is brought before his own brother. Jack is placed in a hencoop, which has been improvised into a jail, and overpowers his guard. He escapes by changing uniforms with the confederate, and making his exit in the midst of tremendous excitement during a crushing attack by the federals. A bomb drops onto the hencoop and in bursting destroys it, killing the confederate guard whom Jack had locked in. and mangling his features into an unrecognizable mass. Jim sees the body and believing it to be his brother, is greatly affected by the pitiful sight. The bruised and battered corpse is sent home for burial, and Jim regrets his enmity, forfeiting the great wrong he thought his brother had done him. Clad in the confederate uniform, Jack is captured by the federals and placed in prison. The war ends and Jim goes home, where he effects a reconciliation with Edith, who is the mother of his brother's child, and marries her. The release of prisoners occupies considerable time, and Jack, with long, unkempt hair and heard, anxiously awaits the day of freedom. When he is finally set at liberty, he makes his way home and sees his little girl, accompanied by the old Negro mammy, going to the graveyard. They do not recognize him, and he learns that they are laying flowers on the grave they think is his. Questioning them he is horrified to learn of Edith's marriage to his brother, and for the first time he understands his brother's animosity toward himself. As night falls he peers into the window and notes with sinking heart the love existing between the trio, his wife and child and his brother. To reveal himself would cast desolation upon three lives; to remain silent would hurt but himself. He resolves to make the sacrifice. Going to the tavern he learns that Silas Green is foreclosing the mortgage on the home, taking advantage of Jack's supposed death. He determines the save the property, but is in a quandary as to how to do it without divulging the fact that he is alive. He resolves to secure possession of the mortgage, and effecting an entrance into Green's house, finds the document. Green, awakening, rushes at the intruder with a pistol and fires. Jack and Green engage in a desperate struggle. A stable man, hearing the shot, grabs a rifle and runs to the house, just as Jack throws his antagonist from him and hurls him through the window. The startled stable man fires at the form, which he thinks is that of a burglar, and Silas Green receives the charge. Jack makes his escape, and the picture closes with him standing in the road, looking longingly back toward the little town sheltering the woman he loves, and for whom he has made such a great sacrifice.

Custer's Last Fight (also known as Custer's Last Raid) is a 1912 American silent short Western film. It is the first film about George Armstrong Custer and his final stand at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. It was shot in Inceville, Santa Ynez Canyon and Los Angeles, California. The movie was directed by Francis Ford, the older brother of director John Ford; Francis Ford also portrayed Custer in the film.