Search results for "J. Farrell MacDonald"
The Last Alarm

The Last Alarm

The Last Alarm
IMDb: 5.7
61

A recently retired fire captain suffers from boredom, until one of his friends is killed battling an arson fire. It becomes his purpose in life to track down the arsonist….

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Superman and the Mole-Men

Superman and the Mole-Men

Superman and the Mole-Men
IMDb: 5.5
58

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world’s deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground…

Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run

Woman on the Run
IMDb: 7.2
77

Frank Johnson, a sole witness to a gangland murder, goes into hiding and is trailed by Police Inspector Ferris, on the theory that Frank is trying to escape from possible…

Pillow of Death

Pillow of Death

Pillow of Death
IMDb: 6
66

Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary have an affair. When Wayne’s wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic…

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Johnny Angel

Johnny Angel

Johnny Angel
IMDb: 6.2
79

George Raft plays a sailor who sets out to solve his father’s mysterious death.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Ape Man

The Ape Man

The Ape Man
IMDb: 4.4
64

A scientist is turned into an ape man.

Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight

Bowery at Midnight
IMDb: 5.3
62

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the…

Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Riders of the Timberline

Riders of the Timberline

Riders of the Timberline
IMDb: 6.3
59

Hopalong Cassidy and Johnny Nelson ride to the mountains to help a man and his daughter save their logging business from someone who is sabotaging their efforts.

Genre: Western
In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne

In Old Cheyenne
IMDb: 6.1
58

Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown. Roy, of course, discovers who the real bad guy is.

Zenobia

Zenobia

Zenobia
IMDb: 6
73

A modest country doctor in the antebellum South has to contend with his daughter’s upcoming marriage and an affectionate medicine show elephant.

Genre: Comedy
Susannah of the Mounties

Susannah of the Mounties

Susannah of the Mounties
IMDb: 6.4
79

This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who’s befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and…

Genre: Drama, Western
State Police

State Police

State Police
IMDb: 5.9
61

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Barefoot Boy

Barefoot Boy

Barefoot Boy
IMDb: 5.5
63

A spoiled boy sent to the country to grow-up. He has to deal with life, friends and crooks.

Slim

Slim

Slim
IMDb: 6.4
85

Expert lineman Red takes Farm-boy Slim under his wing and teaches him the dangerous, migratory trade of putting up transmission lines. They both love their work, and the same girl,…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Exclusive Story

Exclusive Story

Exclusive Story
IMDb: 6.1
73

A reporter and his newspaper’s attorney try to gather evidence that will put a notorious gangster behind bars.

Genre: Crime
Star of Midnight

Star of Midnight

Star of Midnight
IMDb: 6.7
90

When a dancer disappears from a theater, Clay Dalzell is asked to investigate, leading him on a trail of murder and deception.

Riffraff

Riffraff

Riffraff
IMDb: 6.2
94

Fisherman Dutch marries cannery worker Hattie. After he is kicked out of his union and fired from his job he leaves Hattie who steals money for him and goes to…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Our Little Girl

Our Little Girl

Our Little Girl
IMDb: 6.3
65

Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don’s best friend and they become attracted to…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Let ’em Have It

Let ’em Have It

Let ’em Have It
IMDb: 6.6
96

Let ‘Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Irish in Us

The Irish in Us

The Irish in Us
IMDb: 6.2
84

A boxer and his policeman brother feud over a police captain’s daughter.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan

Romance in Manhattan
IMDb: 6.8
78

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable cop-on-the-beat Murphy, Sylvia hides…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own

No Man of Her Own
IMDb: 6.6
85

An on-the-lam New York card shark marries a small-town librarian who thinks he’s a businessman.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Me and My Gal

Me and My Gal

Me and My Gal
IMDb: 6.6
79

Jaunty young policeman Danny Dolan falls in love with waterfront cafe waitress Helen Riley.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Under Eighteen

Under Eighteen

Under Eighteen
IMDb: 6.6
80

Working girl Margie Evans has decided there are two kinds of opportunities for a slum kid during the Depression: Those you make and those you take. Determined to help her…

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Spirit of Notre Dame

The Spirit of Notre Dame

The Spirit of Notre Dame
IMDb: 5.3
80

Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he’s the only man on the team.

Genre: Drama
The Squaw Man

The Squaw Man

The Squaw Man
IMDb: 6.3
107

Jim Wyngate, an English aristocrat, comes to the American West under a cloud of suspicion for embezzlement actually committed by his cousin Lord Henry. In Wyoming, Wyngate runs afoul of…

Genre: Drama, Western
The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert

The Painted Desert
IMDb: 5.2
79

Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants’ camp, and clash over which is to be “father.” They are still bitterly feuding years later…

Genre: Western
The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon
IMDb: 6.8
80

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese…

Genre: Crime, Mystery
The Easiest Way

The Easiest Way

The Easiest Way
IMDb: 6.3
73

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura Murdock decides not to marry the boy next door and instead accepts wealthy, older William Brockton’s invitation to move in with him….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
IMDb: 8.1
94

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Genre: Drama, Romance
3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men
IMDb: 7.5
92

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Genre: Romance, Western
Kentucky Pride

Kentucky Pride

Kentucky Pride
IMDb: 6.1
86

This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes…

Genre: Drama
The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse
IMDb: 7.2
149

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave…

Genre: Western
Drifting

Drifting

Drifting
IMDb: 6.5
71

In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine…

Genre: Drama