John FarrowFilmography

Alias Jesse James

Crew: Director

Actors: Roy Rogers, Jay Silverheels, Gene Autry, Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Wendell Corey, Jim Davis, Gloria Talbott

Synopsis: Bob Hope plays a 19th-century insurance agent whose miserable sales record prompts his boss to send him out West, where he can (supposedly) do little harm. Hope manages to sell a $100,000 life insurance policy--to outlaw Jesse James (Wendell Corey), one of the worst "risks" in history! In his Read More

John Paul Jones

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Stack, Marisa Pavan, Charles Coburn, Jean-Pierre Aumont, MacDonald Carey

Synopsis: Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a fervent supporter of the American Revolutionaries, and he volunteers to lead the colonists' ragtag fleet Read More

The Unholy Wife

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Rod Steiger, Diana Dors, Tom Tryon, Marie Windsor

Synopsis: In this crime thriller a young woman marries a wealthy vintner. Soon afterward, she falls in love with a handsome rodeo rider whom she sees every time her husband is away. One night, her mother-in-law spots a burglar outside the house and reports it to the police. The conniving wife sees a window Read More

Around the World in 80 Days

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Charles Boyer

Synopsis: Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production Read More

Back from Eternity

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Robert Ryan, Anita Ekberg, Rod Steiger, Phyllis Kirk, Keith Andes

Synopsis: Director John Farrow's Back From Eternity is a virtual scene-for-scene remake of Farrow's 1939 film Five Came Back. The earlier film is the better of the two, if only because it is 22 minutes shorter. The plot concerns a small passenger plane that crashlands in South America, square in the heart Read More

The Sea Chase

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger, Tab Hunter

Synopsis: John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post WWII. Though staunchly opposed to the Nazi regime, Karl (Wayne) feels it would nevertheless be unpatriotic should he refuse to save his ship from destruction. His ship--an old Read More

A Bullet Is Waiting

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean Simmons, Rory Calhoun, Stephen McNally, Brian Aherne

Synopsis: A young woman (Jean Simmons) manages a remote California sheep ranch with her father (Brian Aherne). A plane carrying a sheriff (Stephen McNally) and a man indicted for manslaughter (Rory Calhoun) crashes nearby. Both men are cared for by the girl, who doesn't know at first which is the cop and Read More

Hondo

Crew: Director

Actors: John Wayne, Geraldine Page, Ward Bond, Michael Pate, James Arness

Synopsis: Hondo is so "perfect" a John Ford western that many people assume it was directed by John Ford--or at the very least, Andrew McLaglen. Actually the director was suspense expert John Farrow, who worked with the "Duke" only twice in his career (the second film was an oddball war drama, The Sea Chase Read More

King of the Khyber Rifles

Actors: Tyrone Power, Terry Moore, Michael Rennie, John Justin, Guy Rolfe

Synopsis: This remake of John Ford's The Black Watch (29) stars Tyrone Power as British army captain stationed in India in 1857. Shunned by his fellow officers because he is a half caste, Power defies the social structure of the era by falling in love with the daughter (Terry Moore) of his superior Read More

Plunder of the Sun

Crew: Director

Actors: Glenn Ford, Diana Lynn, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Sean McClory

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by David Dodge, Plunder of the Sun is basically Treasure of the Sierra Madre in Aztec country. Several interested parties converge upon the Mexican Aztec ruins in search of a long-buried treasure. Insurance investigator Glenn Ford is ostensibly the hero, but he doesn't seem Read More

Ride, Vaquero!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Anthony Quinn, Kurt Kasznar

Synopsis: Set in the southernmost regions of Texas, Ride, Vaquero stars Robert Taylor as a steely-eyed gunman named Rio. In league with Mexican bandit Jose Esqueda (Anthony Quinn), Rio participates in the sacking of Brownsville. Only one man seems to have the intestinal fortitude to stand up to the Read More

Botany Bay

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke, Murray Matheson

Synopsis: Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the prison, Ladd is tormented by sadistic ship's captain James Mason, while Mason's beloved Patricia Medina takes a fancy to the new prisoner. Once at the colony, Ladd is Read More

His Kind of Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt, Charles McGraw

Synopsis: His Kind of Woman directed by veteran John Farrow, is a convoluted mystery thriller which tries unsuccessfully to combine slapstick comedy with excessive violence, resulting in a film that depends more on stereotypes than on plot development. Nick (Raymond Burr), is a deported gang boss who needs Read More

Submarine Command

Crew: Director

Actors: William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix, Don Taylor, Arthur Franz

Synopsis: Submarine Command reunites the romantic leads from Sunset Boulevard, William Holden and Nancy Olsen. Holden is cast as Commander White, who during an enemy attack orders that his submarine dive to avoid destruction. Though his action saves his crew, it results in the death of the machine-gunner Read More

Copper Canyon

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, MacDonald Carey, Mona Freeman

Synopsis: Set just after the close of the Civil War, a former Confederate officer (Ray Milland) joins a vaudeville target-shooting show to avoid detection by the Union army. Working his way West, he falls in league with a group of Southern copper-miners being harassed as they try to make a living. ~ John Read More

Where Danger Lives

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Faith Domergue, Claude Rains, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: Faith Domergue, the latest of Howard Hughes' protegees, made her film debut in 1950's Where Danger Lives. Domergue plays Margo Lannington the wife of Frederick Lannington (Claude Rains), an elderly millionaire possessed of a sadistic streak. Robert Mitchum co-stars as Jeff Cameron, a poor soul who Read More

Red, Hot and Blue

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Hutton, Victor Mature, William Demarest, June Havoc, Jane Nigh

Synopsis: Taken (as far as possible) from the Cole Porter musical comedy of the same name, Red, Hot and Blue stars Betty Hutton as an ambitious chorus girl. Hutton gets a job with a musical comedy bankrolled by gangsters, and is the wrong girl at the wrong place when one of the show's backers (William Talman Read More

Contact Man

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, Geraldine Wall, George Macready

Synopsis: This modern-day "Faust" variation benefits from a superb cast. Thomas Mitchell plays Joseph Foster, an honest judge who wants to become governor. Blocked by corrupt political forces, Foster would practically have to make a deal with the Devil to reach his goal. Enter Nick Beal (Ray Milland), a Read More

Beyond Glory

Crew: Director

Actors: George Coulouris, Vincent J. Donahue, Charles Evans, Margaret Field, Dick Hogan, Alan Ladd, George Macready, Donna Reed

Synopsis: An older soldier enters West Point but remains haunted by nagging guilt. It all began in Tunisia during a tremendous battle. The soldier passed out during the fight, and when he awoke he discovered his commanding officer was dead. He blames himself for the death and after being released from the Read More

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Crew: Director

Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce, William Demarest, Richard Webb

Synopsis: A man who dreams of seeing the future discovers the horrible burden that it can carry in this film noir suspense story. Suicidal Jean Courtland (Gail Russell) is prevented from killing herself by her fiancée Elliot Carson (John Lund). When they consult psychic John Triton (Edward G. Robinson Read More

The Big Clock

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Sullivan, George Macready, Elsa Lanchester, Rita Johnson

Synopsis: John Farrow's movie adaptation of Kenneth Fearing's The Big Clock, based on a screenplay by Jonathan Latimer (and produced by future James Bond screenwriter Richard Maibaum), is a near-perfect match for the book, telling in generally superb visual style a tale set against the backdrop of upscale Read More

Easy Come, Easy Go

Crew: Director

Actors: Barry Fitzgerald, Diana Lynn, Sonny Tufts, Dick Foran, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Barry Fitzgerald's distinctive brand of Irish blarney, which was wonderful in small doses, leaned towards the precious and boring when he was given a leading role. In Easy Come, Easy Go, Fitzgerald portrays an inveterate horse player who refuses to allow his grown daughter (Diana Lynn) to get Read More

Calcutta

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, Gail Russell, William Bendix, June Duprez, Lowell Gilmore

Synopsis: Alan Ladd stars in Calcutta as devil-may-care pilot Neale Gordon. With his equally fearless partners Pedro Blake (William Bendix) and Bill Cunningham (John Whitney), Gordon handles the air-freight route between Calcutta and Chungking. When Cunningham meets his death at the hands of jewel Read More

Blaze of Noon

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, William Bendix, Sterling Hayden

Synopsis: In this aerial melodrama, four brothers working as stunt pilots for a flying circus leave their jobs to become mail pilots. Because their job requires that they constantly travel, they are advised to not settle down with wives and kids. Still, one pilot falls in love and marries. Unfortunately Read More

California

Crew: Director

Actors: Ray Milland, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Fitzgerald, George Coulouris, Albert Dekker

Synopsis: California began life as a remake of Paramount's silent western epic The Covered Wagon, but by the time it emerged on-screen in 1946, the project had metamorphosed into a standard Technicolor frontier "spectacular", concentrating more on star power than anything else. Set during the 1848 mass Read More

Two Years Before the Mast

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Roman Bohnen, Barry Fitzgerald, George Bruggeman, James Burke, Howard Da Silva

Synopsis: Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Charles Stewart (Alan Ladd), the wealthy son of a Boston shipowner, is hijacked by Amazeen (William Bendix), the first mate on a ship bound for California. Francis Thompson Read More

You Came Along

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Charles Drake, Julie Bishop

Synopsis: "You can live a long time in three days -- sometimes when you're in a tight spot, you can live a year in ten seconds." US Army Air Force Major Bob Collins (Robert Cummings), Captain "Shakespeare" Anders (Don Defore), and Lt. "Handsome" Janoshek (Charles Drake) are three happy-go-lucky combat Read More

The Hitler Gang

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert "Bobby" Watson, Martin Kosleck, Victor Varconi, Luis Van Rooten

Synopsis: Though it takes several liberties with facts and motivations, The Hitler Gang is a reasonably absorbing chronicle of Hitler's rise to power. An obscure German corporal in WW1, Adolf Hitler (played by Robert Watson, better known for his comic portrayals of Der Fuhrer), embittered by the Versailles Read More

China

Crew: Director

Actors: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn, Iris Wong

Synopsis: Set in Japanese-occupied China shortly before the bombing of Pearl Harbor, this action/drama stars Alan Ladd as Mr. Jones, a cynically materialistic American who has no qualms about selling oil to the enemy; as far as he's concerned, their money spends as well as anyone's. Against the advice of Read More

Wake Island

Crew: Director

Actors: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, MacDonald Carey, Albert Dekker, Barbara Britton

Synopsis: The winner of four Oscar nominations, Wake Island was one of the first major Hollywood films to deal with America's forced participation in World War II. The first two reels takes place in the weeks prior to Pearl Harbor, as Wake Island military commander Brian Donlevy carries on a friendly Read More

The Commandos Strike at Dawn

Crew: Director

Actors: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish, Cedric Hardwicke, Robert Coote, Ray Collins

Synopsis: Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a wartime morale-booster, largely set in coastal Norway. Paul Muni stars as Eric Toresen, an apolitical and basically pacifistic Norwegian fisherman who is galvanized into Read More

Married and in Love

Crew: Director

Actors: Alan Marshal, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles, Helen Vinson, Hattie Noel

Synopsis: Festooned with flashbacks, Married and in Love is a minor domestic drama given Tiffany treatment by director John Farrow. Helen Vinson plays a vain, selfish woman, unhappily married to Patrick Knowles. Impulsively, Helen decides to kick over the traces an elope with college sweetheart Alan Read More

A Bill of Divorcement

Crew: Director

Actors: Maureen O'Hara, Adolphe Menjou, Fay Bainter, Herbert Marshall, Dame May Whitty

Synopsis: A creaky remake of the 1932 film of the same name, Bill of Divorcement tells of the effect an emotionally disturbed father's homecoming has on this household. Adolphe Menjou, a longtime mental patient, is released after 20 years' confinement and returns home. Only vaguely aware of the time lapse, Menjou Read More

Full Confession

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia, Barry Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Risdon

Synopsis: In this thriller, a man is brutally murdered and an innocent man takes the rap. The real murderer later confesses his crime to his priest. The priest strongly urges the killer to tell the police, but he steadfastly refuses. At the end, the killer attacks and mortally wounds the priest. The Read More

Sorority House

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Barbara Read, Helen Wood

Synopsis: Sorority House is based on Mary Coyle Chase's short story Chi House. Anne Shirley plays a middle-class college student who is pledged to a snooty sorority. As Shirley struggles to qualify for membership, she becomes disillusioned by the prospect when she realizes the shallowness of her wealthy Read More

Reno

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Anita Louise, Paul Cavanagh, Laura Hope Crewes

Synopsis: The rise of the popular Nevada city is chronicled in this epic drama that begins when Reno was a tiny silver-mining town and ends when it becomes a divorce center and garishly lit gambling town. The film also follows the exploits of a young attorney who comes to town to build a thriving divorce Read More

Women in the Wind

Crew: Director

Actors: Kay Francis, William Gargan, Victor Jory, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, Eddie Foy, Jr.

Synopsis: Kay Francis was anxious to complete her Warner Bros. contract when she agreed to appear in this lower-berth drama. Francis plays a financially strapped aviatrix who enters an air race to pay for her brother's operation. Friendly mechanic William Gargan offers to lend Francis his plane, but Read More

The Saint Strikes Back

Crew: Director

Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Jerome Cowan, Neil Hamilton

Synopsis: The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the first to star George Sanders in the role. Val Travers (Wendy Barrie) is the daughter of a police detective who killed himself after being dishonorably let go from the San Read More

Five Came Back

Crew: Director

Actors: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie, John Carradine, Allen Jenkins

Synopsis: Often cited as a "model" B picture, Five Came Back is set in motion when the twelve-seat passenger plane "Southern Star" crashes into a treacherous South American jungle. With a hostile tribe of headhunters drawing ever closer, pilots Bill (Chester Morris) and Joe (Kent Taylor) race against time Read More

Broadway Musketeers

Crew: Director

Actors: Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson, John Litel, Janet Chapman

Synopsis: Broadway Musketeers is a remake of the 1932 Warner Bros. drama Three on a Match, with numerous concessions made to the now more stringent Hollywood censors. Brought up together in an orphanage, three young ladies-Isabel (Margaret Lindsay), Fay (Ann Sheridan) and Connie (Marie Wilson)-vow to remain Read More

My Bill

Crew: Director

Actors: Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, Anita Louise, John Litel

Synopsis: The ever-suffering Kay Francis once again makes an assault on the audience's tear ducts in My Bill. Francis is cast as Mary Colbrook, an impoverished widow with four children, ranging in age from 10 to 19. When she realizes she can no longer provide for her family, Mary ships the three eldest Read More

The Invisible Menace

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Eddie Acuff, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: Boris Karloff starred in this rather static whodunit from the Warner Bros. B-unit as Jeffries, a civilian employee at a military outpost who is accused of killing an ordnance expert, Reilly (Harlan Tucker). The murdered man is discovered by Pvt. Eddie Pratt (Eddie Craven) and his dumbbell bride Read More

Little Miss Thoroughbred

Crew: Director

Actors: John Litel, Ann Sheridan, Frank McHugh, Janet Chapman, Eric Stanley

Synopsis: In this heartwarming tearjerker, an adorable orphan becomes determined to find her father, whom she is convinced is still alive. She then leaves the nuns who have been her guardians and sets out on her quest. She never finds her real father, but she does manage to find a soft-hearted gambler who Read More

West of Shanghai

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff, Beverly Roberts, Ricardo Cortez, Gordon Oliver

Synopsis: In this drama, the third remake of a popular play by Porter Emerson Browne, General Wu Yen Fang, "the White Tiger," is an outlaw general who controls the bulk of northern China. The story begins as he invades the village in which two fighters work to prevent avaricious Americans from foreclosing Read More

She Loved a Fireman

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Foran, Ann Sheridan, Robert Armstrong, Eddie Acuff, Veda Ann Borg

Synopsis: In this lively adventure aimed at youthful audiences, a wiseacre fireman soon finds himself in trouble with his fire captain after the smarty pants begins dating the captain's sister. Mayhem ensues, culminating in a fist fight. In the end, the young fireman saves the captain from certain death in Read More

Men in Exile

Crew: Director

Actors: Dick Purcell, June Travis, Alan Baxter, Margaret Irving, Victor Varconi

Synopsis: Director John Farrow was always at his best when dealing with desperate men in desperate situations. One of Farrow's lesser but still fascinating 1930s assignments was the Warner Bros. actioner Men in Exile, starring Dick Purcell as American fugitive from justice Jimmy Carmody. Escaping across the Read More

Tarzan Escapes

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Johnny Weissmuller, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Buckler, Benita Hume, William Henry

Synopsis: Produced under the working title The Capture of Tarzan, Tarzan Escapes was completely refilmed before release, eviscerating several blood-curdling sequences involving killer pygmies, torture murders and vampire bats. Wearing considerably more clothing than in 1934's Tarzan and His Mate Read More

Last of the Pagans

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Lotus Long

Synopsis: Eskimo actor Ray Mala (real name: Ray Wise) relocates to the South Seas in Last of the Pagans. Mala (as he is billed) is cast as Taro, one of dozens of natives exploited by the white owners of the tin mine. The story is based on Herman Melville's Typee, which was in part a condemnation of white Read More

Woman in Bondage

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Stockfeld, Owen Nares, George Curzon, Aubrey Mather

The Common Law

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Constance Bennett, Joel McCrea, Lew Cody, Robert Williams, Hedda Hopper

Synopsis: A wealthy man's mistress abandons her luxurious life as a kept woman to be with the struggling Paris artist she has come to love in this third version of Robert W. Chambers' novel. It all began when she agreed to be his model. Soon they fall in love, and she decides to dump her rich old sugar Read More

A Woman of Experience

Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter

Actors: Helen Twelvetrees, William Bakewell, Lew Cody, ZaSu Pitts, H.B. Warner

Synopsis: In this dramatic adventure a shady lady becomes a spy for the Austrian intelligence agency and ends up involved with a man suspected of being a German spy. She only pretends to love him to discover the truth. The man she really loves is a young naval officer, but in order to serve her country, she Read More

The Bad One

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Dolores Del Rio, Edmund Lowe, Don Alvarado, Adrienne D'Ambricourt

Synopsis: In this melodrama, a dancer works in a sleazy Marseilles portside dive that is really the front for a bordello. While dancing one night she meets a sailor and agrees to be his bride. Unfortunately, one of her former suitors suddenly shows up and a terrible fight ensues. The sailor kills his rival Read More

Inside the Lines

Crew: Dialogue Writer, Screenwriter

Actors: Betty Compson, Ralph Forbes, Montagu Love, Mischa Auer, Ivan Simpson

Synopsis: Earl Derr Biggers, the creator of Charlie Chan, was responsible for the international-espionage yarn Inside the Lines. The time is WWI, and the place is Gibraltar, where English girl Jane (Betty Compson) is accidentally reunited with her pre-war sweetheart, German-born Wodehouse (Ralph Forbes). Read More

Seven Days Leave

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gary Cooper, Beryl Mercer, Daisy Belmore, Nora Cecil

Synopsis: Out of sympathy, a grown lad fighting for Canada in World War I agrees to let an older childless woman adopt him, becoming unexpectedly close to her just before he's shipped off to combat in this sentimental war drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Shadow of the Law

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Powell, Marion Shilling, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: In this suspenseful crime drama a woman is threatened by an angry husband and a man comes to her aid. Unfortunately, after he accidentally kills the husband, the woman flees the crime scene and he ends up imprisoned. While doing his time, he and his cell mate, a con artist, become friends. The con Read More

Wolf Song

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gary Cooper, Lupe Velez, Louis Wolheim, Constantine Romanoff, Michael Vavitch

Synopsis: If Hollywood gossip columnists can be believed, Gary Cooper and Lupe Velez were lovers -- and very passionate ones -- when they co-starred in Paramount's Wolf Song. Cooper is cast as Sam Lash, a fur trapper with a randy reputation when it comes to women. But when Sam meets tempestuous Mexican Read More

The Wheel of Life

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, O.P. Heggie, Arthur Hoyt

Synopsis: In his second talking picture, Richard Dix is cast as British officer Capt. Leslie Yeullat, at present on leave in London. Falling in love with Ruth Dangan (Esther Ralston), the wife of his commanding officer (O.P. Heggie), Yeullat does the gentlemanly thing by suppressing his own emotions for the Read More

A Dangerous Woman

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook, Neil Hamilton, Clyde Cook, Leslie Fenton

Synopsis: The "dangerous woman" of the title is Tania Gregory, played by the magnificent Olga Baclanova. The Russian-born wife of African district manager Frank Gregory (Clive Brook), Tania soon develops "Somerset Maugham disease" and begins yearning for the companionship of other men. Using her knowledge Read More

Woman from Moscow

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Pola Negri, Norman Kerry, Paul Lukas, Otto Matiesen, Lawrence Grant

Synopsis: Victorien Sardou's 1882 stage play Fedora was transformed by future director John Farrow into the Pola Negri vehicle The Woman from Moscow. The star plays White Russian princess Fedora, who harbors a seemingly hopeless love for dashing Boris Ipanoff (Norman Kerry). Kept separated throughout the Read More

First Kiss

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fay Wray, Gary Cooper, Lane Chandler, Leslie Fenton, Paul Fix

Three Week-Ends

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clara Bow, Neil Hamilton, Harrison Ford, Julia Swayne Gordon, Jack Raymond

Synopsis: The Clara Bow vehicle Three Week Ends was based on a story by Elinor Glyn, the romance novelist who bestowed the "It Girl" title upon the saucer-eyed Bow. Seeing hero James Gordon (Neil Hamilton) driving around in an expensive, custom-built Hispano Suiza automobile, heroine Gladys O'Brien (Bow) Read More

Ladies of the Mob

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Carl Gerard

Synopsis: The principal lady in Ladies of the Mob is jazz-baby Clara Bow. After her father is executed, Bow goes to heck in a handbasket, consorting with the riffiest raff of the underworld riff-raff. Upon falling in love with her partner in crime Richard Arlen, Bow vows to set him on the straight and Read More

The Four Feathers

Crew: Intertitle Writer

Actors: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Clive Brook, William Powell, Theodore Von Eltz

Synopsis: This was the third screen version of A.E.W. Mason's oft-filmed novel about one soldier's triumph over cowardice and was the last rendering during the silent era. Here, Richard Arlen stars as Harry Faversham, the British officer who resigns rather than fight against rebels in Egypt. When four of Read More

Blue Danube

Crew: Intertitle Writer, Screen Story

Actors: Leatrice Joy, Joseph Schildkraut, Nils Asther, Seena Owen, Albert Gran

Synopsis: Cecil B. DeMille functioned as executive producer for the derivative romantic melodrama The Blue Danube. Leatrice Joy stars as Marguerite, a Budapest tavern girl, who falls in love with young baron Erich (Nils Asther). When WWI breaks out, Erich is called back to his regiment on the eve of his Read More

White Gold

Crew: Intertitle Writer

Actors: Jetta Goudal, Ken Thomson, George Nichols, George Bancroft, Robert Perry

Synopsis: Confined to two basic sets and six characters, White Gold may well be the most claustrophobic western ever made. This sense of stuffiness was a deliberate artistic decision by director William K. Howard, who wanted to visually convey the entrapment experienced by heroine Jetta Goudal. The title Read More

Wreck of the Hesperus

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Sam de Grasse, Virginia Bradford, Francis Ford, Alan Hale

Synopsis: Wreck of the Hesperus was "suggested" by the poem of the same name by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It will be recalled that the bulk of the Longfellow original was devoted to an impassioned dialogue between the captain of the ill-fated Hesperus and his daughter, whom he has lashed to a post to keep Read More

A Sailor's Sweetheart

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Louise Fazenda, Clyde Cook, Myrna Loy, William Demarest, John Miljan

Synopsis: It would seem that Warner Bros. was trying to develop hoydenish Louise Fazenda and diminutive Clyde Cook into a screen team, which would explain the existence of such trifles as A Sailor's Sweetheart. Upon inheriting a fortune, old-maid schoolmarm Cynthia Botts (Fazenda) takes a trip to Hawaii in Read More