List of the best Frankie Darro movies: Wild Boys of the Road(1933), The Devil Horse(1932), Tough Kid(1939), Anything for a Thrill(1937), Up in the Air(1940), Born to Fight(1936), Headline Crasher(1937), Irish Luck(1939), The Devil Diamond(1936), Chasing Trouble(1940), Tough to Handle(1937), The Wolf Dog(1933) ... ...
Drama
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Frankie Darro Dorothy Coonan Edwin Phillips Rochelle Hudson Sterling Holloway Arthur Hohl Ann Hovey Minna Gombell
teen boy high-school student police officer teen girl aunt panhandler gritty dark profound train cleveland chicago camp dump new york state great depression unemployment child labor friendship quest
In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.
Western
USA
1932
100 Minutes
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
Drama
USA
1939
60 Minutes
Frankie Darro Dick Purcell Judith Allen Lillian Elliott Don Rowan William Ruhl Lew Kelly Ralph Peters
Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the Murphys when Red runs up against a ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1937
60 Minutes
Frankie Darro Kane Richmond June Johnson Ann Evers Johnstone White Horace Murphy Edward Hearn Frank Marlowe Bob Kortman Charles Dorety
Don Mallory is the younger brother of ace newsreel photographer Cliff Mallory, and is continually urging Cliff to let him become a cameraman rather than going to college. Cliff refuses. He ... See full summary »
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
62 Minutes
Frankie Darro Marjorie Reynolds Mantan Moreland Clyde Dilson
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1936
64 Minutes
"Babyface" Madison
Frankie Darro Kane Richmond Jack LaRue Frances Grant Sheila Bromley Monty Collins Eddie Phillips Fred S. Toones
Can Dare Rudd prove he is responsible enough to win the heart of Judy and also outwit the crooked saloon owner?
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1937
58 Minutes
Frankie Darro Kane Richmond Muriel Evans John Merton Richard Tucker Edward Earle Eleanor Stewart Harry Harvey
"Headline Crasher" is a Conn Pictures Corporation production that was distributed on a regional basis by Guaranteed Pictures which, for the sources that seem to think otherwise, was a ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
USA
1939
58 Minutes
Frankie Darro Dick Purcell Lillian Elliott Sheila Darcy James Flavin Denny Meadows Mantan Moreland
Buzzy O'Brien is a bellhop in a hotel where a guest is murdered. The police blame Kitty Monahan and Buzzy succeeds in helping her escape and hides her at his home with his mother. Buzzy and... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1936
120 Minutes
Frankie Darro Kane Richmond June Gale Robert Fiske Charles Prince Edward Earle Fern Emmett Byron Foulger George Cleveland Burr Caruth Jack Ingram
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1940
64 Minutes
Frankie Darro Marjorie Reynolds George Cleveland Alex Callam Lillian Elliott Milburn Stone Tristram Coffin Donald Kerr Cheryl Walker
A delivery boy for a flower shop, who thinks of himself as an amateur detective, finds out that his boss is mixed up with a foreign espionage ring.
Crime, Drama
1937
58 Minutes
Mike
Frankie Darro Kane Richmond Phyllis Fraser Harry Worth Burr Caruth Stanley Price
Adventure, Action
1933
240 Minutes
Frank Courtney
Colbert Clark Frankie Darro Boots Mallory George J. Lewis Henry B. Walthall Hale Hamilton Fred Kohler Donald Reed Gordon De Main Stanley Blystone Tom London
Musical, Comedy
1941
62 Minutes
Frankie Monahan
Drama
1936
82 Minutes
Frankie Darro Gloria Shea Roy Mason Berton Churchill Stanley Fields Frank Shannon George Cleveland
oil driller father geologist money lender schoolteacher melodramatic intense fascinating oil field family home countryside office classroom small town oil father/son relationship sabotage abduction family business greed
Clifford "Fishtail" Riley (Frankie Darro) is stunned when his hardworking father, Daniel (Frank Shannon), plummets to his doom at the bottom of their nascent oil well, and decides to sell the business.
Drama, Action
USA
1924
60 Minutes
Harry Carey Frankie Darro Edith Roberts Wallace MacDonald Frank Hagney Duke Lee
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi
1935
70 Minutes
Gene Autry Frankie Darro Betsy King Ross Wheeler Oakman Charles French Warner Richmond
cowboy radio station manager rancher queen scientist sidekick campy lighthearted suspenseful thrilling california underground ranch fantasy world radio station city american west secret society radio smuggling
Riders from Radio Ranch venture into the underground city of Murania. Adapted from "The Phantom Empire" serial.
Drama
USA
1924
70 Minutes
Sonny Taylor
Virginia Valli Rockliffe Fellowes Frankie Darro Wallace Beery James O. Barrows J. Farrell MacDonald Dot Farley Clarence Brown
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
Drama
1935
56 Minutes
Silvers Sanderson
Grant Withers Paul Fix Frankie Darro Walter Miller Russell Hopton Drue Leyton Frank Rice William Gould Jack Rockwell
Drama
USA
1934
117 Minutes
Feri Ats
George Breakston Jimmy Butler Jackie Searle Frankie Darro Donald Haines Rolf Ernest Julius Molnar Wesley Giraud Beaudine Anderson Bruce Line Samuel S. Hinds
gang leader gang member sick child rival mother father emotional powerful military hospital germany school street gang war fitting in respect illness making amends outsider adventure rivalry
Adapted from The Paul Street Boys, an autobiographical novel by Ferenc Molnar, GLORY is an unusually sensitive evocation of the pain of youth and the senselessness of war. Frail Nemecsek, a... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
James "Jimmy" Smith
James Cagney Madge Evans Allen Jenkins Dudley Digges Frankie Darro Dorothy Peterson John Marston Charles Wilson Hobart Cavanaugh Raymond Borzage Robert Barrat
corrupt businessman reformed criminal nurse boy gangster guard dark gritty shocking reform school court barn redemption reform political corruption new job rebellion juvenile crime transformation sacrifice
Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the state reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1937
80 Minutes
'Dink' Reid
Judy Garland Mickey Rooney Sophie Tucker C. Aubrey Smith Frankie Darro Henry Kolker Helen Troy Ronald Sinclair
jockey niece horse owner young boy uncle gambler charming melodramatic positive horse track boarding house house england office horse racing gambling betrayal friendship fixed game horses
A cocky young jockey who gets mixed up with some crooked gamblers befriends an English lad with a fast horse and the niece of a woman who runs a boarding house for jockeys.
Drama
USA
1927
78 Minutes
Harry Langdon Gladys Brockwell Alma Bennett Albert Roscoe Frankie Darro Priscilla Bonner
Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, Harry decides to rescue her. To do so,... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1932
81 Minutes
Robbie
Phillips Lord Effie Palmer Bette Davis Frank Albertson Frankie Darro Dorothy Peterson Stanley Fields Oscar Apfel Sophia M. Lord Bennett Kilpack Raymond Hunter
Seth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rube. When the father disappears, Seth intends to raise Robbie as his own son. The vindictive father attacks Mary ... See full summary »
Comedy
1926
108 Minutes
Pierre
Norma Talmadge Ronald Colman William Orlamond Erwin Connelly Frankie Darro Mack Swain Gertrude Astor Marc McDermott George K. Arthur
A Parisian gamine wants to become a chorus girl to win the heart of the Follies manager even if she has to do unladylike stunts.
Comedy, Romance
USA
1926
78 Minutes
Urchin
Eleanor Boardman Conrad Nagel William Haines John Steppling Eugenie Forde Frankie Darro Dot Farley Joan Standing Kate Price
Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come along on their ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1934
84 Minutes
Dan
Ralph Morgan Erin O'Brien-Moore Junior Durkin Cora Sue Collins Phyllis Fraser Frankie Darro David Durand Dickie Moore
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
Alec
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Robert Young Maureen O'Sullivan Willard Robertson Tammany Young Frankie Darro Jack Pennick Paul Hurst Oscar Apfel Robert McWade
ship captain drunk son fiancée boss mother rousing madcap emotional pacific northwest washington state boat boats sea mother/son relationship alcoholism redemption storm wretched excess rise
Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
Comedy
USA
1934
67 Minutes
Norman Frink
Aline MacMahon Guy Kibbee Hugh Herbert Allen Jenkins Helene Lowell Joan Wheeler Frankie Darro Ivan Lebedeff
An under-appreciated mother inherits a fortune and abandons her family.
Drama
USA
1931
81 Minutes
Fedor as a Boy
John Barrymore Marian Marsh Donald Cook Charles Butterworth Luis Alberni Carmel Myers Andre Luguet Frankie Darro Boris Karloff Mae Madison
A crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer.
Drama
USA
1924
90 Minutes
Colleen Moore Joseph De Grasse John Bowers Ben Lyon Wallace Beery Gladys Brockwell Jean Hersholt Charlotte Merriam Dot Farley Ford Sterling Frankie Darro
mother farmer son husband married woman teacher melodramatic emotional illinois farm high school mother/son relationship farming struggle affair determination poverty rise sacrifice transformation
Western
USA
1950
87 Minutes
Stephen McNally Alexis Smith Howard da Silva Ed Begley Dan Riss Roy Roberts Whit Bissell Armando Silvestre James Arness Richard Jaeckel Frankie Darro
In 1869, when the railroad mail service is threatened by frequent bandit attacks, the government hires Steve Davis to infiltrate a gang in order to destroy it from inside.
Drama
USA
1931
73 Minutes
Helen Hayes Lewis Stone Neil Hamilton Robert Young Cliff Edwards Jean Hersholt Marie Prevost Karen Morley Charles Winninger Alan Hale Halliwell Hobbes
doctor single mother artist jewel thief prostitute farmer melodramatic bleak profound paris france farm prison apartment city abandonment betrayal motherhood wrongful conviction patriarchy
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
Crime, Drama
USA
1951
83 Minutes
Walter Pidgeon John Hodiak Audrey Totter Paula Raymond Thomas Gomez Cameron Mitchell Karl Malden Everett Sloane Jonathan Cott Frank Cady Hugh Sanders
editor sheriff lawyer son-in-law police officer tense emotional united states city small town corruption injustice showdown police brutality newspapers city vs. country revenge rivalry 1950s
During the 1950s, a small-town newspaper editor and a state assistant attorney-general fight corrupt local officials from one rotten county.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1954
95 Minutes
Dean Martin Jerry Lewis Janet Leigh Edward Arnold Fred Clark Sheree North Sammy White Sid Tomack Sig Ruman Richard Loo Raymond Greenleaf
railroad worker doctor reporter editor love interest charming unrestrained los alamos, n.m. railroad tracks small town doctor's office new york city hotel love triangle deception fame radiation newspapers mistaken diagnosis quest
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.