Movies: J. Farrell MacDonald

  • 1927
    Paid to Love

    Paid to Love (1927)

    Paid to Love

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    An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards that end he befriends the country's king and they come up with a...

    Paid to Love
  • 1933
    The Vanishing Frontier

    The Vanishing Frontier (1933)

    The Vanishing Frontier

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    Its 1850 and California is under ruthless military rule. Kirby Tornell's rancho has been taken over by soldiers and when two of Kirby's men are captured, he goes there to free them. He meets the General's daughter there and attracted to her, repeated...

    The Vanishing Frontier
  • 1932
    Madame Racketeer

    Madame Racketeer (1932)

    Madame Racketeer

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    International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two...

    Madame Racketeer
  • 1933
    Murder on the Campus

    Murder on the Campus (1933)

    Murder on the Campus

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    A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real kille...

    Murder on the Campus
  • 1932
    70,000 Witnesses

    70,000 Witnesses (1932)

    70,000 Witnesses

    4.81932HD

    College football player is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother. He refuses, but they player is doped anyway and collapses and dies. A detective has the whole game re-enacted to find important clues....

    70,000 Witnesses
  • 1950
    Hostile Country

    Hostile Country (1950)

    Hostile Country

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    In this remake of No Man's Range (1935), Shamrock travels to the ranch of his stepfather who he has never met and finds himself caught in the middle of a range war....

    Hostile Country
  • 1945
    Pillow of Death

    Pillow of Death (1945)

    Pillow of Death

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    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 with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon...

    Pillow of Death
  • 1938
    My Old Kentucky Home

    My Old Kentucky Home (1938)

    My Old Kentucky Home

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    Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconc...

    My Old Kentucky Home
  • 1932
    Steady Company

    Steady Company (1932)

    Steady Company

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    Truck driver Norman Foster has aspirations to become a prize fighter, but romantic interest June Clyde finds the idea deplorable. Henry Armetta and ZaSu Pitts supply the laughs....

    Steady Company
  • 1922
    Manslaughter

    Manslaughter (1922)

    Manslaughter

    5.41922HD

    Society-girl thrillseeker Lydia's fun comes to an end when she accidentally causes the death of motorcycle policeman....

    Manslaughter
  • 1935
    The Irish in Us

    The Irish in Us (1935)

    The Irish in Us

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

    The Irish in Us
  • 1948
    Trouble Preferred

    Trouble Preferred (1948)

    Trouble Preferred

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    A suicide attempt is investigated by a pair of female police rookies....

    Trouble Preferred
  • 1938
    Extortion

    Extortion (1938)

    Extortion

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    In this B potboiler, a college professor finds himself suspected of a murder on his school's campus....

    Extortion
  • 1920
    The Path She Chose

    The Path She Chose (1920)

    The Path She Chose

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    Virginia Clerson lives in sordid surroundings with her drunken father, her thieving brother Frank and her wastrel sister Laura. Deciding to take a different path, Virginia runs away from her unhappy home and obtains work in a millinery factory, telli...

    The Path She Chose
  • 1946
    Joe Palooka, Champ

    Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)

    Joe Palooka, Champ

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    After losing heavyweight contender Al Costa to mob boss Florini fight promoter Knobby Walsh recruits small town boy Joe Palooka to take his place. First in the series....

    Joe Palooka, Champ
  • 1931
    Stranger in Town

    Stranger in Town (1931)

    Stranger in Town

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    Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles' supply of produce, whereupon his friends and neighbors...

    Stranger in Town
  • 1938
    Numbered Woman

    Numbered Woman (1938)

    Numbered Woman

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    After her brother is wrongfully arrested for the theft of some bonds, a nurse sets out to clear his name by setting a trap for the real thieves....

    Numbered Woman
  • 1948
    Shep Comes Home

    Shep Comes Home (1948)

    Shep Comes Home

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    Little Larry Havens, whose father died in WWII, runs away from home to keep from being separated from "Shep," his father's dog. In Arizona, he is befriended by a kindly Mexican, Manuel Ortiz, who he is able to repay in time, with the aid of Sheriff "...

    Shep Comes Home
  • 1941
    Law of the Timber

    Law of the Timber (1941)

    Law of the Timber

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    PRC Pictures' final 1941 release, Law of the Timber was based on a story by North Woods specialist James Oliver Curwood....

    Law of the Timber
  • 1922
    The Bonded Woman

    The Bonded Woman (1922)

    The Bonded Woman

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    Angela Gaskell travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-servitude to a dance-hall in Honolulu to a remote South Seas island. She survives a shipwreck along the ...

    The Bonded Woman