J. Farrell MacDonald — Actor (17)
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Conspiracy (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Conspiracy
director: Lew Landers actor: Allan Lane / Robert Barrat …
American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
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Gang Bullets (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Gang Bullets
director: Lambert Hillyer actor: Anne Nagel / Robert Kent …
A Capone-like racketeer named Anderson, who after being chased out of one town by the authorities immediately sets up shop in another. Unable to get any tangible evidence against Anderson, DA Wayne orders his assistant Carter to dig up some dirt on the gangster boss. To do this, Carter pretends to turned crooked, joining Anderson's gang in order to accumulate evidence. Alas, Carter's girl friend Patricia knows nothing of her boyfriend's subterfuge, and she suspects the worst.
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Keeper of the Bees (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Keeper of the Bees
director: John Sturges actor: Michael Duane / Gloria Henry …
Michael Worthington, an elderly owner of an apiary, befriends an embittered artist, Jamie McFarlaine, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Jamie falls in love with Alice, but the romance is almost doomed by the gossip-spreading of a meddlesome neighbor.
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Little Orphan Annie (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Little Orphan Annie
director: Ben Holmes actor: Ann Gillis / Robert Kent …
Annie (Ann Gillis), an orphan, (based on Harold Gray's comic strip but who is at no point in the film called 'Little Orphan Annie), is befriended by a fight manager, 'Pop' Corrigan (J. Farrell MacDonald). She brings him Johnny Adams (Robert Kent), a promising prizefighter. Annie gets the people of the neighborhood to finance his training. But on the night of Johnny's big fight, a gambling syndicate locks him in a gymnasium and it appears the neighborhood folks will lose their investment.
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Riffraff (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Riffraff
director: J. Walter Ruben actor: Jean Harlow / Spencer Tracy …
other title: Flor de arrabal
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 jail. He gets a new job, foils a plot to dynamite the ship, and promises to wait for Hattie.
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Pillow of Death (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pillow of Death
director: Wallace Fox actor: Lon Chaney Jr. / Brenda Joyce …
other title: La almohada de la muerte / Pillow of death
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, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.
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Kentucky Pride (1925) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kentucky Pride
director: John Ford actor: Gertrude Astor / J. Farrell MacDonald …
other title: Sangre de pista / La Fille de Négofol
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 as her breeder (Henry B. Walthall) is forced to sell her when he loses everything in a poker game. Several of the era’s most famous racehorses make appearances, including the legendary champion thoroughbred Man o’ War.
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Bowery at Midnight (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bowery at Midnight
director: Wallace Fox actor: Bela Lugosi / John Archer …
other title: A mezzanotte corre il terrore / Le monstre de minuit …
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 gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.
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The Power and the Glory (1933) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Power and the Glory
director: William K. Howard actor: Spencer Tracy / Colleen Moore …
other title: Potenza e gloria / Poder y gloria
A man's life is retold just after his funeral. Beginning as a track walker, Tom Garner rose through all sorts of railroad jobs to head the company. In the meantime he lost touch with his family. When he saw what was happening it was already too late.