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Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948) John Farrow, Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship to John Triton. Read More »
Submarine Command (1951) John Farrow, William Holden, Nancy Olson, William Bendix
Submarine commander Ken White is forced to suddenly submerge, leaving his captain and another crew member to die outside the sub during WW II. Read More »
Broadway Musketeers (1938) John Farrow, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Sheridan, Marie Wilson
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. Read More »
Alias Nick Beal (1949) John Farrow, Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell
Righteous district attorney Joseph Foster’s main goal in life is to rid his city of the gangsters infesting it. Read More »
Comet Over Broadway (1938) Busby Berkeley, John Farrow, Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel, Drama, Romance
Eve Appleton, wife of small-town garage owner Bill Appleton, has theatrical ambitions. Read More »
Sorority House (1939) John Farrow, Anne Shirley, James Ellison, Barbara Read, Drama, Romance
Anne Shirley plays Alice Fisher-the daughter of a small grocer who at the last minute gets to go to little Talbot College. Read More »
The Unholy Wife (1957) John Farrow, Diana Dors, Rod Steiger, Tom Tryon, Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wealthy vintner Paul Hochen meets blonde bombshell Phyllis in a bar…and marries her. In due course, Phyllis is bored by Paul, and finds an exciting new lover in rodeo rider San. Read More »
Two Years Before the Mast (1946) John Farrow, Alan Ladd, Brian Donlevy, William Bendix, Drama, Adventure
Based on a famous book by Richard Henry Dana, Jr., this grueling saga of shipboard oppression is set in the mid-19th century. Read More »
My Bill (1938) John Farrow, Kay Francis, Bonita Granville, John Litel, Drama, Romance
The town of Colbrook, Massachusetts was founded by the family of the same name, and as such they are its leading family. Read More »
Blaze of Noon (1947) John Farrow, Anne Baxter, William Holden, Sonny Tufts, Action, Drama
In the 1920s, the four McDonald brothers leave the uncertain life of carnival stunt fliers for steady jobs with the U.S. Air Mail. Read More »
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) Michael Anderson, John Farrow, David Niven, Cantinflas, Shirley MacLaine, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
When this movie is made in 1956, one can circumnavigate the globe in a little less than two days. Read More »
Men in Exile (1937) John Farrow, Dick Purcell, June Travis, Victor Varconi, Crime, Drama, Romance
When ex-convict cabbie Jimmy Carmody is framed in a jewelry store robbery and murder, an old friend arranges for him to flee the country to the island of Caribo Read More »
Wake Island (1942) John Farrow, Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, Action, Drama, War
In November 1941, Major Caton takes command of the small Marine garrison on Wake Island. His tendency toward spit and polish upsets the men’s tropical lassitude Read More »
Copper Canyon (1950) John Farrow, Ray Milland, Hedy Lamarr, Macdonald Carey, Western
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. It seems they’re wrong; but Johnny’s show comes to Coppertown and Johnny romances lovely gambler Lisa Roselle, whom the miners believe is at the center of their troubles.
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