The best Broderick O'Farrell’s drama movies

Broderick O'Farrell

Broderick O'Farrell

13/07/1882- 02/09/1955
We present our ranking of the best Broderick O'Farrell’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Broderick O'Farrell.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
7.8/10
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.

Stranger on the Third Floor

Stranger on the Third Floor
6.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 16/08/1940
  • Character: Minister in Dream Sequence (uncredited)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours
5.7/10
Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say presto, she's his wife and stage assistant on a lengthy world tour. But Anita is annoyed by Arturo's constant flirtations, and his death-defying stunts give her nightmares. And forget her plan to retire to a farmhouse. Eventually, she has had enough and disappears.

Secrets

Secrets
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 16/03/1933
  • Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.

Crime Doctor

Crime Doctor
6.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 22/06/1943
  • Character: Night Club Patron
Robert is found beside the highway with a head injury and amnesia. His amnesia motivates him to become a Physician and the country's leading criminal psychologist.

Break of Hearts

Break of Hearts
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 31/05/1935
  • Character: Concertgoer (uncredited)
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.

The Sea Ghost

The Sea Ghost
5.2/10
  • Genre: ActionDramaWar
  • Release: 28/11/1931
  • Character: Chairman of the Court-Martial
A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67."

Men in White

Men in White
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/04/1934
  • Character: Resident Doctor (uncredited)
A dedicated young doctor places his patients above everyone else in his life. Unfortunately, his social register fianceé can't accept the fact that he considers an appointment in the operating room more important that attending a cocktail party. He soon drifts into an affair with a pretty nurse who shares his passion for healing.

Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet
6.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/01/1931
  • Character: Member of Board of Directors
Confirming his principle that no one escapes the news, a tabloid editor prints a scathing story about his wife.

Without Orders

Without Orders
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/10/1936
  • Character: Surgeon
At Portland, Oregon, playboy pilot Len Kendrick (Vinton Haworth) lands at the end of a cross-country record flight, met by his father J.P. Kendrick (Charley Grapewin) who owns Amalgamated Air Lines. Len is a media darling, adored by fans for his daring flights. He is in love with Amalgamated stewardess Kay Armstrong (Sally Eilers) who is dating veteran pilot "Wad" Madison (Robert Armstrong). Len dates her sister Penny (Frances Sage) who learns that his hard-drinking and recklessness has caused the death of his co-pilot. Penny knows that he was drinking before the fateful flight and only escaped prosecution by bribing a bartender. She leaves Len who ends up at Amalgamated as a line pilot, being tutored by Wad.

Three Smart Girls Grow Up

Three Smart Girls Grow Up
6.9/10
A businessman's (Charles Winninger) youngest daughter (Deanna Durbin) helps her innocent sisters in love.

Stars Over Broadway

Stars Over Broadway
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/11/1935
  • Character: Churchgoer
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

The Man Who Found Himself

The Man Who Found Himself
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/04/1937
  • Character: Dr. Farrell
Young Jim Stanton is a conscientious surgeon, but spends too many off-duty hours pursuing his passion for aviation to suit his stuffy father. When it is discovered that a passenger killed in a plane that Jim crashes was a married woman, the resulting scandal prompts the hospital to put Jim on probation. His pride wounded, Jim takes to the open road and enjoys the simpler life of a vagabond. In Los Angeles--where he is arrested for vagrancy and put to work on a road crew--Jim runs into old pal Dick Miller, who gets him a job as a mechanic for Roberts Aviation. But maintaining his anonymity becomes more difficult, particularly when a pretty nurse, Doris King, decides to make Jim's redemption her personal crusade.

You Can't Buy Luck

You Can't Buy Luck
5.4/10
When a gambler is accused of murder, the pretty orphanage employee he loves sets out to prove him innocent of the crime.

Badge of Honor

Badge of Honor
5.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 01/04/1934
  • Character: Howard Kent
Hoping to impress a pretty girl he's after, a playboy poses as a newspaperman and goes after a big story.

The Wet Parade

The Wet Parade
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryRomance
  • Release: 26/03/1932
  • Character: Bootleg Financial Backer (uncredited)
The evils of alcohol before and during prohibition become evident as we see its effects on the rich Chilcote family and the hard working Tarleton family.

Chinatown Nights

Chinatown Nights
5.5/10
Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he isl in love with her, and he determines to lift her up again. "Boston" Charley, the rival gang-leader, has other plans.

Reform Girl

Reform Girl
4.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/03/1933
  • Character: Putnam Associate (uncredited)
A young girl just out of prison and desperate for money finds herself involved in a plot to smear a politician by pretending to be his long-lost daughter.

Sporting Life

Sporting Life
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/11/1925
  • Character: Race Track Official (uncredited)
A young British nobleman, impoverished and desperate, clings to the hope that either a prizefighter or a racehorse in which he holds interests can save his fortunes.

The Mating Call

The Mating Call
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/07/1928
  • Character: Poker Player
Director James Cruze's 1928 silent film, with a plot involving infidelity in the Deep South, Ellis Island immigrants, and a Ku Klux Klan-like secret society.

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