The best Charles Farrell’s movies

Charles Farrell

Charles Farrell

09/08/1900- 06/05/1990
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7th Heaven

7th Heaven
7.6/10
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

The Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/11/1923
  • Character: Israelite Slave (uncredited)
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

City Girl

City Girl
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 16/02/1930
  • Character: Lem Tustine
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

Happy Days

Happy Days
5.5/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 16/09/1929
  • Character: Himself
Margie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boats former stars to join in a big show to rescue it.

Wild Girl

Wild Girl
6.4/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 09/11/1932
  • Character: Billy, the Stranger
Bret Harte's story Salomy Jane's Kiss provided the basis for a play (by Paul Armstrong and a number of films, including 1932's Wild Girl. Set in the High Sierras at the end of the Civil War, the "wild girl" of the title is Salome Jane Clay (Joan Bennett). Rather tomboyish and determined, she isn't the vixen that the title suggests; as a matter of fact, she is upset and angry over a man who has tried to take liberties with her. A stranger Charles Farrell shows up, looking for the same man who has incurred Jane's enmity. Farrell has a score to settle, for this man ruined the life and reputation of Farrell's sister. He shoots him, then flees the town with Jane's help. They are pursued by numerous individuals; as they overcome various obstacles, they find themselves falling in love.

The Freshman

The Freshman
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyFamilyRomance
  • Release: 20/09/1925
  • Character: Student Bell Ringer at Frolic (uncredited)
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. When he arrives at Tate University, he soon becomes the target of practical jokes and ridicule. With the help of his one real friend Peggy, he resolves to make every possible effort to become popular.

Old Ironsides

Old Ironsides
6.9/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 06/12/1926
  • Character: The Commodore
An embellished account of the 1813 expedition by famed frigate U.S.S. Constitution--a.k.a. "Old Ironsides"--against the Barbary pirates then terrorizing American shipping, focusing on the crew and passengers of a fictional merchant ship, The Esther, who fall afoul of the same pirates and thus become involved with the Constitution's mission.

Tail Spin

Tail Spin
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/02/1939
  • Character: Bud
Trixie is a female pilot looking to win a big race to advance her career. During one race, however, her plane becomes damaged, and she needs help to repair it. She meets a Navy pilot named "Tex" Price and tries to gain his aid. Tex soon meets another pilot, Gerry, a novice who seeks to win an important upcoming race. Tex, concerned for Gerry's safety, tries to convince her not to race. But Gerry, now a rival of Trixie's, is determined to fly.

Lucky Star

Lucky Star
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/08/1929
  • Character: Timothy Osborn
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

The Big Shakedown

The Big Shakedown
6.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/01/1934
  • Character: Jimmy Morrell
Former bootlegger Dutch Barnes pressures neighborhood druggist Jimmy Morrell into making cut-rate knockoff toiletry, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical products.

Street Angel

Street Angel
7.3/10
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

Liliom

Liliom
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/10/1930
  • Character: Liliom
A carousel barker falls in love with a young woman. Both are fired from their jobs, and when the young woman becomes pregnant, the carousel barker tries to help pull off a robbery, which goes wrong. Because of the robbery, he dies, and after spending time in hell, is sent back to earth for one day to try to make amends.

After Tomorrow

After Tomorrow
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 06/03/1932
  • Character: Peter Piper
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?

Fighting Youth

Fighting Youth
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/11/1935
  • Character: Larry Davis
A radical campus group persuades student Carol Arlington to lead a protest of a college's football team. She manages to recruit Larry Davis, even though he is a star player for State's team.

Clash of the Wolves

Clash of the Wolves
6.5/10
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed (Rin Tin Tin). When the pack is discovered hunting a herd of cows, a posse gives chase. Lobo leaves his pack to lead the posse away. He is injured and found by a local prospector, Dave Weston (Charles Farrell). The prospector nurses Lobo back to health and the two become close friends. Meanwhile, Weston has made a Borax find in the area. His girl friend May Barstowe (June Marlowe), daughter of a wealthy rancher, is pleased. However the local chemist, Borax Horton (Pat Hartigan), actually a claim jumper, plans to steal the claim.

Change of Heart

Change of Heart
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/05/1934
  • Character: Chris Thring
Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

The Princess and the Plumber

The Princess and the Plumber
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/12/1930
  • Character: Charlie Peters / Albert Bowers
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.

Merely Mary Ann

Merely Mary Ann
6.6/10
  • Release: 16/09/1931
  • Character: John Lonsdale
Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.

The Red Dance

The Red Dance
6.3/10
  • Genre: HistoryRomance
  • Release: 02/12/1928
  • Character: Grand Duke Eugen
Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him.

Fazil

Fazil
6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/06/1928
  • Character: Prince Fazil
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.

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