The best Darby Jones’s movies

Darby Jones

Darby Jones

21/02/1910- 30/11/1986
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Wells Fargo

Wells Fargo
6.4/10
In the 1840s, Ramsey MacKay, the driver for the struggling Wells Fargo mail and freight company, will secure an important contract if he delivers fresh oysters to Buffalo from New York City. When he rescues Justine Pryor and her mother, who are stranded in a broken wagon on his route, he doesn't let them slow him down and gives the ladies an exhilirating ride into Buffalo. He arrives in time to obtain the contract and is then sent by company president Henry Wells to St. Louis to establish a branch office.

Tarzan Escapes

Tarzan Escapes
6.5/10
White hunter Captain Fry tries to take Tarzan back to civilization, caged for public display. He arrives in the jungle with Jane's cousins, Eric and Rita, who want Jane's help in claiming a fortune left her.

I Walked with a Zombie

I Walked with a Zombie
7/10
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, an unusual woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

Diamond Jim

Diamond Jim
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1935
  • Character: Black Man
A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

The Macomber Affair

The Macomber Affair
6.6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 20/04/1947
  • Character: Masai Warrior (uncredited)
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".

White Cargo

White Cargo
6/10
In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.

Kentucky

Kentucky
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/12/1938
  • Character: Duckfoot
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.

Stanley and Livingstone

Stanley and Livingstone
7/10
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

Maryland

Maryland
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/07/1940
  • Character: Aleck
A woman tormented by the hunting death of her husband forbids her son to have anything to do with horses. But when he falls for the daughter of his father's trainer, he defies his mother by entering the Maryland Hunt.

Congo Maisie

Congo Maisie
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaRomance
  • Release: 19/01/1940
  • Character: First Witch Doctor (Uncredited)
Maisie gets lost in a jungle in Africa and the jungle of romance. The African jungle has snakes, crocodiles and witch doctors. The romantic jungle has a dedicated doctor with an un-dedicated wife and an embittered doctor who is dedicated to no one.

Passport to Suez

Passport to Suez
6.2/10
The Lone Wolf goes undercover in Egypt to foil a Nazi plot to bomb and disable the Suez canal, which is vital to England's war effort.

Sundown

Sundown
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 31/10/1941
  • Character: Camel Man (uncredited)
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.

Broken Strings

Broken Strings
5.6/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 01/01/1940
  • Character: Stringbeans
After noted violinist Arthur Williams suffers a hand injury which ends his playing career, his hopes are transferred to his son, who prefers swing music to classical.

Sleepy Lagoon

Sleepy Lagoon
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 05/09/1943
  • Character: Cannibal (uncredited)
Young radio personality Judy Joyner becomes mayor of the moribund town, Sleepy Lagoon, after running on an all women ticket and promptly sets out to turn the town around.

Zombies on Broadway

Zombies on Broadway
5.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyHorror
  • Release: 01/05/1945
  • Character: Kalaga - the Zombie
Hiring real zombies for a broadway show proves difficult.

Virginia

Virginia
6.6/10
Post-Civil War romantic drama about defeated Southerners, starring Madeleine Carroll and Fred MacMurray.

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