The best Frankie Darro’s drama movies

Frankie Darro

Frankie Darro

22/12/1917- 25/12/1976
We present our ranking of the best Frankie Darro’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 Frankie Darro.
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The Mad Genius

The Mad Genius
6.3/10
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.

The Public Enemy

The Public Enemy
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/04/1931
  • Character: Matt as a Boy (uncredited)
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Westward the Women

Westward the Women
7.6/10
In a time when "The West" pretty much ends in Texas and only California is slowly being populated by the white men, there's a severe lack of women among the workers on Roy Whitman's farm in the California Valley. So he goes back east to Chicago to recruit 150 women willing to become wives for his employees. From the candidates he selects 138 who seem able to survive a months long journey across "The Great American Desert" and the Rocky Mountains. Written by Tom Zoerner

Three on a Match

Three on a Match
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/10/1932
  • Character: Bobby (uncredited)
Mary, Vivian and Ruth are former schoolmates who do some catching up after a chance meeting. Of the three women, Vivian, who married successful lawyer Robert, seems to have the most glamorous life. Vivian really isn't satisfied though, and soon deserts Robert and her son for Mike, a mobster. Before long, Vivian is hooked on drugs, and Mike needs cash.

The Mayor of Hell

The Mayor of Hell
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 24/06/1933
  • Character: James 'Jimmie' Smith
Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 25/12/1926
  • Character: Boy Who Dances with Hertha (uncredited)
As lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home following completion of their military training, Leo sees stunning Felicitas at the railway station and, mesmerized by her beauty, is smitten. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

Wild Boys of the Road

Wild Boys of the Road
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/10/1933
  • Character: Eddie Smith
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job. Eager not to burden their parents, the two high school Sophomores decide to hop the freight trains and look for work.

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry

Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
6.3/10
Cricket West is a hopeful actress with a plan and a pair of vocal chords that bring down the house. Along with her eccentric aunt, she plays host to the local jockeys, whose leader is the cocky but highly skilled Timmie Donovan. A young English gentleman comes to town convincing Donovan to ride his horse in a high stakes race.

Saratoga

Saratoga
6.5/10
A horse breeder's (Lionel Barrymore) granddaughter (Jean Harlow) falls in love with a gambler (Clark Gable) in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

The Sin of Madelon Claudet

The Sin of Madelon Claudet
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/10/1931
  • Character: Larry Claudet - as a Boy (uncredited)
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.

Angels' Alley

Angels' Alley
5.9/10
Slip invites his cousin Jimmy to stay with his family after he is released from prison. However, Jimmy soon gets mixed up with an auto-theft ring.

That's My Man

That's My Man
6.2/10
A poor young man is finally able to achieve his dream of running a horse at the track, but when he starts becoming successful, he begins to lose sight of what mattered to him before.

Way Back Home

Way Back Home
5.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/11/1931
  • Character: Robbie
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.

Little Men

Little Men
6.2/10
The former Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for homeless boys. One of the boys, Nat, invites Dan, a street kid, to come to the school, where the boys are all loved and well cared for. Dan is a young tough, but his heart is good, and when he is accused of theft at the school, Jo continues to believe in him and that the true thief will be found out.

Broadway Bill

Broadway Bill
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/11/1934
  • Character: Ted Williams
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...

The Merry Frinks

The Merry Frinks
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 26/05/1934
  • Character: Norman Frink
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Tugboat Annie

Tugboat Annie
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 04/08/1933
  • Character: Alec, as a Child
Waterfront couple raise their son to be a sea captain. He grows up to be rather snotty and rebels against drunken Beery. Valiant Dressler keeps things moving even as hubby ruins their tugboat business.

No Greater Glory

No Greater Glory
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/03/1934
  • Character: Feri Ats
A frail boy fights to win acceptance from the leader of a street gang.

The Payoff

The Payoff
5.6/10
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.

Memory Lane

Memory Lane
7.6/10
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.

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