The best Jack Duffy’s movies

Jack Duffy

Jack Duffy

04/09/1882- 23/07/1939
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Our Hospitality

Our Hospitality
7.8/10
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life
7.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/04/1918
  • Character: Man in Dance Hall (uncredited)
The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

Neighbors

Neighbors
7.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 12/12/1920
  • Character: The Judge (uncredited)
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

Texas Terror

Texas Terror
5.1/10
Sheriff John Higgins quits and goes into prospecting after he thinks he has killed his best friend in shooting it out with robbers. He encounters his dead buddy's sister and helps her run her ranch. Then she finds out about his past.

Ella Cinders

Ella Cinders
7/10
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

She Couldn't Take It

She Couldn't Take It
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 08/10/1935
  • Character: Farmer
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.

Sally

Sally
6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 12/01/1930
  • Character: Roue
Sally is an orphan who was named by the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing. Working as a waitress, she serves Blair (Alexander Gray), and they both fall for each other, but Blair is engaged to socialite Marcia. Sally is hired to impersonate a famous Russian dancer named Noskerova, but at that engagement, she is found to be a phoney. Undaunted, she proceeds with her life and has a show on Broadway, but she still thinks of Blair.

Love Takes Flight

Love Takes Flight
6.1/10
A commercial pilot romances both a Hollywood actress and a female aviator. 1937.

Harold Teen

Harold Teen
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/04/1928
  • Character: Grandpop Teen
Farmboy Harold moves to the city and there attends high school. Soon he is very popular, his spirited nature causing much excitement on the campus. He joins a fraternity, goes out for football, and directs his class theatrical effort. Instead of a school play, Harold suggests doing a western motion picture. Part of the plot requires them to blow up the dam that has cut off the water supply to Harold's homestead in the country. After the explosion Harold runs away because he is afraid of being arrested, but he returns just in time to win a football game for his team.

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle

Pirate Party on Catalina Isle
5.9/10
  • Genre: Family
  • Release: 20/11/1935
  • Character: Old Pirate
Various Hollywood performers put on a pirate-themed variety show on Catalina Island, with a number of amiable stars in the audience.

The Gold Racket

The Gold Racket
5.5/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 10/04/1937
  • Character: Hinkle
At the request of the Mexican government, a federal agent and a lady reporter team up to catch a gang that has been smuggling gold from Mexico to the U.S. and then selling it to the U.S. government.

Wild Brian Kent

Wild Brian Kent
5.5/10
  • Genre: Western
  • Release: 06/11/1936
  • Character: Old-time fireman
Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.

The Stage Hand

The Stage Hand
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/09/1920
  • Character: The Hero

The Grocery Clerk

The Grocery Clerk
5.9/10
Big Ben has the largest store in the town of New Ralgia. His chief clerk is in love with the post mistress. The three of them get involved in a series of mishaps with their customers and with the town ladies' man, whose advances conceal a more sinister purpose.

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