Cast: Frankie Darro

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frankie Darro. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Wild Boys of the Road

1933 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Frankie Darro · Edwin Phillips · Rochelle Hudson · Dorothy Coonan Wellman

Synopsis In the depths of the Depression, two teenage boys strike out on their own in order to help their struggling parents and find life on the road tougher than expected.

7.2

201 votes

7.2

201 votes

No Greater Glory

1934 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast George P. Breakston · Jimmy Butler · Jackie Searl · Frankie Darro

Synopsis George Breakston plays a frail youngster who idolizes gang leader Jimmy Butler. The gang is modeled after an army, complete with uniforms and a flag. Breakston's ill health makes him something of an outcast, but he is allowed to join...

7.0

54 votes

7.0

54 votes

The Mayor of Hell

1933 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Archie Mayo · Michael Curtiz

Cast James Cagney · Madge Evans · Arthur Byron · Allen Jenkins

Synopsis Five members of a teen-age gang, including leader Jimmy Smith, are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the melodramatically callous Thompson. Soon, Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner as a political favor, arrives complete with hip...

6.2

85 votes

6.2

85 votes

That's My Man

1947 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Don Ameche · Catherine McLeod · Roscoe Karns · John Ridgely

Synopsis 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.

6.2

44 votes

6.2

44 votes

6.2

30 votes

Long Pants

1927 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Harry Langdon · Gladys Brockwell · Alan Roscoe · Priscilla Bonner

Synopsis Harry Shelby (Harry Langdon) has been kept in knee pants for years by his overprotective parents, but the day finally comes when Harry is given his first pair of long pants. Almost immediately, he is expected to marry his childhood...

6.1

129 votes

6.1

129 votes

Way Back Home

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction William A. Seiter

Cast Phillips Lord · Effie Palmer · Frank Albertson · Bette Davis

Synopsis Seth Parker takes in Robbie Turner and protects him from his cruel father Rube. When the father disappears, Seth intends to raise Robbie as his own son. The vindictive father attacks Mary Lucy, a neighbor's daughter who is also trying...

6.0

29 votes

6.0

29 votes

Saratoga

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

Direction Jack Conway

Cast Clark Gable · Jean Harlow · Lionel Barrymore · Frank Morgan

Synopsis Carol Clayton is the daughter of a horse breeder at Saratoga. Though engaged to wealthy Hartley Madison, and disgusted by bookie Duke Bradley, her father owes Bradley a lot of money and Bradley takes a shine to her.

6.0

238 votes

6.0

238 votes

The Mad Genius

1931 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast John Barrymore · Marian Marsh · Charles Butterworth · Donald Cook

Synopsis 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.

5.9

25 votes

5.9

25 votes

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

1936 · Movie · 82 min. · United States

Direction Stephen Roberts

Cast William Powell · Jean Arthur · James Gleason · Eric Blore

Synopsis Relations between Dr. 'Brad' Bradford and ex-wife Paula are surprisingly romantic. They divorced because Brad hated being dragged into murder mysteries, to which mystery writer Paula is addicted. But through horse trainer Mike North, Brad is embroiled in the case...

5.9

41 votes

5.9

41 votes

The Signal Tower

1924 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Clarence Brown

Cast Virginia Valli · Rockcliffe Fellowes · Frankie Darro · Wallace Beery

Synopsis A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.

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The Circus Kid

1928 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction George B. Seitz

Cast Frankie Darro · Poodles Hanneford · Joe E. Brown · Helene Costello

Synopsis A young waif (Frankie Darro) runs away from a harsh orphanage in order to join the circus.

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Boys' Reformatory

1939 · Movie · 62 min. · United States

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Phantom of the Range

1928 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

Direction James Dugan

Cast Tom Tyler · Frankie Darro · Duane Thompson · Charles McHugh

Synopsis An actor, lackin of money, works in a farm which is on the eyes of an evil business man.

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Roaring Rails

1924 · Movie · 68 min. · United States

Direction Tom Forman

Cast Harry Carey · Frankie Darro · Edith Roberts · Wallace MacDonald

Synopsis A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford,...

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Juvenile Court

1938 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction D. Ross Lederman

Cast Paul Kelly · Rita Hayworth · Frankie Darro · Hal E. Chester

Synopsis Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum...

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Memory Lane

1926 · Movie · 78 min. · United States

Direction John M. Stahl

Cast Eleanor Boardman · Conrad Nagel · William Haines · John Steppling

Synopsis Mary, on the day of her wedding to Jimmie, finds she has not lost her affection for another sweetheart, Joe. A confrontation arises when Jimmie discovers that Joe has come along on their honeymoon.

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Tugboat Annie

1933 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Mervyn LeRoy

Cast Marie Dressler · Wallace Beery · Robert Young · Maureen O'Sullivan

Synopsis 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. Dressler dotes on his son and...

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Laughing at Danger

1940 · Movie · 63 min. · United States

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Not rated