Screenplay: John Farrow

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by John Farrow. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast David Niven · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Charles Boyer · Robert Newton

Plot English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes

Ride vaquero!

1953 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Robert Taylor · Ava Gardner · Howard Keel · Anthony Quinn

Plot Although cast totally against his usual image as not only a vicious killer but as the gun slinging subordinate to a character played by a lesser star, Robert Taylor must...

6.1

397 votes

6.1

397 votes

John Paul Jones

1959 · Movie · 126 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Robert Stack · Marisa Pavan · Charles Coburn · Bette Davis

Plot The sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While originally a loyal soldier of the King's army, Jones in time becomes a...

5.5

101 votes

5.5

101 votes

Ladies of the Mob

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast Clara Bow · Richard Arlen · Helen Lynch · Mary Alden

Plot A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.

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Seven Days Leave

1930 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Richard Wallace

Cast Gary Cooper · Beryl Mercer · Daisy Belmore · Nora Cecil

Plot A young Canadian soldier is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow (Beryl Mercer)...

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Inside the Lines

1930 · Movie · 72 min. · United States

Direction Roy Pomeroy

Cast Betty Compson · Ralph Forbes · Montagu Love · Ivan Simpson

Plot During World War 1, German spies will stop at nothing to spy on the allied war plans stored at Gibraltar.

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Red, Hot and Blue

1949 · Movie · 84 min. · United States

Direction John Farrow

Cast Betty Hutton · Victor Mature · William Demarest · June Havoc

Plot Eleanor Collier wants to become a successful actress and agrees to a series of publicity stunts thought up by her press agent, Charley Baxter. The result is trouble and a...

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The Wheel of Life

1929 · Movie · 55 min. · United States

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The Bad One

1930 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The Showdown

1928 · Movie · 77 min. · United States

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Last of the Pagans

1935 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Mala · Lotus Long · Chester Gan · Rudolph Anders

Plot A young Polynesian couple is separated by a mining company which enslaves islanders.

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Three Weekends

1928 · Movie · 60 min. · United States

Direction Clarence G. Badger

Cast Clara Bow · Neil Hamilton · Harrison Ford II · Lucille Powers

Plot A sexy young nightclub singer sets her sights on a young man she believes to be a millionaire playboy, although he is in reality only an insurance agent.

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The Wolf Song

1929 · Movie · 80 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming

Cast Gary Cooper · Lupe Velez · Louis Wolheim · Constantine Romanoff

Plot In 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets...

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Shadow of the Law

1930 · Movie · 69 min. · United States

Direction Louis J. Gasnier

Cast William Powell · Marion Shilling · Natalie Moorhead · Regis Toomey

Plot John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and...

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The Blue Danube

1928 · Movie · 70 min. · United States

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The Common Law

1931 · Movie · 74 min. · United States

Direction Paul L. Stein

Cast Constance Bennett · Joel McCrea · Lew Cody · Robert Williams

Plot A woman (Constance Bennett) models for an artist (Joel McCrea). They fall in love, but can he (and his family) overcome her past as 'the other woman'?

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