M.F. Murphy

Birth : 1889-11-29,

Death : 1961-11-21

Movies

Little Tough Guy
Production Manager
The son of a man sentenced to death for a murder he didn't commit vows to become a criminal himself. He starts his own street gang, and their crime spree is financed by a mysterious young man--who turns out to be the son of the District Attorney who sent the boy's father to the electric chair.
The Crime of Doctor Hallet
Production Manager
Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.
Mad About Music
Production Manager
A young woman at a girl's school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where she has to produce him. Interesting things happen as she talks a visiting Englishman into helping her out.
The Jury's Secret
Production Manager
A reporter covering a murder trial guesses that the murderer of a ruthless businessman is her ex-fiancé and persuades him to confess and clear the innocent man on trial.
A Girl with Ideas
Production Manager
A rich banker's zany daughter gains control of a large newspaper.
The Lady Fights Back
Production Manager
Engineer Owen Merrill travels to the Pacific Northwest where he plans to build a dam. He stays at the Salmon Club, run by attractive Heather McHale. When Heather learns Owen's purpose, she explains that the club has a government lease on the river in order to preserve the area's good salmon fishing. Owen argues that the dam will create jobs, but Heather deplores the loss of beauty....
The Man Who Cried Wolf
Production Manager
An actor plots "the perfect crime" by confessing to murders he didn't commit.
East of Java
Production Manager
Survivors of a shipwreck find refuge on a tropical island--but so do the ship's cargo of lions and tigers.
Night Life of the Gods
Production Manager
A scientist named Hunter Hawk invents a device that can turn flesh to stone. While celebrating his discovery he becomes involved with a half naked leprechaun. On a trip to New York, Hunter and Meg (the leprechaun) decide to go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and turn all of the Statues of Greek Gods into people. What follows in a drunken romp around New York with Medusa's severed head still in Perseus' hand.
Imitation of Life
Production Manager
A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.
There's Always Tomorrow
Production Manager
Ignored by his ever-busy wife and children, a middle-aged businessman finds companionship with a former female employee.
The Human Side
Production Manager
The story of a theatrical producer, his divorced wife and their four children.
One Exciting Adventure
Production Manager
One Exciting Adventure is a 1934 American comedy film directed by Ernst L. Frank. It is a remake of the 1933 German film What Women Dream.
Romance in the Rain
Production Manager
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Half a Sinner
Production Manager
A con man poses as a hillbilly preacher.
Let's Talk It Over
Production Manager
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
The Black Cat
Production Manager
After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
Affairs of a Gentleman
Production Manager
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
I'll Tell the World
Production Manager
Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal's I'll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke on behalf of his wire service.
The Countess of Monte Cristo
Production Manager
A distraught movie extra flees a movie set with a fancy costume and car. Circumstances lead her to begin impersonating a Countess, while a fellow extra takes on the role of her servant.