John Darrow

John Darrow

Birth : 1907-07-17, Leonia, New Jersey, USA

Death : 1980-02-24

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John Darrow

Movies

Crime Over London
Jim
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Annapolis Farewell
Porter
Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".
Eight Bells
Carl
A trustworthy captain is reduced in rank so that the owner's daughter's fiancé may take charge.
A Notorious Gentleman
A lawyer sets out to commit the perfect murder.
Square Shooter
Johnny Lloyd
Tim returns from prison after being framed for murder to clear his name and retrieve the ranch taken from his uncle with a forged will.
Symphony of Living
Richard Greig
Just before Adolph Greig's solo violin performance at the Cosmopolitan Orchestra, his right hand is injured and his dream, shattered. His flighty children turn their backs on him and he collapses in the street. However, an opportunity arises for him to tutor a young violin prodigy.
Flirtation Walk
Chase
A private stationed in Hawaii gets involved with the general's engaged daughter. In order to avoid a scandal, the pair break up, but meet again years later when he's at West Point producing the annual play that turns out to star her.
The Curtain Falls
Allan Scorsby
In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.
I Give My Love
Alex Blair
After accidentally killing her no-good husband, Judy makes her true love promise not to tell her small son about his imprisoned mother. She is released ten years later...
Monte Carlo Nights
Larry Sturgis
A man wrongfully convicted of murder escapes custody and goes in search of the real killer. The problem is that he only has one clue to go on.
The Big Race
Bob Hamilton
Bob Hamilton gets into trouble when crooks cause the defeat of his father's horse in the Derby, and it is reported he is in with the crooks. The old man disowns him and his sweetheart, Patricia , breaks their engagement. So Bob and "Skipper", the also-suspected trainer, head for the western tracks, taking with them the horse Hamilton Senior forced them to buy, determined to make good and prove they are on the level.
Midshipman Jack
Clark Simpson
Director Christy Cabanne's 1933 film dramatizes one year in the lives of four midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy.
The Big Chance
Knockout Frankie (Rocky) Morgan
Gangsters try to get a boxer to throw an important fight.
Strange People
Jimmy Allen - the Auto Salesman
All 12 jury members who sent an innocent man to the gallows are gathered together for a demonstration of how convictions can be made on circumstantial evidence. During the proceedings, a phony murder is quickly revealed as the real thing.
The All-American
Bob King
The story of the rise and fall of an All-American football player.
Alias Mary Smith
Robert Hayes
A young woman trying to obtain proof that a gangster committed a murder is befriended by a playboy who drinks just a bit too much.
The Midnight Lady
Bert
The hard-boiled owner of a big-city speakeasy is reunited with her daughter, who has been raised to believe that her mother is dead, then finds herself accused of murdering her daughter's no-good boyfriend.
Probation
Nick Jarrett
Janet Holman is suspicious of her fiancé, Allen Wells, after he kisses her best friend Gwen when the lights are turned out during a party. Allen leaves early, purportedly for business reasons, but in reality, he is going to visit his secret girl friend, seventeen-year-old Ruth Jarrett. When Ruth's neighbor and landlady, Mrs. Humphries, overhears her talking to Allen on the phone, she becomes morally outraged and calls the police. Ruth is taken away to juvenile hall, and when Ruth's older brother Nick comes home to celebrate Ruth's birthday, Mrs. Humphries explains that Ruth has been seeing an older, wealthy man who has been leading her astray, and that she sent her away for her own good. Nick is saddened that he has failed to keep Ruth on the right track, and when he returns to his apartment, he becomes enraged to see Allen there. When Allen claims ignorance of Ruth's age, Nick hits him, and they engage in a brawl.
Fanny Foley Herself
Teddy
A vaudeville performer has trouble dividing her time equally between her career and her two daughters.
The Bargain
Roderick White
A father changes jobs with his son, and each learns he has made a mistake.
Everything’s Rosie
Billy Lowe
A little orphan girl walks into the life of a hand-to-mouth carnival huckster. He teaches her the ropes and raises her as his own.
The Lady Refuses
Russell Courtney
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Ten Nights in a Bar-room
Frank Slade
A man's heavy drinking drives away his family and threatens to destroy his relationship with his little daughter.
The Primrose Path
Buck Randall
A naive high school girl falls for the school's star football player. Her ignorance in the matters of sex leads to pregnancy and heartbreak.
Hell's Angels
Karl Armstedt
When World War I breaks out, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps.
Cheer Up and Smile
Tom
When a popular radio singer is knocked unconscious during a robbery, a squeaky-voiced college boy fills in for him. To everyone's amazement, especially his recent girlfriend, who just broke up with him, he becomes an overnight sensation.
Prep and Pep
Flash Wells
A boy finds it difficult to live up to his father's reputation at his school.
Avalanche
Verde
An otherwise honest gambler, played by Jack Holt, begins to cheat at cards in order to put his son John Darrow through mining school in this lavish Zane Grey adaptation produced by Paramount. The callow foster-son pays back the noble gesture by running off with Holt's mistress, Olga Baclanova.
The Racket
Cub Reporter Dave Ames
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss.
High School Hero