Frankie Darro Movies

Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

The Driscolls learn that the Brown family's homestead has valuable marble deposits under it, and they scheme to acquire the property. They and the...

In 1869, the United States begins a railroad mail service to the West Coast which proves highly tempting to train robbers, in particular an organized...

A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.

Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons-in-law, Dan Brooks, and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his...

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...

A new inmate at a juvenile reformatory tries to organize a mass breakout.

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and...

The Next Voice You Hear... (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the...

Two young orphans, Buddy and Lucille Roberts, living in an old dark mansion atop a mountain are assailed regularly by ghostly apparitions and...

A short featuring many stars

An eccentric, wealthy spinster, 'Queenie' Baxter is erroneously presumed to be kidnapped. She subsequently pretends to indeed be kidnapped, , in...

Skipper Murphy is serving as trainer and inspiration for his brother Red Murphy training for a world championship title bout. Trouble comes for the...

Duke Carlton, an actor stranded in a small western town, gets a job as a cowboy on Tim O'Brien's ranch as a reward for beating up "Flash" Corbin, a...

Idaho Red is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.

1928 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.

Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of...

Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.

A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.

A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his...