J. Farrell MacDonald
37 titles
Filmography
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The Last Alarm
(1940)A veteran fireman heads up an arson squad searching for a dangerous pyromaniac who is intent on setting the city ablaze.
Men Without Women
(1930)
The Thirteenth Guest
(1932)Thirteen years after a mysterious dinner party at which the wealthy host died, a black-hooded maniac begins killing off the dead man’s heirs.

Heritage of the Desert
(1932)In White Sage, Utah, a young tenderfoot from the East falls for a rancher's daughter while being forced to defend his land against claim jumpers.
Hearts of Humanity
(1932)
Danger Ahead
(1935)A newspaper reporter attempts to return $40,000 in cash to the right hands after witnessing a sea captain getting robbed of a payment for a shipment.

Discarded Lovers
(1932)Hollywood star Irma Gladden piles up the haters as she goes along her merry way-until she's found dead in her car.

Law of the Timber
(1941)The H and L Lumber Company headed by Henry Lorimer and his daughter "Perry", receives a huge national defense order, and prepares to cut the dangerous Antler Valley tract.

Susannah of the Mounties
(1939)Rescued by kindly Mounted Police officers after barely surviving an Indian attack on the Canadian frontier, cute orphan Susannah Sheldon (Shirley Temple) befriend the Mounties, especially Inspector "Montie" Montague (Randolph Scott). Moreover, the adorable Susannah proves a capable negotiator between the tribes and the Mounties.

Our Little Girl
(1935)A troubled child tries to patch up her parents' broken marriage by running away.

One Thrilling Night
(1942)A couple, honeymooning in New York for one night before he joins the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a corpse under their bed.

Come On, Rangers
(1938)Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) is a Texas Ranger, guarding the land with his brother Ken (Lane Chandler) and their fellow Ranger buddies, until Texas gains statehood and the Rangers are shut down to make room for the U.S. Cavalry. Roy soon joins the new group, falls for colonel's daughter Janice (Mary Hart), and tries to move on to a new life. But when a group of outlaws murders Ken, Roy decides to leave his post, gather his old friends and administer frontier justice in a way only the Rangers can.

In Old Cheyenne
(1941)A singing newspaper reporter travels to Wyoming, where he investigates a supposed criminal. Who it turns out, has surprising truths to reveal.

Northern Frontier
(1935)A Mountie sets out to infiltrate and break up a gang of counterfeiters.

The Painted Desert
(1931)When two men find an abandoned baby, a fight over the custody of the foundling results in a lifelong rivalry that escalates during a mining dispute.

I Take This Oath
(1940)A rookie cop learns that his uncle is a wanted underworld figure and may have been responsible for his partner's death.

Private Snuffy Smith
(1942)A moonshiner who enlists in the army to be rid of the IRS discovers his sergeant is a revenue officer and decides to desert back to Smokey Mountain.

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(1927)A sophisticated city woman’s scheme doesn’t work out as planned when she tries to cajole her farmer boyfriend into murdering his neglected wife.
Me and My Gal
(1932)
Romance in Manhattan
(1935)A charming, starry-eyed Czech immigrant arrives in America expecting the golden land of opportunity. What he discovers instead, in this breezy comedy, are the harsh realities of New York City. Ginger Rogers stars as Sylvia Dennis, a bouncy chorus girl who comes to the aid of Karel Novak (Francis Lederer), a lonely and somewhat lost illegal alien who just jumped ship to find his dream in America. But the dream turns sour when he takes the job of a scab driver during a taxi-cab strike and gets a punch in the nose for his trouble. Sylvia, taking pity on Karel and enchanted by his undying optimism, allows him to camp on the roof of her apartment building a situation that sparks romance against the backdrop of the glittering Manhattan skyline.