John Farrow

John Farrow

February 10, 1904 · 122 years old

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia John Villiers Farrow, CBE (10 February 1904 – 27 January 1963) was an Australian, later American, film director, producer and screenwriter. In 1957 he won the Academy Award for Best Writing / Best Screenplay for Around the World in Eighty Days and in 1942 he w…

Known For

20 titles
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Around the World in 80 Days

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · 2h 55m · Movie

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

6.7
2
Mutiny on the Bounty

Mutiny on the Bounty

1935 · 2h 12m · Movie

First mate Fletcher Christian leads a revolt against his sadistic commander, Captain Bligh, in this classic seafaring adventure, based on the real-life 1789 mutiny.

7.6
3
Hondo

Hondo

1953 · 1h 23m · Movie

Army dispatch rider Hondo Lane discovers a woman and young son living in the midst of warring Apaches and becomes their protector.

7.0
4
The Big Clock

The Big Clock

1948 · 1h 35m · Movie

A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.

7.6
5
His Kind of Woman

His Kind of Woman

1951 · 2h 0m · Movie

A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.

7.0
6
The Sea Chase

The Sea Chase

1955 · 1h 57m · Movie

As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.

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7
Five Came Back

Five Came Back

1939 · 1h 15m · Movie

A plane has engine trouble while flying over a jungle inhabited by cannibals.

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8
Wake Island

Wake Island

1942 · 1h 28m · Movie

December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.

6.7
9
Alias Nick Beal

Alias Nick Beal

1949 · 1h 33m · Movie

A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.

7.1
10
Night Has a Thousand Eyes

Night Has a Thousand Eyes

1948 · 1h 21m · Movie

After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.

7.0
11
Back from Eternity

Back from Eternity

1956 · 1h 37m · Movie

After a commercial plane crash lands in a South American jungle, the passengers and pilots must patch up the engines and escape the cannibal-infested area.

6.5
12
John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones

1959 · 2h 6m · Movie

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

6.3
13
California

California

1947 · 1h 37m · Movie

Epic account of how California became a state, featuring a wagon train, the Gold Rush, a wicked saloon queen, and an evil profiteer.

6.1
14
Commandos Strike at Dawn

Commandos Strike at Dawn

1942 · 1h 38m · Movie

A gentle widower, enraged at German atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force against the oppressors.

6.5
15
Plunder of the Sun

Plunder of the Sun

1953 · 1h 21m · Movie

American adventurer gets involved in archaeological artifact smuggling and treasure hunting in Mexico.

6.4
16
Submarine Command

Submarine Command

1951 · 1h 27m · Movie

Submarine commander Ken White reminisces about his wartime years aboard submarine USS Tiger Shark and struggles with feelings of personal guilt.

6.2
17
Calcutta

Calcutta

1946 · 1h 23m · Movie

Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. After their buddy Bill is murdered, they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.

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18
A Bullet Is Waiting

A Bullet Is Waiting

1954 · 1h 30m · Movie

After their small plane crashes in the wilderness, a sheriff's deputy and his prisoner take shelter at an isolated farm.

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19
Red Mountain

Red Mountain

1951 · 1h 24m · Movie

In 1865 Confederate Capt. Sherwood is heading to Colorado where Confederate Gen. Quantrill is stirring up rebellion using various Indian Nations.

6.0
20
Botany Bay

Botany Bay

1952 · 1h 33m · Movie

In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.

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