Frankie Darro Trailers
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Born into a show-business family - his parents were circus aerialists - Frankie Darro appeared in his first film at age six. Due to his small size and youthful appearance, he played teenagers well into his 20s. Always a physical performer, Darro often did his own stunts, many times out of necessity - his small stature made it difficult to find stunt doubles his size. He was an accomplished horseman and, in addition to westerns, made several films where he played jockeys. In 1933 he played the lead as a troubled teen in a major film for Warner Brothers, "Wild Boys Of The Road." It is a pre-code film with a realistic look at "The Great Depression," from the point of view of the youth of the time. This film seems to have been rediscovered only recently and has received critical acclaim.That same year, he played a troubled youth in the James Cagney classic, "The Mayor Of Hell". Later in 1935, he had a key role in the cult serial classic "The Phantom Empire"(1935). As Darro got older, however, he found it increasingly difficult to secure employment, and by the late 1940s was doing uncredited stunt work and bit parts. He had a recurring role on The Red Skelton Hour (1951), unrecognized by his fans, he played "Robby The Robot" in the groundbreaking sci-fi film "The Forbidden Planet" (1956), though Marvin Miller, best remembered as Michael Anthony of TVs "Millionaire"(1955-60), was the robot's voice. After that Frankie appeared sporadically in films and on TV .
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Total trailers found: 122
15 November 1953
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature film.
09 January 1935
An honest sports columnist's greedy wife persuades him to go easy on a cheat, famous for crooked sports deals.
27 November 1975
A swimming pool cleaner and a suicidal housewife set out on the run and are pursued by her corrupt lobbyist husband.
23 July 1937
A horse breeder's granddaughter falls in love with a gambler in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
23 February 1940
A little wooden puppet yearns to become a real boy.
20 September 1924
A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends.
16 December 1951
There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California.
12 July 1933
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason.
26 May 1934
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
29 June 1935
A Traveler's Aid worker who delights in solving people's problems gets mixed up with gangsters.
29 October 1932
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
01 June 1931
A mysterious master criminal known as The Voice plots with his gang to sabotage the Milesburg Oil Company, but the rightful heir has a secret army of her own to protect her rights.
23 March 1956
Starship C57D travels to planet Altair 4 in search of the crew of spaceship "Bellerophon," a scientific expedition that has been missing for twenty years.
20 January 1941
An elevator operator and a janitor team up to solve two murders that may be connected to an illegal gambling operation.
11 June 1941
Two friends take jobs as truck drivers, unaware that the trucking company is being targeted by a gang of saboteurs who will stop at nothing, including murder, to stop them.
28 December 1924
After graduating from a fashionable finishing school and touring Europe with her father, Selina Peake returns to the United States, where her father is accidentally killed after losing his fortune in a gambling den.
13 November 1931
A rural Maine farmer fights for custody of the boy who he's raised as his own.
10 December 1948
Slip and Sach are in the sidewalk star-gazing business when they see a murder committed in a room at the El Royale Hotel.
15 June 1934
Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions.
30 November 1934
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.
01 January 1968
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
06 June 1969
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake.
01 November 1931
A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town.
11 June 1940
Frankie Kelly is the soda jerk and embryo scientist in Midvales only drugstore. Two murders and an attempted killing suddenly swing Midvale into national prominence.
23 October 1931
Out of jail for a crime she did not commit, Madelon turns to prostitution and thievery to send her illegitimate son to medical school.
07 August 1936
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 uncovers an international gambling ring.
01 May 1939
A tough street kid takes the rap for a burglary committed by the son of his foster family and is sent to a boys reformatory, where the inmates are under the thumb of corrupt guards and a brutal prison doctor.
09 September 1940
A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio.
01 February 1926
Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of their relationship.
18 December 1936
Nature reporter Orville Shanks retreats to the woods for material for his "Our Wild Friends" column and to volunteer for his favorite cause, the Boy Scouts.
19 October 1935
Three men escape from prison, go back to their hometown to try to find out who framed them.
15 January 1937
A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.
04 August 1933
Tugboat, the Narcissus, is owned and captained by Annie Brennan, and among her crew are her alcoholic but good-natured husband, Terry, and her conscientious son, Alec.
22 August 1939
A spunky young bellhop investigates the murder of a hotel guest.
23 April 1931
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers.
24 April 1936
A doctor is driven into an investigation of sinister goings-on at a horse race track by his mystery writer ex-wife.
12 October 1951
In the 1830's beaver trapper Flint Mitchell and other white men hunt and trap in the then unnamed territories of Montana and Idaho.
06 June 1949
While working in a laundromat, the boys find a baby hidden among the linen. They soon find out that the baby, who is the heir to a fortune, has been abandoned by his mother so that her two evil aunts can't cheat her and the baby out of the inheritance.
10 May 1926
A Modest Comedy Drama
15 December 1937
A young, newly-appointed rookie state trooper, John Shields, is celebrating with his sister Jane, his younger brother Freddie and Tom Marlin, Jane's fiancé and also a trooper, when they hear over the radio that two bandits have just killed a lawyer and his watchman.
29 September 1933
The story of a boy, a dog, and a man. The boy discovers he is heir to a shipping line, and travels to Los Angeles, accompanied by inventor/radio operator Bob Whitlock and Irene Blaine.
30 September 1931
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with.
19 July 1924
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife.
18 October 1950
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 gang with one of the mail's supposed guardians in their pay.
13 July 1935
A villainous banker and his hired saboteurs attempt to thwart construction of Sweetwater Dam.
12 April 1950
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
01 November 1932
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
15 June 1937
Despite his older brother's objections, a young man vows to become a newsreel cameraman.
12 September 1941
Rawley University is about to receive a star athlete who could give it the first championship rowing team it's ever had.
02 February 1935
An escaped convict redeems himself by becoming an auto racing champion.
07 October 1933
At the height of the Great Depression, Tommy's mother has been out of work for months when Eddie's father loses his job.
17 July 1944
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
05 December 1959
A World War II submarine commander finds himself stuck with a damaged sub, a con-man executive officer, and a group of army nurses.
01 April 1974
A television producer decides to find out the whereabouts of a former movie actress whose career has long since faded, then discovers that his inquiries have set off a string of murders.
20 October 1932
Eddie Kane wanders round the studio back-lot, opening various doors to see which stars pop out.
02 May 1940
Re-edited feature version of serial The Phantom Empire (1935). Singer Gene Autry discovers a race of advanced humans living beneath the earth.
02 March 1934
Short film in which Frankie Darro as a Telegram delivery boy visits various Hollywood locations to make deliveries.
21 September 1938
A young man, Danny, decides to get a job in order to support his mother. He's hired to work in a garage, but soon finds himself being implicated in a stolen-car racket.
10 September 1938
Public Defender Gary Franklin, frustrated by being unable to save criminal Dutch Adams from a death sentence by blaming the slums environment as the cause of Dutch's crimes, enlists the aid of Dutch's sister, Marcia Adams, to get the slum dwellers at appeal for public monies to provide recreational places for the slum kids.
02 October 1942
The Dead End Kids join the war effort in this feature-length version of the Universal serial Junior G-Men of the Air.
