Charles Farrell Ranked
by rmailander | created - 04 Dec 2019 | updated - 04 Dec 2019 | PublicA ranking of Charles Farrell's film performances.
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1. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,163 | Gross: $3.92M
2. Lucky Star (1929)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix
Votes: 1,518
3. Sunny Side Up (1929)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Musical
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, El Brendel
Votes: 458
4. City Girl (1930)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, David Torrence, Edith Yorke
Votes: 3,728
5. The River (1928)
84 min | Drama, Romance
A naïve young man is working on a logging camp beside a turbulent river. When it closes for winter, he opts to stay for the experience. He meets a woman who was the girlfriend of the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann
Votes: 662
6. Street Angel (1928)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama
A woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta
Votes: 2,571 | Gross: $3.71M
7. Girl Without a Room (1933)
78 min | Comedy
Young Tennessee painter Tom Duncan is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Charles Farrell, Charles Ruggles, Marguerite Churchill, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 84
8. Liliom (1930)
94 min | Drama
Liliom learns his wife is pregnant and robs a bank. During the getaway, he is killed and given a chance to return to Earth. He quickly learns the only way to make his wife and daughter happy is to leave them with cherished memories.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Rose Hobart, Estelle Taylor, H.B. Warner
Votes: 507
9. The Red Dance (1928)
103 min | Drama, Romance
Note: Contains Spoilers
The story, set in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, focuses on the relationship between three characters: Tasia (Dolores del Rio), a peasant girl; ... See full synopsis »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Dolores Del Río, Charles Farrell, Ivan Linow, Boris Charsky
Votes: 165
10. High Society Blues (1930)
Passed | 102 min | Music, Romance
When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier Sr., Hedda Hopper
Votes: 31
11. Aggie Appleby, Maker of Men (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance
When Aggie's boyfriend Red is sent to jail, she meets a mild-mannered man and decides to turn him into a real man.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Charles Farrell, Wynne Gibson, William Gargan, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 333
12. Wild Girl (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bret Harte's story of Salomy Jane, a California mountain girl who is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Charles Farrell, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 280
13. The Deadly Game (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Drama
The FBI investigates the kidnapping of a munitions inventor.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Charles Farrell, June Lang, John Miljan, Bernadene Hayes
Votes: 16
14. Delicious (1931)
106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Raul Roulien
Votes: 246
15. Just Around the Corner (1938)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Shirley helps her idealistic architect father get his dream of a slum-clearance project; the little miss dances with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. Based on Paul Gerard Smith's book "Lucky Penny."
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell, Amanda Duff
Votes: 689
16. Old Ironsides (1926)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, History
An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft
Votes: 312 | Gross: $1.43M
17. After Tomorrow (1932)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Engaged couple faces financial and family troubles that obstruct their marriage.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Charles Farrell, Marian Nixon, Minna Gombell, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 329
18. Moonlight Sonata (1937)
86 min | Romance, Drama
Mr. Paderewski performs classical piano works including Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata", which enhances the bond between two young lovers, just as his having previously played this same lovely melody had brought the girl's parents together.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Charles Farrell, Marie Tempest, Barbara Greene
Votes: 124
19. Tail Spin (1939)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
Flyer enters a cross-country aerial derby, becomes rival to a wealthy society flyer, competes in parachute jumps and has love affairs.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Nancy Kelly, Joan Davis
Votes: 241
20. The Big Shakedown (1934)
Not Rated | 64 min | Crime, Drama
Racketeers flood the market with counterfeit cosmetics and drugs, causing some tragedies.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Charles Farrell, Bette Davis, Ricardo Cortez, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,064
21. Bombs Over London (1937)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, War
When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to ... See full summary »
Director: Sinclair Hill | Stars: Charles Farrell, Fritz Kortner, Margaret Vyner, Danny Green
Votes: 75
22. Change of Heart (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
After graduating from a West Coast college, four friends fly to New York City to seek employment.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, James Dunn, Ginger Rogers
Votes: 355
23. Tess of the Storm Country (1932)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting too old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long: local ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Dudley Digges, June Clyde
Votes: 52
24. Fazil (1928)
88 min | Drama, Romance
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Charles Farrell, Greta Nissen, John Boles, Mae Busch
Votes: 233
25. Flight to Fame (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
An evil villain steals a newly invented death ray.
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Charles Farrell, Julie Bishop, Hugh Sothern, Alexander D'Arcy
Votes: 25
26. The Man Who Came Back (1931)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable man of himself.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Kenneth MacKenna, William Holden
Votes: 116
27. The First Year (1932)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
"The First Year" was a 1920 play that originally ran on Broadway at the Little Theatre. The play was written by Frank Craven and produced by John Golden. It closed in 1922 after 760 ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Minna Gombell, Dudley Digges
Votes: 25
28. Body and Soul (1931)
70 min | Drama
Andress, Watson, and Johnson are with a Royal Air Force squadron in France. When Watson is killed in combat, Andrews tries to return the letters Watson received from a girl called "Pom-Pom.... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Charles Farrell, Elissa Landi, Humphrey Bogart, Myrna Loy
Votes: 133
29. The Rough Riders (1927)
137 min | Action, Drama, War
The story of the military unit organized by future U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt and its adventures in Cuba during the Spanish-American War of 1898.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Noah Beery, Charles Farrell, George Bancroft, Charles Emmett Mack
Votes: 50 | Gross: $0.38M
30. The Flying Doctor (1936)
92 min | Drama
Sandy, an adventurer in Australia, travels from place to place doing various jobs. At a sheep farm he meets Mary and they fall in love, but he runs away in the end. He later meets Dr. John ... See full summary »
Director: Miles Mander | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Maguire, James Raglan, Joe Valli
31. Forbidden Heaven (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Drama
After he saves a distraught girl who tried to drown herself, a young man joins her and her group of homeless people living in London's Hyde Park during the Depression and tries to get them to help themselves out of their situations.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Charles Farrell, Charlotte Henry, Beryl Mercer, Fred Walton
Votes: 17
32. Clash of the Wolves (1925)
Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
A fire in the mountains drive a wolf pack into a nearby desert where they will terrorize the local residents.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Rin Tin Tin, Nanette, Charles Farrell, June Marlowe
Votes: 427 | Gross: $0.51M
33. Fighting Youth (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Mystery
Communist subversives try to take over a college.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Charles Farrell, June Martel, Andy Devine, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 38
34. Heartbreak (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Romance, War, Drama
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Charles Farrell, Madge Evans, Paul Cavanagh, Hardie Albright
Votes: 21
35. The Princess and the Plumber (1930)
72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A derogated prince hopes to restore his wealth and power by marrying off his daughter to royalty. Unfortunately, she has fallen in love with a young man who has been hired to fix the plumbing in their run-down castle.
Directors: Alexander Korda, John G. Blystone | Stars: Charles Farrell, Maureen O'Sullivan, H.B. Warner, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 23
36. Merely Mary Ann (1931)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Orphan drudge Mary Ann finds love and hope in the arms of a promising but poor composer, John Lonsdale.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Beryl Mercer, J.M. Kerrigan
Votes: 19
37. Sandy (1926)
80 min | Drama
Sandy McNeil adopts strictly unconventional jazz ethics and against the wishes of her parents runs with a fast young set. An auto breakdown after a party places her in a embarrassing ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Leslie Fenton, Harrison Ford, Gloria Hope
38. The Love Hour (1925)
70 min | Drama
Two shop girls, Lizzie and Betty, meet a millionaire and a plumber at a beach resort and fall in love with them. However the villain is conspiring to steal Betty away from her husband and obtain his wealth.
Director: Herman C. Raymaker | Stars: Huntley Gordon, Louise Fazenda, Willard Louis, Ruth Clifford
39. A Trip to Chinatown (1926)
60 min | Comedy
Millionaire and hypochondriac Welland Strong is given only six months to live and decides to take a trip. Aboard a Pullman, he runs afoul of a jealous bridegroom who mistakenly believes ... See full summary »
Director: Robert P. Kerr | Stars: Earle Foxe, Margaret Livingston, J. Farrell MacDonald, Anna May Wong
40. Wings of Youth (1925)
60 min | Drama
Katherine Manners discovers that her three daughters are running wild: Betty and Madelyne are having love affairs with unworthy men, and Gwen, a studious girl with an independent mind, is ... See full summary »
Director: Emmett J. Flynn | Stars: Ethel Clayton, Madge Bellamy, Charles Farrell, Freeman Wood
41. Trouble Ahead (1934)
74 min | Comedy
Director: Monty Banks | Stars: Charles Farrell, Mary Lawson, Gregory Ratoff, H.F. Maltby
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