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Frank Borzage - Volume One - 7th Heaven / Street Angel review by RJNeb2 from London

7th Heaven 8 February 2010
...xpressionist sets are interesting, there's obvious chemistry between Gaynor and Charles Farrell (they made another 10 films together) and if you're prepared to sit through the... Read customer review

City Girl review by FrankIV from

Take the Girl Out of the City... 15 June 2011
...This is the simple story of a country hick, played in best 'aw shucks' mode by Charles Farrell, who comes to the big city on business for his father, meets and falls in love w... Read customer review

Charles Farrell - filmography

There Was A Young Lady on DVD (1953)
Starring: Michael Denison, Dulcie Gray, Sydney Tafler
Director: Lawrence Huntington
Certificate:
In this comedy, a diamond merchant's secretary gets fired by her new boss for being too efficient. She ends up kidnapped by a ring of jewel thieves.

59% from 15 members

Bell-Bottom George on DVD (1943)
Starring: George Formby, Anne Firth, Reginald Purdell
Director: Marcel Varnel
Certificate:
Navy club steward with low medical grade is turned down by the navy, but gets in by mistake when a sailor friend borrows his only suit of clothes and he is obliged to wear the sailor's uniform. Following a case of mistaken identity he becomes involved with enemy agents based in a taxidermists shop, ..read more »

67% from 36 members

Will Hay - Ask A Policeman on DVD (1939)
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel, William Beaudine
Certificate:
The village of Turnbotham Round has had no crime for ten years. The police force consists of Sergeant Dudfoot and his two assistants, Albert and the decrepit Harbottle. After a radio interview their Chief Constable suggests that it seems unnecessary to have a police force at all and threatens an ..read more »

71% from 1,074 member

Just Around The Corner on DVD (1938)
Starring: Shirley Temple, Joan Davis, Charles Farrell
Director: Irving Cummings
Certificate:
A rich engineer ruined by the depression and working as a janitor has a daughter (Temple) who befriends a millionaire who backs her Dad's engineering plans.

67% from 25 members

Moonlight Sonata on DVD (1937)
Starring: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Charles Farrell, Marie Tempest
Director: Lothar Mendes
Certificate:
A young gentleman is forced to work for acceptance when he professes his love to a beautiful young and wealthy debutante. The location is Sweden and the dilemma begins when passengers from a plane that landed there because of bad weather end up staying at the young woman's huge estate. One of the ..read more »

40% from 25 members

City Girl - Blu-ray (1930)
Starring: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan
Director: F.W. Murnau
Certificate:
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After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago, innocent farmer s son Lem falls for and weds Kate, a ..read more »

74% from 84 members
Not available for rental

City Girl (1930)
Starring: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan
Director: F.W. Murnau
Certificate:
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Director F.W. Murnau began CITY GIRL as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his earlier SUNRISE. Murnau was frustrated by two elements: Fox's decision to hastily convert the film into a talkie, and his inability to secure the services of SUNRISE star Janet Gaynor. The director ..read more »

70% from 43 members
Not available for rental

Frank Borzage - Volume One - 7th Heaven ... on DVD (1929)
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn Williams
Director: Frank Borzage
Certificate:
This film was the last silent film Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor made as a team, and their soulful chemistry is more evident in this film than any other they made together. The story revolves around the relationship between Mary, a poor farm girl, and Tim, who Mary meets just before he is posted ..read more »

75% from 75 members

Frank Borzage - Volume Two - Lucky Star ... on DVD (1927)
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Director: Frank Borzage
Certificate:
LUCKY STAR is the tale of a young Jewish boy taken in by a rich widow. His new home is the perfect setting for him to make-believe that he is a sheriff fighting German outlaws. In LILIOM, a brutish carnival barker is fired from his job and left on the brink of financial ruin. Desperate to make ..read more »

61% from 60 members

Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys on DVD
Starring: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott
Director: Marcel Varnel, William Beaudine
Certificate:
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Will Hay is a teacher in a prison, who applies for the Headship of Narkover, a public school. This is the first screen appearance of Hay in his famous schoolmaster role, in a story based on Dr Smart-Alec, the character created by John Cameron, Andrieu Bingham and Michael Morton (JB Morton, '..read more »

66% from 678 members

Charles Farrell facts

5 most recent films

There Was A Young Lady - 3.0 stars
Bell-Bottom George - 3.5 stars
Will Hay - Ask A Policeman - 3.5 stars
Just Around The Corner - 3.5 stars
Moonlight Sonata - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Frank Borzage - Volume One - 7th Heaven / Street Angel - 4.0 stars
City Girl - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Will Hay - Ask A Policeman - 3.5 stars
Will Hay - Boys Will Be Boys - 3.5 stars
Frank Borzage - Volume Two - Lucky Star / Liliom - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Moonlight Sonata - 2.0 stars
There Was A Young Lady - 3.0 stars
Just Around The Corner - 3.5 stars
Bell-Bottom George - 3.5 stars
City Girl - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Will Hay - 4 times - show films
Davy Burnaby - 4 times - show films
Graham Moffatt - 4 times - show films
Jimmy Hanley - 4 times - show films
Moore Marriott - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Marcel Varnel - 5 times - show films
William Beaudine - 4 times - show films
Frank Borzage - 3 times - show films
F.W. Murnau - 3 times - show films
Lawrence Huntington - 1 times - show films