Movies with Francis McDonald
Movies found: 8, viewing from 1 to 8
The Kansan
Genres: Romance, Western
Starring: Francis McDonald, Ray Bennett, Victor Jory, Albert Dekker, Robert Armstrong, Hobart Cavanaugh, Douglas Fowley
Directors: George Archainbaud
Country: USA
Year: 1943
Wounded while stopping the James gang from robbing the local bank, a cowboy wakes up in the hospital to find that he's been elected town marshal. He soon comes into conflict with the town banker, who controls everything in town and is squeezing the townspeople for every penny he can get out of them.
Panhandle
Genres: Action, Romance, Western
Starring: Francis McDonald, Alex Gerry, Charles Judels, Dick Crockett, Henry Hall, J. Farrell MacDonald, Jeff York
Directors: Lesley Selander
Country: USA
Year: 1948
John Sands, a former Texas marshal turns to ranching, and later to a gunfighter when he sets out to prove that casino/saloon owner, Matt Garson, had his brother, a newspaperman, killed.
North West Mounted Police
Genres: Action, Adventure, Romance
Starring: Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, Walter Hampden, Francis McDonald, Gary Cooper, Lon Chaney Jr.
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Country: USA
Year: 1940
Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) travels to Canada in the 1880s in search of Jacques Corbeau, who is wanted for murder. He wanders into the midst of the Riel Rebellion, in which Métis (people of French and Native heritage) and Natives want a separate nation. Dusty falls for nurse April Logan, who is also loved by Mountie Jim Brett. April's brother is involved with Courbeau's daughter Louvette, which leads to trouble during the battles between the rebels and the Mounties. Through it all Dusty is determined to bring Corbeau back to Texas (and April, too, if he can manage it.)
A Girl in Every Port
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Francis McDonald, Robert Armstrong, Victor McLaglen, Dorothy Mathews, Leila Hyams, Natalie Kingston, Louise Brooks
Directors: Howard Hawks
Country: USA
Year: 1928
You'll Like This One!---It's a rollicking, jolly, happy picture---a laugh all the way.
Battling Butler
Genres: Comedy
Starring: Francis McDonald, Walter James, Buster Keaton, Budd Fine, Eddie Borden, Tom Wilson, Snitz Edwards
Directors: Buster Keaton
Country: USA
Year: 1926
Alfred's father wants him to make of a man of himself so sends him off on a hunting and fishing trip. He doesn't catch or shoot anything, but he does fall in love with a mountain girl. When her father and brothers laugh at this they are informed that he is Alfred "Battling" Butler, the championship fighter. From there on the masquerade must be maintained.
Rancho Notorious
Genres: Drama, Western
Starring: Arthur Kennedy, Francis McDonald, Jack Elam, Mel Ferrer, William Frawley, Marlene Dietrich, Frank Ferguson
Directors: Fritz Lang
Country: USA
Year: 1952
A western based on the story "Gunsight Whitman" by Silvia Richards. Vern Haskell, a nice rancher, seeks out to revenge his fiance's death when she is killed during a robbery. His revenge leads him to Chuck-a-luck, Altar Keane's ranch set up to hide criminals, and he finds more than he bargains for.
The Prisoner of Shark Island
Genres: Drama, History, Biography
Starring: Francis McDonald, Paul Fix, John Carradine, John McGuire, Francis Ford, Gloria Stuart, Warner Baxter
Directors: John Ford
Country: USA
Year: 1936
A few short hours after President Lincoln has been assassinated, Dr. Samuel Mudd gives medical treatment to a wounded man who shows up at his door. Mudd has no idea that the president is dead and that he is treating his murderer, John Wilkes Booth. But that doesn't save him when the army posse searching for Booth finds evidence that Booth has been to the doctor's house. Dr. Mudd is arrested for complicity and sentenced to life imprisonment, to be served in the infamous pestilence-ridden Dry Tortugas.
Samson and Delilah (1949)
Genres: Romance, Drama, History
Starring: Francis McDonald, Angela Lansbury, Moroni Olsen, Hedy Lamarr, Victor Mature, George Sanders, Henry Wilcoxon
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Country: USA
Year: 1949
Though his people, the Israelites, are enslaved by the Philistines, Samson, strongest man of the tribe of Dan, falls in love with the Philistine Semadar, whom he wins by virtue of a contest of strength. But Semadar betrays him, and Samson engages in a fight with her real love, Ahtur, and his soldiers. Semadar is killed, and her sister Delilah, who had loved Samson in silence, now vows vengeance against him. She plans to seduce Samson into revealing the secret of his strength and then to betray him to the Philistine leader, the Saran.