James Durkin
Actor · 1876 – 1934 · Quebec, Canada
James Durkin (May 21, 1876 – March 12, 1934) was a Canadian-American actor of the stage and screen and director.
Movies24
Movie7.4CrimeActionIn 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Scarface
1932 · 716 votes
Movie6.5DramaComedyAn elderly business tycoon, believed to be dying, decides to give a million dollars each to eight strangers chosen at random from the phone directory.
If I Had a Million
1932 · 51 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaA social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
An American Tragedy
1931 · 18 votes
Movie6.2WesternSalomy Jane, a California mountain girl, is sought after by a number of men in the nearby small town of Redwood City. She is affected when two criminals are pursued by authorities: one for killing a hypocritical mayoral candidate, the other for robbing the stagecoach.
Wild Girl
1932 · 12 votes
Movie6.7DramaRomanceA waitress falls for a wealthy young man but has to fight his mother to find happiness.
Shopworn
1932 · 14 votes
Movie5.6MysteryThrillerAccording to a legend, the mansion's "blue room" is cursed -- everyone who has ever spent the night in that room has met with an untimely end. The three suitors of the heroine wager that each can survive a night in the forbidding blue room.
Secret of the Blue Room
1933 · 26 votes
Movie9.0ComedyElliot's affair prompts his wife Doris to love millionaire Bruce. After a messy gathering, a flat tire stops Doris from chasing Bruce's departing ship, which traps Elliot and Myra on board instead, leaving Bruce free to propose to Doris ashore.
Uncertain Lady
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.5DramaComedyA family man becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
This Side of Heaven
1934 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaMysteryA convicted murderer has been sentenced to death in the electric chair. He decides to spill the name of the man who hired him, but just before he does he's killed by a poison dart. A police detective and a pretty young newspaper reporter team up to find out the identity of the man behind the killings.
The Devil's Mate
1933 · 1 votes
Movie8.0RomanceComedyA mother tries to get her daughter to marry for money, but the daughter wants to marry for love.
Nice Women
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.5WesternDramaSergeant Carlos Olivarez (Buck Jones) becomes entangled in the machinations of an oil baron, havoc-wreaking bandits, and the femme fatale who ruined his brother.
South of the Rio Grande
1932 · 2 votes
Movie7.2CrimeDramaOlga runs an isolated gas station and restaurant in the stifling hot American desert with her discontented younger sister Myra. When two escaped criminals stop for a bite to eat, Olga is reminded of the past she left behind.
Heat Lightning
1934 · 18 votes
Movie6.7CrimeDramaJohn Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where she has been. The embarrassed Nelson excuses himself and goes to his rooms in the same hotel. The woman rushes into his apartment followed by the man who met her in the hall. The man threatens her with violence and Nelson comes to her defense. In the ensuing fight, the man is knocked out of the window and falls to his death to the pavement many stories down. He is charged with the killing and his only witness that can prove self-defense for him has disappeared, and can not be found.
Shadow of the Law
1930 · 12 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA railroad tycoon, disillusioned with his marriage, starts seeing a showgirl. Things go agreeably until the woman's manager decides to blackmail the millionaire.
Upperworld
1934 · 9 votes
Movie7.1Science FictionActionA 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
The Vanishing Shadow
1934 · 4 votes
Movie8.0ActionAdventureA circus on the verge of bankruptcy decides to save itself by staging a animal act with lions and tigers for the first time.
The Big Cage
1933 · 2 votes
Movie8.5MysteryHorrorTwo hunters discover a dead young woman in a cabin in the woods.One of them being the sheriff, he proceeds to press the wealthy owner for an explanation. At first it looks like his son has killed his unfaithful wife, but the wife's lover and the family butler are acting suspiciously enough to be followed.
House of Mystery
1931 · 2 votes
Movie7.0WesternHistoryNot long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to market. Many ranchers are being forced to sell their land, and crooked state treasure Marvin Fletcher buys up the land at pennies on the dollar. However, Laguna del Sol Ranch owner Taisie Lockhart and her ranch hands are holding out. Cowboy Dan McMasters returns to the ranch and tries to rekindle his romance with Taisie, but she rejects him because he fought for the North during the war. But what she doesn't know is that Dan is on an undercover mission from the President to investigate Fletcher, and in order to do that he has to pretend to be sympathetic to Fletcher and goes to work for him, angering Taisie even more. Complications ensue.
The Conquering Horde
1931 · 2 votes
Movie4.4DramaHistoryThe founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
Alexander Hamilton
1931 · 8 votes
Movie5.8RomanceComedyAn inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
Flying High
1931 · 5 votes
Movie4.3DramaComedyA wealthy, cheating husband is found murdered in his penthouse apartment. The police soon arrest a suspect, but the victim's downstairs neighbor believes the man is innocent and sets out to prove who really committed the murder.
The Secret Witness
1931 · 5 votes
Movie6.8CrimeDramaA diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.
The Vice Squad
1931 · 5 votes
Movie6.7WesternActionFollowing a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there until things cool down back in Chi or NYC, or wherever they lammed from.They are welcomed with open arms by the citizens under the impression they are there as capital investors with money to spend. Before long, Darvas figures the town is ripe for the taking and sends word for reinforcements, and each arriving train unloads a few suits and snappy-brim hats.Then they get rough, kill Sheriff Posey Meed and rile up the citizens, led by cowhand Brad Farley, who had Darvas spotted for a wrong number just by the way he made moves on Sue Vancey.
Gun Smoke
1931 · 3 votes
Movie6.5ActionAdventureA famous scientist and his beautiful daughter travel to Indochina to find an ivory disc that has the formula for a deadly gas engraved on it. An evil doctor and his gang are also looking for it.
Perils of Pauline
1933 · 4 votes