John Harrington
Actor · 1882 – 1945 · Riverside County, California, USA
Movies15
Movie7.4AdventureDramaFletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty. However, Bligh returns one year later, hell bent on revenge.
Mutiny on the Bounty
1935 · 409 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyLucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Swing Time
1936 · 259 votes
Movie6.8RomanceComedyJohn is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally mailed and Julia receives it. When the letter says that he is a fraternity man and a big track star, Julia rushes right over to see him. But John is neither and Spike, Julia's boyfriend, is a track star at a nearby College. John does not want to enter the track meet so Julia tries to use psychology on him. That and a good wrestling hold makes John timidly agree to enter the race, but Spike still scares him.
Local Boy Makes Good
1931 · 4 votes
Movie5.8DramaMysteryThe screenplay for this mystery is based upon a story suggested to Liberty Magazine by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is the tale of a prominent lawyer who shocks his snooty friends, family and colleagues by abruptly abandoning his successful practice and his wife to find true happiness. He soon falls in love with another woman and continues to keep a low profile until he learns that his first wife stands accused of murdering him
The President's Mystery
1936 · 8 votes
Movie10.0DramaA clever veterinarian repairs a horse's leg so the animal can run in a big race and save a man's farm.
Checkers
1937 · 1 votes
Movie7.2DramaCrimeEasy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart.
The Street of Forgotten Men
1925 · 4 votes
Movie7.0DramaAlfred E.Green silent family relationship romantic melodrama
The Man Who Found Himself
1925 · 1 votes
Movie5.8DramaCrimeA detective poses as a jewel thief and joins a bunch of other crooks sailing from Europe to New York in search a famous gem. He falls in love with one of the crooks.
Dangerously Yours
1937 · 6 votes
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA British butler goes to America duped by mobsters into believing he is the heir to a fortune.
Step Lively, Jeeves!
1937 · 5 votes
Movie6.6DramaRomanceA quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
The Big Game
1936 · 5 votes
Movie7.0CrimeDramaA young reporter tries to prove her mettle by exposing a liquor racketeering gang.
Women Are Trouble
1936 · 4 votes
Movie9.0DramaIn a mountain village in South America, Dr. McCoy and the padre watch Roger Drake enter a small chapel near a towering bridge, and McCoy recounts the story of Drake's life: As a rising engineer, he marries Janet Stone, the ambitious daughter of a wealthy family, and neglects his career while Janet becomes a candidate for the State Assembly. Drake comes into conflict with her political friends, and when their baby falls from its nursery window, the couple remorsefully decide to separate. Drake, degenerated by drink, goes to South America to construct a bridge; there he is stricken by fever and is redeemed by the love and care of Carita, a dancer. Carita, however, learns of Janet's political defeat and her attempt to effect a reconciliation with Drake; thinking he still loves his wife, she leaps from the bridge. Drake returns each year to the chapel he has erected in her memory. A lost film.
Tin Gods
1926 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedyActionPhyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
Counterfeit Lady
1936 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyA European royal couple come to New York to sell some of the royal family's crown jewels. A gang of international jewel thieves is planning to steal the gems, so a private detective is assigned to guard them. Unfortunately the private eye turns out to be a bumbling, inept fool--or so everyone thinks.
Rubber Heels
1927 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Vintage 1939 MLB Film reel from Lew Fonseca and presented by the Kellogg Company, Narrated by John Harrington, popular KWK announcer and sports commentator. 1939 Baseball centennial and the opening of the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown which includes speeches from Ty Cobb, Connie Mack and Babe Ruth. An Instructional film with fielding and batting tips from MLB Stars of the late 30s Frank Crosetti and Joe Gordon, Red Rolfe, Charlie Gehringer Pitchers Johnny Rigney, Bobby Doerr. First Night Game in Cleveland's Municipal; Stadium and a look at all the MLB Ballparks. Film ends with Highlights of the 1939 World Series.