Franklyn Farnum Movies

A cub reporter investigates a gang of counterfeiters.

Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy...

A series of reversals bring two desperate people together. When a saloon owner is framed by his partner for a stagecoach robbery, he fights to secure...

Andy Green, a colorful cowboy, finds work at the Flying U cattle ranch, owned by Chip. Chip's foreman Dunk, who is Elsie Gray's guardian, attempts to...

A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.

A mining engineer is hired to run a valuable mine formerly belonging to lovely Peggy O'Day's family.

The story opens as Stony returns to his home town, only to discover that his sheriff father has been murdered by person or persons unknown. The new...

A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.

This entry in the Crime Does Not Pay series focuses on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's effort to ensure that drugs are fully tested before...

An action movie serial that premiered in 1924

Gene inherits a meat-packing plant, then faces stiff competition from snooty Ann Randolph, rival owner determined to do him in.

Two men, one timid and one aggressive, make out as comical criminals.

When Gregory Van Houten went to the country to recuperate, he intended to remain only a few weeks and then return to plunge into the swirl of city...

Desperados menace a mining operation.

A man bets his father $10,000 that he'll marry his girlfriend within the next week, even with the opposition of both his and his girlfriend's fathers.

Spirited story of West, which begins after the hero has spent four years overseas and has left the army so much of a fighting devil that he becomes...

A Desperate Adventure is a 1924 silent film western directed by J. P. McGowan and starring Franklyn Farnum.

A country girl goes to the city and gets a job in a posh hotel, and winds up becoming an instant celebrity thanks to an ambitious photographer.

A publicist for a racy burlesque troupe romances the daughter of the head of The Purity League, an organization that wishes to see such shows banned.