Biography: Murdock MacQuarrie |
A handsome and dignified stage actor, Murdock MacQuarrie began his long screen career in early versions of The Scarlet Letter (1913), The Count of Monte Cristo (1913), and Richelieu ([1914], in the title role) before becoming a director at Universal.... more
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Tags: Western
Length: 57min
In all aspects a mediocre B-Western, Smoky Trails once again trotted out the old story of a young man pretending to join a gang of outlaws in order to find the villain that killed his father. Bob Steele had played the role many times before but...
Cast: Fredric March Samuel Goldwyn Merle Oberon Herbert Marshall Lillian Hellman Gregg Toland Murdock MacQuarrie Tom Moore
Tags: Melodrama War Romance Drama Romance
Length: 110min
Samuel Goldwyn's The Dark Angel is a sumptuously produced soap opera with a poignant "Enoch Arden" style denouement. Fredric March, Merle Oberon and Herbert Marshall star respectively as Alan Trent, Kitty Vane and Gerald Shannon, friends since...
Cast: Buck Jones
Length: 61min
In perhaps the most tranquil B-Western of the 1930s, Buck Jones, who also produced, plays the tough but goodhearted proprietor of the Bonanza, the only gambling establishment in otherwise God-fearing Silver Creek. Noel Francis, who used to play blonde...
Cast: John Wayne
Length: 59min
John Wayne goes up against a nasty vice lord in this, his second Western under the new Republic Pictures banner. Hired against his father's wishes to lead a wagon train, John Dawson (Wayne) at first battles then befriends the outlaw Kit (Al Bridge)...
Cast: J.P. McGowan
Length: 55min
Having starred in two earlier Westerns produced by Harry S. Webb, Tom Tyler signed with Webb's new company Reliable, where the former silent star went on to make 18 inexpensive but well-made oaters. The first in the series, Fighting Hero, cast Tyler...
Length: 6rlmin
Producing and directing his own films, Leo Maloney almost always used the talents of Ford I. Beebe to compose his scripts. Beebe knew every cliche in the book and used several of them in this minor western, which Maloney released through the Pathé...
Cast: Ernest Haller Lew Meehan
Length: 5rlmin
Somewhat convoluted for an inexpensive silent Western, this film starred the laconic Bob Custer in the title role, a rancher helping a girl (Eugenia Gilbert) and her brother (Ernie Adams) defeat their evil stepfather. The latter (Murdock MacQuarrie)...
Tags: Drama
Length: 5rlmin
Edythe Sterling plays a dual role in the Signal Films potboiler Nancy's Birthright. Both of Sterling's characters are named Nancy Levine: One is the daughter of an unspeakably cruel father, and the other is the daughter's daughter. After suffering...
Length: min
Director Murdock MacQuarrie keeps the action moving quickly in this complicated drama -- a good thing, since the story lacks any credibility whatsoever. When the Thompson family is making their way out West, they are attacked by Indians and the...
The Mystery of the Tapestry Room (1915)
Length: min
When the members of the Addison family start dying one by one, Tom Sharpleigh (Murdock MacQuarrie, who also directed) comes around to investigate. One of the murdered, the elder Addison, has willed the estate to his son, Howard (Frank Newling), but if...
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