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John Farrow

Highest Rated: 100% The Big Clock (1948)

Lowest Rated: 74% Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

Birthday: Feb 10, 1904

Birthplace: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

A former naval officer, in Hollywood from 1927 as a scriptwriter, Farrow as a director turned out several well-crafted entertainments often marked by the imaginative use of locations, such as the huge skyscraper in which his 1948 thriller "The Big Clock" is largely set. The genres he was most often associated with were suspense and action drama, and his best work is both well-paced and intelligent. Farrow's best remembered efforts include "Five Came Back" (1939), detailing the struggles of plane crash survivors, "Wake Island" (1942), a gritty WWII drama, and "Alias Nick Beal" (1949), a modernized retelling of "Faust" about political corruption. He also pursued careers as a historian and novelist, and married actress Maureen O'Sullivan in 1936; daughters Mia and Tisa are also actresses.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 83% The Big Clock
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89% 48% Wake Island
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85% Ladies of the Mob
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80% 70% Night Has a Thousand Eyes
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74% 57% Around the World in 80 Days
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Full Confession
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20% Copper Canyon
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30% Calcutta
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54% The Sea Chase
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John Farrow BEYOND GLORY, director John Farrow, Alan Ladd on set, 1948 BLAZE OF NOON, director John Farrow, Sonny Tufts, Sterling Hayden, William Holden on set, 1947 TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST, director John Farrow, Alan Ladd on set, 1946 THE UNHOLY WIFE, director John Farrow, on-set, with daughters (from left) Stephanie Farrow, Theresa Farrow, Prudence Farrow, 1957 View more photos

Filmography

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John Paul Jones 28% 1959 Director Forbidden Island 1959 Edward Stuart Godfrey Actor The Unholy Wife 46% 1957 Director Back From Eternity 58% 1956 Director, Producer Around the World in 80 Days 74% 57% 1956 Writer The Sea Chase 54% 1955 Director, Producer A Bullet Is Waiting 12% 1954 Director Plunder of the Sun 33% 1953 Director Hondo 90% 74% 1953 Director Ride, Vaquero 38% 1953 Director Botany Bay 1953 Director His Kind of Woman 72% 1951 Director, Producer Submarine Command 23% 1951 Director Where Danger Lives 51% 1950 Director Copper Canyon 20% 1950 Director Alias Nick Beal 52% 1949 Director Red, Hot and Blue 1949 Director Beyond Glory 1948 Director The Big Clock 100% 83% 1948 Director, Producer Night Has a Thousand Eyes 80% 70% 1948 Director Calcutta 30% 1947 Director Blaze of Noon 1947 Director Easy Come, Easy Go 1947 Director California 70% 1946 Director Two Years Before the Mast 1946 Director
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