Franklyn Farnum Movies

Smiling Jim is a 1922 American silent Western film directed by Joseph J. Franz.

Henry Clive, a wealthy widower, placed his small daughter, May, in a convent when she was a mere child, and now that her education is completed takes...

Steve Lanyon, known as the Desert Rat, returns with gold and saloon owner Brazos Pete plots to get it.

Columbia's 11th serial and the first western serial that James W. Horne solo-directed.

Silent romantic cowboy western short was billed as "A story of an inheritance of hatred!"

Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new...

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

Monty Gray returns to the US after spending 10 years building railroads in China. As he enters a hotel he runs into an old friend from college whom...

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

This short film focuses on the job of the Hollywood screenwriter.

A Playboy inherits a Western ranch on the condition that he shall run it properly for 6 months. A villain makes an attempt to distract him from...

When Pals Fall Out

Pampered Easterner Tom Ransom is sent West by his father, a meatpacking tycoon, to buy a large herd. Tom soon comes into conflict with the agents of...

A 15-chapter Western serial. The serial involves the mystery of the murder of William Stillman (Wells) and the finding of the heir to his fortune....

Big-city gangsters run out of gas in the middle of the desert. A local cowboy gives them a tow back to his ranch, and the gangsters decide his ranch...

Shackles of Fate

Peter Drake meets and falls in love with Jackie Swazey, the daughter of a feisty suffragette and incipient politician. In order to impress her, he...

The owner of a stagecoach line is about to lose his mail contract after 30 years because he's been underbid. His competitor is actually a crook who's...

Second of 12 in the Franklyn Farnum two-reel Western series produced by Canyon Pictures Corp.