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Lawrence J. Darmour (1895–1942) was an American film producer, operator of Larry Darmour Productions from 1927, and a significant figure in Hollywood's Poverty Row.
Darmour was born in Flushing, Queens. In September 1927 he released the first entry in the Mickey McGuire series of short subjects, starring a young Mickey Rooney. This series would run for seven years, through about 23 silent shorts and another 40 sound shorts. They were released through Joseph P. Kennedy's FBO, then RKO Radio Pictures. From 1927 to 1929, Darmour also produced the Toots and Casper series, co-starring Thelma Hill and Bud Duncan.
Rooney's popularity provided a base for Darmour to expand into short subjects featuring Karl Dane, Alberta Vaughn, Louise Fazenda, and others, and eventually into low-budget features, using owned studio space at 5821 Santa Monica Boulevard. The company's first feature was Sea Devils (1931), starring Molly O'Day.
Into the 1930s the company began producing a stream of formulaic westerns, serials, and mystery film series like The Whistler, the ten Crime Doctor films, and Ellery Queen. Simultaneously Darmour also began producing for the higher-budget Majestic Pictures, until 1935, when Majestic was absorbed into Republic Pictures. Darmour then arranged a releasing deal with Columbia Pictures, and completely took over its serial unit in 1938.
Darmour died unexpectedly in 1942. He is buried alongside his wife Alice at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City. The production company continued operations until 1949.
Most Popular Larry Darmour Trailers
Total trailers found: 56
01 April 1928
Mickey McGuire is putting on a bad performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin, but first he has to deal with the competition; another boy is putting on a wild animal show -- house cats inflamed by the "tamer" having white mice in his trousers.
19 October 1936
Hoping to rid a small western community of its corrupt political machine, Ken Marshall (Ken Maynard) runs for sheriff against the bad guys' candidate and wins the election.
06 December 1935
Edith overhears Bart's plan to rob the bank so she informs Ken. But she is also overheard and when Ken goes to investigate, Bart's Henchman Prod frames him for the robbery.
01 December 1932
The lives of the residents of a Manhattan apartment building are intertwined with the actions of a crooked investor.
29 October 1935
Wealthy Henry Hanley takes his family to a dude ranch. But his daughter Gloria's boyfriend Eric is waiting and he is after Hanley's money.
10 December 1934
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city.
20 December 1931
Two former WWI aces from opposite sides, Bill Ramsey and Otto Shumann, in the best tradition of Eddie Rickenbacker and the Red Baron, barnstorm their way across the Poverty Row skies of middle-America while competing for daredevil honors and the favors of the lovely Eve.
18 September 1934
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
29 January 1929
The gang build their own airplane, and Mickey and Hambone go for a high-flying adventure when the plane supposedly starts to work.
29 May 1942
Sergeant MacLane of the Mounties investigates the disruptive activities of a bunch of troublemakers.
07 August 1935
Ken and his sister are separated while young when the Indians attack their wagon train. Ken, now grown, is sent after the outlaw known as the Golden hair Girl only to find that she's his long lost sister.
15 December 1938
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities.
06 February 1931
A sound remake of "Mickey's Eleven", in which the gang play yet another game of football against Stinky Davis.
17 May 1934
The final Mickey McGuire comedy finds Mickey and the gang putting together a medicine show in order to help out Hambone's Uncle Nemo.
05 December 1927
A bantamweight boxer has moved to Toonerville with his sissy-looking but well-trained son. When he gets into a dispute with Mickey Maguire, nothing will settle the matter but a meeting in the squared ring.
02 September 1928
Mickey and the gang decide to make their own movie. Guest starring Hannah Washington (a poor man's Farina of the 1920's).
17 December 1935
Ken Armstrong (Ken Maynard) finds himself a mine owner and a daddy simultaneously when a friend dies and wills him his mine and his baby.
19 January 1933
Mickey, Stinky, and Billy all try to compete in an Ape Man contest.
11 December 1936
Sayres and his outlaw gang operate out of a town just across the border and out of the jurisdiction of the Texas Rangers.
17 February 1929
A.K.A. "Mickey's Brigade". Mickey and the gang try to become explorers, "like Columbus and all them guys".
06 June 1940
George Hollister, crack investigator for the NYC police, is assigned to run down the enemy aliens who dynamited a Detroit munitions plant.
16 April 1939
Dean, the Bailey County Judge, is the boss of both the outlaw gang and the Sheriff. He utilizes the state law that Sheriffs have jurisdiction only in their own county.
18 September 1931
Mickey and the gang wind up in Harold Lloyd territory, when the kids work as window washers on a dangerous skyscraper.
08 August 1937
Tom Martin wants to buy the Jed Warren ranch as he knows the railroad wants it for the right-of-way, but Jed refuses to sell.
02 October 1927
The second short from the "Mickey McGuire" film series. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip "Toonerville Trolley".
27 October 1928
Mickey and the gang play detective. Later, the dog gets stuck with a professor's time bomb.
26 May 1936
Ken, sent to investigate cattle rustlers, poses as a peddler during the day but the Masked Rider at night.
13 April 1933
Mickey and his gang of children enter a mule in a racing contest.
15 April 1933
A district attorney and a reporter try to find the killer of a D.A. who uncovered a massive stock fraud.
11 May 1937
Working undercover, Rangers Bob and Wally arrive to take up ranching. Out to stop them is Bill Nash and his men.
11 May 1929
A Mickey McGuire comedy short starring Mickey Rooney.
10 January 1937
The Harper wagon train is carrying money and Bull and his gang are after it. When their first attack is foiled by the rangers, Allen trails them.
15 August 1941
The heirs of Anton Benson are searching Bensonhurst for hidden gold; they are joined by a reporter, a gangster.
06 July 1935
A classic "B" featurette about "smugglin' in Chinamen for $300 a load"
05 January 1940
The Shadow battles a villain known as The Black Tiger, who has the power to make himself invisible and is trying to take over the world with his death ray.
17 December 1942
Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.
23 June 1931
A.k.a. "Mickey's Revolution". Needing to raise money for their caddy friend, Mickey and the gang put on a show.
24 March 1941
Ventriloquist and world traveler Gordon Cobb is murdered by a gang of jewel thieves. Baffled by the contradictory clues, Inspector Queen asks his son, Ellery, to help out.
21 January 1933
A German village is stricken by a series of murders that appear to be the work of vampires.
20 August 1937
Johnny Eaton, trouble-shooter for an American oil company drilling in China, leaves his bride-to-be to head for the Orient and straighten out problems at the inland-concession site his company controls.
15 September 1936
Bob Allen in his starring debut gets a job on Wright's ranch where he hopes to find the rustlers no one else has been able to locate.
15 May 1935
Bank teller Barry Webster is driven to stealing bank funds by his mother-in-law who continually nags him about forcing her daughter Muriel to live in poverty.
13 October 1933
Mickey and the gang get ready for a big game of football. But Stinky Davis has a few tricks up his sleeve to stop the gang from winning.
13 December 1933
Nora Moran, a young woman with a difficult and tragic past, is sentenced to die for a murder that she did not commit.
29 November 1933
Mickey and the gang go prospecting, but find themselves in a haunted house.
07 November 1927
Mickey and the gang play a game of football against Stinky Davis.
23 April 1934
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
22 December 1928
Mickey and the gang go game hunting, and come across a live lion. No, seriously, we see eight year old Rooney share a scene with a real lion.
26 October 1933
Mickey and the gang put on their own circus, but Stinky Davis and his pals constantly try to disrupt it.
09 May 1941
The evil and masked "Gargoyle" is sabotaging all of America's industrial plants. It is up to the Spider to save the country.
07 March 1933
A young woman with a shady past goes to the tropics, where she winds up marrying a vicious and brutal pearl trader, then falls in love with another man.
09 December 1940
Assigned to keep watch over a recently released gangster, an insurance investigator must keep the client alive after he is taken hostage by former henchmen.
27 January 1929
Comedy short based on the comic strip "Barney Google" by Billy De Beck. A print survives with the Library of Congress.
16 March 1939
Wagon trains bringing supplies are being robbed and Marshal Pat Barrett has been sent to investigate.
02 November 1938
Marshal Jeff sends for his friend Whit Gordon to help bring law and order to Tombstone. Bull and his gang with the help of the Sheriff and the Judge control the town.
