WANTED BY THE POLICE - 1938 - FRANKIE DARRO - RARE DVD

Frank Johnson Jr. was born in Chicago to a husband and wife who were flying trapeze and high wire walkers in the Flying Johnsons circus act. As soon as Frankie could walk his father started training him to walk on a wire . . . First very close to the ground, and then higher and higher off the ground. Unfortunately for the circus, the Flying Johnsons got divorced when Frankie was five years old, and that ended the circus act. Fortunately for Frankie, the circus was in Southern California when his parents broke up and within a year Frankie Johnson Jr. got a job in a motion picture, changing his on-screen name to Frankie Darro. At only five foot three inches tall he never became a ‘leading man who got the leading lady’ kind of actor, but because of his athletic abilities he became a stunt man, and then an action-adventure star in movies like this one. His most famous role was one where he is never seen . . . . Frankie Darro was inside Robby the Robot in the science fiction movie Forbidden