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51. The Donovan Affair (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The lights go out at a high-society dinner party and one of the guests is murdered. The police are summoned and Inspector Killian shows up with his assistant Carney. In order to get a clear... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, William Collier Jr., Agnes Ayres
Votes: 122
52. Days of Jesse James (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Music, Western
A bank robbery pulled off by the bank officials, not the usual James gang.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Don 'Red' Barry, Pauline Moore
Votes: 290
53. Lumberjack (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Western
Hoppy and his pals ride to the rescue when hornswogglers threaten a widow's forestland.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jimmy Rogers, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 202
54. In Old Caliente (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Americans come West to California in the hope of peaceful settlement.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Jack La Rue
Votes: 263
55. Blonde Alibi (1946)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.
Director: Will Jason | Stars: Martha O'Driscoll, Tom Neal, Donald MacBride, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 53
56. Young Bill Hickok (1940)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western
Bill Hickok, assisted by Calamity Jane, is after a foreign agent and his guerrilla band who are trying to take over some Western territory just as the Civil War is coming to a close.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Julie Bishop, John Miljan
Votes: 274
57. Craig's Wife (1928)
70 min | Drama
A cold, calculating woman marries a wealthy man for his money, then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Irene Rich, Warner Baxter, Virginia Bradford, Carroll Nye
58. My Friend from India (1927)
60 min | Comedy
Wealthy young man about town, Tommy Valentine (Franklin Pangborn) comes to the aid of Barbara Smith (Elinor Fair). But before he can learn anything about Barbara, her social climbing Aunt ... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Franklin Pangborn, Elinor Fair, Ben Hendricks Jr., Ethel Wales
Votes: 29
59. The Perfect Crime (1928)
83 min | Crime, Drama
A police inspector "solves" a crime that, in fact, might not have occurred at all.
Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Clive Brook, Irene Rich, Ethel Wales, Carroll Nye
Votes: 21
60. Knights of the Range (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Music, Romance
Outlaw Frayne is a member of Gamecock's rustlers. When he saves Holly Ripple and Cappy from Heaver's gun, she gives him a job offer and a chance to go straight. Now bringing back Ripple's ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Russell Hayden, Victor Jory, Jean Parker, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 52
61. You Can't Beat Love (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
Never one to turn down a dare, wealthy but eccentric lawyer Jimmy Hughes takes his faithful butler Jasper and gets a job digging ditches to fulfill a bet he made with two reporters. In his ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Preston Foster, Joan Fontaine, Herbert Mundin, William Brisbane
Votes: 273
62. Ladies' Night in a Turkish Bath (1928)
70 min | Comedy
Ma and Pa Slocum sell up their thriving packed-lunch business (based on Ma's home cooking, Pa's packaging design, and pretty daughter Helen's salesmanship), and move 'uptown' to live the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Jack Mulhall, Sylvia Ashton, James Finlayson
Votes: 40
63. Border Vigilantes (1941)
Passed | 63 min | Western
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky. and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the town's problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss--and so are the vigilantes.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Frances Gifford
Votes: 180
64. The Fog (1923)
70 min | Drama
Nathan Forge, romantic son of a cruel businessman, publishes in a local newspaper a poem about a girl who once befriended him. The girl, a student in a nearby school, reads the poem and ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Mildred Harris, Louise Fazenda, Louise Dresser, Peggy Prevost
Votes: 38
65. Criminal Lawyer (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Criminal lawyer Barry Brandon visits the nightclub of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with spoiled society girl Betty Walker. The police raid the club and Brandon pleads that the whole ... See full summary »
Directors: Christy Cabanne, Edward Killy | Stars: Lee Tracy, Margot Grahame, Eduardo Ciannelli, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 224
66. Almost Human (I) (1927)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, Romance
John Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Urson | Stars: Vera Reynolds, Kenneth Thomson, Majel Coleman, Claire McDowell
Votes: 373
67. Hidden Gold (1940)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Hoppy and Lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. The final gunfight is at Ed Colby's mine.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Minor Watson, Ruth Rogers
Votes: 225
68. The Rag Man (1925)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Ethel Wales, Robert Edeson
Votes: 407
69. Beggar on Horseback (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Impoverished composer Neil McRae loves Cynthia Mason, but fearing poverty, he proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. One night he dozes in an armchair and has a nightmare of a wedding to and life... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Erwin Connelly, Gertrude Short
Votes: 96
70. Your Uncle Dudley (1935)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy
Horton is a good citizen with lots of citations for good works--and also lots of debts.
Directors: Eugene Forde, James Tinling | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson, John McGuire, Rosina Lawrence
Votes: 27
71. The Merry Frinks (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
An under-appreciated mother inherits a fortune and abandons her family.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 209
72. The Flood (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
The failure of a dam resolves complications in a sordid love-triangle.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Monte Blue, Frank Sheridan, David Newell
73. Under Montana Skies (1930)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Clay gets a musical troop out af jail and helps raise money so they can put on their show. During the performance Blake and his men rob the box office. The townsmen give chase and Clay goes after Blake.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Kenneth Harlan, Slim Summerville, Dorothy Gulliver, Nita Martan
Votes: 59
74. Love in High Gear (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Romance
A young couple making plans to elope are overheard by a jewel thief, who sees a chance to turn the situation to his advantage.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Harrison Ford, Alberta Vaughn, Tyrell Davis, Arthur Hoyt
Votes: 88
75. Merton of the Movies (1924)
80 min | Comedy
Merton Gill dreams of being a star of western films in Hollywood. When the filmmakers there see his acting style, they get their own idea of how to use his talent.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Glenn Hunter, Charles Sellon, Sadie Gordon, Gale Henry
Votes: 12
76. The Wreck of the Hesperus (1927)
70 min | Drama
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Virginia Bradford, Francis Ford, Francis Marion
77. The Fighting Fool (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Sheriff Tim has killed Crip's outlaw brother in the line of duty and now Crip is out to get Tim. He makes Tim's brother Bud a prisoner to lure Tim into a trap. When Tim is warned by Bud, ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Tim McCoy, Marceline Day, William V. Mong, Robert Ellis
Votes: 26
78. Taxi 13 (1928)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Crooks leave a stolen pearl necklace in a taxi driver's old taxi.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Chester Conklin, Ethel Wales, Martha Sleeper, Hugh Trevor
79. Women Are Trouble (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama
When Prohibition ends, the mobsters move into the "protection" racket; those who do not pay are knocked off. Small-town reporter Ruth wants a job at the big-city paper, but the editor will ... See full summary »
Director: Errol Taggart | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Paul Kelly, Florence Rice, Margaret Irving
Votes: 127
80. The Grail (1923)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Romance, Western
Texas Ranger Chic Shelby is sent to capture James Trammel and his son, John--two outlaws hiding in the mountains who are victims of a cattle war. Shelby tricks John, who has killed a ... See full summary »
Director: Colin Campbell | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Peggy Shaw, Carl Stockdale, Frances Raymond
81. Sudden Money (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a $150,000 grand prize in the sweepstakes contest.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Marjorie Rambeau, Charley Grapewin, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 88
82. Ladies at Play (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Ann Martin will inherit $6 million if she marries a man her two spinster aunts approve of, but so far, her aunts haven't approved of any man she knows. Ann tries to get a bashful hotel ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Doris Kenyon, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales
83. Revelation (1924)
90 min | Drama, Romance
Paul Granville becomes a famous painter for his portraits of great women as modeled by the beautiful Joline Hofer. When one of Paul's paintings appears to result in a miracle, Joline's life... See full summary »
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Viola Dana, Monte Blue, Marjorie Daw, Lew Cody
Votes: 18
84. Blue Skies (1929)
60 min | Drama, Romance
Dorothy enters the picture.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Carmencita Johnson, Freddie Burke Frederick, Ethel Wales, Helen Twelvetrees
85. Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Bertha Sloan loses her job as a sewing-machine girl and subsequently is employed as telephone girl with a lingerie-manufacturing company. She soon falls in love with the assistant shipping ... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Madge Bellamy, Allan Simpson, Sally Phipps, Paul Nicholson
Votes: 20
86. The Crime Doctor (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama
When he finds out that his wife is having an affair, a criminologist commits the perfect murder--and pins the crime on his wife's boyfriend so well that the man is convicted of the murder.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Otto Kruger, Karen Morley, Nils Asther, Judith Wood
Votes: 26
87. The Girl in the Pullman (1927)
60 min | Comedy
Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be official when his flapper ex-wife Irene visits him and turns everything upside-down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother, they all ... See full summary »
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Marie Prevost, Harrison Ford, Franklin Pangborn, Kathryn McGuire
Votes: 70
88. Loving Lies (1924)
59 min | Drama
Dan Stover is the captain of a harbor tug whose task is to keep ships away from a dangerous bar, lies to his wife Ellen about the nature of his work, saying that he remains in the harbor. ... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Monte Blue, Joan Lowell, Charles K. Gerrard
Votes: 16
89. Frontier Pony Express (1939)
Approved | 58 min | Western
As Yankee and Rebel forces contend for the allegiance of California, Pony Express rider Roy and his sidekick must round up a pack of villains before Roy can turn his attentions to the girl.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Edward Keane
Votes: 124
90. Bought and Paid For (1922)
60 min | Drama
Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry wealthy Robert Stafford although she doesn't ... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Agnes Ayres, Jack Holt, Walter Hiers, Leigh Wyant
91. A Trip to Paramountown (1922)
Not Rated | 20 min | Documentary, Short
Documentary short film depicting the filmmaking activity at the Paramount Studios in Hollywood, featuring dozens of stars captured candidly and at work.
Stars: Sylvia Ashton, Agnes Ayres, T. Roy Barnes, William Boyd
Votes: 45
92. Welcome Home (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Richard Foster is the brains of a quartet of con-artists that includes Giltedge, a stock swindler; "Painless," a phony dentist; and "Gorgeous," along as decoration and bait. Richard goes ... See full summary »
Director: James Tinling | Stars: James Dunn, Arline Judge, Raymond Walburn, Rosina Lawrence
Votes: 28
93. The Important Witness (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A freelance stenographer is hired for a job, but when she arrives at the address she was given, she finds that a murder has taken place there--and she is arrested for it.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Noel Francis, Don Dillaway, Dorothy Burgess, Noel Madison
Votes: 25
94. Never the Twins Shall Meet (1932)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Director: Harold Schwartz | Stars: Roscoe Ates, Edgar Kennedy, Cecil Cunningham, Ethel Wales
Votes: 15
95. Made for Love (1926)
72 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman visits her archaeologist boyfriend at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Edmund Burns, Ethel Wales, Bertram Grassby
Votes: 44
96. Midsummer Madness (1920)
60 min | Drama
When Julian's wife Daisy leaves home to visit her sick father, he finds himself attracted to his best friend's wife Margaret, who has been neglected by her husband. Julian and Margaret take... See full summary »
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Jack Holt, Conrad Nagel, Lois Wilson, Lila Lee
Votes: 19
97. Icebound (1924)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Ben Jordan runs away after accidentally setting fire to a barn in his small New England community. He returns when his mother dies to find that she has left everything to her ward, Jane Crosby.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Helen Dubois, Edna May Oliver
98. Subway Express (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
Inspector Killany of the New York City police department is called in to investigate the murder of a subway passenger and the usual--and unusual--suspects climb on and off at each stop.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Jack Holt, Aileen Pringle, Fred Kelsey, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 13
99. Bobbed Hair (1922)
Passed | 50 min | Comedy, Romance
A young woman spurns her too-conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.
Director: Thomas N. Heffron | Stars: Wanda Hawley, William Boyd, Adele Farrington, Leigh Wyant
100. The Country Doctor (1927)
80 min | Drama
A country doctor helps a young couple to elope, and comes near to losing his practice and his happiness through the hostility of the boy's father.
Director: Rupert Julian | Stars: Rudolph Schildkraut, Frank Coghlan Jr., Sam De Grasse, Virginia Bradford
Votes: 15