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1. Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance
An elderly couple are forced to live hundreds of miles apart when they lose their house and none of their five children will take both parents in.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi, Fay Bainter, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 9,520
2. Stars in My Crown (1950)
Approved | 89 min | Family, Western
In 1865, the small Southern town of Walsburg has become so dangerous that Parson Josiah Doziah Gray gives his sermons while holding a gun.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Dean Stockwell, Alan Hale
Votes: 2,506
3. Christmas in July (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Votes: 4,268
4. Mountain Music (1937)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
Folksy Ozark girl Mary Beamish (Martha Raye) yearns for the glitter of show business, and for a man. She knows she is anything but gorgeous, but figures that her enthusiasm offsets that ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Bob Burns, Martha Raye, John Howard, Terry Walker
Votes: 34
5. If I Were King (1938)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, History
Vagabond poet François Villon rises to high office in 1463 Paris.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ronald Colman, Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee, Ellen Drew
Votes: 1,020
6. Turn Off the Moon (1937)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The manager of a large department store consults the starry heavens when he needs answers to perplexing problems.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Kenny Baker
Votes: 42
7. The Parson of Panamint (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
The mayor of wild and woolly mining town Panamint, is in San Francisco to fetch a preacher for the new church, and happens upon young Philip Pharo, as handy with his fists as with a sermon.... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ellen Drew, Phillip Terry, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 48
8. The Baron of Arizona (1950)
Approved | 97 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Master swindler James Reavis painstakingly spends years forging documents and land grants that will make his wife and him undisputed owners of the entire territory of Arizona.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Vincent Price, Ellen Drew, Vladimir Sokoloff, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,541
9. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Andy Devine
Votes: 370
10. Internes Can't Take Money (1937)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
In his first film, young Dr. Kildare helps a female ex-con find her child.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Lloyd Nolan, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 783
11. You and Me (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Film-Noir
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane, Harry Carey
Votes: 1,634
12. The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Guy Standing, Ray Milland, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 69
13. The Man from Colorado (1948)
Approved | 100 min | Romance, Western
At the end of the Civil War, two friends return home to Colorado and one of them has changed and is violent and erratic.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Glenn Ford, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Ray Collins
Votes: 1,983
14. Johnny O'Clock (1947)
Passed | 96 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A high-class crook gets in trouble with the law.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb, Ellen Drew
Votes: 2,663
15. Music for Millions (1944)
Passed | 117 min | Drama, Family, War
Six year old "Mike" joins her sister Barbara Ainsworth who plays in a classical orchestra during WW II.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, José Iturbi, June Allyson, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 647
16. Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Albert Dekker
Votes: 97
17. The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When hyper-efficient small-town accountant Andrew Long finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Montagu Love
Votes: 195
18. French Without Tears (1940)
86 min | Comedy
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey, David Tree
Votes: 119
19. Ice Capades Revue (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Promoter Ann Porter (Ellen Drew) decides to start her own ice show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin (Harold Huber) who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart (Richard Denning), a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Ellen Drew, Richard Denning, Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen
Votes: 27
20. The Crooked Way (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams
Votes: 1,403
21. Star Spangled Rhythm (1942)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Music
A Paramount Studios security guard who was a major actor during the silent film era must carry out the illusion that he is still a big deal when his sailor son comes to visit.
Directors: George Marshall, A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Fred MacMurray, Franchot Tone
Votes: 671 | Gross: $0.60M
22. The Buccaneer (1938)
Approved | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
Semi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame
Votes: 781
23. Sing, You Sinners (1938)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Of the singing Beebe brothers, young Mike just wants to be a kid; responsible Dave wants to work in his garage and marry Martha; but reckless Joe thinks his only road to success is through ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, Fred MacMurray, Donald O'Connor, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 256
24. The Accusing Finger (1936)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An attorney is responsible for sending an innocent man to jail for a murder he did not commit. He soon gets a taste of his own medicine when his wife is murdered and no one will believe him when he claims he didn't do it.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Paul Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Kent Taylor, Robert Cummings
Votes: 83
25. Isle of the Dead (1945)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery
Votes: 5,264
26. Dangerous to Know (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster tries to fix things so that he can marry a rich society woman.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anna May Wong, Akim Tamiroff, Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 235
27. The Mad Doctor (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew, John Howard, Barbara Jo Allen
Votes: 304
28. Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
With a full Hollywood background and settings, but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 131
29. Yours for the Asking (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
Casino operator Johnny Lamb hires down-on-her-luck socialite Lucille Sutton as his casino hostess, in order to help her and to improve casino income. But Lamb's pals fear that he could ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: George Raft, Dolores Costello, Ida Lupino, Reginald Owen
Votes: 201
30. Night Plane from Chungking (1943)
Approved | 69 min | Drama
Without lights and in a driving rain, a bus is lumbering along the muddy Assam Road en route from Chungking to the Indian border. Passengers include Albert Pasavy (Otto Kruger), a European ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Otto Kruger, Steven Geray
Votes: 64
31. Women Without Names (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A newly married couple is framed for the murder of a police officer. She is sent to prison, while he is sentenced to die in the electric chair. She sets out to prove their innocence.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett, John Miljan
Votes: 45
32. Wives Never Know (1936)
75 min | Comedy
J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Adolphe Menjou, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 60
33. Man in the Saddle (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Western
A private deadly feud ensues when ruthless wealthy rancher Will Isham attempts a takeover of small rancher Owen Merritt's land and marries Owen's old flame, Laurie Bidwell.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Joan Leslie, Ellen Drew, Alexander Knox
Votes: 1,588
34. The Gracie Allen Murder Case (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder. Allen's uncle fixes her up with Bill at a company picnic. When the two go out to a ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew, Kent Taylor
Votes: 257
35. Strange Confession (1944)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, War
In World War 2 an escaped murderer who takes the identity of a dead soldier becomes a hero fighting in Africa, but his past catches up with him.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Jean Gabin, Richard Whorf, Allyn Joslyn, Ellen Drew
Votes: 223
36. Our Wife (1941)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
Jerry Marvin, a talented musician and composer, wallows in drunken self-pity after he is divorced by his wife Babe. Along comes new love Susan, who rescues Jerry and provides him with fresh... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Ruth Hussey, Ellen Drew, Charles Coburn
Votes: 292
37. The Escape (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
From the slums emerge a policeman (Richmond) and a criminal (Norris) whose sister (Duff) loves the policeman who father has been murdered.
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Kane Richmond, Amanda Duff, June Gale, Edward Norris
Votes: 43
38. Cocoanut Grove (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Band tries to get an audition for a job at a prestigious nightclub.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Harriet Nelson, Ben Blue, Eve Arden
Votes: 90
39. My American Wife (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
My American Wife is a 1936 American comedy film directed by Harold Young and written by Elmer Davis, Edith Fitzgerald and Virginia Van Upp. The film stars Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred... See full summary »
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ann Sothern, Fred Stone, Billie Burke
Votes: 85
40. Hotel Haywire (1937)
66 min | Comedy, Romance
A couple has an ideal marriage until she finds women's lingerie in his coat pocket. An astrologer advises her to make her husband unhappy. Meanwhile their daughter plans to elope in the same hotel her father has unknowingly moved into.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Mary Carlisle, Lynne Overman, George Barbier
Votes: 46
41. Rhythm on the Range (1936)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Cowboy Jeff Larabee returns from the east and meets Doris Halloway, a young girl, that he regards as a vagabond, till he learns that she's the owner of the ranch where he works. He tries to... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Bing Crosby, Frances Farmer, Bob Burns, Martha Raye
Votes: 363
42. The Night of January 16th (1941)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther, Clarence Kolb
Votes: 148
43. Crime Doctor's Man Hunt (1946)
Passed | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The Crime Doctor comes up against a criminal with a dual personality.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Ellen Drew, William Frawley, Frank Sully
Votes: 340
44. And the Angels Sing (1944)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Votes: 221
45. The Crime Nobody Saw (1937)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Three play-authors, Horace Dryden, Nick Milburn and "Babe" Lawton, are in an apartment seeking a plot for a new play. They are still on Page 1 when an intoxicated man wanders into their ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Ruth Coleman, Eugene Pallette, Benny Baker
Votes: 97
46. This Way Please (1937)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young woman is hired as a theater usherette and encounters her matinée idol, who helps her become a hit, and soon she finds herself engaged to another man, prompting a battle of romantic wits ensues.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, Jim Jordan
Votes: 70
47. Sing While You Dance (1946)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ellen Drew, Bob Haymes, Andrew Tombes, Edwin Cooper
Votes: 26
48. Outlaw's Son (1957)
Passed | 88 min | Western
The deserted son of an outlaw gets on the town's bad side after his father is framed for the killing a local banker. He later fits into society as a deputy marshal. When the frame-up is later revealed, the deputy becomes lawless only to be rescued by his reformed father.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Dane Clark, Ben Cooper, Lori Nelson, Ellen Drew
Votes: 222
49. Murder Goes to College (1937)
Approved | 77 min | Action, Comedy, Mystery
The policy-racket reaches it lean, bony fingers into the ivy-towers of a large university and the underworld trying to "beat the numbers-racket" with applied mathematics. One of the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Roscoe Karns, Marsha Hunt, Lynne Overman, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 37
50. Lady Be Careful (1936)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Comedy and Romance amongst American sailors in a pre-WWII tale of antics during shore leave chasing high society ladies. It's a common tale where a confident sailor bets he can get the girl but inevitably falls in love with her.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Lew Ayres, Mary Carlisle, Benny Baker, Buster Crabbe
Votes: 39