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51. Fast Life (1929)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man is tried and convicted for the murder of a man who flirted with his wife, and sentenced to death However, it turns out that he is innocent of the murder and that the real killer has close ties to a powerful politician.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young, Chester Morris, William Holden
Votes: 52
52. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1917)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A writer bets a friend that he can write a 10,000-word novel in 24 hours. The friends takes the bet, and gives him the keys to his Baldpate Inn, which has been closed for the winter, so he ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Ford | Stars: George M. Cohan, Anna Q. Nilsson, Hedda Hopper, Corene Uzzell
Votes: 126
53. Colorado Sunset (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Gene and his buddies discover that the ranch they bought is really a dairy farm. And worse, it's subject to intimidation from a protection racket that prevents dairy products from safely reaching the market.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 121
54. Night of Mystery (1937)
66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the Greene family, in this remake.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Grant Richards, Roscoe Karns, Helen Burgess, Ruth Coleman
Votes: 26
55. Come on, Rangers! (1938)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
Disbanded Texas Rangers are gathered together to help the U.S. Cavalry put an end to marauding outlaws.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Lynne Roberts, Raymond Hatton, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 137
56. Road to Paradise (1930)
TV-G | 74 min | Drama
A young woman falls in with a gang of criminals, and when they rob a wealthy socialite's house, she finds her long-lost twin sister.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Loretta Young, Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, George Barraud
Votes: 264
57. A Wicked Woman (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Naomi is almost to term with her fourth child when Ed decides to leave taking all their money and the oldest son Curtis. With the sheriff after him, he is in no mood to think of his family.... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford, Betty Furness
Votes: 228
58. Common Clay (1930)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family and falls in love with their handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lew Ayres, Tully Marshall, Matty Kemp
Votes: 73
59. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Mary Carlisle, Buster Crabbe, Charles Starrett, Florence Lake
Votes: 56
60. Dancing Feet (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Ben Lyon, Joan Marsh, Edward J. Nugent, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 95
61. 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
62. Crimson Romance (1934)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Drama, War
After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the Great War, he and his friend Bob Wilson leave America and join the German air force,
Director: David Howard | Stars: Ben Lyon, Sari Maritza, Erich von Stroheim, James Bush
Votes: 184
63. The Witching Hour (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen, Tom Brown
Votes: 119
64. The Gorilla (1930)
70 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A series of murders that take place in an old, dark mansion are suspected of being committed by an ape.
Director: Bryan Foy | Stars: Joe Frisco, Harry Gribbon, Walter Pidgeon, Lila Lee
Votes: 53
65. Thru Different Eyes (1929)
62 min | Drama
Flashbacks in a courtroom drama give different points of view on the events, anticipating the classic Japanese film Rashomon.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Mary Duncan, Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 77
66. The Chief (1933)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy
A timid man (Ed Wynn) is thrust into the spotlight when his father is honored as a hero. He blunders into a series of adventures because of a woman (Dorothy Mackaill) and becomes a hero ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Ed Wynn, Charles 'Chic' Sale, Dorothy Mackaill, William 'Stage' Boyd
Votes: 87
67. Red Salute (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
The rebellious daughter of an army general becomes involved with a communist agitator, much to the consternation of her father, who instead attempts to pair her with a handsome yet dim-witted soldier.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 278
68. False Faces (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital, primarily for a lack of ethics, and goes to Chicago and sets himself up as a plastic surgeon (unqualified) and seducer of ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee, Berton Churchill
Votes: 87
69. School for Girls (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 30
70. Death Flies East (1935)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
On a flight from California to New York, the passengers include Evelyn Vail (Florence Rice), a nurse on parole for a murder she did not commit, attempting to clear her name and bring the ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Florence Rice, Raymond Walburn, Geneva Mitchell
Votes: 28
71. Doctors Don't Tell (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A naive young doctor, in a misguided effort to impress a young woman, finds himself in over his head when a gangster client demands plastic surgery to achieve the perfect disguise.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Beal, Florence Rice, Edward Norris, Ward Bond
Votes: 106
72. 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
73. The Prodigal (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Musical, Romance
The blacksheep son of a wealthy Southern family returns to his family's plantation after he spends five years on the road as a hobo.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Lawrence Tibbett, Esther Ralston, Roland Young, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 105
74. Son of a Sailor (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
A smooth-talking sailor looking for a quick date meets an admiral's granddaughter and finds himself in a house full of top Navy officers, along with a couple of spies interested in plans for a new robot-controlled flight system.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Jean Muir, Frank McHugh, Thelma Todd
Votes: 194
75. Join the Marines (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Action
A New York City cop leaves the department to join the U.S. Olympic team. He falls for the spoiled daughter of a Marine colonel, and winds up getting kicked off the team. He joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Paul Kelly, June Travis, Purnell Pratt, Reginald Denny
Votes: 37
76. The Show-Off (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Aubrey cons Amy into thinking he's a railroad bigwig. After they marry Aubrey overspends in setting up their home. When their financial situation gets dire they go back to her parents house... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Madge Evans, Henry Wadsworth, Lois Wilson
Votes: 241
77. It's in the Air (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Sport
Calvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, "Clip" McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Jack Benny, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 100
78. The Roadhouse Murder (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Thriller
To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Dorothy Jordan, Eric Linden, Purnell Pratt, Roscoe Ates
Votes: 184
79. Headline Shooter (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
The adventures of a wayward newsreel cameraman.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: William Gargan, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Jack La Rue
Votes: 184
80. Straight from the Shoulder (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Drama
Gail Pyne leaves her grandfather Jedediah's lakeside cabin, where "Jed" manufactures rifles and bullets, to work with commercial artist Curt Hayden, a widower. In the parking garage of ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Katherine Locke, David Holt, Andy Clyde
Votes: 20
81. The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
81 min | Crime, Drama
"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Olga Baclanova, Frank Morgan
Votes: 40
82. The Public Defender (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal.... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston
Votes: 247
83. Grand Ole Opry (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music
Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from 'The Grand Ole Opry," and the antics and help of his family and the local citizens, manages to pass a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Lois Ranson
Votes: 70
84. The Furies (1930)
69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Fifi Sands, whose husband is constantly unfaithful, is prevented from obtaining a divorce by her husband's lawyer, Bedlow. At a dinner party given by Smith, a columnist, she announces that ... See full summary »
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Lois Wilson, H.B. Warner, Theodore von Eltz, Natalie Moorhead
85. The Winning Ticket (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy
An Italian-American barber, Joe Thomasello, buys a sweepstakes ticket but doesn't tell his wife, Nora, as she takes a dim view of gambling in any form. The ticket turns out to be the prize ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Louise Fazenda, Ted Healy, Irene Hervey
Votes: 131
86. Lazy River (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Three ex-cons help save a mother and daughter's shrimp business from wicked slavers.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Jean Parker, Robert Young, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 116
87. Behind the Green Lights (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
Dave Britten, a bright young detective in the police force, captures one of J. C. Owen's henchmen and charges him with robbery. Owen then hires Raymond Cortell, a crooked lawyer, to act as ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Norman Foster, Judith Allen, Sidney Blackmer, Purnell Pratt
Votes: 84
88. The Flame Fighter (1925)
Passed | 200 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A ten-chapter Rayart serial about fire-fighters/fire-fighting and fire-fighters fighting in the Big City. Episode titles: Chapter 1: Smoke Eaters - Chapter 2: Scarlet Patrol - Chapter 3: ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Dillon | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Brenda Lane, Jerome La Grasse, Eddie Fetherston
Votes: 27
89. Let's Make a Million (1936)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy
After the U.S. Senate allocates two billion dollars for veteran bonuses, Harrison Gentry, owner of Gentry Machinery and Supply Co. in Gentry, Oklahoma, plans to use his $1,100 bonus to ... See full summary »
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Charlotte Wynters, Porter Hall, J.M. Kerrigan
Votes: 36
90. Painted Faces (1929)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Helen Foster, Barton Hepburn, Dorothy Gulliver
Votes: 88
91. Beyond Victory (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, War
Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
Directors: John S. Robertson, Edward H. Griffith | Stars: William Boyd, James Gleason, Lew Cody, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 96
92. The Band Plays On (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Sport
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Robert Young, Stuart Erwin, Leo Carrillo, Betty Furness
Votes: 73
93. Frisco Waterfront (1935)
66 min | Drama
As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from ... See full summary »
Directors: Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley | Stars: Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque, Russell Hopton
Votes: 32
94. Waterfront Lady (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Ann Rutherford, Frank Albertson, J. Farrell MacDonald, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 153
95. Lawful Larceny (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
A woman of low morals who runs a gambling operation in her house takes pride in destroying the men she ensnares in her net. One of these men's wives (played by Bebe Daniels) will not let ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Kenneth Thomson, Lowell Sherman, Olive Tell
Votes: 57
96. Forlorn River (1937)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Western
"Nevada" (Buster Crabbe) and "Weary" Pierce (Syd Saylor)hijack the loot taken in a bank hold-up by Les Setter (Harvey Stephens), and his gang. They escape from Sheriff Jim Henry Warner (Lew... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Buster Crabbe, June Martel, Harvey Stephens, John Patterson
Votes: 73
97. Rendezvous at Midnight (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Mystery
There are plenty of suspects when an unscrupulous, blackmailing businessman turns up dead, especially the Police Commissioner's current paramour, who actually confessed to the killing before it was committed.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Valerie Hobson, Catherine Doucet, Irene Ware
Votes: 38
98. 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
99. Name the Woman (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Mystery
The fate of a city hangs upon the innocence of a girl charged with murder. A young, inexperienced, but adventurous newspaper reporter is bent on clearing her name by ripping the lid off a corrupt government machine.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Arline Judge, Rita La Roy, Charles C. Wilson
100. Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bored rich girl hooks up with news photographer, gets caught up in his adventures.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Norman Foster, Evalyn Knapp, Eric Linden, Esther Ralston
Votes: 135