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51. Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Music, Mystery
Lovely ice ballerina Lila Leighton meets former ice show producer Carl Lang at his New York City penthouse apartment and refuses his offer to star in his new Music Hall Ice Show. Back at ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Vera Ralston, William Marshall, Helen Walker, Nancy Kelly
Votes: 154
52. The Nevada Buckaroo (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Western
When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is ... See full summary »
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Bob Steele, Dorothy Dix, Ed Brady, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 71
53. A Girl of the Limberlost (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Louise Dresser, Marian Marsh, Ralph Morgan, Helen Jerome Eddy
Votes: 66
54. Affairs of Geraldine (1946)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine. She also leaves a recording for Henry and... See full synopsis »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Jane Withers, Jimmy Lydon, Raymond Walburn, Donald Meek
Votes: 32
55. Whistlin' Dan (1932)
Approved | 65 min | Western
A cowboy and sidekick infiltrate a rustler gang to avenge the murder of their pal.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Joyzelle Joyner, Georges Renavent
Votes: 73
56. The Avenger (1933)
Approved | 79 min | Drama
A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Adrienne Ames, Arthur Vinton, Claude Gillingwater
Votes: 21
57. Bells of Rosarita (1945)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Music, Western
Sue Farnum inherits a circus, but her dead father's partner is trying to take it away from her. Roy and Bob Nolan are filming a movie on location at the circus. They and a number of other ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 241
58. The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a bank robbery, the loot disappears and is sought after by an insurance investigator, the police and the surviving robbers.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Ann Savage, Adele Mara, Tom Powers
Votes: 319
59. Lights of Old Santa Fe (1944)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Music, Western
Rival rodeos are operated by good guy Gabby and bad guy Richard Powers. Dale is trying to choose between them, aided ultimately by Roy and the Sons of the Pioneers (who are radio singers).
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 246
60. The Healer (1935)
76 min | Drama
A young doctor running a health farm for polio victims is dazzled by a pretty and wealthy society girl, to the detriment of his patients and the woman who really loves him.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morley, Mickey Rooney, Judith Allen
Votes: 86
61. Beggars in Ermine (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
John Dawson loses control of his factory when he is crippled in an accident caused by a rival. Destitute, he travels the country organizing the homeless to help him regain control of his steel mill.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Betty Furness, Henry B. Walthall, Jameson Thomas
Votes: 227
62. Manhattan Love Song (1934)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
After having been swindled out of all their money by a crooked business manager, formerly wealthy socialites Jerry and Carol discover that they owe their chauffeur and maid back wages they ... See full summary »
Director: Leonard Fields | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Dixie Lee, Nydia Westman, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 80
63. Forced Landing (1935)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
A jetliner is forced to land in a remote region of Arizona under suspicious circumstances.
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Esther Ralston, Onslow Stevens, Sidney Blackmer, Toby Wing
Votes: 25
64. The Land of Missing Men (1930)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Steve O'Neil robs the stage and kidnaps Nita to keep Lopez from doing the same. Then he and Buckshot head for Lopez's hideout for a showdown. The townspeople head after them not knowing what they will find.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Bob Steele, Al St. John, Eddie Dunn, Caryl Lincoln
Votes: 60
65. The Gallant Fool (1933)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
As part of Rainey's circus, Dad Denton returns to the town where he is supposedly wanted for murder. When his old enemy McDonald spots him with out his clown makeup, he sets his men up to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Arletta Duncan, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Theodore Lorch
Votes: 38
66. Under Nevada Skies (1946)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Music, Western
Villains have stolen a jeweled crest containing a map which shows the location of a uranium deposit. With the help of Gabby and Dale and a posse of Indians, Roy recovers the crest.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 146
67. Man from Oklahoma (1945)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Music, Western
Roy spends most of this movie rescuing Dale from terrible fates. The film includes a reenactment of land rush opening the Oklahoma Territory.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 90
68. Scotland Yard Investigator (1945)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
At the outbreak of World War II, the famous "Mona Lisa" is removed from the Louvre in Paris, and stored for safekeeping in London. Sir James Collison, director of National Art Museum in ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: C. Aubrey Smith, Erich von Stroheim, Stephanie Bachelor, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 141
69. Traffic in Crime (1946)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Kane Richmond, Anne Nagel, Adele Mara, Wade Crosby
Votes: 56
70. Conquest of Cheyenne (1946)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Western
Red Ryder has to help bring in an oil well on Jackson's ranch. Tom Dean found the oil and has started a well. But banker Tuttle hopes to foreclose on the Jackson ranch and has the oil rig burned down.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Bill Elliott, Robert Blake, Alice Fleming, Peggy Stewart
Votes: 55
71. The Big Bonanza (1944)
Passed | 70 min | Western
Captain Jed Kelton (Richard Arlen), Union Army officer, unfairly tried for cowardice in battle during the Civil War, escapes from custody while being transported to Fort Leavenport in ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Richard Arlen, Robert Livingston, Jane Frazee, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 92
72. The Singing Vagabond (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
Tex rides to the rescue when badguys led by LaCrosse and Utah Joe kidnap Lettie.
Director: Carl Pierson | Stars: Gene Autry, Ann Rutherford, Smiley Burnette, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 81
73. Dakota (1945)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In 1871 Dakota, two crooked businessmen oppose the local wheat farmers and the railroad development to control the town of Fargo.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Wayne, Vera Ralston, Walter Brennan, Ward Bond
Votes: 1,703
74. The Inner Circle (1946)
Approved | 57 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 554
75. I Dream of Jeanie (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ray Middleton, Bill Shirley, Muriel Lawrence, Eileen Christy
Votes: 248
76. Roll on Texas Moon (1946)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Music, Western
Roy Rogers tries to prevent a range war between cattlemen and sheepherders.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 203
77. The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Janet Spencer (Linda Stirling) has a blow-out and walks into the Armstrong Chemical Company to ask John Armstrong (Tristram Coffin for help, thus arousing the jealousy of his wife Rita (... See full summary »
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: William Henry, Linda Stirling, Virginia Christine, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 145
78. Secret of the Chateau (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Inspector Marotte, attending an auction of rare collectible books previously owned by the recently murdered M. Le Duc de Poisse, hopes he can catch his old nemesis Prahec, a murderer and book thief.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Claire Dodd, Alice White, Osgood Perkins, Jack La Rue
Votes: 134
79. Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and Ace arrives to arrest Dan for the murder. Dan escapes but is now a wanted man.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Ken Maynard, Jeanette Loff, Wallace MacDonald, Carmelita Geraghty
Votes: 47
80. Out California Way (1946)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Music, Western
An interesting oddity in Republic's B-western series but certainly not the first or only time the studio used a movie set as the backdrop of a plot line. Newcomer Monte Hale is tying to ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Monte Hale, Lorna Gray, Robert Blake, John Dehner
Votes: 104
81. Passkey to Danger (1946)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
An advertising campaign accidentally unearths an unsolved crime from a decade ago, throwing the campaign manager and his girlfriend in the middle of a fight that may cost them their lives.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Kane Richmond, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara, Gregory Gaye
Votes: 76
82. Make a Million (1935)
68 min | Comedy
A college economics professor's "radical" ideas about capitalism get him fired. When he decides to put those ideas into practice, he finds that they actually do generate him huge amounts of... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Charles Starrett, Pauline Brooks, George E. Stone, James Burke
Votes: 103
83. Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own. She soon meets and falls in love with a struggling young songwriter who has his own problems.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Jane Frazee, Stanley Brown, Harry Langdon, Minna Gombell
Votes: 16
84. Specter of the Rose (1946)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hecht | Stars: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen
Votes: 272
85. Geraldine (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Janey Edwards, working for Cambria Records, is managing the personal appearance tour of sobbing songster Billy Weber, and Janey is disgusted when Billy leaves her at Santa Fe College with ... See full summary »
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: John Carroll, Mala Powers, Jim Backus, Stan Freberg
Votes: 70
86. Riders of the Whistling Skull (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Western
A supernatural western! The Three Mesquiteers accompany an archeological expedition to a lost Indian city of gold called Lukachuke.
Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: Robert Livingston, Ray Corrigan, Max Terhune, Mary Russell
Votes: 240
87. Law of the West (1932)
Not Rated | 58 min | Western
For revenge the outlaw Morgan steals the Carruthers young son. Seventeen years later Carruthers arrives in the valley where Morgan, his gang, and the now grown Bob hide. After Morgan shoots... See full summary »
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Ed Brady, Hank Bell
Votes: 52
88. The Man from Hell's Edges (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Western
A cowboy after the man that killed his father goes to prison to get in with his gang.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Julian Rivero, Robert Homans
Votes: 67
89. The Phantom Speaks (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Crime, Horror
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
Director: John English | Stars: Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers
Votes: 216
90. Sensation Hunters (1933)
73 min | Drama
Dale Jordan is accepted by first-cabin passengers on a south-bound Panama-Pacific liner until they discover she is a cabaret girls led by Trixie Snell en route for the Bull Ring Cabaret in Panama City.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Arline Judge, Preston Foster, Marion Burns, Kenneth MacKenna
Votes: 211
91. Girls of the Big House (1945)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A college professor's well-bred daughter assumes the name of Jeanne Crail to date Earl Williams, a slick con artist who frames her for robbery. Rather than have her father find out about ... See full synopsis »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Virginia Christine, Marion Martin, Adele Mara
Votes: 29
92. Stagecoach to Denver (1946)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Lambert has the stagecoach wrecked killing the Commissioner so his phony replacement can alter Coonskin's land survey. When Red Ryder exposes the survey hoax, Lambert has his stooge Sheriff put Red in jail.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Allan Lane, Robert Blake, Martha Wentworth, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 197
93. Along the Navajo Trail (I) (1945)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Horror, Western
U.S. Deputy Marshal Roy investigates the disappearance of a government agent who has come to Dale's father's Ladder A Ranch. The bad guys want the land the ranch sits on because they know an oil pipeline is planned through this location.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 133
94. Broken Dreams (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama
Medical intern Robert is distraught after his wife dies in childbirth. He's resentful of his new son and wants nothing to do with him. He leaves the child with his aunt and uncle and heads off to Europe to pursue medicine.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Randolph Scott, Martha Sleeper, Beryl Mercer, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 111
95. Great God Gold (1935)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Martha Sleeper, Regis Toomey, Edwin Maxwell
Votes: 79
96. City Limits (1934)
67 min | Comedy, Romance
The wealthy president of a big railroad, who's beginning to crumble under the combined pressure of business, personal and physical problems, meets up with a pair of hoboes from whom he ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Frank Craven, Ray Walker, Sally Blane, Claude Gillingwater
Votes: 61
97. The Sphinx (1933)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton, Paul Hurst
Votes: 528
98. Hearts in Bondage (1936)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, History, Romance
Best friends Kenneth Reynolds and Raymond Jordan are U.S. Navy officers, and Kenneth is engaged to Raymond's sister. But the eruption of the Civil War divides them.
Director: Lew Ayres | Stars: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, David Manners, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 235
99. Home on the Range (1946)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Western
When two brothers settle a wilderness, one builds the largest cattle ranch in the state while the other creates a game preserve to protect the wild life. When Grizzly's brother dies, Bonnie... See full summary »
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Monte Hale, Lorna Gray, Bob Nolan, Sons of the Pioneers
Votes: 57
100. The Phantom Broadcast (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Music, Mystery
A handsome radio singer has it all--fame, money, adoring fans--but what no one knows is that his accompanist, a hunchbacked piano player, is actually the voice behind the arrogant, abusive "singer"'s fame.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Vivienne Osborne, Arnold Gray, Gail Patrick
Votes: 174