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1. Mrs. Miniver (1942)
Approved | 134 min | Drama, Romance, War
A British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Teresa Wright, May Whitty
Votes: 19,461 | Gross: $13.50M
2. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Passed | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 1,571
3. Robin Hood (1922)
Not Rated | 143 min | Adventure, Family, Romance
A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett
Votes: 2,480 | Gross: $5.45M
4. Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty
Votes: 881
5. Peggy (1916)
70 min | Comedy
Peggy, a rambunctious young American girl, goes to Scotland to visit her uncle. Her American ways both shock and eventually delight the people of the old village--especially the handsome young minister.
Directors: Charles Giblyn, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Billie Burke, William H. Thompson, William Desmond, Charles Ray
Votes: 29
6. Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman
Votes: 504
7. Sunday Punch (1942)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The routine of a group of fledgling boxers all living in Ma Galestrum's boarding house is interrupted when Ma allows her roving niece, beautiful Judy Galestrum, to move in. Especially ... See full summary »
Director: David Miller | Stars: William Lundigan, Jean Rogers, Dan Dailey, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 243
8. Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main
Votes: 673
9. Appointment for Love (1941)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly after Jane voices her progressive views on marriage, which include ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Charles Boyer, Margaret Sullavan, Rita Johnson, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 173
10. A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Musical
A 12-year-old singing sensation loses her voice when her parents refuse to give in to her harebrained schemes.
Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 44
11. An American Romance (1944)
Passed | 151 min | Drama
Stefan Dangos immigrates to America and works his way up from the iron mines and steel mills to become a great American success story as an industrialist.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ann Richards, Walter Abel, John Qualen
Votes: 573
12. The Magnificent Dope (1942)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Dwight Dawson, who runs an unsuccessful success school, stages a contest to find the biggest failure in the USA, for publicity value when the "dope" takes his course. But winner Tad Page is... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Henry Fonda, Lynn Bari, Don Ameche, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 458
13. Rio Rita (1942)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Music, War
Doc and Wishey run into some Nazi-agents, who want to smuggle bombs into the USA from a Mexican border hotel.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Kathryn Grayson, John Carroll
Votes: 1,282
14. 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: 130
15. Bright Lights (1925)
70 min | Comedy, Romance
Tom loves Patsy, but she lives in the city while he is every bit the country bumpkin. When an invention of his sells, he decides to take the money and go to the city. There he will show ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Charles Ray, Pauline Starke, Lilyan Tashman, Lawford Davidson
16. Dynamite Smith (1924)
70 min | Drama
Fearful young reporter Gladstone Smith gets on the wrong side of a murderous criminal and flees to Alaska with the killer's wife, who is equally frightened of her husband. But the murderer ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Charles Ray, Jacqueline Logan, Bessie Love, Wallace Beery
Votes: 16
17. The Vanishing Virginian (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Biography of Robert Yancey, long-term district attorney in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Morgan, Kathryn Grayson, Spring Byington, Natalie Thompson
Votes: 323
18. The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
How a liberated teacher brought women's suffrage to Wyoming in 1869.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Loretta Young, Robert Preston, Edward Arnold, Frank Craven
Votes: 167
19. By Your Leave (1934)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Henry Smith convinces his wife, Ellen, that they should take separate one-week vacations, with no questions asked. He tries to sow some wild oats with a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Frank Morgan, Genevieve Tobin, Neil Hamilton, Marian Nixon
Votes: 195
20. 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
21. The Man Who Lost Himself (1941)
72 min | Comedy
John Evans encounters his lookalike, Malcolm Scott. When Scott is killed in an accident, Evans finds himself mistaken for Scott and decides to do some good in his new role.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Brian Aherne, Kay Francis, Henry Stephenson, S.Z. Sakall
Votes: 120
22. Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
74 min | Comedy
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he ... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Marie Prevost, Charles Ray, Harry Myers, Sally Rand
Votes: 95
23. The Garden of Eden (1928)
Not Rated | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George
Votes: 497
24. We Go Fast (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two cops (Curtis, Deforest) flirt with highway restaurant waitress (Bari) who falls for Oriental businessman (Mohr) who turns out to be a crook.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Lynn Bari, Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Don DeFore
Votes: 59
25. The Fire Brigade (1926)
90 min | Drama
Terry O'Neill is the youngest of a family of Irish firefighters. He falls in love with Helen Corwin, but complications ensue when Terry learns that her father, a wealthy contractor, has cut costs by putting his buildings in danger of fire.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: May McAvoy, Charles Ray, Holmes Herbert, Tom O'Brien
Votes: 70 | Gross: $0.51M
26. The Coward (I) (1915)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, History, War
Confederate soldier Frank Winslow is terrified of the war and eventually runs away from battle. But when he finds himself behind enemy lines with vital information, he must decide between his fear and his conscience.
Directors: Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Frank Keenan, Charles Ray, Gertrude Claire, Patricia Palmer
Votes: 333
27. Homer Comes Home (1920)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Ne'er-do-well Homer Cavender ventures to the city from Mainsville in an effort to find fame and fortune. Both elude him, and after clerking for two years, Homer returns home for a vacation.... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Charles Ray, Otto Hoffman, Priscilla Bonner, Ralph McCullough
Votes: 16
28. Harvard, Here I Come! (1941)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
After being publicly humiliated by an undergraduate humor publication, a dim-witted nightclub owner decides to enroll at Harvard University and become an educated man.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Maxie Rosenbloom, Arline Judge, Stanley Brown, Don Beddoe
Votes: 58
29. The Auction Block (1926)
70 min | Comedy
Bob Wharton marries Lorelei Knight, a beauty contest winner. While on their honeymoon, Bob is laughingly abducted by the flirtatious Bernice Lane, who keeps Bob out way past his bedtime (... See full summary »
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Charles Ray, Eleanor Boardman, Sally O'Neil, Donald Reed
30. The Postman Didn't Ring (1942)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
A government mail sack, missing for fifty years, is now being delivered. Stamp collector Julie Martin follows postal inspector Brennon on his delivery tour, hoping to find some rare stamps ... See full summary »
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Richard Travis, Brenda Joyce, Spencer Charters, Stanley Andrews
Votes: 32
31. The Courtship of Myles Standish (1923)
90 min | Drama, History
A dramatization of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' this is the story of the Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in England and came to America ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick Sullivan | Stars: Charles Ray, Enid Bennett, E. Alyn Warren, Joseph J. Dowling
Votes: 44
32. Paris (1926)
67 min | Drama, Romance
The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Charles Ray, Joan Crawford, Douglas Gilmore, Michael Visaroff
Votes: 195
33. The Busher (1919)
Not Rated | 63 min | Drama, Sport
A young baseball pitcher in the bush leagues is discovered by a big-league manager and given his chance in the major leagues. But will he be up to the challenge?
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley
Votes: 732
34. Married Bachelor (1941)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
Directors: Edward Buzzell, Norman Taurog | Stars: Robert Young, Ruth Hussey, Felix Bressart, Lee Bowman
Votes: 292
35. Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 1 (1920)
Documentary, Short
Stars: George Beban Jr., Edwin Carewe, Carter De Haven Jr., Dagmar Godowsky
36. Playing the Game (1918)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Millionaire Larry Prentiss inherits a ranch. He decides to visit his new property incognito and gets a job as a ranch-hand. He falls in love with the ranch foreman's daughter and complications ensue.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles Ray, Doris May, Harry L. Rattenberry, Robert McKim
37. Percy (1925)
60 min | Comedy
Percy Rogeen's father fears his son will never be a man, but only a mama's boy. When a friend of Mr. Rogeen promises to help the boy shape up, the father is delighted. But the help comes in... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Charles Ray, Louise Dresser, Joseph Kilgour, Clyde McAtee
38. 45 Minutes from Broadway (1920)
60 min | Comedy
Kid Burns vicariously enjoys life with his wealthy playboy pal. But complications ensue when Kid falls in love with a girl who just happens to be his friend's housemaid.
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Charles Ray, Dorothy Devore, Hazel Howell, Eugenie Besserer
39. The Dividend (1916)
50 min | Drama
Wealthy John Steele has a handsome young son, Frank, on whom he pins his hopes. But riches lead Frank not into social standing and duty, but into depravity, drug-addiction, criminal activity, and finally to tragedy.
Directors: Walter Edwards, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: William H. Thompson, Charles Ray, Ethel Ullman, Margaret Thompson
40. The Cup of Life (1915)
50 min | Drama
Sisters Helen and Ruth Fiske work in a department store and live in an East Side tenement. While Ruth is satisfied with her "regular fellow," a mechanic, Helen yearns for fine clothes, ... See full summary »
Directors: Thomas H. Ince, Raymond B. West | Stars: Bessie Barriscale, Enid Markey, Charles Ray, Frank Borzage
41. The Mad Martindales (1942)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1900 San Francisco, two sisters, one responsible and one flighty, deal with their love interests and the late mortgage payments of their squandering father who only wants to pursue his bungalow development project.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Jane Withers, Marjorie Weaver, Alan Mowbray, Jimmy Lydon
Votes: 36
42. Ticket to a Crime (1934)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A Man is found murdered at the Lido Country Club and, although several people are under suspicion, including Elaine and Willis Purdy, the police can not find the murderer; but private ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Ralph Graves, Lois Wilson, Lola Lane, James Burke
Votes: 52
43. The American (1927)
60 min | Western
Seref, who returns to his country after many years in America, as a dollar billionaire with a cowboy hat on his head, and with his Dallas-type boots has an interesting past: Twenty years ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Charles Ray, Bessie Love, Ward Crane, Evelyn Selbie
44. Skinner's Dress Suit (1917)
50 min | Comedy
Skinner is afraid to strike his employer for a raise for fear he will be discharged. Mrs. Skinner scoffs at his fears, however, and finally induces him to demand an increase. Her humble ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Bryant Washburn, Hazel Daly, Virginia Valli, Harry Dunkinson
45. The Pinch Hitter (1917)
48 min | Comedy, Sport
Shy Joel Parker seems bound for nowhere, until Abbie Nettleton enters his life. With her prodding, Joel goes from timid nobody to a baseball star with bravura.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles Ray, Sylvia Breamer, Joseph J. Dowling, Jerome Storm
Votes: 22
46. The Girl I Loved (1923)
60 min | Drama, Romance
John Middleton is distressed to learn that his family is taking in an orphan girl named Mary. He turns aside all her attempts to befriend him. But with the passage of time, John discovers (... See full summary »
Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Charles Ray, Patsy Ruth Miller, Ramsey Wallace, Edythe Chapman
47. City of the Dead (1915)
20 min | Short, Adventure, Drama
Travelling in the Arabian desert, Cecil Weatherby encounters a secret, hidden city, where he finds love in the form of beautiful priestess Ameera. Their love results in their being ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Swickard | Stars: J. Frank Burke, Louise Glaum, Kisaburô Kurihara, Herschel Mayall
48. His Mother's Boy (1917)
50 min | Drama
Matthew Denton is a product of a New England village. His father was a prominent business man who, during the latter part of his life, had encouraged a number of his fellow-townsmen to ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles Ray, Doris May, William Elmer, Josef Swickard
49. Alarm Clock Andy (1920)
50 min | Comedy
Andrew Gray is a shy youth who also stutters. He has worked in the office of the Wells Motor Truck company for five years, never getting beyond the job of clerk. Yet, he knows more about ... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Charles Ray, Millicent Fisher, George Webb, Tom Guise
50. Hay Foot, Straw Foot (1919)
50 min | Comedy
Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, raised by his grandfather Thaddeus, who served under General Grant, grows up with the General as his hero even though his neighbor, former Confederate soldier Jeff ... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Charles Ray, Doris May, William Conklin, Spottiswoode Aitken