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1. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 100,035 | Gross: $0.06M

2. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price

Votes: 14,789

3. Duel in the Sun (1946)

Passed | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.

Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 9,496 | Gross: $20.41M

4. Fallen Angel (1945)

Approved | 98 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

A slick con man arrives in a small town looking to make some money, but soon gets more than he bargained for.

Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Charles Bickford

Votes: 6,522

5. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

Passed | 137 min | Drama, War

A young priest is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gregory Peck, Thomas Mitchell, Vincent Price, Rose Stradner

Votes: 3,092

6. Jesse James (1939)

GP | 106 min | Western

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Directors: Henry King, Irving Cummings | Stars: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott

Votes: 4,949

7. Crash Dive (1943)

Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War

A submarine lieutenant and his commander fall in love with the same girl.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, James Gleason

Votes: 1,751

8. Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance

Cheated out of his estate by his sadistic uncle, young Benjamin Blake goes to the South Seas to make his fortune so he can return to claim his birthright.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Frances Farmer

Votes: 1,832

9. The Rains Came (1939)

Approved | 103 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In India, a married British aristocrat is reunited with an old flame, but she truly has her sights set on a handsome surgeon.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power, George Brent, Brenda Joyce

Votes: 2,294

10. Moon Over Miami (1941)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis

Votes: 1,390

11. Behind Green Lights (1946)

Passed | 64 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery

Police lieutenant Sam Carson investigates a political murder after the victim is dumped at the door of police headquarters.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Carole Landis, William Gargan, Richard Crane, Mary Anderson

Votes: 1,109

12. Western Union (1941)

Passed | 95 min | History, Western

When Edward Creighton leads the construction of the Western Union to unite East with West, he hires a Western reformed outlaw and a tenderfoot Eastern surveyor.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Robert Young, Randolph Scott, Dean Jagger, Virginia Gilmore

Votes: 3,281

13. The Garden of Allah (1936)

Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 1,708

14. Belle Starr (1941)

Approved | 87 min | Western

At the end of the Civil War, an embittered Southern belle joins forces with a Confederate guerrilla leader to raid Union towns.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Randolph Scott, Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Shepperd Strudwick

Votes: 992

15. Buffalo Bill (1944)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western

The story of William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, legendary westerner, from his days as an army scout to his later activities as owner of a Wild West show.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Maureen O'Hara, Linda Darnell, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,702

16. The Phantom Empire (1935)

Approved | 245 min | Drama, Family, Romance

When the ancient continent of Mu sank beneath the ocean, some of its inhabitant survived in caverns beneath the sea. Cowboy singer Gene Autry stumbles upon the civilization, now buried ... See full summary »

Directors: Otto Brower, B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Gene Autry, Frankie Darro, Betsy King Ross, Dorothy Christy

Votes: 540

17. Paramount on Parade (1930)

Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Music

A musical revue that basically has Paramount stars and contract-players doing things some had never done on screen, and wouldn't again; such as Ruth Chatteron , in a French-café setting ... See full summary »

Directors: Dorothy Arzner, Otto Brower, Edmund Goulding, Victor Heerman, Edwin H. Knopf, Rowland V. Lee, Ernst Lubitsch, Lothar Mendes, Victor Schertzinger, A. Edward Sutherland, Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jean Arthur, Clara Bow, Maurice Chevalier, Gary Cooper

Votes: 380

18. Kentucky (1938)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Romeo and Juliet story set amidst horse racing in Kentucky. The family feud of lovers Jack and Sally goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by her Uncle Peter.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 681

19. The Pied Piper (1942)

87 min | Drama, War

While traveling in France during the Nazi invasion of 1940, an Englishman is entrusted with the care of a group of refugee children.

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Roddy McDowall, Anne Baxter, Otto Preminger

Votes: 737

20. Wilson (1944)

Passed | 154 min | Biography, Drama, History

A chronicle of the political career of US President Woodrow Wilson.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Alexander Knox, Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,698 | Gross: $2.00M

21. Brigham Young (1940)

Approved | 114 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

In 1844, after the assassination of Mormon leader Joseph Smith by an angry mob in Illinois, the Mormons choose Brigham Young as their new leader and follow him to a new promised land in Utah.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Dean Jagger, Brian Donlevy

Votes: 1,141

22. Stanley and Livingstone (1939)

Approved | 101 min | Adventure, Drama, History

Tasked by his editor, American reporter Henry M. Stanley travels to a dangerous and uncharted region of East Africa to find the missing Scottish pioneer missionary Dr. David Livingstone.

Directors: Henry King, Otto Brower | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Nancy Kelly, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan

Votes: 1,543

23. Applause (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron

Votes: 1,503

24. Slave Ship (1937)

Passed | 92 min | Adventure, Drama

Captain Lovett ordered his first mate Thompson to get rid of his slave-trading crew and get a more respectable bunch for standard shipping, but when he brings his new bride Nancy aboard he finds the same old setup, including slave trade.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 222

25. Suez (1938)

Passed | 104 min | Drama, Romance

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Tyrone Power, Loretta Young, Annabella, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 913

26. Song of the Islands (1942)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 288

27. Thanks a Million (1935)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Entertainers enter a political rally to get out of the rain and become part of the show. One of them (Powell) gives a speech in place of the besotted candidate (Walburn) and is chosen to be... See full summary »

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Fred Allen, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 272

28. Under Two Flags (1936)

Passed | 112 min | Adventure

Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell

Votes: 508

29. The Three Musketeers (1935)

Approved | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

The young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, ... See full summary »

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Walter Abel, Paul Lukas, Margot Grahame, Heather Angel

Votes: 405

30. Fighting Caravans (1931)

Passed | 92 min | Western

A young frontier scout helps guide a freight wagon train across the country, fighting off Indians and evil traders, while his two crusty companions try and save him from falling in love.

Directors: Otto Brower, David Burton | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall

Votes: 723

31. Carnival in Costa Rica (1947)

Passed | 97 min | Music, Romance

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Dick Haymes, Vera-Ellen, Cesar Romero, Celeste Holm

Votes: 196

32. Banjo on My Knee (1936)

Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen

Votes: 674

33. Postal Inspector (1936)

Approved | 58 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Postal inspectors track down money stolen from a railroad car.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Patricia Ellis, Michael Loring, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 274

34. Ladies of the Mob (1928)

Passed | 66 min | Drama

A dead criminal's daughter falls in love with a small-time crook and tries to get him to reform before he winds up like her father.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Helen Lynch, Mary Alden

Votes: 49

35. Wintertime (1943)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and ... See full summary »

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Sonja Henie, Jack Oakie, Cesar Romero, Carole Landis

Votes: 226

36. Sex Hygiene (1942)

30 min | Short, Drama

Several servicemen relax by playing pool, but one of them goes off to spend time with a prostitute. Later, he discovers he has contracted a venereal disease. A graphic and frank ... See full summary »

Directors: Otto Brower, John Ford | Stars: Robert Conway, Kenneth Alexander, Robert Cornell, Richard Derr

Votes: 212

37. Youth Will Be Served (1940)

68 min | Musical, Romance

A southern girl (Withers) goes to a National Youth Association camp after her father goes to jail for bootlegging. When a mean tycoon tries to buy the campground for himself, she stages a ... See full summary »

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Joe Brown Jr., Robert Conway

Votes: 19

38. Barricade (1939)

Approved | 71 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In China in the 1930s a singer (Faye) and journalist (Baxter) meet on a train attacked by bandits.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Alice Faye, Warner Baxter, Charles Winninger, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 158

39. The Devil Horse (1932)

Passed | 216 min | Drama, Western

Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Frankie Darro, Apache

Votes: 54

40. The Outlaw Deputy (1935)

Passed | 59 min | Western

Ex-outlaw Tim Mallory is looking for the killer of his friend Chuck. Having thwarted a robbery attempt by one of his old gang members he is made a Deputy. He finds Houger who he believes is... See full summary »

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Hooper Atchley, Joseph W. Girard

Votes: 27

41. The Hard Hombre (1931)

Passed | 65 min | Western

When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he ... See full summary »

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Lina Basquette, Mathilde Comont, G. Raymond Nye

Votes: 130

42. Paris After Dark (1943)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, War

Members of the French underground resistance, live their "normal" lives during the day, and fight the occupying Nazis in the war-torn Paris after dark. Some will end their lives fighting, and some will find purpose in life once again.

Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: George Sanders, Philip Dorn, Brenda Marshall, Madeleine Lebeau

Votes: 177

43. The Gay Caballero (1940)

Approved | 58 min | Western

The Cisco Kid and his buddy Gordito arrive in town and learn that Cisco is supposedly dead. Not only that: Before his death, he is believed to have attempted to steal Susan Wetherby's land.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Cesar Romero, Sheila Ryan, Robert Sterling, Chris-Pin Martin

Votes: 74

44. Scarlet River (1933)

Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film. Tom soon learns her foreman has been rustling and poisoning ... See full summary »

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Tom Keene, Dorothy Wilson, Lon Chaney Jr., Betty Furness

Votes: 224

45. Ten Modern Commandments (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama

Kitten O'Day, who works as maid in a theatrical boardinghouse, firmly refuses a stage career, though she is the daughter of a theater family. However, when songwriter Tod Gilbert takes up ... See full summary »

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Esther Ralston, Neil Hamilton, Arthur Hoyt, Jocelyn Lee

46. Spirit of the West (1932)

62 min | Western

To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Doris Hill, Hooper Atchley, Al Bridge

Votes: 28

47. The Law of the Sea (1931)

Passed | 64 min | Drama

A sadistic, evil ship captain lusts after a beautiful young girl he spots in town. It turns out that she's the girlfriend of a young man whose father the captain had blinded and cast adrift on the ocean many years before.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: William Farnum, Sally Blane, Rex Bell, Priscilla Dean

Votes: 59

48. Shooting High (1940)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Music, Western

A movie company making a film about a famous sheriff hires his grandson as a stand-in for the lead. The grandson's friend scares the actor out of town so he can get the role.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Jane Withers, Gene Autry, Marjorie Weaver, Frank M. Thomas

Votes: 147

49. High School (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Texas ranch teenager (Withers) is sent to school in San Antonio where she learns to get along with others.

Directors: George Nicholls Jr., Norman Foster | Stars: Jane Withers, Joe Brown Jr., Paul Harvey, Lloyd Corrigan

Votes: 89

50. Dixie Dugan (1943)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy

Roger Hudson, a wealthy businessman who has moved to Washington to work for the government as a "dollar a year man," is late for a radio broadcast about his new department, the Mobilization... See full synopsis »

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Lois Andrews, James Ellison, Charlotte Greenwood, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 55