Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Frank Gorback

1. All That Heaven Allows (1955)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance

An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel

Votes: 16,692

2. The Man from the Alamo (1953)

Approved | 79 min | Western

During the Alamo siege, John Stroud is sent to Ox Bow to protect the townsfolk but, following a massacre, he infiltrates Jess Wade's gang of turncoat renegades supporting the Mexicans.

Director: Budd Boetticher | Stars: Glenn Ford, Julie Adams, Chill Wills, Hugh O'Brian

Votes: 2,154

3. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952)

Approved | 77 min | Western

Marshal Tyrone and the Silver Kid form an uneasy alliance against a gang of claim jumpers.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Audie Murphy, Faith Domergue, Stephen McNally, Susan Cabot

Votes: 1,906

4. Ride Clear of Diablo (1954)

Approved | 81 min | Western

After his father and brother are murdered by a corrupt lawyer and sheriff duo, railroad surveyor Clay O'Mara plans his revenge, and is aided by former outlaw Whitey Kincade.

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Audie Murphy, Susan Cabot, Dan Duryea, Abbe Lane

Votes: 1,454

5. The Benny Goodman Story (1956)

Approved | 116 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The young Benny Goodman is taught clarinet by a Chicago music professor. He is advised by bandleader Kid Ory to play whichever kind of music he likes best, but to make a living, Benny begins by joining the Ben Pollack traveling band.

Director: Valentine Davies | Stars: Steve Allen, Donna Reed, Berta Gersten, Barry Truex

Votes: 1,300

6. Man in the Shadow (I) (1957)

Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Virgil Renchler owns most of the town, providing a thriving economy. When his men go too far and kill one of his migrant workmen, the sheriff goes after him, even if it means his job and everyone else's.

Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Orson Welles, Colleen Miller, Ben Alexander

Votes: 1,229

7. My Man Godfrey (1957)

Unrated | 92 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

The spoiled daughter of a rich American family hires as butler an Austrian vagrant she finds on a pier, without knowing that he illegally jumped ship.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis, Robert Keith

Votes: 1,126

8. Apache Drums (1951)

Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A gambler is thrown out of a western town, but returns when the town is suddenly threatened by a band of marauding Apaches.

Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Stephen McNally, Coleen Gray, Willard Parker, Arthur Shields

Votes: 944

9. Hollywood Story (1951)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.

Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull

Votes: 928

10. The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951)

Approved | 88 min | Adventure

In 13th-century Tangiers, regent Mustapha hires a paid assassin to kill baby Prince Hussein in order to usurp his throne but the assassin has second thoughts and steals the baby for himself.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Everett Sloane, Jeff Corey

Votes: 786

11. The Battle at Apache Pass (1952)

Approved | 85 min | Western

When Cochise bands together with Geronimo and other Indian tribes, Major Colton abandons his fort, heading towards Fort Sheridan, through Apache Pass. The only thing in his way are the Indians he used to call his friends.

Director: George Sherman | Stars: John Lund, Jeff Chandler, Susan Cabot, Bruce Cowling

Votes: 722

12. The Price of Fear (1956)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

The co-owner of a dog track is framed for two crimes: the shotgun killing of his ex-partner and the hit-and-run death of an elderly man.

Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Merle Oberon, Lex Barker, Charles Drake, Gia Scala

Votes: 697

13. Ma and Pa Kettle at Waikiki (1953)

Approved | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Ma and Pa, with their daughter Rosie, go off to Hawai'i to answer ailing Cousin Rodney's call for help running his pineapple farm while he recovers. Pa soon causes a major explosion and gets himself kidnapped.

Director: Lee Sholem | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Lori Nelson, Byron Palmer

Votes: 565

14. No Room for the Groom (1952)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy

Alvah, a young GI who happens to own a vineyard, elopes to Las Vegas with Lee, his housekeeper's daughter. But Alvah's chicken pox postpone the wedding night. The rest revolves around more ... See full summary »

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Tony Curtis, Piper Laurie, Don DeFore, Spring Byington

Votes: 547

15. This Earth Is Mine (1959)

Approved | 124 min | Drama, Romance

During Prohibition, Englishwoman Elizabeth Rambeau joins her winemaking California family, but while some see her as an unwanted "poor relation," others covet her affections, including her troublemaker playboy cousin John Rambeau.

Director: Henry King | Stars: Rock Hudson, Jean Simmons, Claude Rains, Dorothy McGuire

Votes: 520

16. Francis in the Haunted House (1956)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Francis the Talking Mule witnesses a murder. He takes a bumbling reporter named David Prescott under his wing and the two of them set out to solve the crime.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Virginia Welles, James Flavin, Paul Cavanagh

Votes: 400

17. The Kettles on Old MacDonald's Farm (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy

Ma and Pa do their bit to hook lumberman Brad Johnson up with spoiled socialite Sally Flemming. Ma teaches Sally how to behave like a hick so she'll be compatible with Brad.

Director: Virgil W. Vogel | Stars: Marjorie Main, Parker Fennelly, Gloria Talbott, John Smith

Votes: 322

18. Step Down to Terror (1958)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A killer on the lam takes refuge in his childhood home where his mother and widowed sister-in-law are ignorant of his criminal past.

Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Colleen Miller, Charles Drake, Rod Taylor, Josephine Hutchinson

Votes: 321

19. All American (1953)

Approved | 83 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Nick Bonelli, quarterback for Mid-State, proves himself an All American in the championship, but his parents die in an auto accident coming to the game. Nick decides to transfer to Sheridan... See full summary »

Director: Jesse Hibbs | Stars: Tony Curtis, Lori Nelson, Richard Long, Mamie Van Doren

Votes: 317

20. Yankee Pasha (1954)

Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Romance

In 1800, trapper Jason Starbuck falls for Massachusetts girl Roxana but has to rescue her from slavery when sea pirates capture Roxana and sell her to a Moroccan harem.

Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Rhonda Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Lee J. Cobb

Votes: 258 | Gross: $1.25M

21. Kathy O' (1958)

Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Drama

A publicity man tries to hide a child film star's brattiness from a magazine writer, who happens to be his ex-wife.

Director: Jack Sher | Stars: Dan Duryea, Jan Sterling, Patty McCormack, Mary Fickett

Votes: 226

22. Walking My Baby Back Home (1953)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical

World War II veteran Clarence "Jigger" Millard forms a band with several other former GIs. The band fails to take off and he is forced to join a minstrel show headed by Colonel Wallace. He soon falls for Wallace's niece Chris Hall.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, Lori Nelson

Votes: 170

23. The Looters (1955)

Approved | 87 min | Adventure

An expert mountain climber and his partner find a plane wreck in the Rockies, but the partner conspires with one of the plane's survivors to stop at nothing to steal a large amount of cash found on board.

Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Rory Calhoun, Julie Adams, Ray Danton, Thomas Gomez

Votes: 168

24. Once Upon a Horse... (1958)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Western

Dan and Doc are incompetent desperados who plan to give crime one more try before going straight. Miss Amity Babb is the shapely toast of Empty Cup, Colorado who sets prices by Wall Street,... See full summary »

Director: Hal Kanter | Stars: Dan Rowan, Dick Martin, Martha Hyer, Leif Erickson

Votes: 123

25. Chinatown Squad (1935)

Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Police search for the killer of a man who misused $700,000 intended for the Chinese Communists.

Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Lyle Talbot, Valerie Hobson, Hugh O'Connell, Andy Devine

Votes: 77

26. Lady Tubbs (1935)

Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Romance

A cook in a railroad construction camp inherits $500,000. She pretends to be English royalty and barges into the New York social scene.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Alice Brady, Douglass Montgomery, Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 38

27. The Jury's Secret (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Bill Sheldon has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams as Sheldon blames the city's recent flood against Williams for using his power and influence to hold up ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell, Nan Grey

Votes: 37

28. Behind the Mike (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

Complications ensue after a radio producer insults a sponsor.

Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, Don Wilson, Sterling Holloway