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1. Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
Not Rated | 161 min | Drama, Mystery
An upstate Michigan lawyer defends a soldier who claims he killed an innkeeper due to temporary insanity after the victim raped his wife. What is the truth, and will he win his case?
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara, Arthur O'Connell
Votes: 71,466 | Gross: $11.90M
2. The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1962)
30 min | Drama
Abraham Lincoln Jones is a lawyer assisted by his law clerk, young C. E. Carruthers, and his secretary Marsha Spear. His cases usually did not involve violence but rather "white collar" crime.
Stars: James Whitmore, Janet De Gore, Conlan Carter, Russ Brown
Votes: 72
3. Advise & Consent (1962)
Not Rated | 139 min | Drama, Thriller
The polarizing search for a new Secretary of State has far-reaching consequences.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon
Votes: 7,519
4. Vacation Playhouse (1963–1967)
30 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
Summer replacement show featuring pilot programs that had not been sold.
Stars: Darryl Hickman, Dwayne Hickman, Pat Crowley, Soupy Sales
Votes: 64
5. The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Powell served as host and, in early shows at least, occasional star in this dramatic anthology. It was his last television series and contained his last filmed acting (episode: 'The Court-Martial of Captain Wycliff').
Stars: Dick Powell, David Niven, June Allyson, Oscar Beregi Jr.
Votes: 210
6. Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
60 min | Drama
Dramatic anthology series presenting plays adopted from Pulitzer Prize winning stories, plays, novels, et cetera.
Stars: Elmer Davis, Charles Dingle, Richard Bishop, Joan Chandler
Votes: 50
7.
The Dick Powell Theatre (1961–1963)
Episode:
The Losers
(1963)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
A couple of hard-drinking cardsharp drifters find themselves in the unlikely situation of having to play Cupid.
Director: Sam Peckinpah | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lee Marvin, Keenan Wynn, Rosemary Clooney
Votes: 46
8. Damn Yankees (1958)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
Directors: George Abbott, Stanley Donen | Stars: Tab Hunter, Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Russ Brown
Votes: 3,450
9. South Pacific (1958)
Approved | 157 min | Musical, Romance, War
On a South Pacific island during World War II, love blooms between a young nurse and a secretive Frenchman who's being courted for a dangerous military mission.
Director: Joshua Logan | Stars: Rossano Brazzi, Mitzi Gaynor, John Kerr, Ray Walston
Votes: 9,829
10. Let's Talk It Over (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
A young sailor saves a woman from drowning. The woman turns out to be a rich heiress; unfortunately for the sailor, she was only pretending to be drowning so that another young man she had her eye on would save her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Chester Morris, Mae Clarke, Frank Craven, John Warburton
Votes: 15
11. The Cardinal (1963)
Approved | 175 min | Drama, History, War
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Tom Tryon, John Huston, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley
Votes: 2,909
12. It Happened to Jane (1959)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
Director: Richard Quine | Stars: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest
Votes: 3,106
13. Moulin Rouge (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Constance Bennett, Franchot Tone, Tullio Carminati, Helen Westley
Votes: 179
14. Air Parade (1938)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Musical, Comedy
Niela is tired of her children's hour radio program and with the help of Lee they frame the station's top executive so that she will get a break on a big time program.
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Niela Goodelle, Lee Sullivan, Arthur Boran, Russ Brown
Votes: 13
15. Sweet Surrender (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Musical, Romance
Arrested when he gets into a fracas, while escorting the girl he has hitherto loved only from afar, noted ballet dancer Delphine, to her car, Danny O'Day, famous radio tenor, is late for ... See full summary »
Director: Monte Brice | Stars: Frank Parker, Tamara, Helen Lynd, Russ Brown
Votes: 22
16. Millionaire Playboy (1940)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
Joe Zany has been bashful around girls since he was a baby, and has violent spells of hiccuping when he is kissed by one. His father, utilities magnate J.B. Zany, calls in the services of ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Joe Penner, Linda Hayes, Russ Brown, Fritz Feld
Votes: 129
18. The Two of Us (1966 TV Movie)
30 min | Comedy
Unsold pilot for a proposed CBS sitcom concerns the adventures of a young boy who lives with his widowed mother a writer/illustrator of children's books. He relates better to the imaginary ... See full summary »
Director: Claudio Guzmán | Stars: Bill Mumy, Pat Crowley, Mary Jane Croft, Barry Livingston
19. The Love Captive (1934)
63 min | Drama, Romance
During a high society party, Dr. Alexis Collender offers to hypnotize the host's butler and demonstrate his power of control using a loaded pistol. After the terrified butler refuses to go ... See full synopsis »
Director: Max Marcin | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Nils Asther, Paul Kelly, Alan Dinehart
20. Boy, Oh Boy (1936)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Bert Lahr is a butler in the employ of some newly-rich family. His sweetheart kitchen-worker gives away his sweepstakes ticket to the chauffeur. It turns out to be the big winner. Then Bert... See full summary »
Director: William Watson | Stars: Bert Lahr, Roy Roberts, Russ Brown, Aileen Cook
21. Montague the Magnificent (1937)
18 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Al Christie | Stars: Bert Lahr, Sally Starr, Russ Brown, George J. Lewis
22. School for Swing (1937)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Russ Brown auditions several 'swing' dancers for Varsha Backoff only to find out later that he is a school swing salesman.
Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Sylvia Froos, Russ Brown, Bert Gordon, Wally Stapleton
23. Footlights (1931)
19 min | Short, Musical
A wealthy oil man is mistaken for a theatrical producer and shown musical scenes from a forthcoming show.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Barbara Newberry, Russ Brown, Dorothea James, James C. Morton
24. Strike! You're Out (1936)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Robert Hall | Stars: Russ Brown, Sandra Johnson, Barry Sullivan, Marie Hartman
25. Carnival Time (1936)
18 min | Short, Music
Director: Milton Schwarzwald | Stars: Jean Sargent, Jack Fulton, Pinky Sanborn, Russ Brown
26. Russ Brown in 'the Palooka Flying School' (1930)
7 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Al Boasberg | Star: Russ Brown
27. Off the Horses (1937)
19 min | Comedy, Short
Director: William Watson | Stars: Bert Lahr, Mildred Schroeder, Robert Shayne, Russ Brown
28. Pie a la Mode (1933)
18 min | Short, Musical
For publicity, a movie star enters and wins a pie baking contest. As a result, pie-throwing becomes a trademark of his films.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Herbert Warren, Russ Brown, Bernard Gorcey, Polly Walters
29.
The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1962)
Episode:
Drivel
(1960)
30 min | Drama
Yet again, Jones is feeling optimistic until something goes wrong - and this time it's his own father's ornery temperament which is the trigger of the trouble.
Director: David Alexander | Stars: James Whitmore, Janet De Gore, Conlan Carter, Russ Brown
30.
The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1962)
Episode:
Indian War
(1961)
30 min | Drama
Abraham and Marsha are looking forward to a three day fishing trip giving them a chance to relax. They ate joined by Thomas, Abraham's father.
Director: David Alexander | Stars: James Whitmore, Janet De Gore, Conlan Carter, Russ Brown
31.
Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (1950–1952)
Episode:
Portrait of a President
(1951)
60 min | Drama
Focus is on Andrew Jackson's presidential campaign and his stand against the United States Bank for its refusal to make credit accessible to more citizens.
Stars: Fay Bainter, Richard Bishop, Matt Briggs, Russ Brown
32.
Vacation Playhouse (1963–1967)
Episode:
The Two of Us
(1966)
30 min | Drama, Comedy, Crime
The limits of seven year old Chris and his imagination are the only impediment to a day's adventure. Chris lives with his single mother Elizabeth Williams in a small town and his best buddy is Roger.
Director: Claudio Guzmán | Stars: Pat Crowley, Bill Mumy, Mary Jane Croft, Russ Brown
33.
The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1962)
Episode:
Wilderness
(1962)
30 min | Drama
Jones's father stops traffic on his return with his dramatic insistence that his son intervenes in a building project set to damage a natural lake.
Director: David Alexander | Stars: James Whitmore, Janet De Gore, Conlan Carter, Rhys Williams
34.
The Law and Mr. Jones (1960–1962)
Episode:
What Can You Learn from Smoke Signals?
(1962)
Drama
Lincoln wants to go fishing with his father, but pops would rather fight and drags him into a campaign to save a newspaper from its fate after the death of its editor.
Director: John Rich | Stars: James Whitmore, Janet De Gore, Conlan Carter, Sandy Kenyon