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1. White Heat (1949)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 35,848
2. Gentleman Jim (1942)
Approved | 104 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
As bare-knuckled boxing enters the modern era, brash extrovert, Jim Corbett, uses new rules and dazzlingly innovative footwork to rise to the top of the top of the boxing world.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Alexis Smith, Jack Carson, Alan Hale
Votes: 4,120
3. They Were Expendable (1945)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, War
A Navy commander fights to prove the battle-worthiness of the PT boat at the start of World War II.
Directors: John Ford, Robert Montgomery | Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Wayne, Donna Reed, Jack Holt
Votes: 9,265
4. The Verdict (1946)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After an innocent man is executed in a case for which he was not responsible, a Scotland Yard superintendent finds himself investigating the murder of his key witness.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,834
5. Florian (1940)
91 min | Drama
This film is (very) loosely based on the book by Austrian author Felix Salten. It follows the life of the Lippizaner stallion Florian. Of special note is the time when he pulled Emperor Franz Joseph's carriage.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman
Votes: 100
6. Ivy (1947)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
An Edwardian belle meets a rich bachelor, but what to do about her husband and her lover?
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Patric Knowles, Herbert Marshall, Richard Ney
Votes: 1,120
7. Road to Utopia (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 3,756
8. Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, War
An American tanker is sunk by a German U-boat, and the survivors spend 11 days at sea on a raft. Their next assignment - bound for Murmansk through the sub-stalked N. Atlantic.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, Byron Haskin, Raoul Walsh | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Raymond Massey, Alan Hale, Julie Bishop
Votes: 4,553
9. Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Fugitive Bill Saunders and lonely nurse Jane Wharton are crossed by fate when he hides out in her apartment.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Burt Lancaster, Robert Newton, Lewis L. Russell
Votes: 2,162
10. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Passed | 127 min | Comedy, Musical
Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis
Votes: 2,135
11. Julia Misbehaves (1948)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A London chorus girl tries to rekindle her relationships with her daughter, whom she gave up as an infant, and her estranged husband, when the former becomes engaged.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Peter Lawford, Elizabeth Taylor
Votes: 1,194
12. Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Passed | 106 min | Adventure, Film-Noir, Romance
In WW2, the Allies race against time to persuade two nuclear scientists working for the Germans to switch sides.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Gary Cooper, Robert Alda, Lilli Palmer, Vladimir Sokoloff
Votes: 3,454
13. Rope of Sand (1949)
Approved | 104 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A man abused by a sadistic mining company cop before he could tell where on their desert property he'd found diamonds decides to steal them instead.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,802
14. Killer McCoy (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Drama
Following a mishap in the ring, hard-nosed lightweight Tommy "Killer" McCoy gets mixed up with a big time gambler and falls for his educated daughter Sheila, against her father's better wishes.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn
Votes: 505 | Gross: $2.00M
15. The White Angel (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Biography, Drama
A look at the life of Florence Nightingale.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Donald Woods, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 421
16. The Exile (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Romance
Charles II, the King of England, finds himself in exile in Holland, where he falls in love with a beautiful farm-girl.
Director: Max Ophüls | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Maria Montez, Paula Corday, Henry Daniell
Votes: 559
17. Forever Amber (1947)
Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.
Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders
Votes: 1,696 | Gross: $16.00M
18. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix
Votes: 2,748
19. Confidential Agent (1945)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Thriller
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
Director: Herman Shumlin | Stars: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,372
20. God Is My Co-Pilot (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Biography
During WW2, American volunteer pilots are stationed in China where, as part of the Flying Tigers unit, they dog-fight against Japanese warplanes.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Raymond Massey, Dane Clark, Alan Hale
Votes: 680
21. Diamond Horseshoe (1945)
Approved | 104 min | Musical, Romance
A medical student who wants to be a crooner gets involved with a showgirl who has an ulterior motive.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Betty Grable, Dick Haymes, Phil Silvers, William Gaxton
Votes: 310
22. The Hunted (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Despite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Larry J. Blake
Votes: 669
23. Sword in the Desert (1949)
Approved | 101 min | Action, Drama, History
In 1947, with only months remaining until the partition of British-administered Palestine, an American freighter captain smuggles European Jewish refugees ashore under the nose of the British authorities.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, Stephen McNally, Jeff Chandler
Votes: 319
24. The Great Jewel Robber (1950)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Escaping from a Canadian prison farm, master thief Gerard Dennis (David Brian) makes his way to Buffalo with Peggy Arthur (Perdita Chandler), who supplies him with money needed for forged ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: David Brian, Marjorie Reynolds, John Archer, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 196
25. Joan of Arc (1948)
Approved | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
The abbreviated life of the 15th-century French heroine.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, José Ferrer, Selena Royle, Robert Barrat
Votes: 3,787
26. Wells Fargo (1937)
Passed | 97 min | Drama, History, Western
The life and career of a Wells Fargo official frames this fictionalized account of the express company's formation.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Joel McCrea, Bob Burns, Frances Dee, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 641
27. Klondike Annie (1936)
Passed | 78 min | Western
Carlton Rose, a girl known as "the Frisco Doll" escapes to Alaska after accidentally killing her guard.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy
Votes: 793
28. I Love a Soldier (1944)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
During World War II in San Francisco, Eve Morgan and her single girlfriends spend their days welding ships and their nights dancing with soldiers and sailors shipping out that night. Eve is... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Sonny Tufts, Beulah Bondi, Walter Sande
Votes: 122
29. Lost in a Harem (1944)
Passed | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marilyn Maxwell, John Conte
Votes: 1,290
30. Bomber's Moon (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, War
An American bomber pilot, who sees his brother machine-gunned to death, escapes a concentration camp with a beautiful Russian doctor, and exacts his revenge by shooting down a mysterious German flight mission led by his brother's killer.
Directors: Edward Ludwig, Harold D. Schuster, John Brahm | Stars: George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 87
31. Abroad with Two Yanks (1944)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two Marines are let loose in Australia.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: William Bendix, Helen Walker, Dennis O'Keefe, John Loder
Votes: 99
32. Frenchman's Creek (1944)
Approved | 110 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
An English lady falls madly in love with a French pirate.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Arturo de Córdova, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 818
33. Enter Arsene Lupin (1944)
Approved | 72 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She doesn't realize it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Charles Korvin, Ella Raines, J. Carrol Naish, George Dolenz
Votes: 197
34. The Black Arrow (1948)
Approved | 76 min | Action, Adventure, History
Young nobleman Richard Shelton returns from the War of the Roses to find his father murdered, a fugitive family friend blamed, and his uncle occupying his estates.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Janet Blair, George Macready, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 448
35. Sudan (1945)
Passed | 76 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Young, lovely Naila becomes queen of the ancient Egyptian kingdom of Khemis after her father is killed in a slave revolt. Continuing her penchant for going incognito among the people, she ... See full summary »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Turhan Bey, Andy Devine
Votes: 275
36. Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A tunefull account of the life of Ernest R. Ball, composer of many popular Irish songs, including the title's.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Monty Woolley, June Haver, Dick Haymes, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 194
37. Captain China (1950)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty after his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead),... See full summary »
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Jeffrey Lynn, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 141
38. The Man from Down Under (1943)
Approved | 103 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
A crusty old Sergeant of the Queen's Australian army in World War I befriends a small orphaned boy and his tiny sister on the night he is to go back to Australia. The Sergeant emotionally ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Charles Laughton, Binnie Barnes, Richard Carlson, Donna Reed
Votes: 251
39. Swing Fever (1943)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lowell Blackford (Kay Kyser) is blessed with a gift of music,but also cursed with a hereditary "evil eye" which hypnotizes people,and he is virtually a recluse. He goes in search of a ... See full summary »
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Kay Kyser, Marilyn Maxwell, William Gargan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 234
40. This Is the Army (1943)
Approved | 121 min | Musical
A soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,346 | Gross: $20.83M
41. Jungle Queen (1945)
Passed | 219 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
During World War II, the German high command sends agents into an African jungle to stir up the local Tongghili tribes against the British.
Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Edward Norris, Eddie Quillan, Douglass Dumbrille, Lois Collier
Votes: 178
42. The Mysterious Doctor (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: John Loder, Eleanor Parker, Bruce Lester, Lester Matthews
Votes: 688
43. Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama
When King John imposes oppressive taxes and cruel treatment upon the local population in medieval England, the son of legendary bandit Robin Hood reforms his father's "Merry Men" to once more rise against the king.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: John Derek, Diana Lynn, George Macready, Alan Hale
Votes: 410
44. The Gorilla Man (1943)
Passed | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Commando Captain Craig Killian, carrying important military information, is wounded and taken to a hospital on the South Coast of England, operated by Doctor Joseph Wolf. The hospital is ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: John Loder, Ruth Ford, Marian Hall, Richard Fraser
Votes: 135
45. Blonde Savage (1947)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
An expedition into the deep jungle discovers a native tribe led by a tall white blonde woman.
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Leif Erickson, Gale Sherwood, Veda Ann Borg, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 216