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1. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,426
2. The Lady Eve (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 23,302
3. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, War
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Votes: 5,128
4. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Passed | 93 min | Horror
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 20,040 | Gross: $3.75M
5. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 12,837 | Gross: $0.44M
6. Christmas in July (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Votes: 4,252
7. The Great McGinty (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 4,401
8. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Ronald Colman
Votes: 1,353
9. So This Is Paris (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Georgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Meanwhile, Suzanne lives across the street and reads romance novels while dreaming of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger
Votes: 749 | Gross: $0.11M
10. What Men Want (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pauline Starke, Ben Lyon, Hallam Cooley, Barbara Kent
Votes: 56
11. Hell of a Reporter (1929)
54 min | Drama
An aspiring reporter lands a scoop when he comes across a group of wealthy American girls, who had been sightseeing in Berlin, being detained by crooks, and displays his skills in rescuing them.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Eddie Polo, Gritta Ley, Maria Forescu, Robert Garrison
Votes: 37
12. The Great Moment (1944)
Passed | 83 min | Biography, Drama
The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,072
13. A One Man Game (1927)
50 min | Western
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Fay Wray, Harry Todd, Clarence Geldert
Votes: 10
14. Four Square Steve (1926)
Short, Western
Steve is a roaming cowboy and he saves Milly from the rude advances of a dyed-in-the-wool villain. She gets Steve a job on her father's ranch. The bad man returns and tricks Milly to a ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Fay Wray
Votes: 20
15. Bashful Whirlwind (1925)
23 min | Short, Western
Bob Evans is the bashful foreman of the Denton ranch. He reads books and dreams of being a hero. He gets his chance when Gladys overhears Walling planning to smuggle stolen diamonds across ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Mary Beth Milford, Roy Hughes, Clark Comstock
Votes: 11
16. The Grip of the Yukon (1928)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Western
An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Neil Hamilton, June Marlowe, Otis Harlan
Votes: 22
17. The Man Tamer (1927)
11 min | Short, Western
Hot-headed Tommy Ryan agrees to give up his brawling ways if his cute girlfriend, Martha Murray, will marry him. After arriving in town, Tommy approaches his cousin and primary combatant, ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Barbara Worth, Albert J. Smith, Eva Thatcher
Votes: 10
18. Phyllis of the Follies (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Alice Day, Matt Moore, Edmund Burns, Lilyan Tashman
19. Hearts of the West (1926)
Short, Western
Tom Murray, whose deceased father has left him with a heavily mortgaged and depleted property, tries to keep from his half-blind mother the distressing state of near ruin and looks forward ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
20. The Broncho Buster (1927)
Passed | 50 min | Western
Maj. John Furth, a Southern race-horse owner, borrows money to enter his prize racehorse Blue Bird in a race back east, hoping to win enough money to replenish the family fortune. A crooked... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Gloria Grey, Buck Connors, Charles Lee Quinn
21. Range Courage (1927)
50 min | Western
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Gloria Grey, Dick Winslow, William Steele
22. Prowlers of the Night (1926)
50 min | Western
Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Barbara Kent, Slim Cole, John T. Prince
23. Hands Off (1927)
50 min | Western
When young drifter Sandy Loom finds prospector Jim Perkins dying, he promises to take care of his daughter Myra. Assited by Professor Hawley and "Stills" Manners, he works her father's gold... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Helen Foster, Buck Connors, Nelson McDowell
24. The Sunset Trail (1924)
70 min | Comedy, Western
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues on foot and finds on a dying man a map ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: William Desmond, Gareth Hughes, Lucille Hutton, S.E. Jennings
25. Tricked (1925)
Short, Western
Lariat is a slow, almost unromantic town now that civilization's hand reaches all over the west. The boys of the Diamond Bar Ranch, ten of them led by Bob Keene, are almost knocked off ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Peggy Montgomery
26. Her Rodeo Hero (1924)
Short, Western
Molly, loved by Pete Hawkins and Jake Carr, bawls them both out for fighting and says she's through with the next one she sees in a scrap. Jake cuts the belly and on the saddle of the horse... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Barbara Starr, Frank Newburg
27. The Storm King (1925)
Short, Western
The hero thwarts the plan of the villain to not only clean out a drove of horses but to steal "Storm King," a very valuable stallion.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
28. The Raid (I) (1925)
Short, Western
Jessica, daughter of the owner of the Raymond ranch, implores her father to employ Jerry Smith, cowboy, to put an end to rustling on the ranch. He acquiesces only after another raid, in ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
30. The Little Savage (1924)
Short, Western
The action concerns the opposition of the hero to the fact the adjoining ranch has been sold to a "tenderfoot." In an argument with one of the "boys" he gets the worst of it and visits the ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pete Morrison, Olive Hasbrouck
31. The Winged Rider (1926)
Short, Western
Tom Sage, Big Bar Ranch foreman, is also the head of the rustlers. He makes a dicker with the Winged Rider, noted outlaw, to help them over the border with a herd of the Big Bar horses. ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
32. Red Clay (1925)
50 min | Drama, War
Chief John Nisheto is drafted into the U.S. Army during World War I. While fighting in France, he saves the life of Jack Burr, the son of a congressman sympathetic to Native Americans. ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: William Desmond, Marceline Day, Albert J. Smith, Byron Douglas
33. Held by the Law (1927)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The engagement party for Mary Travis and Tom Sinclair is thrown into turmoil when Tom's father is shot and killed. Tom unwittingly casts suspicion on Mary's father, who happens to be ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Ralph Lewis, Johnnie Walker, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert Ober
34. The Road from Latigo (1925)
Short, Western
The Latigo stage coach is fired upon by Black Dan's gang. The coach travels a distance of 40 miles to reach the railroad. Black Dan's men know that the coach is delivering gold, but they ... See full summary »
Directors: Edward Laemmle, Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Don Coleman, Frank Ellis
35. The Loser Wins (1925)
Short, Western
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Colin Chase
36. A Race for a Ranch (1924)
Short, Western
Dan Farrar wants to help his sweetheart's father, whose ranch is to be foreclosed. He finds a pocketbook with a telegram in it stating that a railroad is to buy land bordering the ranch. He... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Violet La Plante
37. The Best Man (1925)
Short, Western
Jacqueline Canby, known as Jack, daughter of the owner of the MC ranch, discharges one of the hands when he shows the white feather in breaking a bronco. He organizes a band of cattle ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Josie Sedgwick, Donald Reed, Lola Todd
38. Red Raymond's Girl (1924)
Short, Western
Jim Parnell, sworn in as a deputy sheriff to track down two men who had held up an auto and killed its driver, discovers the "murder car" used by the slayers. He follows the trail of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Pete Morrison
40. The Bull Tosser (1924)
Short, Comedy, Western
Pete is a cowboy who is always telling highly colored and altogether improbable stories of his exploits, but when called upon to prove his ability falls down hard. He is a "natural-born" ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pete Morrison, Elinor Field, William McCall, Frances Martinson
42. The Traitor (1924)
Short, Western
Colonel Hatfield, in command of Fort Western, an American outpost, receives a call from the chief of the Iroquois Indians, in which the chief states that unless the boundary disagreement is... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: W.E. Lawrence
43. The Pronto Kid (1925)
Short, Western
A bandit is being chased by the sheriff. He rides a white horse. Next we see Cobb riding into town on a white horse. He calls on the sheriff's daughter and it is a case of love at first ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
44. Seeing Red (1925)
Short, Western
Billy appears as an Australian who meets with adventures in our great West. He shows his skill with an Australian whip by knocking a pistol out of a bully's hand before he can draw. One of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Billy Sullivan
45. The Ropin' Venus (1925)
Short, Western
A gang of rustlers, by a ruse, lure the sheriff's party to one ranch while they make a raid on another. Josie, as the sheriff's daughter, gets on to their plan and follows a suspicious ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Josie Sedgwick, Edward Cecil, Colin Chase
46. The Flaming West (1926)
Short, Western
The hero defends the heroine and her brother from the villainy of two outlaws. The brother is suspected of killing a man in a gun fight, and is in hiding. The outlaws know his secret, and ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
47. The Rustler's Secret (1926)
Short, Western
The hero, a supposed rustler, is chased by a posse. He eludes them by hiding in the wagon driven by the daughter of a ranch man. It turns out that the "rustler" is a detective, on the trail of a gang of rustlers.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
48. The Lone Round-Up (1924)
Short, Western
The scene is laid in a western town and opens with its leading citizen and bank president giving a dance to his debutante daughter, recently returned from finishing school in the big ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Eileen Sedgwick
49. Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter (1929)
Drama
Directors: Ernst Laemmle, Joseph Levigard | Stars: Olaf Fønss, June Marlowe, Inge Landgut, Olga Engl
50. The Boss of Bar 20 (1924)
Short, Western
The story deals with a cowboy falsely accused of rustling, who becomes a fugitive. He and the foreman are both in love with the heroine, Ruth, who is owner of the ranch. The foreman, who is... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: W.E. Lawrence, Olive Hasbrouck, William Steele