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1. Ramrod (1947)

Passed | 94 min | Action, Romance, Western

Violent feud between Connie Dickason, the owner of the Circle 66 ranch and rancher Frank Ivey, the self-proclaimed boss of an otherwise public grazing land.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Don DeFore, Donald Crisp

Votes: 1,851

2. Nob Hill (1945)

Approved | 95 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The owner of a San Francisco saloon yearns to rank among the upper crust of Nob Hill. When he begins romancing a wealthy socialite it looks like he may have his entry into high society. The... See full summary »

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Vivian Blaine, Peggy Ann Garner

Votes: 332

3. Hitler's Madman (1943)

Passed | 84 min | Drama, History, War

Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman

Votes: 919

4. Quiet Please: Murder (1942)

Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Book thief/forger sells a fake book to a Nazi through a female agent. A detective tries to uncover who the forger is and gets in the middle of a three way struggle for rare books and revenge in a public library.

Director: John Francis Larkin | Stars: George Sanders, Gail Patrick, Richard Denning, Lynne Roberts

Votes: 420

5. The Pay Off (1942)

Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir

The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Lee Tracy, Tom Brown, Tina Thayer, Evelyn Brent

Votes: 266

6. The Boss of Big Town (1942)

Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A criminal plot to control produce and dairy products during the wartime emergency is foiled by a courageous undercover city market official.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: John Litel, Florence Rice, H.B. Warner, John Miljan

Votes: 117

7. Rolling Down the Great Divide (1942)

Approved | 59 min | Western

A ring of cattle thieves uses short-wave radio to communicate with each other. A trio of range detectives must find a way to capture the gang.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Bill 'Cowboy Rambler' Boyd, Art Davis, Lee Powell, Wanda McKay

Votes: 30

8. Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)

Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Crime

Robin Hoodish gangster in 1929 Chicago is an object of affection, kind to New York hood and bad to a bad crook.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Cesar Romero, Virginia Gilmore, Milton Berle, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 268

9. Border Vigilantes (1941)

Passed | 63 min | Western

A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky. and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the town's problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss--and so are the vigilantes.

Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Frances Gifford

Votes: 180

10. Borrowed Hero (1941)

Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Roger Andrews, an assistant district attorney, is the accidental hero of a police capture that results in his appointment by crooked civic leaders as a special prosecutor assigned to smash ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Alan Baxter, Florence Rice, Constance Worth, John Hamilton

Votes: 92

11. We Go Fast (1941)

Passed | 64 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two cops (Curtis, Deforest) flirt with highway restaurant waitress (Bari) who falls for Oriental businessman (Mohr) who turns out to be a crook.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Lynn Bari, Alan Curtis, Sheila Ryan, Don DeFore

Votes: 59

12. 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 notice 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

13. Three Men from Texas (1940)

Approved | 76 min | Western

Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.

Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 247

14. Wagons Westward (1940)

Approved | 69 min | Western

Two brothers, one a sheriff, the other a bandit. The sheriff has to arrest his brother.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Anita Louise, Buck Jones, Ona Munson

Votes: 77

15. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama

A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold

Votes: 121,464 | Gross: $9.60M

16. Zenobia (1939)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady

Votes: 685

17. Honor of the West (1939)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western

A sheriff tries to prevent a friend from joining a gang of rustlers.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Bob Baker, Marge Champion, Carleton Young, Forrest Taylor

Votes: 19

18. The Pal from Texas (1939)

Approved | 56 min | Western

A virtual remake of, among several others, two Ken Maynard films, "Fightin' Thru, 1930" and "Fargo Express, 1933", and credited Story writer Forest Sheldon and credited Screenplay writer ... See full summary »

Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Bob Steele, Claire Rochelle, Josef Swickard, Betty Mack

Votes: 46

19. Mystery Plane (1939)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A famed war pilot (nicknamed "Tailspin Tommy") is held hostage for his bomb targeting invention.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: John Trent, Marjorie Reynolds, Milburn Stone, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 95

20. The Honeymoon's Over (1939)

69 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Newlyweds (Erwin, Weaver) are taken in by confidence men and must learn to live within their means.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Weaver, Patric Knowles, Russell Hicks

21. The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama

A brilliant Park Avenue doctor becomes a criminal in order to do research into the criminal mind.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Claire Trevor, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 2,983

22. State Police (1938)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama

The state police try to break up racketeering in a coal mining town.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: John 'Dusty' King, William Lundigan, Constance Moore, Larry J. Blake

Votes: 35

23. A Day at the Races (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones

Votes: 14,588

24. Slaves in Bondage (1937)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

Berrywood Roadhouse is a den of iniquity outside of town. Crooks use a beauty shop to recruit floozies into vice. The crooks target Dona Lee, who works at the beauty salon and is pursued by reporter wannabe Phillip as their next victim.

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Lona Andre, Donald Reed, Wheeler Oakman, Florence Dudley

Votes: 242

25. Park Avenue Logger (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily ... See full summary »

Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Beatrice Roberts, Willard Robertson, Ward Bond

Votes: 100

26. Behind the Headlines (1937)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Eddie Haines is a radio reporter with Station KBC. He is always getting the scoop, which infuriates those at the New York Star, which happens to employ his ex-girlfriend Mary Bradley. But ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Rosson | Stars: Lee Tracy, Diana Gibson, Phillip Huston, Paul Guilfoyle

Votes: 204

27. The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)

Approved | 115 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

A major countermands orders and attacks to avenge a previous massacre of men, women, and children.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson

Votes: 5,484

28. Anthony Adverse (1936)

Passed | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.

Directors: Mervyn LeRoy, Michael Curtiz | Stars: Fredric March, Olivia de Havilland, Donald Woods, Anita Louise

Votes: 2,029

29. Disorder in the Court (1936)

Unrated | 16 min | Short, Comedy, Crime

The stooges are witnesses at a trial where their friend, a dancer at a nightclub where they are musicians, is accused of murder. The stooges manage to disrupt the proceedings but save the ... See full summary »

Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Nick Baskovitch

Votes: 2,306

30. Winds of the Wasteland (1936)

Passed | 55 min | Drama, Western

The arrival of the telegraph put Pony Express riders like John Blair and his pal Smoky out of work. A race will decide whether they or Stageline owner Drake get the government mail contract.

Director: Mack V. Wright | Stars: John Wayne, Phyllis Fraser, Lew Kelly, Douglas Cosgrove

Votes: 1,160

31. Ants in the Pantry (1936)

Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy

The Stooges are pest exterminators who drum up business by planting vermin in a ritzy mansion where a party is going on. They are hired, but must pose as guests to work unobserved. They ... See full summary »

Director: Jack White | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Clara Kimball Young

Votes: 787

32. Cain and Mabel (1936)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery

A talented boxer and a gifted dancer hope to increase their waning popularity by inventing a fictitious love affair for the benefit of the tabloids.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Clark Gable, Allen Jenkins, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 2,067

33. Prison Shadows (1936)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama

A boxer is framed for murder after an opponent dies in the ring.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Lucille Lund, Joan Barclay, Forrest Taylor

Votes: 167

34. The Lion's Den (1936)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Western

Merwin hires Barton to fight Welsh, but when Barton arrives in town, Welsh mistakes him for the hired killer Single-Shot Smith. Figuring he can help Merwin by being part of Welsh's gang he ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Joan Woodbury, Don Barclay, J. Frank Glendon

Votes: 51

35. Lightnin' Bill Carson (1936)

Approved | 75 min | Western

A lawman captures the notorious "Pecos Kid", who is tried and hanged for his crimes--then starts to have doubts as to whether the Kid actually committed the crimes.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Lois January, Rex Lease, Harry Worth

Votes: 90

36. Law and Lead (1936)

Passed | 57 min | Western

A cowboy hears rumors that an old friend who once headed a criminal gang and had since gone straight is now back on the wrong side of the law. He goes to investigate.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Rex Bell, Hal Taliaferro, Harley Wood, Earl Dwire

Votes: 62

37. Wild Brian Kent (1936)

Approved | 57 min | Western

Polo player Brian stops in a Kansas town and find a girl and her aunt needing money to keep their ranch. He also finds his new real estate partner is the crook trying to do the women out of their ranch.

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Mae Clarke, Helen Lowell, Stanley Andrews

Votes: 50

38. The Millionaire Kid (1936)

Approved | 59 min | Drama, Romance

The Millionaire Kid is young Tommy Neville whose wealthy parents, Thomas and Gloria Neville are preparing to fight it out in divorce court.Tommy runs away from home. The private detective ... See full summary »

Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Betty Compson, Bryant Washburn, Charles Delaney, Lois Wilde

Votes: 33

39. Border Caballero (1936)

Approved | 59 min | Western

Tex Weaver is working under cover to bring in a gang of bank robbers. When he is killed, Tim Ross, a marksman with Doc Shaw's traveling show, takes over. Posing as a Mexican he lays a trap for the gang.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Tim McCoy, Lois January, Ralph Byrd, J. Frank Glendon

Votes: 89

40. Oh, Duchess! (1936)

16 min | Comedy, Short

A fish peddler is known to her customers as "The Duchess"; her fiance's father hears this and thinks she is a real duchess.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Polly Moran, Mary Blake, Symona Boniface, Vernon Dent

41. Three Little Beers (1935)

Approved | 17 min | Short, Comedy, Sport

The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Bud Jamison

Votes: 929

42. The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A meek milquetoast clerk is mistaken for public enemy N° 1, and the notorious killer takes advantage of the situation.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, James Donlan

Votes: 3,213

43. Westward Ho (1935)

Approved | 61 min | Drama, Western

As a youngster John Wyatt saw his parents killed and his brother kidnapped. On a wagon train heading West he meets his brother who is now a spy for the gang which originally did the dirty work. He and his brother both fall for Mary Gordon.

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Sheila Bromley, Frank McGlynn Jr., Jim Farley

Votes: 638 | Gross: $0.50M

44. Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)

Approved | 61 min | Drama, Music, Western

After a five year absence Gene returns home to find his father murdered and his boyhood pal accused of the dastardly deed.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Lucile Browne, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 169 | Gross: $1.00M

45. When a Man's a Man (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Western

A man who has spent all his inheritance, finds meaning in life, and love, at ranch where his ingenuity is put to good use.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: George O'Brien, Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods

Votes: 105

46. The Cheyenne Tornado (1935)

Approved | 49 min | Western

A cowboy steps in when cattlemen try to force a sheepherder off the range.

Director: William A. O'Connor | Stars: Reb Russell, Victoria Vinton, Roger Williams, Edmund Cobb

Votes: 44

47. Escape from Devil's Island (1935)

Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance

Johanna Harrington waits eagerly at her cottage on the edge of the jungle that flanks the Devil's Island penal colony for the arrival of her father Steve Garrington, her sweetheart Dario, ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Victor Jory, Florence Rice, Norman Foster, Stanley Andrews

Votes: 27

48. Thunder Mountain (1935)

Approved | 68 min | Western

Gold prospector O'Brien stakes a claim but is cheated by a saloonkeepr. He plots revenge.

Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Barbara Fritchie, Frances Grant, Morgan Wallace

Votes: 55

49. Midnight Phantom (1935)

Passed | 63 min | Mystery

A newly hired police chief vows to clean up a notoriously corrupt police department. When he is murdered, investigators find that there is no shortage of suspects, most of them being fellow cops.

Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Reginald Denny, Claudia Dell, Lloyd Hughes, Jim Farley

Votes: 217

50. Branded a Coward (1935)

Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western

Johnny Hume witnesses the slaughter of his family at age six. When he grows into manhood, will he be able to seek his vengeance?

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Billie Seward, Syd Saylor, Lloyd Ingraham

Votes: 133