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1. Gambling Lady (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Mystery

Lady Lee, gambler's daughter, plies her trade while pondering the proposal of a social-register suitor.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd

Votes: 1,160

2. Key Witness (1947)

Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Milton Higby, an inventor of gadgets that don't sell finds himself accused of a crime he didn't commit---the killing of a girl he had just met---, and takes to the open road with the police... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: John Beal, Trudy Marshall, Jimmy Lloyd, Helen Mowery

Votes: 239

3. The Speed Lovers (1968)

102 min | Action, Drama, Sport

A stock car racer gets involved with gangsters trying to fix a race.

Director: William F. McGaha | Stars: William F. McGaha, Fred Lorenzen, Peggie O'Hara, David Marcus

Votes: 56

4. Burn 'Em Up O'Connor (1939)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A series of identical accidents kills racing drivers, but a dim-witted mechanic suspects they were not accidents.

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Cecilia Parker, Nat Pendleton, Harry Carey

Votes: 159

5. Buck Privates Come Home (1947)

Approved | 77 min | Action, Comedy, Family

Two ex-soldiers return from overseas--one of them having smuggled into the country a French orphan girl he has become attached to. They wind up running into their old sergeant--who hates ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Tom Brown, Joan Shawlee

Votes: 2,152

6. The Fat Man (1951)

Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A dentist's murder is investigated by hefty sleuth Brad Runyan.

Director: William Castle | Stars: J. Scott Smart, Julie London, Rock Hudson, Clinton Sundberg

Votes: 559

7. Escape from San Quentin (1957)

Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama

An escaped convict decides to quit running and turn himself and his fellow escapee in to the authorities - but not without complications.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Johnny Desmond, Merry Anders, Richard Devon, Roy Engel

Votes: 110

8. The Miami Story (1954)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Fed up with the rising crime rate in Miami, the police chief and leading members of the city council hire a former gangster who's gone straight to help eliminate the biggest crime syndicate in the city.

Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Luther Adler, John Baer, Adele Jergens

Votes: 376

9. Too Many Winners (1947)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Michael Shayne accepts an assignment to investigate a gang of pari-mutual race tickets counterfeiters over the protests of his secretary, Phyllis Hamilton, who wants him to join her on a ... See full summary »

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Trudy Marshall, Ralph Dunn, Claire Carleton

Votes: 104

10. Speedway (1929)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Bill Whipple is Jim MacDonald's happy-go-lucky mechanic, who thinks that he is the world's greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane

Votes: 704

11. Go Into Your Dance (1935)

Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Musical

Al Howard may be a star on Broadway, but he is no longer welcomed by any producer. It seems that he just trots off to Mexico any time he wants causing shows to close and producers to lose ... See full summary »

Directors: Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey | Stars: Al Jolson, Ruby Keeler, Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane

Votes: 468

12. Tough to Handle (1937)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Romance

A young reporter's grandfather wins a sweepstakes, but it turns out that his ticket is phony. The reporter finds out that the police are looking for the criminal ring responsible for the ... See full summary »

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Frankie Darro, Kane Richmond, Phyllis Fraser, Harry Worth

Votes: 91

13. White Heat (1934)

Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance

Plantation owner William Hawkes (David Newell) doesn't approve of the fact that most of the white men on the island have married, or are living with native girls. He doesn't approve of ... See full summary »

Director: Lois Weber | Stars: Virginia Cherrill, Mona Maris, Hardie Albright, David Newell

Votes: 72

14. The Falcon's Alibi (1946)

Approved | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Tom Conway, Paula Corday, Vince Barnett, Jane Greer

Votes: 593

15. The Counterfeiters (1948)

Approved | 73 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Scotland Yard cop goes undercover to catch a gang of counterfeiters.

Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: John Sutton, Doris Merrick, Hugh Beaumont, Lon Chaney Jr.

Votes: 103

16. Free and Easy (1941)

Passed | 56 min | Comedy, Romance

Max Clemington (Robert Cummings) and his father are both looking to marry wealthy women. The task would be far easier if either one of them had any money of their own. Max decides on Martha... See full summary »

Directors: George Sidney, Edward Buzzell | Stars: Robert Cummings, Ruth Hussey, Judith Anderson, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 297

17. Midnight Intruder (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A former actor poses as the son of a wealthy man and gets involved in a murder in which the real son is a suspect.

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Louis Hayward, Eric Linden, J.C. Nugent, Barbara Read

Votes: 151

18. King of the Newsboys (1938)

Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster.

Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Lew Ayres, Helen Mack, Alison Skipworth, Victor Varconi

Votes: 122

19. The Gambling Sex (1932)

Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

A wealthy young socialite gets the gambling bug, and soon it goes from being just a fun pastime to an addiction, and she begins to lose more and more of her fortune.

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Ruth Hall, Grant Withers, Maston Williams, John St. Polis

Votes: 29

20. The Kentucky Derby (1922)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Dirty work is afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides that his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn't around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp ... See full summary »

Director: King Baggot | Stars: Reginald Denny, Lillian Rich, Emmett King, Walter McGrail

Votes: 39

21. The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)

Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance

Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for ... See full summary »

Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Barbara Britton, Rudy Vallee, Otto Kruger, Richard Denning

Votes: 45

22. Roaring Roads (1935)

Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Romance

Young David Morton, heir to millions, has been overzealously restrained from normal youthful activities by his two old-maid aunts, Harriet and Agatha. In a break from his confinement, he ... See full summary »

Directors: Ray Nazarro, Charles E. Roberts | Stars: David Sharpe, Gertrude Messinger, Mary Kornman, Mickey Daniels

Votes: 88

23. Kentucky Blue Streak (1935)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Mary Bradley leaves her family's farm in Cloverdale, Kentucky to visit her brother Johnny, a jockey, in San Francisco. Their reunion is interrupted by Harry Johnson, who tries to convince ... See full summary »

Director: Raymond K. Johnson | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Frank Coghlan Jr., Patricia Scott, Cornelius Keefe

Votes: 45

24. Call Out the Marines (1942)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Music, War

Two veteran U. S. Marines master sergeants vie for the affection of a hostess at the Shore Leave café. They also suspect the owner of the café of operating a Nazi spy ring that has been ... See full summary »

Directors: William Hamilton, Frank Ryan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Binnie Barnes, Paul Kelly

Votes: 117

25. Little Johnny Jones (1929)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Cohan comedy about a jockey.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward Buzzell, Alice Day, Edna Murphy, Robert Edeson

Votes: 25

26. Lena Rivers (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance

Young Lena Rivers, who was born out of wedlock, goes to live with a rich uncle. Unfortunately, her uncle's wife and daughter make no secret of their dislike of Lena and that they don't want her in their family.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Charlotte Henry, Morgan Galloway, Beryl Mercer, James Kirkwood

Votes: 106

27. Breezing Home (1937)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Music

Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.

Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Binnie Barnes, William Gargan, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 20

28. Reckless Living (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Young Danny Farrell lives in a boardinghouse that with several residents who "play the horses, among them "Colonel" Harris and "General" Jeff and pretty Laurie Andrews. General Jeff is a ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Nan Grey, Jimmy Savo, Frank Jenks

Votes: 17

29. Racing Luck (1948)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

Brother and sister "Boots" Warren and Phyllis Warren inherit two race horses. One of the horses is claimed by a rival horse-owner, Jeff Stuart, when it wins a claiming race at Santa Anita. ... See full summary »

Director: William Berke | Stars: Gloria Henry, Stanley Clements, David Bruce, Paula Raymond

30. The Arkansas Swing (1948)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Ken, Gil, Hezzie and Gabe are members of the Country & Western band 'The Hoosier Hotshots'. They get involved with the beautiful Margie MacGregor, the scheming villain Pamela Trent and ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Nazarro | Stars: Gloria Henry, Ken Trietsch, Paul Trietsch, Gil Taylor

Votes: 15

31. Champagne for Breakfast (1935)

Approved | 69 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Bob Bentley (Hardie Albright), a newly-licensed young attorney, falls in love with Edie Morton (Mary Carlisle), and finds himself acting as her legal adviser after the suicide of her father... See full summary »

Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Mary Carlisle, Hardie Albright, Sidney Toler, Lila Lee

32. Easy Come, Easy Go (1947)

Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Drama

A film that possibly held the record for the most Irish-descent players in an American-produced movie before "The Quiet Man" was shot on location in Ireland, and that includes "The Informer... See full summary »

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Diana Lynn, Sonny Tufts, Dick Foran

Votes: 35

33. The Frame-Up (1937)

Approved | 59 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Ellery Richards, racing magnate, informs Mark MacArthur, head of the State Racing Commission detectives, that a ring of bookmakers and gangsters are in town betting heavily on the Richards'... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Paul Kelly, Julie Bishop, George McKay, Robert Emmett O'Connor

Votes: 30

34. No Living Witness (1932)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

An assistant district attorney tries to stop his girlfriend's father from being swindled out of his money by a crooked lawyer in a racetrack scam.

Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Noah Beery, Barbara Kent, Carmel Myers

Votes: 24

35. The Winner's Circle (1948)

Passed | 74 min | Drama, Sport

The life story of a famous race horse, told primarily by a narrator in a semi-documentary fashion, with more than a little bit of revisionism. It begins with the colt's wobbly-legged days, ... See full summary »

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Jean Willes, Morgan Farley, Johnny Longden, Robert S. Howard

36. Warner Bros. Sports Parade: Heart of a Champion (1954)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Sport

When Herod Play, the famous race-horse, suffered a broken leg, it was thought his career was over. However, Tom Blackinston, famous horse trainer, took over the training with the intent of ... See full summary »

Director: Edwin E. Olsen | Stars: Knox Manning, Tom Blakiston, Herod Play

37. In Spite of Danger (1935)

Passed | 53 min | Drama

Bill Crane, race-car driver has an accident while racing and finds himself unable to return to the fast-paced racetrack. Looking for another occupation he meets a girl, Sally Sullivan, who ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Wallace Ford, Marian Marsh, Arthur Hohl, Charley Grapewin

38. Squadron of Honor (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

On the eve of an American Legion convention, National Commander Metcalf and District Attorney Dan Blaine, also a Legionaire, go to Lou Tanner, local race-track manager, and ask him to close... See full summary »

Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Don Terry, Mary Russell, Thurston Hall, Arthur Loft

39. The Great Mike (1944)

Approved | 72 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Story of a boy and his horse. Mike is the horse and is owned by Speck and his best friend Jimmy together they have a paper route, on which they deliver papers to customers via a wagon pulled by Mike.

Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, Edythe Elliott

Votes: 101

40. Soaring Stars (1942)

Approved | 10 min | Short, Comedy

Two autograph hounds attend an air show at Santa Anita racetrack.

Director: Basil Wrangell | Stars: Sally Payne, Mary Treen, Richard Arlen, Freddie Bartholomew

Votes: 44

41. The Phantom of the Turf (1928)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Drama

When the owner of a thoroughbred racehorse is murdered, a man steps in as the guardian of his two children and helps unravel the mystery ahead of a major race.

Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Helene Costello, Rex Lease, Forrest Stanley, Danny Hoy

42. Road Demon (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad: a junkyard owner tap-dancer.

Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie, Henry Armetta, Thomas Beck

Votes: 23

43. King of the Jockeys (1950)

Approved | 9 min | Short, Sport

Ted Atkinson, the winningnest jockey on American racetracks is the subject for this Columbia World of Sports short. He is shown working out his mounts and then racing them at various racetracks in America.

Director: Harry Foster | Stars: Bill Stern, Ted Atkinson

44. Ma! He's Making Eyes at Me (1940)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery

Woodbury's fashionable gown-salon on Fifth Avenue is about to take bankruptcy. An unemployed showgirl, Connie Curtiss, tell's the store's press agent, Tommy Shaw, that more girls would buy ... See full summary »

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Tom Brown, Constance Moore, Richard Carle, Anne Nagel

Votes: 27

45. Here Comes Malicious (1939)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Sport

The story of "Malicious, " one of the great race horses of the era, narrated by Joe Hernandez, the "voice of Santa Anita", that opens with the race at the Tanfaran track in northern California where "Malicious" broke the track record.

Star: Joe Hernandez

46. Blue Grass Kings (1931)

Passed | 11 min | Documentary, Short, Sport

One of the many, many Grantland Rice Sport Pictorial sports shorts, all written by and narrated by and featuring sportswriter Grantland Rice, and all produced by the Van Beuren Studios for ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Eaton | Stars: Grantland Rice, C.V. Whitney