The Nearly Good B-Pictures of the 1930s
by Akira_Chimera | created - 06 Nov 2014 | updated - 18 Mar 2023 | PublicCan there even be a thing like 'nearly good B-pictures'? At first I wasn't so sure either. But after years of watching B-movies, more often than not I stumbled across a B-picture which I wouldn't exactly consider to be a good (or even brillant) one. On the other hand it didn't reach the absolute bottoms of z-grade moviedom that connoisseurs of this kind of pictures are used to either. It was simply a movie which, in terms of B-pictures, was competently done, had all those ingredients we love so much in this kind of movies, yes, possibly it was even done bad for all the right reasons. But nevertheless, it didn't click with me, didn't offer that special something which makes B-pictures so enjoyable. What you can expect on this list are B-pictures which are not bad per se, they are more like near misses which can still offer plenty for the B-movie fan. Especially if you are a fan of a certain subgenre, actor or whatever. So have fun browsing through the nearly, but not quite, good B-pictures of the 1930s.
If you're up to it, don't hesitate to leave a comment.
PS: The movies are sorted by year and not necessarily by my preference. This list is by no means complete as I will add new worthwhile films as I stumble across them.
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1. The Green Goddess (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure
An airplane carrying three Brits--Major Crespin, his wife Lucille, and Dr. Trahern--crash lands in the kingdom of Rukh. The Rajah holds them prisoner because the British are about to ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Arliss, Ralph Forbes, H.B. Warner, Alice Joyce
Votes: 440
2. The Sea God (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
When 1 of 2 rivals diving for pearls in the Solomon Islands emerges with his goggles on, natives think he is a sea god. A romance with an endangered heroine and the threat of cannibalism also figure in this exotic adventure.
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Eugene Pallette, Robert Gleckler
Votes: 101
3. Midnight Mystery (1930)
69 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
When an island castle off the coast of Maine becomes the scene of a murder, a mystery writer tries to nab the criminal.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Betty Compson, Lowell Sherman, Raymond Hatton, Hugh Trevor
Votes: 130
4. The Fighting Legion (1930)
Passed | 74 min | Western
After being shot, a dying Marshal Dawson gives Dave Hayes his badge and asks him to finish his job. Dave becomes Marshal but when Bowie, the man that shot Dawson appears, he exposes Dave as... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Dorothy Dwan, Harry Todd
Votes: 46
5. A Devil with Women (1930)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure
Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Mona Maris, Humphrey Bogart, Luana Alcañiz
Votes: 98
6. Borrowed Wives (1930)
62 min | Comedy
Peter has to be married by midnight or else his inheritance goes to his uncle... Who happens to live in a "haunted house".
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds, Paul Hurst, Sam Hardy
Votes: 183
7. Alias French Gertie (1930)
Passed | 66 min | Crime
A crook (Daniels) becomes a maid to steal jewelry.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ben Lyon, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Daisy Belmore
Votes: 165
8. Fighting Thru; or, California in 1878 (1930)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Dan and Tennessee are successful gold miners. Ace Brady learns of their success and sends Fox to rob them. During the robbery Fox shoots Tennessee and Ace arrives to arrest Dan for the murder. Dan escapes but is now a wanted man.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Ken Maynard, Jeanette Loff, Wallace MacDonald, Carmelita Geraghty
Votes: 47
9. Under Texas Skies (1930)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Bob Custer, Natalie Kingston, Bill Cody, Tom London
Votes: 78
10. Near the Rainbow's End (1930)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
It's cattleman Bledsoe against sheep man Wilson and his crooked partner Rankins. When Wilson balks at Rankins' plans, Rankins kills him and blames Tom Bledsoe. But unknown to Rankins there was a witness.
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Bob Steele, Lafe McKee, Al Ferguson, Alfred Hewston
Votes: 59
11. The Spider (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
At the end of his magic show at the Tivoli theater, Chatrand the Great announces over a radio broadcast that he is trying to establish the identity of an amnesia victim, his assistant "... See full summary »
Directors: Kenneth MacKenna, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Lois Moran, El Brendel, John Arledge
Votes: 159
12. The Big Gamble (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Unable to repay a substantial gambling debt to mob boss North, Alan Beckwith concocts a last-ditch scheme. Allowing North to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on his life, Alan agrees to... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: William Boyd, James Gleason, Warner Oland, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 209
13. Rango (1931)
66 min | Adventure
The frame story is narrated by a white father to his son. He explains that man's closest relative in nature is the orangutan, which translates literally as "man of the forest." He then ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Jaro Fürth, Claude King, Rango, Roby Roberts
Votes: 36
14. East of Borneo (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Horror, Romance
Woman treks through jungle to find her missing husband.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Rose Hobart, Charles Bickford, Georges Renavent, Lupita Tovar
Votes: 254
15. Murder at Midnight (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Mystery
A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 475
16. The Hard Hombre (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Western
When Peaceful Patton goes to work at the Martini ranch he is mistaken for the notorious outlaw the Hard Hombre. This enables him to force the ranchers to divide up the water rights. But he ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Lina Basquette, Mathilde Comont, G. Raymond Nye
Votes: 129
17. The Fighting Marshal (1931)
Passed | 58 min | Western
A man wrongly accused of murder escapes from prison to clear his name, but is mistaken for a town's new lawman.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Dorothy Gulliver, Mary Carr, Matthew Betz
Votes: 78
18. Clearing the Range (1931)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Kildare kills Curt Fremont's brother Jim. When Curt arrives he poses as a coward in public but sneaks out unseen to become the daring El Capitan as he looks for the killer.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Sally Eilers, Hooper Atchley, Robert Homans
Votes: 159
19. The Two Gun Man (1931)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Hired guns threaten ranchers.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Lucille Powers, Charles King
Votes: 92
20. West of Cheyenne (1931)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Western
An old rancher is accused of a murder that was actually committed by a killer called The Laramie Kid. The rancher's son sets out to track the real killer down.
Director: Harry S. Webb | Stars: Tom Tyler, Josephine Hill, Harry Woods, Fern Emmett
Votes: 32
21. Rider of the Plains (1931)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old friend Jim whom he once rode with on the wrong side of the law. Jim is now the Parson but ... See full summary »
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tom Tyler, Lilian Bond, Al Bridge, Ted Adams
Votes: 31
22. Wild Horse (1931)
Approved | 77 min | Western
Ben Hall offers $1000 for the wild Devil Horse which Jim Wright and Skeeter capture. While Jim is away, Gil Davis kills Skeeter and takes the horse. The Sheriff then arrests Jim for ... See full summary »
Directors: Sidney Algier, Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Alberta Vaughn, Skeeter Bill Robbins, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 124
23. Galloping Thru (1931)
Passed | 58 min | Western
The local express agent, the father of Tom McGuire, is killed during a robbery. In the chase that follows Tom is wounded and taken by his friend, Sandy Thompson, to the home of Janice ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Nosler | Stars: Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, Al Bridge, Si Jenks
Votes: 29
24. The Arizona Terror (1931)
Passed | 65 min | Romance, Western
Captain Porter's scheme is to buy livestock and then have his men show up later to kill the buyer and retrieve the money. When his men kill the next victim, he frames the Arizonian for the ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Lina Basquette, Hooper Atchley
Votes: 43
25. Branded Men (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Western
When Rod, Ramrod, and Half-A-Rod ride into Steep Gulch, they immediately become Sheriffs. The previous Sheriffs have been killed by Mace and his gang who don't wait long before they make an attempt on the new trio.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, June Clyde, Irving Bacon
Votes: 99
26. Border Law (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Western
When Shag Smith kills Jim's brother Bob, Jim and Thunder quit the rangers so they can cross the border and join Smith's gang. Jim's plan is to get the gang to cross back over the border where the rangers will be waiting.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Buck Jones, Lupita Tovar, Jim Mason, Frank Rice
Votes: 116
27. Riders of the Purple Sage (1931)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Lassiter's sister was killed and her young daughter taken and raised by outlaws. Years later Lassiter arrives at the Withersteen ranch looking for his now-grown niece. He immediately gets ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: George O'Brien, Marguerite Churchill, Noah Beery, Yvonne Pelletier
Votes: 101
28. The One Way Trail (1931)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Tim's young brother Terry goes to play poker with honest George Beck. Saloon owner Coldeye says he is Beck and then shoots Terry. Just before he dies, Terry tells Tim that it was Beck that ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tim McCoy, Doris Hill, Carroll Nye, Polly Ann Young
Votes: 45
29. God's Country and the Man (1931)
Passed | 59 min | Western
A government agent is sent to a tough frontier town to arrest & bring back one of the most ruthless criminals in the region.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, Al Bridge, Ted Adams
Votes: 50
30. Sundown Trail (1931)
Passed | 56 min | Western
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Tom Keene, Marion Shilling, Nick Stuart, Hooper Atchley
Votes: 113
31. Freighters of Destiny (1931)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Randolph Carter is after Macey's freight franchise. He has his gang raid all of Macey's wagon trains so supplies will not reach town. In his latest raid Macey is killed. His son Steve ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Tom Keene, Barbara Kent, Mitchell Harris, Frederick Burton
Votes: 89
32. Alias the Bad Man (1931)
Passed | 66 min | Western
A ranger joins the outlaw gang whose boss he believes is a murderer.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Virginia Brown Faire, Frank Mayo
Votes: 104
33. The Range Feud (1931)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
Clint Turner is arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Judy's father, a rival rancher who was an enemy of his own father.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Buck Jones, John Wayne, Susan Fleming, Edward LeSaint
Votes: 484
34. The Texas Ranger (1931)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Taylor has his men burning out the ranchers. When they kill Clayton, his daughter Helen and her men turn outlaw. The Rangers send Logan, and posing as a cowhand he joins her gang. But ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Buck Jones, Carmelita Geraghty, Harry Woods, Ed Brady
Votes: 30
35. Two Fisted Justice (1931)
63 min | Western
It's good guy Carson and the Poncho Riders against bad guy Slavin and his gang. When Cameron tries to quit the gang, Cheyenne Charlie is sent to kill him. But Cameron, alerted by danny's ... See full summary »
Director: George Arthur Durlam | Stars: Tom Tyler, Barbara Weeks, Bobby Nelson, Will Walling
Votes: 19
36. The Pocatello Kid (1931)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Just after Pocatello's brother is killed, a wounded Pocatello arrives being chased by the Sheriff. Larkin switches the identity of the two brothers and then expects Pocatello to assume his brother's role in the outlaw gang.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Marceline Day, Richard Cramer
Votes: 89
37. Range Law (1931)
Passed | 63 min | Western
Having escaped from prison, a cowboy looks for the man that framed him.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Frances Dade, Frank Mayo, Aileen Manning
Votes: 37
38. Behind the Mask (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An undercover Federal officer serving time in prison fakes his escape in order to infiltrate a heroin smuggling ring.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Jack Holt, Constance Cummings, Boris Karloff, Claude King
Votes: 342
39. The Death Kiss (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Murder during film shoot sparks search for a killer.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Adrienne Ames, John Wray
Votes: 1,418
40. Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932)
87 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Two French Foreign Legionnaires are lost amid the shifting sands of the Sahara Desert when they stumble across the entrance to an underground world. Searching this new found subterranean ... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Heinz Klingenberg, Tela Tchaï, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 592
41. Secrets of the French Police (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Crime
A burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Meanwhile, a deranged Russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Gwili Andre, Gregory Ratoff, Frank Morgan, John Warburton
Votes: 308
42. The Midnight Warning (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Mystery
Guests at a luxury hotel are horrified when they witness a man literally "disappear into thin air." The vanished man's relatives hire a detective, who goes to the hotel to investigate the disappearance.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Claudia Dell, Huntley Gordon, John Harron
Votes: 181
43. The Night Club Lady (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
New York Police Commissioner Thatcher Colt must save a wealthy socialite from a rendezvous with death on New Year's Eve.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Mayo Methot, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 99
44. Sinister Hands (1932)
65 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
During a séance at an elderly millionaire's house, the millionaire is murdered. The detectives investigating the crime discover that everyone who was at the séance had a motive for killing the man.
Director: Armand Schaefer | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Phyllis Barrington, Crauford Kent, Mischa Auer
Votes: 212
45. Tangled Destinies (1932)
56 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
After a plane makes an emergency landing, passengers take refuge in a deserted house, but one of them is a killer.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Gene Morgan, Doris Hill, Glenn Tryon, Vera Reynolds
Votes: 247
46. Murder at Dawn (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Josephine Dunn, Jack Mulhall, Eddie Boland, Marjorie Beebe
Votes: 176
47. A Strange Adventure (1932)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A police lieutenant and a female reporter investigate a series of murders comitted by a hooded killer in an old dark house.
Directors: Phil Whitman, Hampton Del Ruth | Stars: Regis Toomey, June Clyde, Lucille La Verne, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 235
48. The King Murder (1932)
Not Rated | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
A beautiful blonde makes a career of seducing, then blackmailing, wealthy married men. She is found murdered after demanding a $5000 payoff from her latest victim, and the detective ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Conway Tearle, Natalie Moorhead, Marceline Day, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 205
49. Miss Pinkerton (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
A hospital nurse is recruited by the police to watch a household where a suspicious death has occurred.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall, John Wray
Votes: 605
50. Vanity Street (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A NYC police-detective rescues a down-and-out showgirl from a bad situation, gets her a job in the 'Follies", and falls in love with her. Then, as he is about to lead her to the altar, he ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot, George Meeker
Votes: 118
51. 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
52. The Phantom Express (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A railway is threatened by mysterious wrecks, which turn out to be caused by criminals using a unique deception.
Director: Emory Johnson | Stars: William Collier Jr., Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, Hobart Bosworth
Votes: 231
53. A Passport to Hell (1932)
75 min | Drama
A notorious, beautiful Englishwoman is kicked out of British West Africa to German West Africa just before the start of World War I. She marries a German colonial official to avoid ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Elissa Landi, Paul Lukas, Warner Oland, Alexander Kirkland
Votes: 131
54. Roar of the Dragon (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Romance
A boatload of Westerners is trapped in Manchuria as bandits led by Russian renegade Voronsky ravage the area. Seeking refuge in a fortified inn, the group is led by the boat's Captain ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Richard Dix, Gwili Andre, Edward Everett Horton, Arline Judge
Votes: 251
55. Haunted Gold (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Mystery, Western
John and Janet get a weird letter telling them to go to a ghost town which has an abandoned mine. There they contend with bad guys looking for hidden gold. They are aided by a mysterious Phantom.
Directors: Mack V. Wright, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: John Wayne, Duke, Sheila Terry, Harry Woods
Votes: 762
56. The Boiling Point (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Western
Because of his bad temper, Jimmy Duncan is sent by his uncle George to work at Tom Kirk's ranch for a one-month probation period. Under George's stipulations, if Jimmy is involved in one ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Helen Foster, Wheeler Oakman, Skeeter Bill Robbins
Votes: 42
57. Single-Handed Sanders (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
The cattlemen send a note to Judge Jim Parker warning him to quit giving credit to the homesteaders, whom they assert, are ruining the range. Parker declares that his store will continue to... See full summary »
Directors: Charles A. Post, Lloyd Nosler | Stars: Tom Tyler, Robert Seiter, Margaret Morris, John Elliott
Votes: 32
58. The Forty-Niners (1932)
Approved | 59 min | Western
O'Hara has been hired to lead a wagon train west. Instead he has led it off the trail to where it can be attacked by his Indian friends. But Tennessee Mathews is familiar with O'Hara's tactics and sends for the soldiers.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tom Tyler, Betty Mack, Al Bridge, Fern Emmett
Votes: 18
59. Destry Rides Again (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Brant frames Destry and has men testify against him. Found guilty he vows to return. Back from prison he goes after the man that framed him. When the Sheriff is shot before he can talk, ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Tom Mix, Claudia Dell, Zasu Pitts, Stanley Fields
Votes: 132
60. The Rider of Death Valley (1932)
Approved | 78 min | Romance, Western
Bill Joyce(Willard Roberston) has struck gold in the desert, and Tom Rigby(Tom Mix)rides into Red Dog to convince his deserting cowhands not to go wildly prospecting for gold.Joyce is ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Tom Mix, Lois Wilson, Fred Kohler, Forrest Stanley
Votes: 89
61. Heritage of the Desert (1932)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Nabb controls the pass and lets all the ranchers through except Holderness and his stolen cattle. When Nabb refuses to sell, Holderness works an his son Snap who has run up gambling debts. ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, David Landau
Votes: 192
62. The Texas Bad Man (1932)
Passed | 60 min | Western
The Rangers have planted wanted posters of their man Tom Logan around hoping he can join the outlaw gang they are after. Robbing the stage ahead of the gang gets him in and he learns Keefe ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Laemmle | Stars: Tom Mix, Lucille Powers, Willard Robertson, Fred Kohler
Votes: 41
63. My Pal, the King (1932)
74 min | Western
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Tom Mix, Mickey Rooney, James Kirkwood, Wallis Clark
Votes: 49
64. The Fourth Horseman (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Learning that Molly O'Rourke owns the entire town of Stillwell but the back taxes have not been paid, Ben Jones takes over. When Molly arrives and learns of the tax situation, Tom rides off... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Margaret Lindsay, Fred Kohler
Votes: 25
65. Hidden Gold (1932)
55 min | Western
Griffen and his two men have been caught after robbing a bank but the money has not been recovered. So the Chief sends his friend Tom to prison to become their friend and hopes he can learn where the loot is hidden.
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Tom Mix, Judith Barrie, Raymond Hatton, Eddie Gribbon
Votes: 22
66. The Fighting Fool (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Western
Sheriff Tim has killed Crip's outlaw brother in the line of duty and now Crip is out to get Tim. He makes Tim's brother Bud a prisoner to lure Tim into a trap. When Tim is warned by Bud, ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Tim McCoy, Marceline Day, William V. Mong, Robert Ellis
Votes: 25
67. Two-Fisted Law (1932)
Approved | 64 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
After Rob Russell steals Tim Clark's ranch, Clark starts prospecting for silver.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Alice Day, Wheeler Oakman, Tully Marshall
Votes: 480
68. Flaming Guns (1932)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Western
A ranch manager falls in love with a banker's daughter. After he and the girl's parents have a quarrel, he and the girl flee across the border into Mexico.
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Tom Mix, William Farnum, Ruth Hall, Clarence Wilson
Votes: 38
69. Ghost Valley (1932)
Passed | 54 min | Western
Jerry Long and Jane Worth are heirs to an abandoned mining town. Judge Drake knows there is gold there and wants them to sell. He plans to scare Jane and has hired Jerry, not knowing his ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Tom Keene, Merna Kennedy, Kate Campbell, Mitchell Harris
Votes: 172
70. The Devil Horse (1932)
Passed | 216 min | Drama, Western
Bob Norton, seeking his brother's killer, tangles with outlaws, wild horses, and a "wild" boy.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Harry Carey, Noah Beery, Frankie Darro, Apache
Votes: 54
71. The Saddle Buster (1932)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Having proved he can ride a bucking bronco with the best of them, young drifter Montana is hired on at Dan Hearn's rodeo ranch. Montana is in for a rougher ride than he figured on when both... See full summary »
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Tom Keene, Helen Foster, Marie Quillan, Robert Frazer
Votes: 93
72. Come on Danger! (1932)
Passed | 54 min | Western
A Texas Ranger avenges his brother's death and evidence points to a woman behind the crime.
Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Tom Keene, Julie Haydon, Roscoe Ates, Robert Ellis
Votes: 111
73. Renegades of the West (1932)
Passed | 55 min | Western
Tom Bagby has gone to prison to learn of his father's killer. Returning, he looks for Curly Bogard who he thinks did it. Keeping his identity a secret, he gets a job on Curly's ranch. Just ... See full summary »
Director: Casey Robinson | Stars: Tom Keene, Roscoe Ates, Betty Furness, Jim Mason
Votes: 100
74. Beyond the Rockies (1932)
Passed | 54 min | Western
Noted gunman Black Jack and his friends arrive and take jobs on the Allen ranch. Allen's hands have quit and his cattle are being rustled. When one of Black Jack's friends is killed by the ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Allen | Stars: Tom Keene, Rochelle Hudson, Marie Wells, Julian Rivero
Votes: 126
75. Hell-Fire Austin (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Western
Heading west, Ken and Bouncer end up at the Brooks ranch where Ken is to ride Tarzan in the big race. But both the Sheriff and Edmonds are after him and he must hide both himself and the horse until race time.
Director: Forrest Sheldon | Stars: Ken Maynard, Ivy Merton, Nat Pendleton, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 111
76. Whistlin' Dan (1932)
Approved | 65 min | Western
A cowboy and sidekick infiltrate a rustler gang to avenge the murder of their pal.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Joyzelle Joyner, Georges Renavent
Votes: 73
77. Between Fighting Men (1932)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Ken not only has to fight with his brother Wally over the girls, he has to try and stop the conflict between the cattlemen and the sheep men. It gets worse when Butch kills Judy's father.
Director: Forrest Sheldon | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Ruth Hall, Josephine Dunn
Votes: 92
78. Come on, Tarzan (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Western
Frazier and his gang are rustling horses. When the wild horse Tarzan frees Frazier's horses. Frazier gets the Sheriff to declare Tarzan an outlaw and have him shot. But Tarzan is Ken's favorite and he now tries to protect him.
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Merna Kennedy, Niles Welch
Votes: 87
79. Dynamite Ranch (1932)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Howell breaks up a train robbery only to find that it's a fake. However the money is missing and he is blamed. He escapes and sets out to find the real thieves. He must also avoid being caught visiting the Collins ranch to see Doris.
Director: Forrest Sheldon | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Ruth Hall, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 84
80. Texas Cyclone (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Western
Pecos Grant rides into a strange town only to find that everyone recognizes him, not as Pecos Grant, but as a presumed-dead man named Rawlins. Even Rawlins' wife thinks her husband has come back. Pecos sets out to solve the mystery.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Wheeler Oakman, John Wayne
Votes: 437
81. The Riding Tornado (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Western
Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Montagu Love, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 20
82. Forbidden Trail (1932)
Passed | 68 min | Western
Karger is behind all the cattle rustling. After Tom Devlin catches his man Burke in the act, Burke hides evidence against Karger in his jail cell. Later when Tom is jailed he accidentally ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Buck Jones, Barbara Weeks, George Cooper, Wallis Clark
Votes: 114
83. Sunset Trail (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Western
Jim and Buddy decide to follow their pal Tater-bug who left them for another job. No sooner do they arrive than Tater-bug gets shot in the back. Jim suspects Joe Weller but has no proof.
Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Ruth Hiatt, Frank Rice
Votes: 46
84. Spirit of the West (1932)
62 min | Western
To bring in the bad guys, a rodeo champ poses as an inept cowhand.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Doris Hill, Hooper Atchley, Al Bridge
Votes: 28
85. The Western Code (1932)
Passed | 58 min | Western
When Tim Barrett rides into Carabinas, his reputation as a lawman precedes him. Rescuing Polly Loomis from the unwanted attentions of a saloon ruffian, he learns her mother married ranch ... See full summary »
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Tim McCoy, Nora Lane, Wheeler Oakman, Gordon De Main
Votes: 79
86. Texas Gun Fighter (1932)
Passed | 63 min | Western
Bill Dane and Banty quit Kell's outlaw gang. When Dane prevents Kell and his men from getting a bullion shipment, he is made Sheriff. Learning Dane is Sheriff, Kell and gang return, force ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Sheila Bromley, Harry Woods
Votes: 62
87. A Man's Land (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Tex Mason and Peggy Turner each inherit one half of the Triple X Ranch. Thomas wants the ranch and he has Triple X hand Joe let his men rustle their cattle. Tex not only has to fight the ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Marion Shilling, Robert Ellis, Ethel Wales
Votes: 74
88. Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Chane Weymer (Randolph Scott), an Arizona rancher goes after a gang that is trapping and catching wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures. He suspects Ward (Fred Kohler), of being ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Fred Kohler, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 62
89. The Cowboy Counsellor (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Western
A con man posing as a lawyer tries to sell copies of a phony law book. Things get serious when he has to defend a young man falsely accused of robbery.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Sheila Bromley, Jack Rutherford, Skeeter Bill Robbins
Votes: 92
90. The Man from New Mexico (1932)
Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western
The cattle on the Langton Ranch are mysteriously dying and cowhands are disappearing or being shot. Two Langton riders bring a wounded rider they found wounded and hung up in a barbed-wire ... See full summary »
Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Tom Tyler, Caryl Lincoln, Robert Walker, Jack Richardson
Votes: 32
91. The Fighting Champ (1932)
Passed | 59 min | Western
Steele gets into a fight with a ranch foreman, knocking the foreman out. The foreman was supposed to represent the ranch in a prize fight with a middleweight champion. Now Steele finds himself in the fight of his life.
Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Bob Steele, Arletta Duncan, Kit Guard, George Chesebro
Votes: 73
92. Tombstone Canyon (1932)
62 min | Western
Maynard hears the cry of the weird masked "phantom" of Tombstone Canyon. The plot thickens when Maynard discovers a man with a key to his past has been murdered by the phantom.
Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, Sheldon Lewis, Frank Brownlee
Votes: 208
93. A Shriek in the Night (1933)
Unrated | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Pat Morgan and Ted Kord are rival newspaper reporters always trying to outscoop each other. They join together to solve a series of murders being committed in an apartment building.
Director: Albert Ray | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark, Purnell Pratt
Votes: 1,091
94. The Sphinx (1933)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton, Paul Hurst
Votes: 528
95. The Shadow (1933)
63 min | Mystery
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Director: George A. Cooper | Stars: Henry Kendall, Elizabeth Allan, Felix Aylmer, Jeanne Stuart
Votes: 231
96. Murders in the Zoo (1933)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Horror
A monomaniacal zoologist is pathologically jealous of his beautiful but unfaithful wife Evelyn and will not stop short of murder to keep her.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Lionel Atwill, Gail Patrick, Randolph Scott
Votes: 1,783
97. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,167
98. Murder on the Campus (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery
A popular young student finds herself accused of a series of murders that have occurred on the college campus. Her boyfriend, a reporter for the local newspaper, knows she didn't do it, and sets out to prove her innocence and catch the real killer.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Shirley Grey, Charles Starrett, J. Farrell MacDonald, Ruth Hall
Votes: 309
99. King of the Jungle (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure
A white youth who is raised in the jungle by the animals is captured by a safari and brought back to civilization as an attraction in a circus.
Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone, Max Marcin | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Frances Dee, Sidney Toler, Nydia Westman
Votes: 232
100. Jungle Bride (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young woman believes that an actor committed the murder for which her brother has been imprisoned, and she gets her fiancé--a newspaper reporter--to accompany her in following the ... See full summary »
Directors: Harry O. Hoyt, Albert H. Kelley | Stars: Anita Page, Charles Starrett, Kenneth Thomson, Eddie Borden
Votes: 234
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