the 179 FILMS of REGIS TOOMEY (1898 - 1991)
by milam_ogden | created - 13 Oct 2015 | updated - 14 Oct 2015 | PublicGod was sad last Monday (10/12) when Regis Toomey passed away of natural causes in Woodland Hills, CA. Toomey was the consummate character actor who appeared in 179 films in a career than spanned 50 years.
His most popular genres were: drama, romance, crime/film noir and comedy.
3.5 lowest IMDb rating - Evil Town (1977)
8.1 highest IMDb rating - The Big Sleep (1946)
His appearances in movies obtained these IMDb ratings:
mean - 6.5
median - 6.2
mode - 6.8 (13)
His most productive years were the 30s and 40s when Regis appeared in 69% of his feature films.
I always enjoyed watching him perform
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1. Alibi (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Action, Crime, Romance
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took ... See full summary »
Director: Roland West | Stars: Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanor Griffith
Votes: 953
2. The Wheel of Life (1929)
55 min | Drama, Romance
Captain Yeullat, a young British officer, prevents a young woman from drowning herself in the Thames, but she disappears before he learns her identity. Later in India, he meets her as the wife of Colonel Dangan, and they fall in love.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, O.P. Heggie, Arthur Hoyt
Votes: 28
3. Illusion (1929)
Passed | 84 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A vaudeville magician and his lady assistant break up their team, when he becomes infatuated with a socialite, only to get back together when she is almost killed in her new act gone wrong.
Director: Lothar Mendes | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis
Votes: 41
4. Rich People (1929)
Passed | 75 min | Romance
Rich People is a 1929 talking picture directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Constance Bennett. It was produced by Ralph Block and distributed through Pathé Exchange.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Constance Bennett, Regis Toomey, Robert Ames, Mahlon Hamilton
Votes: 15
5. Street of Chance (1930)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A big-time, but honest gambler has to prevent his younger brother from following in his footsteps, and taking up gambling.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: William Powell, Jean Arthur, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey
Votes: 418
6. Framed (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Woman swears revenge against an Inspector who was responsible for her father's death.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Regis Toomey, Ralf Harolde, William Holden
Votes: 324
7. Crazy That Way (1930)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
Young heiress Ann Jordan and her fiancè Frank Oakes would be happy except for the constant appearance of Robert Metcalf, who follows her or them everywhere. This continues into their time ... See full summary »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Kenneth MacKenna, Joan Bennett, Regis Toomey, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 19
8. The Light of Western Stars (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first ... See full summary »
Directors: Otto Brower, Edwin H. Knopf | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Harry Green, Regis Toomey
Votes: 175
9. Shadow of the Law (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
John Nelson, a well-to-do businessman, is escorting a woman he knows as Ethel Barry to the door of her apartment suite when a man steps out of the shadows and angrily demands to know where ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: William Powell, Marion Shilling, Natalie Moorhead, Regis Toomey
Votes: 178
10. Good Intentions (1930)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Racketeer David Cresson's sudden passion for the straight-and-narrow life is thanks to his falling in love with society débutante Helen Rankin. However, his former associate and ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Churchill, Regis Toomey, Earle Foxe
11. A Man from Wyoming (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
When World War One pulls the U.S. in, builder Jim Baker goes enthusiastically. The misery of life in the trenches seems to take any romantic edge off, until adventure seeking general's ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Gary Cooper, June Collyer, Regis Toomey, Morgan Farley
Votes: 101
12. Other Men's Women (1930)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Events take an unhappy turn for two Bill and Jack, two locomotive engineers, after Bill is attracted to his best friend's wife.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney
Votes: 1,392
13. Scandal Sheet (1931)
77 min | Crime, Drama
Scandal Sheet is a 1931 American crime film directed by John Cromwell and written by Oliver H.P. Garrett, Vincent Lawrence and Max Marcin. The film stars George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: George Bancroft, Kay Francis, Clive Brook, Regis Toomey
Votes: 129
14. Finn and Hattie (1931)
78 min | Comedy
A child genius has fun getting her cousin into trouble. When she is not bedeviling her cousin, she is helping her father get out of trouble with con artists.
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Norman Taurog | Stars: Leon Errol, Mitzi Green, Zasu Pitts, Jackie Searl
Votes: 74
15. The Finger Points (1931)
Unrated | 90 min | Crime, Drama
A rookie reporter receives bribes from gangsters to suspend negative press.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Robert Elliott
Votes: 484
16. Kick In (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Ex-con Chick Hewes (Regis Toomey) tries to go straight with the help of wife Molly (Clara Bow), but circumstances force the couple into involvement in a serious crime.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Clara Bow, Regis Toomey, Wynne Gibson, Juliette Compton
Votes: 70
17. Murder by the Clock (1931)
76 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An elderly woman installs a horn in her crypt in case she's buried alive.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Irving Pichel, Regis Toomey
Votes: 379
18. Graft (1931)
54 min | Crime, Thriller
Cub reporter Dusty investigates the murder of the District Attorney and stumbles into a plot involving a kidnapping and a crooked election.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Regis Toomey, Sue Carol, Dorothy Revier, Boris Karloff
Votes: 110
19. 24 Hours (1931)
66 min | Drama
A nightclub singer is carrying on an affair with a married man. When she is found murdered, her lover is suspected of the crime.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Clive Brook, Kay Francis, Miriam Hopkins, Regis Toomey
Votes: 347
20. Touchdown! (1931)
79 min | Drama, Sport
Football coach Dan Curtis is eager for his small college team to win at all costs. However, he has a change of heart when a player is severely injured by playing when he should have been ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Richard Arlen, Peggy Shannon, Jack Oakie, Regis Toomey
Votes: 41
21. Under Eighteen (1931)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A poor seamstress girl sours on her engagement to a grocery deliveryman after seeing her sister's abusive marriage. Trying to help her sister pay for a divorce lawyer, she turns to a rich playboy she met at work.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Marian Marsh, Anita Page, Regis Toomey, Warren William
Votes: 466
22. Shopworn (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
A poor woman and a man from an upper-class family fall in love, but his mother will go to any lengths to stop their marriage.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Regis Toomey, Zasu Pitts, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 883
23. The Midnight Patrol (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A cub reporter rashly makes a promise to solve a murder mystery within 24 hours, then must make good on his boast.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Regis Toomey, Betty Bronson, Edwina Booth, Mary Nolan
Votes: 27
24. The Crowd Roars (1932)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden
Votes: 1,476 | Gross: $1.14M
25. They Never Come Back (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Regis Toomey, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Woods, Greta Granstedt
Votes: 101
26. 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
27. The Penal Code (1932)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama
A young boy in a small town turns to a life of crime. After serving a prison sentence, he returns home determined to go straight but finds himself being blackmailed into a safecracking ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Regis Toomey, Helen Cohan, Pat O'Malley, Robert Ellis
Votes: 61
28. State Trooper (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Mike Rolph quits his job, seemingly, as a highway patrolman and takes the position of the Police Chief of W. J. Brady's oil refinery. He is also romantically involved with Brady's daughter,... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Regis Toomey, Evalyn Knapp, Barbara Weeks, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 29
29. Soldiers of the Storm (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Regis Toomey, Anita Page, Barbara Weeks, Robert Ellis
Votes: 15
30. Laughing at Life (1933)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Easter, a soldier of fortune and gunrunner, leaves his family behind escaping from the authorities and an American detective named Mason. His globe-hopping escape leads him finally to South... See full summary »
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Conchita Montenegro, William 'Stage' Boyd, Lois Wilson
Votes: 121
31. She Had to Say Yes (1933)
Unrated | 65 min | Drama, Romance
In the depth of the Depression, Sol Glass has the idea that the girls in the stenographic department should be used to entertain the clients. It seems that the clients are tiring of the ... See full summary »
Directors: George Amy, Busby Berkeley | Stars: Loretta Young, Winnie Lightner, Lyle Talbot, Regis Toomey
Votes: 534
32. Big Time or Bust (1933)
62 min | Drama
Two newly married carnival performers head to New York to make it big on Broadway, but after they get there the wife finds that a wealthy playboy has designs on her.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Regis Toomey, Gloria Shea, Walter Byron, Nat Carr
Votes: 54
33. What's Your Racket? (1934)
64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two criminal gangs are at war with each other, and lawmen decided to use that to bring both gangs down.
Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: Regis Toomey, Noel Francis, J. Carrol Naish, Creighton Hale
34. Picture Brides (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Four "Picture Brides" from New Orleans arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. On ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Toomey, Dorothy Libaire, Alan Hale
Votes: 112
35. Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 791
36. She Had to Choose (1934)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
A young actress hits Hollywood determined to be a movie star and runs into a lot of roadblocks along the way.
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Isabel Jewell, Sally Blane, Regis Toomey
Votes: 71
37. Redhead (1934)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Drama
A girl marries a playboy from a rich family, expecting a life of comfort and luxury. However, her new father-in-law turns his ne'er-do-well son out into the street with no money, and ... See full summary »
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Grace Bradley, Regis Toomey, Berton Churchill
Votes: 24
38. Red Morning (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Romance
A captain's daughter is marooned on an island after the ship is taken over by a mutinous crew.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Steffi Duna, Regis Toomey, Raymond Hatton, Mitchell Lewis
Votes: 75
39. Shadow of Doubt (1935)
Passed | 74 min | Mystery, Comedy
Haworth is a show biz producer who has a number of ex-girlfriends that he has beaten over the years. He is now engaged to two girls- Lisa and Trenna. After drinking and starting a fight ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Bruce, Constance Collier, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 289
40. Great God Gold (1935)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Greed, ambition and hunger-for-power drive John Hart, a New-York-City stock-market broker, into crooked dealings and deception, but he doesn't realize that those he ruined will seek ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Martha Sleeper, Regis Toomey, Edwin Maxwell
Votes: 79
41. 'G' Men (1935)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
James Cagney helped jump-start the gangster genre as The Public Enemy. Outcries against movies that glorified underworld criminals put Cagney on the side of the law in 'G' Men.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 4,367
42. One Frightened Night (1935)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery
An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl, Wallace Ford
Votes: 454
43. Manhattan Moon (1935)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Dorothy Page, Henry Mollison, Hugh O'Connell
44. Shadows of the Orient (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Smuggling Chinese into the United States from Mexico in car loads, with no regard for human life, smugglers resort to any means to accomplish their selfish ends
Director: Burt P. Lynwood | Stars: Esther Ralston, Regis Toomey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Oscar Apfel
Votes: 139
45. Reckless Roads (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Drama
Although Edith Adams and her mother are seven weeks late with their rent, Mrs. Adams, living in the more prosperous past, is more concerned with her daughter's inability to meet a man of ... See full summary »
Director: Burt P. Lynwood | Stars: Judith Allen, Regis Toomey, Lloyd Hughes, Ben Alexander
46. Bars of Hate (1935)
Approved | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Ted Clark rescues pickpoket Danny from a mob, and restores Danny's loot, a pocketbook, to its owner Ann Dawson. She is carrying a letter that proves her brother, who is on death row, is ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Regis Toomey, Sheila Terry, Molly O'Day, 'Snub' Pollard
Votes: 52
47. Skull and Crown (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Rin-Tin-Tin brings the killer of his mistress to justice.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Regis Toomey, Jack Mulhall, Molly O'Day
Votes: 112
48. Bulldog Edition (1936)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Ray Walker, Evalyn Knapp, Regis Toomey, Cy Kendall
Votes: 100
49. Midnight Taxi (1937)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Frances Drake, Alan Dinehart, Sig Ruman
Votes: 68
50. The Lady Escapes (1937)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
A couple who are always quarreling split up temporarily while she goes to France and teams up with a playboy who's being sued for breach of promise.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, George Sanders, Cora Witherspoon
Votes: 52
51. Big City (1937)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher
Votes: 645
52. Back in Circulation (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Morning Express ace reporter 'Timmy' Blake uses her wiles and charms to get the scoop on rival papers, and keep her editor happy. When the Express gets a tip that a wealthy old man was ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Joan Blondell, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel
Votes: 425
53. Submarine D-1 (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Drama
Navy officers fall for Ann. She has her own plans. USS Pensacola is struck during a last dive drill, there is an attempt to rescue. The USS Dolphin (D-1) and her crew depart from ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, George Brent, Wayne Morris, Frank McHugh
Votes: 318
54. The Invisible Menace (1938)
Approved | 55 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
An army private and his new bride are trying to honeymoon on an island occupied by the military and a murderer.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Boris Karloff, Marie Wilson, Eddie Craven, Regis Toomey
Votes: 455
55. Island in the Sky (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A secretary solves a murder for her boyfriend in the District Attorney's office. Black and White.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Michael Whalen, Paul Kelly, Robert Kellard
Votes: 193
56. Blind Alibi (1938)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Paul Dover lives in Paris and works as an artist. He is visited by Julia Fraser an art buyer and critic who irritates Dover with her opinionated attitude. When she finally finds a piece of ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Richard Dix, Whitney Bourne, Eduardo Ciannelli, Frances Mercer
Votes: 191
57. Hunted Men (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Carlisle, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 59
58. Passport Husband (1938)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy
A South American showgirl seeks to avoid deportation by marrying the dimwitted waiter who loves her.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Pauline Moore, Douglas Fowley, Joan Woodbury
59. Illegal Traffic (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
G-Man Charles Bent Martin is sent out to break up a nationwide racket. A transport company is aiding fugitives making a getaway in exchange for the lion's share of their loot. Through an ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Mary Carlisle, Robert Preston, Judith Barrett
Votes: 43
60. His Exciting Night (1938)
Approved | 61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Adam Tripp (Charles Ruggles), a mild-mannered, timid office clerk, becomes the butt of several practical jokes on his wedding-eve night, and nearly loses his bride-to-be, Anne Baker (Ona Munson).
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ona Munson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 18
61. Smashing the Spy Ring (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Top U.S. government spy-smasher John Baxter (Ralph Bellamy) does just that as he is aided by Eleanor Dunlap (Fay Wray) and companion federal agent Ted Hall (Regis Toomey) while being highly... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Regis Toomey, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 42
62. The Mysterious Miss X (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Michael Whalen, Lynne Roberts, Chick Chandler, Mabel Todd
Votes: 66
63. Pirates of the Skies (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
Cafe waitress Barbara Whitney refuses to acknowledge her marriage to Air Policeman Nick Conlon until he upgrades his career. He does so by infiltrating a hi-jacking gang posing as ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph A. McDonough | Stars: Kent Taylor, Rochelle Hudson, Regis Toomey, Marion Martin
Votes: 14
64. Wings of the Navy (1939)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Biplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh
Votes: 360
65. Society Smugglers (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The Treasury Department plants a female agent in the office of a luggage company that is suspected of smuggling diamonds.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Preston Foster, Irene Hervey, Walter Woolf King, Frank Jenks
Votes: 49
66. Street of Missing Men (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
When Cash Darwin is released from prison after serving five years for racketeering, he vows revenge on Charles Putnam, the crusading owner of the Clarion , the newspaper that obtained the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Charles Bickford, Harry Carey, Tommy Ryan, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 19
67. Union Pacific (1939)
Passed | 135 min | Drama, Western
In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston
Votes: 3,384
68. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas
Votes: 2,137
69. Trapped in the Sky (1939)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
Upon developing a new type of electronically driven plane, Walter Fielding, an inventor, offers the United States government first option on his creation. However, when William Fornay, a ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Ralph Morgan, Paul Everton, Katherine DeMille
70. Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Joe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, John Payne, Gale Page
Votes: 254
71. Hidden Power (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. Garfield gets so involved in his research for an antitoxin for severe burns that he completely neglects his wife Virginia and their young son Steve. Virginia divorces him and takes ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Gertrude Michael, Dickie Moore, William B. Davidson
72. Thunder Afloat (1939)
Passed | 95 min | Romance, Drama, War
In a New England port town, Pop Thorson and Rocky Blake are rival tugboat owners. Thorson's boat has sunk in the shallow water while docked, and he is certain Blake sabotaged it for winning a lucrative contract of military supplies.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Wallace Beery, Chester Morris, Virginia Grey, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 247
73. The Phantom Creeps (1939)
Approved | 265 min | Action, Family, Horror
A military intelligence officer and a pretty reporter try to find a scientist whose inventions can destroy the world.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley
Votes: 1,121
74. His Girl Friday (1940)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 63,195 | Gross: $0.30M
75. Northwest Passage (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Langdon Towne and Hunk Marriner join Major Rogers' Rangers as they wipe out an Indian village. They set out for Fort Wentworth, but when they arrive they find no soldiers and none of the supplies they expected.
Directors: King Vidor, Jack Conway, W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 3,907
76. 'Til We Meet Again (1940)
Approved | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Dying Joan Ames meets criminal Dan Hardesty on a luxury liner as he is being transported back to America by policeman Steve Burke to face execution. Joan and Dan fall in love, their fates unbeknownst to one another.
Directors: Edmund Goulding, William K. Howard, William Keighley, Anatole Litvak | Stars: Merle Oberon, George Brent, Pat O'Brien, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Votes: 749
77. North West Mounted Police (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,830
78. Arizona (1940)
Passed | 125 min | Drama, Western
In Tucson of the 1860s, a pioneer woman struggles to succeed in the freight and cattle business while at risk at the hands of corrupt and violent local businessmen and rampaging Indians.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall
Votes: 1,489
79. The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance (1941)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The Lone Wolf Michael Lanyard takes Inspector Crane's challenge that he can't keep out of trouble for 24 hours. No sooner accepted when Lanyard is sucked into a case of murder and ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Warren William, June Storey, Henry Wilcoxon, Eric Blore
Votes: 407
80. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,908
81. The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
A tycoon goes undercover to ferret out agitators at a department store, but gets involved in their lives instead.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Arthur, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 4,774
82. A Shot in the Dark (1941)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Homicide detective Bill Ryder reluctantly teams up with wise-cracking news-hound Peter Kennedy to solve a pair of murders.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Ricardo Cortez, Regis Toomey
Votes: 207
83. Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Albert Dekker
Votes: 97
84. The Nurse's Secret (1941)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Murder mystery with a nurse (Lee Patrick) moving into a mansion after an apparent suicide to care for the old mother. The mother is kind of spooky, but so is the butler, and the girlfriend,... See full summary »
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Lee Patrick, Regis Toomey, Julie Bishop, Ann Edmonds
Votes: 233
85. Dive Bomber (1941)
Not Rated | 132 min | Drama, Romance, War
A military surgeon teams with a ranking Navy flyer to develop a high-altitude suit which will protect pilots from blacking out when they go into a steep dive.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Fred MacMurray, Ralph Bellamy, Alexis Smith
Votes: 2,061
86. Law of the Tropics (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance
The telegram that Jim Comway receives states that the woman he was to marry, Laura, could not move to a country she didn't know, and marry a man she felt she no longer knew
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Constance Bennett, Jeffrey Lynn, Regis Toomey, Mona Maris
Votes: 172
87. New York Town (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. After Victor shoots a photo of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 88
88. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Approved | 140 min | War, Western
A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 6,912
89. You're in the Army Now (1941)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy
Vacuum-cleaner salesmen Homer "Jeeper" Smith and "Breezy" Jones are accidentally inducted into the army, and "Jeeper", who can sell anything, immediately begins to try and convince, Colonel... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Phil Silvers, Jane Wyman, Regis Toomey
Votes: 335
90. Bullet Scars (1942)
Passed | 59 min | Drama
Gangster Frank Dillon abducts Dr. Steven Bishop to treat wounded Joe Madison. Dillon also takes Joe's nurse sister. Dillon threatens Bishop's life if Joe dies, but Bishop knows Dillon will kill him anyway.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Regis Toomey, Adele Longmire, Howard Da Silva, Ben Welden
Votes: 248
91. I Was Framed (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A newspaperman out to get the goods on a crooked politician winds up in jail, framed for a killing he didn't commit. He and another prisoner attempt an escape, but although the newspaperman... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tod Andrews, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey, Patti Hale
Votes: 213
92. The Forest Rangers (1942)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
Ranger Don Stuart, pursuing a forest arsonist, finds time to romance a socialite.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Paulette Goddard, Susan Hayward, Lynne Overman
Votes: 330
93. Tennessee Johnson (1942)
Passed | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Biography of Andrew Johnson, who followed Abraham Lincoln into office and became the first President of the United States ever to be impeached.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Van Heflin, Lionel Barrymore, Ruth Hussey, Marjorie Main
Votes: 673
94. Destroyer (1943)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A new World War 2 destroyer fails its sea trials so it is assigned to mail runs, but the crew ends up having to engage Japanese planes and a submarine anyway.
Directors: William A. Seiter, Ray Enright | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Glenn Ford, Marguerite Chapman, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 1,310
95. Adventures of the Flying Cadets (1943)
Approved | 242 min | Adventure
A group of flying cadets have to clear themselves of a murder charge, while trying to stop a traitorous scientist from selling secrets to the Nazis.
Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Johnny Downs, Bobby Jordan, Ward Wood, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 85
96. Jack London (1943)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, War
Episodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport
Votes: 448
97. Tornado (1943)
Approved | 83 min | Drama
Pete Ramsey (Morris) is a hard-working coal miner who falls in love with and marries scheming showgirl Victory Kane (Kelly). Victory presses Pete to fight for the position of the mine ... See full summary »
Director: William Berke | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, William Henry, Gwen Kenyon
Votes: 125
98. Phantom Lady (1944)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda
Votes: 5,754
a film noir classic
99. Follow the Boys (1944)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were ... See full summary »
Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, John Rawlins | Stars: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 502
100. Song of the Open Road (1944)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth ... See full summary »
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Bonita Granville, W.C. Fields
Votes: 165
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