1940's movies viewed
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1. 'Gung Ho!': The Story of Carlson's Makin Island Raiders (1943)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, History, War
The true story of Carlson's Raiders and their World War II attack on Makin Island.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Randolph Scott, Alan Curtis, Noah Beery Jr., J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 1,644
2. 'Neath Brooklyn Bridge (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The East Side Kids uncover the body of a murder victim, but must protect the innocent girl accused of the crime.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 708
3. 'Pimpernel' Smith (1941)
Passed | 120 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Professor Horatio Smith, while seeming very unassuming, rescues victims of Nazi persecution during World War II.
Director: Leslie Howard | Stars: Leslie Howard, Francis L. Sullivan, Allan Jeayes, Mary Morris
Votes: 1,848
4. 3 Godfathers (1948)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Western
Three outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Pedro Armendáriz, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Votes: 10,610
5. 49th Parallel (1941)
Not Rated | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.
Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Leslie Howard, Laurence Olivier, Richard George, Eric Portman
Votes: 7,670
6. A Chump at Oxford (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Family
As a reward for capturing a bank robber, Stan and Ollie get scholarship to Oxford, but are met with resentment by other students.
Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Forrester Harvey, Wilfred Lucas
Votes: 4,304
7. A Close Call for Boston Blackie (1946)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Sleuth Blackie is framed for murder but manages to catch the culprit.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully
Votes: 401
8. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949)
Approved | 106 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Bing Crosby, Rhonda Fleming, Cedric Hardwicke, William Bendix
Votes: 2,744
9. A Date with Judy (1948)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Hyperactive teenager Judy Foster (Jane Powell) challenges, and is challenged by, her overly-proper parents, pesky brother Randolph (Jerry Hunter), and boyfriend Ogden "Oogie" Pringle (Scotty Beckett).
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Jane Powell, Elizabeth Taylor, Carmen Miranda
Votes: 1,447
10. A Date with the Falcon (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A scientist has discovered how to make synthetic diamonds and a criminal gang (closely pursued by the Falcon) are out to discover the formula.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, James Gleason, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 1,031
11. A Foreign Affair (1948)
Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 8,558
12. A Gentleman at Heart (1942)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A bookie (Cesar Romero) takes over a bankrupt art gallery and falls in love with a beautiful blonde (Carole Landis)
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Cesar Romero, Carole Landis, Milton Berle, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 148
13. A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Stephen is a shy, quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the opera where she had his seats, and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: George Murphy, Lucille Ball, Edmond O'Brien, Henry Travers
Votes: 532
14. A Guy Named Joe (1943)
Passed | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond
Votes: 2,914
15. A Kiss for Corliss (1949)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy
A teenage girl who has a crush on an older, more sophisticated man tells all her friends that the man is her boyfriend. Soon that story starts making its way around the town.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Shirley Temple, David Niven, Tom Tully, Virginia Welles
Votes: 542
16. A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Facing forty, a NYC spinster on a bus tour of the West encounters a handsome rodeo cowboy who helps her forget her unsuitable city suitors.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Charles Winninger, Phil Silvers
Votes: 1,456
17. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 10,798
18. A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
PG | 104 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Robert Coote, Kathleen Byron
Votes: 24,893
19. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Family
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake
Votes: 7,480
20. A Night to Remember (1942)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A mystery writer and his newlywed wife move into a Greenwich Village apartment and find themselves with a corpse and a half dozen red herrings.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright
Votes: 1,427
21. A Royal Scandal (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, History
In 18th century Russia, the naive and idealistic lieutenant Chernov meets Empress Catherine the Great who becomes infatuated with him and appoints him Chief of the Imperial Guard.
Directors: Otto Preminger, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Tallulah Bankhead, Charles Coburn, Anne Baxter, William Eythe
Votes: 1,213
22. A Stranger in Town (1943)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a small corrupt town, an honest crusading lawyer running for mayor gets unexpected help from a tourist who happens to be a Supreme Court judge.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Porter Hall
Votes: 1,018
23. A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Approved | 117 min | Drama, War
During WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland
Votes: 4,080
24. A Yank in the R.A.F. (1941)
Passed | 98 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Tyrone Power, Betty Grable, John Sutton, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 1,570
25. Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Killer Boris Karloff (1949)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Two employees of a secluded hotel investigate a murder on the premises in which the goofy bellboy is the prime suspect.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Lenore Aubert
Votes: 4,227
26. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard
Votes: 2,060
27. Across the Pacific (1942)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.
Directors: John Huston, Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Charles Halton
Votes: 5,442
28. Adam's Rib (1949)
Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday, Tom Ewell
Votes: 22,916
29. Adventure (1945)
Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Dark, romantic, complicated drama about a rowdy merchant mariner and sophisticated librarian who clash over their lifestyles and values - and then fall in love.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 1,238
30. Adventures of Kitty O'Day (1945)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Dragging along her spineless boyfriend Johnny, hare-brained secretary Kitty O'Day is unstoppable as she tries to determine her boss's murderer. In her exuberance she and Johnny keep running... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Jean Parker, Peter Cookson, Tim Ryan, Lorna Gray
Votes: 217
31. Affectionately Yours (1941)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females. He's in Lisbon attempting his latest "conquest" when ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 652
32. Africa Screams (1949)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two booksellers search for diamonds in Africa, along the way meeting a visually-impaired gunner, a hungry lion, and a tribe of cannibals.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Clyde Beatty, Frank Buck
Votes: 4,057
33. After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Mystery
Blackie is arrested when retrieving stolen gems from a safety deposit box for a friend.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Ann Savage, George E. Stone, Richard Lane
Votes: 398
34. Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Blackie tracks down a wrongly convicted prisoner who escapes during a Christmas magic show.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane, George E. Stone
Votes: 694
35. Alias a Gentleman (1948)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
Aging ex-con tries to stop his daughter from getting involved with shady characters.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Wallace Beery, Tom Drake, Dorothy Patrick, Gladys George
Votes: 173
36. Alice in Movieland (1940)
Approved | 22 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
In a U.S. town that could be anywhere, 18-year-old Alice Purdee wins a free trip to Hollywood. With the assistance of a cheerful porter, she takes the night train and dreams about her ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Joan Leslie, Nana Bryant, Clara Blandick, Clarence Muse
Votes: 418
37. All Through the Night (1942)
Approved | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Karen Verne, Jane Darwell
Votes: 4,931
38. All the King's Men (1949)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir
The rise and fall of a corrupt politician, who makes his friends richer and retains power by dint of a populist appeal.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Joanne Dru, John Derek
Votes: 16,588
39. Along Came Jones (1945)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
A good-natured saddle tramp traveling with his sidekick is mistaken for a ruthless outlaw with a price on his head.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Gary Cooper, Loretta Young, William Demarest, Dan Duryea
Votes: 2,405
40. Always Together (1947)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy
Millionaire Turner, on his deathbed, leaves a million to Jane Barker. A movie addict who believes life is like the movies, marries Donn without telling him about the bequest. Turner gets ... See full summary »
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Robert Hutton, Joyce Reynolds, Cecil Kellaway, Ernest Truex
Votes: 289
41. An Innocent Affair (1948)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
Vincent Doane is in the precarious position of trying to close an advertising account with his rich ex-fiancée. Unfortunately she is more interested in him than in business. Vincent's wife ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Rita Johnson
Votes: 350
42. Anchors Aweigh (1945)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
Directors: George Sidney, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson, Gene Kelly, José Iturbi
Votes: 9,435
43. And Baby Makes Three (1949)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman, who just divorced her husband is walking down the aisle to marry for a second time, faints. She discovers that she is pregnant by her husband. She must decide whether she wants to go back to him or marry her lover.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: Robert Young, Barbara Hale, Robert Hutton, Janis Carter
Votes: 234
44. And Then There Were None (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Seven guests, a newly hired secretary and two staff are gathered at a manor house on an isolated island by an unknown absentee host and are killed off one-by-one. They work together to determine who the killer is before it's too late.
Director: René Clair | Stars: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, Roland Young
Votes: 16,644
45. And the Angels Sing (1944)
Approved | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The singing/dancing Angel sisters, Nancy (Dorothy Lamour), Bobby (Betty Hutton), Josie (Diana Lynn) and Patti (Mimi Chandler), aren't interested in performing together, and this plays havoc... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Fred MacMurray, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn
Votes: 221
46. Angel and the Badman (1947)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
Director: James Edward Grant | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 6,669
47. Angel on My Shoulder (1946)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Paul Muni, Anne Baxter, Claude Rains, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 3,193
48. Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
Passed | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Rex Harrison, Linda Darnell, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,635
49. Apartment for Peggy (1948)
Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance
A retired professor rents his attic apartment to pregnant Peggy and her GI-Bill-student husband. The professor ponders if his life is no longer useful while the young couple faces the challenges shared with many WW II veterans' families.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Jeanne Crain, William Holden, Edmund Gwenn, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 1,140
50. April Showers (1948)
Approved | 94 min | Musical
The 'Two Tymes', Joe and June, need to change up their dogeared vaudeville act - fast. Cue their son Buster; a cocky hoofer who bolts from boarding school and joins them, propelling the trio into the big time. But success brings trouble.
Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Jack Carson, Ann Sothern, Robert Alda, S.Z. Sakall
Votes: 361
51. Are Husbands Necessary? (1942)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Ray Milland and Betty Field play a warring married couple who hope to patch up their differences by adopting a baby. When Milland's ex-flame Patricia Morrison shows up unexpectedly, the fur flies.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Ray Milland, Betty Field, Patricia Morison, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 78
52. Are You with It? (1948)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy
Milton Haskins, a math genius known for his infallibility with numbers, quits his job with an insurance company after he discovers he made a mistake, and hooks up with a traveling carnival.... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Olga San Juan, Martha Stewart, Lew Parker
Votes: 130
53. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,037
54. Around the World (1943)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical
Bandleader Kay Kyser takes his troupe of nutty musicians, goofball comics and pretty girl singers on a tour around the world to entertain the troops during World War II.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Kay Kyser, Mischa Auer, Joan Davis, Marcy McGuire
Votes: 243
55. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
A Brooklyn writer of books on the futility of marriage risks his reputation after he decides to tie the knot. Things get even more complicated when he learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are habitual murderers.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson
Votes: 74,975
56. Baby Face Morgan (1942)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
When gang chief Big Mike Morgan is killed, his lieutenant, "Doc" Rogers re-organizes the mob. Learning that Morgan has a son named Edward , living in the country with his mother, Rogers has... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Mary Carlisle, Robert Armstrong, Chick Chandler
Votes: 253
57. Bachelor Daddy (1941)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Romance
The lives of three bachelors is disrupted when one of them is left with a baby.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Baby Sandy, Edward Everett Horton, Donald Woods, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 48
58. Back to Bataan (1945)
Approved | 95 min | Drama, War
In 1942, after the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese, U.S. Army Col. Joseph Madden stays behind to organize the local resistance against the Japanese invaders.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Fely Franquelli
Votes: 4,373
59. Back-Room Boy (1942)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery
A lowly BBC employee pulls a prank at the studio and finds himself transferred to an isolated island where he is to set up a weather station at a lighthouse. As if in a fantasy, a ship ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Mason | Stars: Arthur Askey, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers
Votes: 313
60. Background to Danger (1943)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A German spy ring plans to publicize a false rumor that Russia, who is fighting Germany, plans to invade neutral Turkey in order to ally them with the Nazis.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,583
61. Ball of Fire (1941)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia while living in a Manhattan mansion take in a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers
Votes: 14,060
62. Bambi (1942)
G | 69 min | Animation, Adventure, Drama
The story of a young deer growing up in the forest.
Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright, Arthur Davis, Clyde Geronimi | Stars: Hardie Albright, Stan Alexander, Bobette Audrey, Peter Behn
Votes: 154,098 | Gross: $102.80M
63. Band Waggon (1940)
TV-G | 85 min | Comedy, Musical
A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Arthur Askey, Jack Hylton and His Band, Richard Murdoch, Pat Kirkwood
Votes: 223
64. Barbary Coast Gent (1944)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Wallace Beery, Binnie Barnes, John Carradine, Bruce Kellogg
Votes: 218
65. Barnacle Bill (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Comedy
A grumpy old fisherman tries to avoid marriage, contend with a daughter he never knew he had and scuttle the attempts of landlubbers who want to rob him of his seagoing livelihood, while the locals try to reform him.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Leo Carrillo, Virginia Weidler
Votes: 247
66. Barnyard Follies (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Pappy, the manager of the Farmdale orphanage, appropriates five thousand dollars of the taxpayers' money to enroll his charges in a 4-H project that could make the orphanage self-sufficient... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Mary Lee, Rufe Davis, June Storey, Jed Prouty
Votes: 52
67. Bataan (1943)
Approved | 114 min | Drama, History, War
In 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Robert Taylor, George Murphy, Lloyd Nolan, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 2,705
68. Battleground (1949)
Approved | 118 min | Action, Drama, History
True tale about a squad of the 101st Airborne Division coping with being trapped by the Germans in the besieged city of Bastogne, Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Votes: 7,864 | Gross: $10.29M
69. Beautiful But Broke (1944)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
When theatrical agent Waldo Main (John Eldredge) is inducted into the Army, he turns his currently-clientless agency over to his secretary Dottie Duncan (Joan Davis), who decides to ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Joan Davis, Jane Frazee, John Hubbard, Judy Clark
Votes: 84
70. Bedside Manner (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy
Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charles Ruggles, Ann Rutherford
Votes: 237
71. Bedtime Story (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 710
72. Bees in Paradise (1944)
Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy, Musical
During World War II, a plane crashes on an island full of dominating women.
Director: Val Guest | Stars: Arthur Askey, Anne Shelton, Peter Graves, Max Bacon
Votes: 167
73. Best Foot Forward (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Musical, Comedy
Lucille Ball accepts a cadet's invitation to a military academy's senior prom in order to boost her career.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Lucille Ball, William Gaxton, Virginia Weidler, Tommy Dix
Votes: 1,017
74. Big Jack (1949)
Approved | 85 min | Adventure, Western
An outlaw finds a place in his gang for a grave-robbing doctor.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Wallace Beery, Richard Conte, Marjorie Main, Edward Arnold
Votes: 271
75. Black Magic (1944)
Approved | 67 min | Horror, Mystery
Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Frances Chan, Joseph Crehan
Votes: 1,566
76. Blithe Spirit (1945)
96 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A man and his second wife are haunted by the ghost of his first wife.
Director: David Lean | Stars: Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 8,013
77. Block Busters (1944)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy
Muggs must fight a new French kid who has just moved into the neighborhood.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 374
78. Blood on the Sun (1945)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A dedicated American reporter in 1930s Japan is determined to expose that government's plan for world domination.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: James Cagney, Sylvia Sidney, Porter Hall, John Emery
Votes: 2,270
79. Blue, White and Perfect (1942)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Mystery
Detective Michael Shayne boards a Hawaii-bound ocean liner on the trail of stolen industrial diamonds and a German smuggling ring.
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Beth Hughes, Helene Reynolds, George Reeves
Votes: 536
80. Body and Soul (1947)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A talented boxer's young career hits difficult terrain when an unethical promoter takes interest in him.
Director: Robert Rossen | Stars: John Garfield, Lilli Palmer, Hazel Brooks, Anne Revere
Votes: 5,367
81. Boom Town (1940)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr
Votes: 3,781 | Gross: $9.17M
82. Boston Blackie Booked on Suspicion (1945)
66 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Blackie is implicated in a murder when he accidently sells a phony Charles Dickens first edition at an auction.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Chester Morris, Lynn Merrick, Richard Lane, Frank Sully
Votes: 376
83. Boston Blackie and the Law (1946)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Blackie performs in a magic show at a women's prison, which gives an inmate an opportunity to escape.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Trudy Marshall, Constance Dowling, Richard Lane
Votes: 360
84. Boston Blackie's Chinese Venture (1949)
Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Blackie is seen leaving a Chinese laundry where the proprietor has been murdered, and must track down the real killer in Chinatown.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Chester Morris, Maylia, Richard Lane, Don McGuire
Votes: 347
85. Boston Blackie's Rendezvous (1945)
64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Blackie helps the police rescue hostage from an escaped maniac on a killing spree.
Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Chester Morris, Nina Foch, Steve Cochran, Richard Lane
Votes: 381
86. Bowery Blitzkrieg (1941)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
While a cop steers a kid street-fighter away from being a public nuisance, a petty hoodlum leads a studious kid into a life of crime.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Warren Hull
Votes: 668
87. Bowery Bombshell (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey and Chuck unsuccessfully try to sell a dilapidated car to a street cleaner for a fabulous amount, so they can get enough money to save Louie's Malt Shop.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, William 'Billy' Benedict
Votes: 418
88. Bowery Buckaroos (1947)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Western
The gang heads to the old west to redeem Louie's honor, find a gold mine and a bald baby, and right an old wrong.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 362
89. Boys of the City (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Street kids get sent to the country, where they get mixed up in murder and a haunted house.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Bobby Jordan, Leo Gorcey, Hal E. Chester, Frankie Burke
Votes: 665
90. Brass Monkey (1948)
90 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Radio personality Carroll Levis becomes involved in a case of theft and murder.
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Carroll Levis, Carole Landis, Herbert Lom, Avril Angers
Votes: 210
91. Breakfast in Hollywood (1946)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Based on a current (1946) radio series with a live audience. It is the story of some of the people who attend the show. Nat King Cole sings.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Tom Breneman, Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Edward Ryan
Votes: 331
92. Brewster's Millions (1945)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Romance
In order to inherit $7,000,000, an ex-soldier must spend $1,000,000 in two months' time.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Helen Walker, June Havoc, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson
Votes: 1,491
93. Bride for Sale (1949)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy
Tax expert Nora Shelley thinks she can find a suitable husband by inspecting clients' tax documents.
Director: William D. Russell | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, George Brent, Max Baer
Votes: 139
94. Bring on the Girls (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 161
95. Broadway Limited (1941)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
A publicity stunt staged on a train known as the Broadway Limited creates problems because of an unknown baby that was part of the stunt.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Marjorie Woodworth, Dennis O'Keefe, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 380
96. Brooklyn Orchid (1942)
Passed | 50 min | Comedy, Romance
Taxicab company owners Tim McGuerin and Eddie Corbett rescue Lucy Gibbs from a suicide attempt and she insists on placing her life and destiny in the hands of her two rescuers.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: William Bendix, Joe Sawyer, Marjorie Woodworth, Grace Bradley
Votes: 133
97. Brother Orchid (1940)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himself as a pious monk.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sothern, Donald Crisp
Votes: 3,170
98. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Andy Devine
Votes: 370
99. Buck Privates (1941)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, War
Two sidewalk salesman enlist in the army in order to avoid jail, only to find that their drill instructor is the police officer who tried having them imprisoned.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Lee Bowman, Jane Frazee
Votes: 4,732 | Gross: $4.00M
100. 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: 2,150
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