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1. A Dangerous Profession (1949)
Approved | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
LA ex-cop Vince Kane is a bail-bondsman who bails out the suspect of a securities bonds robbery but his client disappears, prompting Vince to investigate.
Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O'Brien, Bill Williams
Votes: 746
2. The Great Lover (1949)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
On an ocean liner, an inept scoutmaster pursues a duchess while a killer pursues him.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Bob Hope, Rhonda Fleming, Roland Young, Roland Culver
Votes: 552
3. Easy Living (1949)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Sport
Pete Wilson is on top. He is the highest paid professional football player in the league. He has seen other players come and go, but he was MVP last year and the future looks rosy. His wife... See full summary »
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Victor Mature, Lizabeth Scott, Lucille Ball, Sonny Tufts
Votes: 1,013
4. Father Was a Fullback (1949)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Sport
Football coach George Cooper has as many problems managing his football team as he has at home dealing with his daughters, Ellen and Connie.
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Maureen O'Hara, Betty Lynn, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 493
5. One Last Fling (1949)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
A bored housewife wants to return to her former job at the music store her husband manages, but he has promised the position to an old flame. Complications ensue.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Douglas Kennedy, Ann Doran
Votes: 173
6. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Police seek a smuggler while doctors, unaware she's the same person, desperately comb unprotected New York for a smallpox carrier.
Director: Earl McEvoy | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Charles Korvin, William Bishop, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 1,803
7. Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Crime
When Pa wins a jingle-writing contest, he and Ma head for New York City. They get in trouble with gangsters when they lose some stolen money which they had already agreed to deliver to one of the thugs.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Richard Long, Meg Randall
Votes: 876
8. Emergency Wedding (1950)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In this remake of 1941's "You Belong to Me," a young millionaire, Peter J. Kirk, Jr., fails in all of his attempts to emulate his successful father. He meets and marries Dr. Helen Hunt, who... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Larry Parks, Barbara Hale, Willard Parker, Una Merkel
Votes: 120
9. Customs Agent (1950)
Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama
U. S. Customs is trying to stop the illegal export of a miracle drug to China. A Customs agent in Shanghai inadvertently gets his partner killed and is fired. The now ex-agent goes on a ... See full summary »
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: William Eythe, Marjorie Reynolds, Griff Barnett, Howard St. John
Votes: 52
10. M (1951)
Not Rated | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In this Americanization of the 1931 German thriller, both the police and the criminal underworld stalk a mysterious serial killer who preys on little girls.
Director: Joseph Losey | Stars: David Wayne, Howard Da Silva, Martin Gabel, Luther Adler
Votes: 2,366
11. His Kind of Woman (1951)
Approved | 120 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A deported gangster's plan to re-enter the USA involves skulduggery at a Mexican resort, and gambler Dan Milner is caught in the middle.
Directors: John Farrow, Richard Fleischer | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price, Tim Holt
Votes: 4,962
12. I'll See You in My Dreams (1951)
Passed | 110 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
The success and decline of songwriter Gus Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him the whole time.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Frank Lovejoy, Patrice Wymore
Votes: 1,221
13. Iron Man (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
An ambitious coal miner is talked into becoming a boxer by his gambler brother.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Stephen McNally, Rock Hudson
Votes: 310
14. Hollywood Story (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director in 1929.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Richard Conte, Julie Adams, Richard Egan, Henry Hull
Votes: 923
15. Bright Victory (1951)
Approved | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War
After he gets blinded by a German sniper's bullet in 1943, Sergeant Larry Nevins begins the long and painful road to recovery.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Julie Adams, James Edwards
Votes: 978
16. The Man with a Cloak (1951)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In 1848 NYC, a Frenchwoman visits exiled former French Marshal Thevenet to ask for his financial help in behalf of his French grandson but Thevenet's house staff schemes to kill him and take his fortune.
Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Joseph Cotten, Barbara Stanwyck, Louis Calhern, Leslie Caron
Votes: 1,312
17. I Want You (1951)
Passed | 102 min | Drama
In 1950, small-town Americans try to deal with military conscription.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Dana Andrews, Dorothy McGuire, Farley Granger, Peggy Dow
Votes: 613
18. Half Angel (1951)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Nurse Nora Gilpin is attracted to lawyer John Raymond whom she dislikes during the day and seduces during the night, when she sleepwalks.
Director: Richard Sale | Stars: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Cecil Kellaway, Basil Ruysdael
Votes: 388
19. Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
After being dumped by his girlfriend, an airline pilot pursues a babysitter in his hotel and gradually realizes she's dangerous.
Director: Roy Ward Baker | Stars: Richard Widmark, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Bancroft, Donna Corcoran
Votes: 8,498
20. Angel Face (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman, Herbert Marshall
Votes: 9,032
21. Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
With his newspaper about to be sold, crusading editor Ed Hutcheson tries to complete an exposé on gangster Rienzi.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter, Ed Begley
Votes: 4,104
22. Pat and Mike (1952)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport
Pat is a women's sports sensation unless her fiancé is around. Her new shady manager Mike keeps them apart and develops feelings for her.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Aldo Ray, William Ching
Votes: 6,163
23. Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.
Directors: Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray | Stars: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton
Votes: 1,066
24. Above and Beyond (1952)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama, War
Col. Paul Tibbets piloted the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in World War II.
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating
Votes: 1,342
25. The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The newly crowned Rose Bowl Princess and a tough but tender football player find the California Rose Bowl is an area for their budding romance.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Marshall Thompson, Vera Miles, Richard Rober, Natalie Wood
Votes: 96
26. Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
While Ozzie tries to get some publicity for an ad agency, David and Ricky get mixed up with gangsters.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Ozzie Nelson, Harriet Nelson, David Nelson, Ricky Nelson
Votes: 249
27. I Love Melvin (1953)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Melvin, a photographer for "Look" magazine, meets Judy and wants to marry her. Her father is against that and as a last resort, Melvin promises to get Judy's photo on the cover of the next issue, a task easier said than done.
Director: Don Weis | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Una Merkel, Richard Anderson
Votes: 1,055
28. Geraldine (1953)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Janey Edwards, working for Cambria Records, is managing the personal appearance tour of sobbing songster Billy Weber, and Janey is disgusted when Billy leaves her at Santa Fe College with ... See full summary »
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: John Carroll, Mala Powers, Jim Backus, Stan Freberg
Votes: 70
29. Mr. Magoo Cartoon Merry-Go-Round (1953)
Animation, Comedy, Family
A special feature length laugh show featuring the lovable, laughable near-sighted Mr. Magoo in his most hilarious cartoon hits.
Star: Jim Backus
30. Deep in My Heart (1954)
Approved | 132 min | Biography, Comedy, Musical
Biographic movie about the American composer Sigmund Romberg.
Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: José Ferrer, Merle Oberon, Helen Traubel, Doe Avedon
Votes: 959
31. Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
PG-13 | 111 min | Drama
A rebellious young man with a troubled past comes to a new town, finding friends and enemies.
Director: Nicholas Ray | Stars: James Dean, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Jim Backus
Votes: 97,983
32. Francis in the Navy (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A story following Lieutenant Peter Stirling (Donald O'Connor) and his dream of being in the Navy.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Martha Hyer, Richard Erdman, Jim Backus
Votes: 756
33. The Square Jungle (1955)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Sport
A grocery store clerk turns prizefighter to win prize money to bail his drunken father out of jail.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Tony Curtis, Pat Crowley, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Kelly
Votes: 409
34. The Opposite Sex (1956)
Not Rated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Former nightclub singer Kay Hilliard, married 10 years and mother of a young daughter, is informed that her husband Steven is having an affair with chorus girl Crystal Allen, so she goes to Reno for a divorce.
Director: David Miller | Stars: June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 1,964 | Gross: $6.02M
35. Autumn Leaves (1956)
Approved | 107 min | Drama
A lonely middle-aged woman meets a younger man, but their relationship is threatened when the man's troubled past reveals itself.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Robertson, Vera Miles, Lorne Greene
Votes: 3,197
36. The Naked Hills (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Western
In 1849, an Indiana farmer develops a life-long gold fever and an obsession with finding the 'mother lode' in the Californian hills.
Director: Josef Shaftel | Stars: David Wayne, Keenan Wynn, James Barton, Marcia Henderson
Votes: 241
37. You Can't Run Away from It (1956)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ellen (June Allyson) is kidnapped by her father (Charles Bickford) after she ran off and got married to someone he thinks is a gold digger. She escapes and starts an adventurous trip back ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Powell | Stars: June Allyson, Jack Lemmon, Charles Bickford, Paul Gilbert
Votes: 593
38. Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Not Rated | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
In 1950s Las Vegas, a gambling rancher and a ballerina discover that some people have luck at cards while others have luck at love.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Dan Dailey, Cyd Charisse, Agnes Moorehead, Lili Darvas
Votes: 993
39. The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
Not Rated | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
Privileged college student Andy Shaeffer is a mama's boy who flunks out of school and is drafted by the army where he becomes a real man, to the astonishment of everyone.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, Jessie Royce Landis, Jim Backus
Votes: 591
40. The Great Man (1956)
Approved | 92 min | Drama
Joe Harris, preparing a eulogy for popular radio commentator Herb Fuller, finds that nobody has a good word to say about him.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London
Votes: 475
41. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 2,963
42. Top Secret Affair (1957)
Approved | 100 min | Comedy
Unhappy about the appointment of an army general to the chairmanship of an atomic energy committee, a publishing empire female tycoon invites the general to her country estate in an effort to entrap him and ruin his reputation.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Susan Hayward, Kirk Douglas, Paul Stewart, Jim Backus
Votes: 567
43. Eighteen and Anxious (1957)
PG | 93 min | Drama
A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.
Director: Joe Parker | Stars: William Campbell, Martha Scott, Jackie Loughery, Jim Backus
Votes: 48
44. Macabre (1958)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A doctor's daughter is kidnapped and buried alive, and he is given just five hours to find and rescue her.
Director: William Castle | Stars: William Prince, Jim Backus, Christine White, Jacqueline Scott
Votes: 1,404
45. The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
When he's not invited to a boardroom luncheon with the company president and his executives, during the company's merger and downsizing phase, purchasing manager Jim Fry fears he is to be laid-off.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Gena Rowlands
Votes: 377
46. The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
Approved | 84 min | Western
In Wyoming, mountain trapper Yancey goes to the nearest town to trade his pelts but gets into trouble when he tries to save runaway dance-hall girl Rosalie from her shameful job.
Director: Jack Sher | Stars: Audie Murphy, Joanne Dru, Gilbert Roland, Jim Backus
Votes: 955
47. Ask Any Girl (1959)
98 min | Comedy, Romance
A salesgirl falls for the younger of two brothers who run a company. The elder falls for her but plans to help her get his brother because he doesn't know he's in love.
Director: Charles Walters | Stars: David Niven, Shirley MacLaine, Gig Young, Rod Taylor
Votes: 919
48. 1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
75 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy
Mr. Magoo's ancestor, Abdul Aziz Magoo, is the uncle of Aladdin, who falls in love with a princess.
Director: Jack Kinney | Stars: Jim Backus, Kathryn Grant, Dwayne Hickman, Hans Conried
Votes: 366
49. A Private's Affair (1959)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Music
Three U.S. Army recruits have various romantic adventures while preparing to appear on a televised talent show.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Sal Mineo, Christine Carère, Barry Coe, Barbara Eden
Votes: 182
50. The Big Operator (1959)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama
During the 1950s, a corrupt labor union boss and the mob silence all those who witness their shady activities but an honest union member threatens to testify in front of a Senate Committee, thus becoming a murder-target.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Steve Cochran, Mamie Van Doren, Mel Tormé
Votes: 340