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1. Stand-In (1937)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York bank plans to sell a Hollywood studio at a big loss. But the head accountant is suspicious and goes to investigate. He finds chicanery, romance, and help to save the studio.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Leslie Howard, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 1,316
2. Artist and Models (1937)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Musical
Mac Brewster (Benny) is head of an advertising firm that is in debt. The million-dollar Townsend Silver contract could save the firm, but the wealthy playboy Alan Townsend (Arlen) wants an ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Jack Benny, Ida Lupino, Richard Arlen, Gail Patrick
Votes: 373
3. Partners in Crime (1937)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Detective Hank Hyer and reporter Sim Perkins of The Star are nearly evicted from Twitchell Arms apartments. Hank then needles Silas Wagon, who is running for mayor, into hiring him to help ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Lynne Overman, Roscoe Karns, Muriel Hutchison, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 24
4. Trade Winds (1938)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Kay Kerrigan commits a murder and then changes her hair color, assumes a new identity and flees the country by ship. She's unaware that she's being followed by Sam Wye, a skirt chasing detective. The two soon develop a shipboard romance.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Fredric March, Joan Bennett, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Sothern
Votes: 702
5. Torchy Blane in Panama (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Lola Lane, Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy, Anthony Averill
Votes: 448
6. Prairie Moon (1938)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Shirley Deane, Tommy Ryan
Votes: 101
7. Slightly Honorable (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Terry
Votes: 530
8. The North Star (1943)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the German invasion of June 1941.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,791
9. Victory Through Air Power (1943)
Approved | 70 min | Documentary, Animation, History
An animated documentary promoting of the soundness of strategic aerial bombing in World War II.
Directors: James Algar, Clyde Geronimi, Jack Kinney, H.C. Potter | Stars: Alexander de Seversky, Art Baker, Billy Mitchell
Votes: 1,175 | Gross: $0.80M
10. Once Upon a Time (1944)
Approved | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy's dancing caterpillar.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Cary Grant, Janet Blair, James Gleason, Ted Donaldson
Votes: 1,104
11. Spellbound (1945)
Approved | 111 min | Film-Noir, Mystery, Romance
A psychiatrist protects the identity of an amnesia patient accused of murder while attempting to recover his memory.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 52,232 | Gross: $7.00M
12. Abie's Irish Rose (1946)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Cultures clash when a Jewish boy wants to marry an Irish girl.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Joanne Dru, Richard Norris, Michael Chekhov, J.M. Kerrigan
Votes: 105
13. Daisy Kenyon (1947)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A commercial artist having an affair with a married attorney becomes involved with a returning soldier and must choose between the two.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 3,035
14. The Farmer's Daughter (1947)
Unrated | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford
Votes: 2,880
15. The Beginning or the End (1947)
Passed | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
A docudrama detailing the research, development and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Walker, Tom Drake, Beverly Tyler
Votes: 749 | Gross: $2.66M
16. Dark Delusion (1947)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Mystery
Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. ... See full summary »
Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, James Craig, Lucille Bremer, Jayne Meadows
Votes: 273
17. Silver River (1948)
Passed | 110 min | Romance, Western
After Mike McComb is booted out of the cavalry, he becomes riverboat gambler and silver mine owner in Nevada.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Thomas Mitchell, Bruce Bennett
Votes: 1,540
18. State of the Union (1948)
Approved | 124 min | Comedy, Drama
An industrialist is urged to run for President, but this requires uncomfortable compromises on both political and marital levels.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury
Votes: 4,170
19. Walk a Crooked Mile (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
During the Cold War, at a California atomic research plant, an FBI agent and a Scotland Yard inspector join forces to eliminate a foreign atomic spy ring operating in the USA and the UK.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Louis Hayward, Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Allbritton, Carl Esmond
Votes: 1,135
20. The Walls of Jericho (1948)
106 min | Drama
After County Attorney Dave Connors helps Julia Norman with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman, she leaves Jericho, Kansas for college to study for a law degree. A few years later, ... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Cornel Wilde, Linda Darnell, Anne Baxter, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 429
21. Homecoming (1948)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
At the end of WW2, aboard a repatriation ship, an Army doctor reminisces about his war years while being interviewed by a reporter.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak
Votes: 1,091
22. A Southern Yankee (1948)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, History, War
A hapless bellboy in a St. Louis hotel near the end of the Civil War is recruited by the Union secret service to impersonate a notorious Confederate spy.
Directors: Edward Sedgwick, S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Red Skelton, Brian Donlevy, Arlene Dahl, George Coulouris
Votes: 543
23. The Decision of Christopher Blake (1948)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Evelyn and Ken Blake are about to break up their marriage and get a divorce. While she still loves him, she can not forgive his infidelity. Their son, 12-year-old Christopher, is hurt and ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Alexis Smith, Robert Douglas, Cecil Kellaway, Ted Donaldson
Votes: 81
24. Impact (1949)
Passed | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A unfaithful wife plots with her lover to kill her husband, but the lover is accidentally killed instead. The husband stays in hiding and lets his wife be charged with conspiracy.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Ella Raines, Charles Coburn, Helen Walker
Votes: 4,718
25. Take One False Step (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
During a conference-trip to L.A., an academic runs into an old-flame and into trouble with the police when she disappears, presumed murdered.
Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: William Powell, Shelley Winters, Marsha Hunt, Dorothy Hart
Votes: 730
26. Cover Up (1949)
TV-14 | 83 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion of foul play.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: William Bendix, Dennis O'Keefe, Barbara Britton, Art Baker
Votes: 1,356
27. Task Force (1949)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, War
As he is retiring, Jonathan L. Scott "Scotty" reminisces about his long Navy career and the development of the role of the aircraft carrier from the early 20s.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jane Wyatt, Wayne Morris, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,189
28. Any Number Can Play (1949)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Clark Gable, Alexis Smith, Wendell Corey, Audrey Totter
Votes: 1,148
29. 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: 1,012
30. Night Unto Night (1949)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance
A scientist afflicted with the incurable illness epilepsy, meets a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband.
Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary DeCamp
Votes: 521
31. State Department: File 649 (1949)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
U.S. Foreign Service officer matches wits with a Chinese warlord to try to save American citizens threatened with execution.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Lundigan, Virginia Bruce, Jonathan Hale, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 206
32. Massacre River (1949)
Approved | 78 min | Western
Two cavalry officers clash over the colonel's daughter at a remote outpost with Indian troubles.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Guy Madison, Rory Calhoun, Carole Mathews, Cathy Downs
Votes: 284
33. The Underworld Story (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 1,329
34. Hot Rod (1950)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Drama
A young man builds a hot rod despite the disapproval of his father, a Juvenile Court judge. Circumstantial evidence points to the innocent teenager when his car is involved in a hit-and-run accident and he must reconcile with his father.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Art Baker, Gil Stratton, Gloria Winters
Votes: 161
35. The Du Pont Story (1950)
88 min | Drama, History
A straight-line historical account of the Du Pont chemical manufacturing company and its vital role in the growth of the USA.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Eduard Franz, Marcel Journet, Sigrid Gurie, Grandon Rhodes
Votes: 19
36. Only the Valiant (1951)
Approved | 105 min | Drama, Western
A despised cavalry commander is unfairly blamed by his troop for the death of a popular officer and must redeem himself in front of his men during an Indian attack on the fort.
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Gregory Peck, Barbara Payton, Ward Bond, Gig Young
Votes: 1,734
37. Cause for Alarm! (1951)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An invalid husband (Barry Sullivan) wrongly believes his wife (Loretta Young) and doctor (Bruce Cowling) are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling, Margalo Gillmore
Votes: 2,644
38. Here Comes the Groom (1951)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Bing Crosby, Jane Wyman, Alexis Smith, Franchot Tone
Votes: 1,204
39. Belle Le Grand (1951)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
After serving a prison sentence in 1850, a New Orleans woman becomes a rich gambler, opens a casino on the Barbary Coast, gets romantically involved with Nevada mine owners and watches over the interests of her little sister.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Vera Ralston, John Carroll, William Ching, Hope Emerson
Votes: 198
40. Living It Up (1954)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical
An unsophisticated stationmaster from provincial New Mexico fraudulently claims that he is dying in order to get an expense-paid dream tour of New York.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,751 | Gross: $9.35M
41. Artists and Models (1955)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Rick Todd uses the dreams of his roommate Eugene as the basis for a successful comic book.
Director: Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Shirley MacLaine, Dorothy Malone
Votes: 4,379 | Gross: $9.35M
42. Twelve Hours to Kill (1960)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama
Based on the Saturday Evening Post serial "Set Up For Murder" by Richard Stern, 12 Hours to Kill traces the problems of a young Greek national (Nico Minardos) who, after ogling a murder, is... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Nico Minardos, Barbara Eden, Grant Richards, Russ Conway
Votes: 156
43. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
When the Earth is threatened by a burning Van Allen Radiation Belt, U.S. Navy Admiral Harriman Nelson plans to shoot a nuclear missile at the Belt, using his experimental atomic submarine, the Seaview.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Joan Fontaine, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre
Votes: 6,664
44. Swingin' Along (1961)
74 min | Comedy
An amateur tunesmith (Tommy Noonan) and a con man (Pete Marshall) pool their resources in order to win first prize in a songwriting contest
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Tommy Noonan, Peter Marshall, Barbara Eden, Ray Charles
Votes: 88
45. Young Dillinger (1965)
102 min | Crime, Drama
John Dillinger first goes to jail after attempting to rob his girlfriend's father at her suggestion. Falling in with the likes of "Baby Face" Nelson and "Pretty Boy" Floyd, he arranges ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Nick Adams, Robert Conrad, John Ashley, Dan Terranova
Votes: 191
46. The Wild Angels (1966)
R | 93 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The "Angels", a San Pedro motorcycle gang, parties in the Coachella Valley's Palm Springs Indian Canyons, California, and wreaks havoc with the local police.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Peter Fonda, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd
Votes: 3,321