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1. This Is the Army (1943)
Approved | 121 min | Musical
A soldier wounded in the War (WWI) becomes a producer and stages a show for the forces.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: George Murphy, Joan Leslie, George Tobias, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,340 | Gross: $20.83M
2. The Burning Cross (1947)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama
Johnny, who is a returning veteran unable to adjust to his old life in his home town, succumbs to the pitch of a Ku Klux Klan organizer. It is only after he has worn the Klan sheet, and ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: Henry H. Daniels Jr., Virginia Patton, Dick Rich, Betty Roadman
Votes: 46
3. Angel on the Amazon (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Romance
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett
Votes: 164
4. The Crooked Way (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
War hero recovers from amnesia and is confronted by his criminal past.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew, Rhys Williams
Votes: 1,404
5. The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
Approved | 84 min | Western
In order to gain passage to the West, a woman poses as an opera singer, and causes a feud between two cousins.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Yvonne De Carlo, Charles Coburn, Scott Brady, John Russell
Votes: 330
6. Chinatown at Midnight (1949)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In San Francisco's Chinatown, a Chinese-speaking Caucasian criminal robs an antiquities shop and murders the owners, leaving the police with one clue, the killer's voice heard on the phone by a switchboard-operator.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Hurd Hatfield, Jean Willes, Tom Powers, Ray Walker
Votes: 183
7. Streets of San Francisco (1949)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A gangster's son sees his father rob and murder a man. The detective investigating the case, deciding that the boy will never tell what he knows if he's locked up in juvenile detention, ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Mae Clarke, Gary Gray, Wally Cassell
Votes: 40
8. Barbary Pirate (1949)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Adventure
The U.S. government sends Major Thomas Blake on a secret mission when the Bey of Tripoli starts demanding tribute from American merchant ships in the Mediterranean in the early 1800's. His ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Donald Woods, Trudy Marshall, Lenore Aubert, Stefan Schnabel
Votes: 69
9. Gun Crazy (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 14,863
10. Woman on the Run (1950)
Not Rated | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Frank Johnson becomes an eyewitness to a murder. He's pursued around San Francisco by his wife, the police, and the killer.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith, John Qualen
Votes: 4,849
11. Storm Warning (1950)
Approved | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Marsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha witnesses the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey bring the criminals to justice.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran
Votes: 2,666
12. Three Secrets (1950)
Approved | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Three women who secretly gave up their newborn sons for adoption in 1945 wonder if the 5-year-old survivor of a plane crash, named in the the local newspapers, is their long-abandoned son.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, Ruth Roman, Frank Lovejoy
Votes: 671
13. Cody of the Pony Express (1950)
Approved | 270 min | Western
An Eastern syndicate, plotting to gain control of the western frontier, hires a gang led by Mort Black to drive out the settlers. Army undercover agent Lt. Jim Archer and young Pony Express... See full summary »
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Jock Mahoney, Dickie Moore, Peggy Stewart, William Fawcett
Votes: 41
14. Last of the Buccaneers (1950)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Adventure, History
Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Paul Henreid, Jack Oakie, Karin Booth, Mary Anderson
Votes: 166
15. Tyrant of the Sea (1950)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, War
In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Rhys Williams, Ron Randell, Valentine Perkins, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 26
16. Dynamite Pass (1950)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Music, Western
Cowhands Ross Taylor and his pal Chito Rafferty rescue road-construction engineer Dan Madden and his wife Mary when Madden is delayed starting work on a road running parallel to a toll road... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Tim Holt, Lynne Roberts, Regis Toomey, Robert Shayne
Votes: 166
17. I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance
A ruthless fashion designer steps on everyone in her way in order to reach the top of her profession. Eventually she is forced to choose between her ambition and the man she loves.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Susan Hayward, Dan Dailey, George Sanders, Sam Jaffe
Votes: 583
18. Chicago Calling (1951)
75 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A poor father makes monumental efforts to get money to keep his phone installed, so he can get word on his critically injured little daughter.
Director: John Reinhardt | Stars: Dan Duryea, Mary Anderson, Gordon Gebert, Ross Elliott
Votes: 342
19. Hot Lead (1951)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Dave Collins arrives in town, and Tim suspects Dave can lead him to wanted outlaws.
Director: Stuart Gilmore | Stars: Tim Holt, Joan Dixon, Ross Elliott, John Dehner
Votes: 191
20. Desert of Lost Men (1951)
Passed | 54 min | Western
Landers and gang are after money intended for a new hospital. Lane and the Sheriff have a plan to trap them. But Landers hears of it and Lane is captured and the Sheriff's posse diverted. ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Allan Lane, Black Jack, Irving Bacon, Mary Ellen Kay
Votes: 50
21. Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Nightclub singer and her brother-in-law try to find her husband's killer.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis
Votes: 3,088
22. Loan Shark (1952)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At the request of factory owners and union leaders, a tough ex-con infiltrates a gang of loan sharks who are preying on financially desperate factory workers.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: George Raft, Dorothy Hart, Paul Stewart, John Hoyt
Votes: 773
23. Woman in the Dark (1952)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Following a news report that a fabulous jewel collection, called "Unclaimed Cargo", will be on display at the Waldorf Jewelry Company, a city alderman and secret underworld gang leader, ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Penny Edwards, Ross Elliott, Rick Vallin, Richard Benedict
Votes: 36
24. The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A ferocious dinosaur awakened by an Arctic atomic test terrorizes the North Atlantic and, ultimately, New York City.
Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: Paul Hubschmid, Paula Raymond, Cecil Kellaway, Kenneth Tobey
Votes: 8,737 | Gross: $5.00M
25. Tumbleweed (1953)
Passed | 79 min | Western
When a wagon train is wiped-out by the Yaqui Indians, the surviving guide Jim Harvey is accused of desertion and cowardice but Jim escapes the town jail in search of the truth.
Director: Nathan Juran | Stars: Audie Murphy, Lori Nelson, Chill Wills, Roy Roberts
Votes: 1,007
26. Problem Girls (1953)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Reform school for rich girls behaving badly, is a good cover for the misbehaving adults in charge.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Helen Walker, Ross Elliott, Susan Morrow, Anthony Jochim
Votes: 140
27. Massacre Canyon (1954)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Cavalrymen disguised as civilians must drive a wagon train loaded with army rifles through dangerous Apache territory to Fort Collins.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Philip Carey, Audrey Totter, Douglas Kennedy, Jeff Donnell
Votes: 157
28. Dragnet (1954)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member.
Director: Jack Webb | Stars: Jack Webb, Ben Alexander, Richard Boone, Ann Robinson
Votes: 1,136
29. Ma and Pa Kettle at Home (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
Ma and Pa Kettle get the farm in order to help their son Elwin win a scholarship.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Alan Mowbray, Alice Kelley
Votes: 705
30. African Manhunt (1954)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure
Kirby, Davis and Drover escort the wanted criminal Rene Carvel from central Africa to the coast, stopping every so often to watch wild animals attack one another.
Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Myron Healey, Karin Booth, John Kellogg, Lawrence Dobkin
Votes: 18
31. Tarantula (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A spider escapes from an isolated Arizona desert laboratory experimenting in gigantism and grows to tremendous size as it wreaks havoc on the local inhabitants.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: John Agar, Mara Corday, Leo G. Carroll, Nestor Paiva
Votes: 10,785 | Gross: $1.10M
32. Women's Prison (1955)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A sadistic prison warden takes out her sexual frustration on her women inmates. While a caring physician tries to improve the jail's brutal atmosphere, a pair of rebellious inmates take matters into their own hands.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ida Lupino, Jan Sterling, Cleo Moore, Audrey Totter
Votes: 1,153
33. The Toughest Man Alive (1955)
Approved | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A U.S. agent diguises himself as a gunrunner to smash an international smuggling ring.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Dane Clark, Lita Milan, Anthony Caruso, Ross Elliott
Votes: 41
34. Carolina Cannonball (1955)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Judy and her grandpa run a trolley between a train depot and a ghost town in Nevada, near the California border. Three spies intent of tracking down an atomic missile gone astray arrive. ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Judy Canova, Andy Clyde, Ross Elliott, Sig Ruman
Votes: 51
35. Indestructible Man (1956)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Charles "The Butcher" Benton, a brutal death row inmate gets double-crossed by his crooked lawyer. He gets his chance for revenge when, after he's been executed, a bizarre experiment brings him back to life and more deadly than ever.
Director: Jack Pollexfen | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Max Showalter, Marian Carr, Ross Elliott
Votes: 3,161
36. D-Day the Sixth of June (1956)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance, War
En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Robert Taylor, Richard Todd, Dana Wynter, Edmond O'Brien
Votes: 1,665
37. Chain of Evidence (1957)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A paroled inmate accidentally becomes an amnesiac, aimlessly wanders around and is later used as a patsy by an adulterous wife and her lover after they kill her rich husband.
Director: Paul Landres | Stars: Bill Elliott, Jimmy Lydon, Don Haggerty, Claudia Barrett
Votes: 99
38. Monster on the Campus (1958)
Approved | 77 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The blood of a primitive fish exposed to gamma rays causes a benign research professor to regress to an ape-like, bloodthirsty prehistoric hominid.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Arthur Franz, Joanna Moore, Judson Pratt, Nancy Walters
Votes: 2,081
39. As Young as We Are (1958)
Not Rated | 76 min | Drama
Scandal erupts in a small town when a high school teacher is romantically linked with one of her male students.
Director: Bernard Girard | Stars: Robert Harland, Pippa Scott, Majel Barrett, Ty Hardin
Votes: 65
40. Never So Few (1959)
Approved | 125 min | Drama, War
During WW2, the American OSS mounts covert operations with the native Kachin against the Japanese army in the jungles of Burma.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen
Votes: 3,421
41. Tammy Tell Me True (1961)
Passed | 97 min | Comedy
A wholesome river girl floats her boat to college and meets a professor who finds her charming.
Director: Harry Keller | Stars: Sandra Dee, John Gavin, Charles Drake, Virginia Grey
Votes: 913
42. The Thrill of It All (1963)
Approved | 108 min | Comedy, Romance
A homemaker's sudden rise to fame as a soap spokesperson leads to chaos in her home life.
Director: Norman Jewison | Stars: Doris Day, James Garner, Arlene Francis, Edward Andrews
Votes: 5,922 | Gross: $11.78M
43. The Crawling Hand (1963)
Approved | 89 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
The hand of a dead astronaut comes crawling back from the grave to strangle the living
Director: Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Rod Lauren, Alan Hale Jr.
Votes: 2,019
44. The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy
A big-time Texas wheeler-dealer (who's actually Ivy league-educated, but plays dumb) runs out of money, and goes to New York City to raise $1.2 million.
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Lee Remick, James Garner, Phil Harris, Chill Wills
Votes: 1,515
45. The Lively Set (1964)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Casey Owens (James Darren), a young mechanic, has developed a design for a turbine car engine, paving the way for a jet-powered auto certain to set a new land speed record. Wealthy playboy ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Doug McClure, Joanie Sommers
Votes: 275
46. Wild Seed (1965)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A 17-year-old girl runs away from her East Coast home, going west to Los Angeles to meet her biological father. She has learned from letters her mother kept that he was tragically separated... See full summary »
Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Michael Parks, Celia Milius, Ross Elliott, Woodrow Chambliss
Votes: 407
47. Day of the Evil Gun (1968)
Approved | 95 min | Western
A woman and two children are kidnapped by Apaches. The husband of the captured woman enlists the help of his neighbor to find the Apaches that seized his family; not knowing his neighbor has unknown reasons of his own for helping him.
Director: Jerry Thorpe | Stars: Glenn Ford, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, John Anderson
Votes: 1,440
48. Kelly's Heroes (1970)
GP | 144 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.
Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor
Votes: 53,763 | Gross: $1.38M
49. Skyjacked (1972)
PG | 101 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
A crazed Vietnam vet bomber hijacks a Boeing 707 in this disaster film filled with the usual early '70s stereotypes, and demands to be taken to Russia.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Charlton Heston, James Brolin, Yvette Mimieux, Claude Akins
Votes: 2,344 | Gross: $2.50M
50. The Towering Inferno (1974)
PG | 165 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
At the opening party of a colossal, but poorly constructed, office building, a massive fire breaks out that threatens to destroy the tower and everyone in it.
Director: John Guillermin | Stars: Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holden, Faye Dunaway
Votes: 48,322 | Gross: $116.00M