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1. 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

2. Trouble in Paradise (1932)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

A gentleman thief and a lady pickpocket join forces to con a beautiful perfume company owner. Romantic entanglements and jealousies confuse the scheme.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis, Herbert Marshall, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 16,175 | Gross: $1.04M

3. One Million B.C. (1940)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance

Tale of Prehistoric survival and love between a male and a female belonging to opposing tribes that happened to be at slightly different stages of evolution.

Directors: Hal Roach Jr., Hal Roach | Stars: Victor Mature, Carole Landis, Lon Chaney Jr., Conrad Nagel

Votes: 1,683

4. If I Had a Million (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft

Votes: 2,298

5. Dark Command (1940)

Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War

In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers

Votes: 3,035

6. The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)

Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 2,589

7. The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)

Passed | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Three British soldiers on the Northwest Frontier of India struggle against the enemy - and themselves.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Franchot Tone, Richard Cromwell, Guy Standing

Votes: 3,237

8. The Plainsman (1936)

Passed | 113 min | Drama, Western

Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford

Votes: 2,431

9. The Under-Pup (1939)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first ridiculed and scorned because of her background, she determines to ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Gloria Jean, Robert Cummings, Nan Grey, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 101

10. The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Sport

After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran

Votes: 1,286

11. Tom Sawyer (1930)

Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous adventures, including running away to be ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 234 | Gross: $11.00M

12. Souls at Sea (1937)

Passed | 92 min | Action, Adventure, History

Cooper and Raft save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about slave trade on the high seas in 1842.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Henry Wilcoxon

Votes: 862

13. The Virginian (1929)

Passed | 91 min | Romance, Western

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen

Votes: 863

14. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)

Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone

Votes: 1,366

15. The Buccaneer (1938)

Approved | 126 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Semi-fictional account of pirate Jean Lafitte's involvement in the War of 1812.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Fredric March, Franciska Gaal, Akim Tamiroff, Margot Grahame

Votes: 780

16. Huckleberry Finn (1931)

80 min | Comedy, Family

Runaway Huck Finn rafts down the Mississippi with his friends.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Junior Durkin, Mitzi Green, Jackie Searl

Votes: 123

17. One Sunday Afternoon (1933)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Middle-aged dentist Biff Grimes reminisces about his unrequited love for beautiful Virginia Brush and her husband Hugo, his ex-friend, who betrayed him.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Gary Cooper, Fay Wray, Frances Fuller, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 737

18. The Milky Way (1936)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Sport

Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and ... See full summary »

Directors: Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack

Votes: 1,843 | Gross: $1.17M

19. 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

20. Love Among the Millionaires (1930)

74 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A young waitress falls for the son of a railroad tycoon and finds herself hobnobbing with the rich when he invites her to spend some time with him and his family in Palm Springs.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Clara Bow, Stanley Smith, Stuart Erwin, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher

Votes: 103

21. Lady and Gent (1932)

84 min | Drama, Sport

Fresh young boxer Buzz Kinney is just out of college. He's able to knock out Stag Bailey when the veteran becomes overconfident. Later, Buzz is a worn-out wreck with a broken nose and cauliflower ear.

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: George Bancroft, Wynne Gibson, Charles Starrett, James Gleason

Votes: 234

22. A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)

Passed | 87 min | Musical

A 12-year-old singing sensation loses her voice when her parents refuse to give in to her harebrained schemes.

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Gloria Jean, Robert Stack, Hugh Herbert, C. Aubrey Smith

Votes: 44

23. Captain Caution (1940)

Passed | 86 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

When her father dies, a young woman helps a young man take command of the ship to fight the British during the war of 1812.

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Victor Mature, Louise Platt, Leo Carrillo, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 351

24. Behold My Wife! (1934)

Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance

After Michael Carter's fiancée commits suicide, he vows to seek revenge on his wealthy family, who sabotaged their marriage. He drives across the country angrily, and ends up at a saloon ... See full summary »

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Laura Hope Crews, H.B. Warner

Votes: 192

25. Ladies of the Big House (1931)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Married couple is imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit.

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Earle Foxe

Votes: 154

26. Madame Mystery (1926)

21 min | Short, Comedy

A female secret agent has gotten ahold of a new type of explosive gas. She has to avoid the efforts of two men who are trying to steal it. They succeed in doing so, but the gas turns out to be not quite what they expected.

Directors: Richard Wallace, Stan Laurel | Stars: Theda Bara, Oliver Hardy, Tyler Brooke, James Finlayson

Votes: 87

27. Lucky Night (1939)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Comedy

A wealthy woman meets a bum on a park bench and marries him the same evening.

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Myrna Loy, Robert Taylor, Joseph Allen, Henry O'Neill

Votes: 641

28. 52nd Street (1937)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Ian Hunter, Dorothy Peterson, Zasu Pitts, Pat Paterson

Votes: 39

29. Hot News (1928)

70 min | Comedy, Romance

Hot News (1928) is a silent film comedy produced and distributed by Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, an amalgamation of Famous Players-Lasky and Paramount Pictures. Clarence Badger directed and Bebe Daniels starred.

Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, Paul Lukas, Alfred Allen

30. The New Member (1921)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Comedy

A street fight broken up by a secret hand signal leads to the discovery of the Royal Order of the Wriggle Fingers, a bizarre Satanic cult run by the police and endowed with magical powers.

Director: Grover Jones | Stars: Billy Franey, Charles Haefeli, Charles A. Post, E. Villipp

31. Young Eagles (1930)

70 min | Drama

Lt. Robert Banks (Charles Rogers) shoots down and captures a German ace and is betrayed by the woman he loves.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Jean Arthur, Paul Lukas, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 57

32. Captain Fury (1939)

Passed | 92 min | Western

An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landowner.

Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Brian Aherne, Victor McLaglen, Paul Lukas, June Lang

Votes: 323

33. Limehouse Blues (1934)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Fresh from Chinatown in New York, Harry Young has taken over the illegal import business in the seedy Limehouse district of London, where he cold-bloodedly disposes of rivals and runs a ... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: George Raft, Jean Parker, Anna May Wong, Kent Taylor

Votes: 111

34. The Iron Mule (1925)

13 min | Comedy, Short

In 1830, a train known as the Iron Mule is loaded with passengers, and starts off on its trip. Along the way, the train faces numerous obstacles and delays. The engineer is prepared for ... See full summary »

Directors: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Grover Jones | Stars: Al St. John, George Davis, Glen Cavender, Doris Deane

Votes: 369

35. Son of the Navy (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama

Actually, the sailor wants nothing to do with the boy, who we eventually find out is an orphan who ran away from the orphanage, trying to find a new Mom and Dad. The sailor, not knowing ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Jean Parker, James Dunn, Martin Spellman, Selmer Jackson

Votes: 128

36. What a Night! (1928)

Passed | 60 min | Comedy

The daughter of an industrialist, Dorothy Winston, arranges to work on a newspaper in which her father places a substantial amount of advertising, Joe Madison, the reporter son of the ... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Neil Hamilton, William Austin, Wheeler Oakman

37. 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

38. A Harem Knight (1926)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy

A pretty harem girl is rescued by a U. S. Navy officer. Whilst fleeing from the guards the girl takes refuge in the rooms of the notorious Rodney St. Clair, an erring Knight, who is proud ... See full summary »

Directors: Edward F. Cline, Gilbert Pratt | Stars: Ben Turpin, Madeline Hurlock, Danny O'Shea, Marvin Loback

Votes: 22

39. Tillie and Gus (1933)

Passed | 58 min | Comedy

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Martin | Stars: W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop

Votes: 535

40. Sky Bride (1932)

78 min | Drama

Barnstorming pilots Speed Condon, Bill Adams, and Eddie Smith travel the country with their manager, Alec Dugan, performing at fairs and air shows and hawking rides for the locals. But when... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jack Oakie, Virginia Bruce, Robert Coogan

Votes: 69

41. She's a Sheik (1927)

60 min | Adventure, Romance

The daughter of a desert chief kidnaps a member of the French Foreign Legion in the hopes of wooing him.

Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Josephine Dunn

Votes: 25

42. Gun Smoke (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

Following a killing and robbery in a big city back east, gang leader Kedge Darvas and some of his henchies take a train to a small western town in Idaho, with intentions of hiding out there... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, William 'Stage' Boyd, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 69

43. One-Way Ticket (1935)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Jerry, the son of a bank depositor who was cheated out of his savings, is sent to prison after he robs the bank of the exact sum his father lost. Captain Bill Bourne lives on the grounds of... See full summary »

Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin, Walter Connolly, Edith Fellows

Votes: 23

44. Unmarried (1939)

Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

When his manager, Pins Streaver, is killed attempting to rob a safe after losing all his money betting on a fight, third-rate fighter Slag Bailey leaves New York to investigate Streaver's ... See full summary »

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Buck Jones, Donald O'Connor, John Hartley

Votes: 72

45. The Broken Wing (1932)

71 min | Romance, Drama

In a little Mexican village by the American border. However powerful big shot Captain Innocencio (a misnomer indeed!)is, he proves unable to charm Lolita, the shapely daughter of his ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leo Carrillo, Melvyn Douglas, George Barbier

Votes: 37

46. Dude Ranch (1931)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Western

Chester Carr, owner of a dude ranch in the Rockies, caters to guests seeking the thrill of the Wild West. Among his guests are the wealthy Spruce Meadows and his daughter Susan. But the ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Eugene Pallette, Mitzi Green

Votes: 62

47. The Pride of Pikeville (1927)

Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy

Unlikely Lothario, the less-than-dashing crossed-eyed Ben Turoin, finds himself pursued by many beautiful ladies.

Director: Alfred J. Goulding | Stars: Ben Turpin, Thelma Hill, Andy Clyde, Ruth Taylor

Votes: 74

48. Rich Man's Folly (1931)

Approved | 80 min | Drama

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies shortly after giving birth to their son.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: George Bancroft, Frances Dee, Robert Ames, Juliette Compton

Votes: 54

49. Two Flaming Youths (1927)

55 min | Comedy

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man... See full summary »

Director: John Waters | Stars: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian, Jack Luden

50. Annapolis Farewell (1935)

Approved | 75 min | Drama

Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about ... See full summary »

Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Guy Standing, Rosalind Keith, Tom Brown, Richard Cromwell

Votes: 19