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1. King Kong (1933)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Votes: 91,164 | Gross: $10.00M
2. White Heat (1949)
Not Rated | 114 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien, Margaret Wycherly
Votes: 35,877
3. Captain Blood (1935)
Passed | 119 min | Action, Adventure, History
After treating a Monmouth rebel against King James II in 1680s England, a young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Jamaica where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone
Votes: 16,129 | Gross: $2.96M
4. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,943
5. They Died with Their Boots On (1941)
Approved | 140 min | War, Western
A highly fictionalized account of the life of George Armstrong Custer from his arrival at West Point in 1857 to his death at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Arthur Kennedy, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 6,931
6. Wagon Master (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western
Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond
Votes: 5,539
7. Barbary Coast (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Mary Rutledge arrives from the East, finds her fiance dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel of Louis Charnalis' Bella Donna, a rowdy gambling house in 1850s San Francisco.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan
Votes: 2,052
8. She (1935)
Passed | 101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
A group of explorers search of the legendary "flame of life," a mysterious force that bestows immortality.
Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 1,918
9. The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)
Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Drama
In the doomed Roman city, a gentle blacksmith becomes a corrupt gladiator, while his son leans toward Christianity.
Directors: Ernest B. Schoedsack, Merian C. Cooper | Stars: Preston Foster, Basil Rathbone, David Holt, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,222
10. Jim Thorpe -- All-American (1951)
Approved | 107 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The triumph and tragedy of Native American Jim Thorpe, who, after winning both the pentathlon and decathlon in the same Olympics, is stripped of his medals on a technicality.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Charles Bickford, Steve Cochran, Phyllis Thaxter
Votes: 2,307
11. Knute Rockne All American (1940)
Approved | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Directors: Lloyd Bacon, William K. Howard | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Gale Page, Ronald Reagan, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,159
12. Road to Utopia (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two vaudeville flops pose as bad guys and join the Klondike gold rush with a saloon singer.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 3,757
13. The Farmer Takes a Wife (1935)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Charming love story set on the Erie Canal in the mid-19th Century. A farmer works on the canal to earn money to buy a farm. He meets a cook on a canal boat, but she can't even consider ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford, Slim Summerville
Votes: 485
14. Born to the West (1937)
Approved | 49 min | Drama, Western
Can Dare Rudd prove he is responsible enough to win the heart of Judy and also outwit the crooked saloon owner?
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: John Wayne, Marsha Hunt, Johnny Mack Brown, John Patterson
Votes: 1,038
15. The Milton Berle Show (1948–1956)
60 min | Comedy, Family
The Texaco Star Theatre was one of the most popular shows in the history of television. In the first year, Milton Berle was not the permanent emcee, but once he replaced the rotation, the ... See full summary »
Stars: Milton Berle, Sid Stone, Jimmy Nelson, Arnold Stang
Votes: 165
16. Start Cheering (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Fed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly, Joan Perry, Charles Starrett
Votes: 267
17. San Quentin (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An army trainer becomes captain of the prison yard and in time, falls for the sister of a hardened inmate.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ann Sheridan, Humphrey Bogart, Barton MacLane
Votes: 2,239
18. Man of Conquest (1939)
Passed | 105 min | History, War, Western
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine, Edward Ellis
Votes: 194
19. Under Pressure (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of ... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Florence Rice, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 136
20. Under Two Flags (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Adventure
Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major Doyle is in love with her. Doyle sends ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen, Rosalind Russell
Votes: 508
21. The Vampire's Ghost (1945)
Passed | 59 min | Horror
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart, Grant Withers
Votes: 611
22. Alibi Ike (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Idiosyncratic new recruit Francis "Ike" Farrell tries to help the Cubs to the pennant with his pitching and hitting.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Olivia de Havilland, Ruth Donnelly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 721
23. The Dark Horse (1932)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Jailbird is hired to lead a dimwitted candidate's campaign for governor.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Warren William, Bette Davis, Guy Kibbee, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 1,374
24. Klondike Annie (1936)
Passed | 78 min | Western
Carlton Rose, a girl known as "the Frisco Doll" escapes to Alaska after accidentally killing her guard.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Mae West, Victor McLaglen, Phillip Reed, Helen Jerome Eddy
Votes: 794
25. Hold 'Em Jail (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Sport
Two yokels are framed and sent to prison, but wind up playing football on the warden's championship team.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 279
26. Green Light (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
A brilliant young surgeon takes the blame for a colleague when a botched surgery causes a patient's death and buries himself at a wilderness research facility.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 622
27. Big City (1937)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher
Votes: 646
28. Yes Sir, That's My Baby (1949)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
At a college, a group of ex-GIs clash with their wives about over playing football.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Charles Coburn, Gloria DeHaven, Joshua Shelley
Votes: 96
29. Air Mail (1932)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Drama
A group of air mail pilots risk their lives to deliver important mail through bad weather conditions.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Gloria Stuart, Slim Summerville
Votes: 527
30. Yellowstone (1936)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ex-con is murdered in Yellowstone National Park while a bank robber's son is searching for the loot his father hid there 20 years before.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Henry Hunter, Judith Barrett, Andy Devine, Alan Hale
Votes: 180
31. 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
32. The Phantom Rider (1936)
Passed | 258 min | Western
A 15-episode serial in which Buck Grant, the Phantom Rider, helps rancher Mary Grayson fight off a band of outlaws out to seize her property.
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Buck Jones, Marla Shelton, Diana Gibson, Harry Woods
Votes: 104
33. The Miracle Rider (1935)
Approved | 306 min | Western
Texas Ranger tries to stop takeover of Indian lands.
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Tom Mix, Charles Middleton, Joan Gale, Robert Frazer
Votes: 173 | Gross: $1.00M
34. The Arizonian (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Western
In a film where the leading character is a composite of several American-frontier lawmen (mostly Wyatt Earp,) Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Richard Dix, Margot Grahame, Preston Foster, Louis Calhern
Votes: 202
35. La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Hollywood stars participate in a Mexican-themed revue and festival in Santa Barbara. Andy Devine, the "World's Greatest Matador", engages in a bullfight with a dubious bovine supplied by ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Eduardo Durant's Rhumba Band, The Spanish Troubadors, Warner Baxter, Ralph Forbes
Votes: 321
36. Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Chane Weymer (Randolph Scott), an Arizona rancher goes after a gang that is trapping and catching wild horses by the use of barbed-wire enclosures. He suspects Ward (Fred Kohler), of being ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Fred Kohler, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 62
37. Pick a Star (1937)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Haley, Rosina Lawrence, Patsy Kelly, Mischa Auer
Votes: 553
38. 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: 195
39. The Red Rider (1934)
Approved | 310 min | Western
Red Davison, the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court decision which sentences Slade to hang for the murder of Scotty McKee.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Buck Jones, Grant Withers, Marion Shilling, Walter Miller
Votes: 82
40. Frontier Scout (1938)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Western
After fighting in the Civil War, Wild Bill Hickok and Whiney head west to investigate missing cattle herds. There they meet their war buddy Norris who is now in the cattle business. When he... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: George Houston, Al St. John, Beth Marion, Stephen Chase
Votes: 102
41. Sweepings (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Starting over with almost nothing after the great Chicago Fire, Daniel Pardway builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his daughter and three sons, ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 477
42. The Daring Young Man (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Two reporters plan to marry but the bride is left waiting at the altar because her groom has gone undercover to expose gang activity.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, Neil Hamilton, Sidney Toler
Votes: 51
43. My Pal, the King (1932)
74 min | Western
The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Tom Mix, Mickey Rooney, James Kirkwood, Wallis Clark
Votes: 50
44. Mexican Spitfire Out West (1940)
Approved | 76 min | Comedy
With husband Dennis preoccupied with a business deal, Carmelita decides to teach him a lesson by running off to Reno and filing for divorce.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Lupe Velez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods, Elisabeth Risdon
Votes: 248
45. The Golden West (1932)
74 min | Drama, Western
Lovers David Lynch and Betty Summers are caught in the feud between their two families. When David kills the Summers' son, he escapes to the West. He marries, and when his son is two, he ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Chandler, Marion Burns, Arthur Pierson
Votes: 34
46. Man from Texas (1939)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
Hall is after Dennison's land. The Marshal sends Tex to help Dennison while Hall hires the Shooting Kid to finish off Dennison. But the Kid has been helped by Tex in the past and changes ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: Tex Ritter, Charles B. Wood, White Flash, Ruth Rogers
Votes: 32
47. Battling with Buffalo Bill (1931)
Passed | 217 min | Western
A western adventure serial in 12 episodes. Buffalo Bill battles gambler Jim Rodney who is trying to scare off the townspeople so he can gain possession of a gold strike discovered in the ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Tom Tyler, Lucile Browne, William Desmond, Rex Bell
Votes: 74
48. Sutter's Gold (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 140
49. Prairie Schooners (1940)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
Being unable to grow crops and pay their land owner Stull due to the drought, Wild Bill gets a group of Kansas farmers to form a wagon train and head to Colorado. Stull is afraid they will ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Bill Elliott, Evelyn Young, Dub Taylor, Kenneth Harlan
Votes: 53
50. 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: 41