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51. Watchtower Over Tomorrow (1945)

15 min | Documentary, Short

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

Directors: John Cromwell, Harold F. Kress, Alfred Hitchcock, Elia Kazan | Stars: John Nesbitt, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., Dorothy Adams, Morris Ankrum

Votes: 322

52. This Man Is Mine (1934)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

Irene Dunne is married to Ralph Bellamy. Their union is comfortable but all that changes when Bellamy's old flame Constance Cummings comes back to town. Will the the thrill of loves past disrupt their happy home?

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Johnson

Votes: 386

53. The Dummy (1929)

Passed | 60 min | Mystery

The Dummy is a 1929 American comedy film directed by Robert Milton and written by Harriet Ford, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Herman J. Mankiewicz and Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The film stars Fredric ... See full summary »

Directors: Robert Milton, Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Fredric March, John Cromwell, Fred Kohler

Votes: 31

54. New York Confidential (1959– )

30 min | Crime, Drama

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Stars: Lee Tracy, Robert Webber, Leo Penn, Frances Helm

Votes: 16

55. 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

56. The Scavengers (1959)

Not Rated | 79 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

This low-budget Asian-set adventure concerns The reformed smuggler Stuart Allison finds his missing wife Marion in Hong Kong. Marion has fallen in with a bad crowd and is involved with ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Vince Edwards, Carol Ohmart, Richard Loo, Tamar Benamy

Votes: 105

57. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)

Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Biography, Romance

Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.

Directors: Archie Mayo, John Cromwell | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier

Votes: 1,163

58. Spitfire (1934)

Passed | 87 min | Drama

A story about a savage girl in an American outback who is suspected of witchcraft.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper

Votes: 905

59. The World and the Flesh (1932)

74 min | Drama

During the 1917 Russian revolution, a group of artistocrats find themselves in the custody of a brutal Communist revolutionary. He lusts after one of them, a ballerina, and gives her an ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: George Bancroft, Miriam Hopkins, Alan Mowbray, George E. Stone

Votes: 58

60. I Dream Too Much (1935)

Passed | 97 min | Musical, Romance

Jonathan Street is a struggling composer when he meets and marries Annette. The problem is that Jonathan was drunk and does not want to be married. Annette does go with him to Paris and ... See full summary »

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lily Pons, Henry Fonda, Eric Blore, Osgood Perkins

Votes: 634

61. A Matter of Morals (1960)

Passed | 90 min | Drama

Alan Kennebeck, a Milwaukee bank official, arrives in Stockholm to verify a loan to a factory official. At the same time, Mr Kennebeck, who is married, drifts into a tender affair with the official's sister-in-law Anita.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Maj-Britt Nilsson, Mogens Wieth, Eva Dahlbeck, Patrick O'Neal

Votes: 19

62. Village Tale (1935)

Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance

The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman with whom he is in love very unhappy.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Randolph Scott, Kay Johnson, Arthur Hohl, Robert Barrat

Votes: 85

63. 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936)

Not Rated | 15 min | Documentary, Short

Jimmy Fiddler takes viewers on a tour of the newly formed Fox Studios, showing all departments, writers, producers, technicians, and actors at work.

Stars: Astrid Allwyn, Warner Baxter, Irving Berlin, Lou Breslow

64. Producers' Showcase (1954–1957)
Episode: State of the Union (1954)

90 min | Drama, Musical, Comedy

A wealthy businessman is persuaded to run for U.S. President. He finds that he is constantly forced to compromise his principles in order to secure support and funding, and finally ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Joseph Cotten, Nina Foch, John Cromwell

65. Ponds Theater (1953– )
Episode: The Dover Road (1955)

60 min | Drama

A wealthy man who lives on the Dover Road, traditional path of elopers. His practice of forcing such couples to see one another in the sober light of home life in his house, leads to a personal involvement for him.

Stars: John Cromwell, Larry Gates, Leueen MacGrath, Claudia Morgan

66. Omnibus (1952–1961)
Episode: A Lodging for the Night (1953)

Drama, History, Music

The program has six segments: (1) "A Lodging for the Night" (adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson story), (2) "Pimpinella" (German puppet film), (3) "Olga Coelho" (the famed Brazilian ... See full summary »

Director: Andrew McCullough | Stars: Yul Brynner, Alistair Cooke, John Cromwell, Berry Kroeger

67. New York Television Theatre (1965– )
Episode: Opening Night (1966)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

Fanny Ellis, once the grand dame of theater, has spent her last few years in severe decline. On the night she is to make her theatrical comeback, Fanny becomes tormented by the demons of ... See full summary »

Stars: Ruth Gates, Antic Melkior, Peggy Wood

68. New York Confidential (1959– )
Episode: Johnny Cordes (1959)

Crime, Drama

A policeman is looking for the leader of a crime school for children.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Malcolm Brodrick, Gary Merrill, Lee Tracy, Lois Wheeler