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1.
Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode:
Midnight Rebellion
(1960)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Jess surprises everyone when he shoots a marshal in Laramie after knocking out Slim. On the lam he runs into a man who saw the shooting. Seeing an able but desperate Jess, the man offers him a job in a private army on the border.
Director: George Blair | Stars: John Smith, Hoagy Carmichael, Robert Crawford Jr., Robert Fuller
Votes: 88
2. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
TV-14 | 25 min | Drama, Mystery
Series of unrelated short stories covering elements of crime, horror, drama, and comedy about people of different backgrounds committing murders, suicides, thefts, and other sorts of crime caused by certain motivations, perceived or not.
Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Harry Tyler, John Williams, Patricia Hitchcock
Votes: 19,334
3.
Johnny Midnight (1960)
Episode:
The Villain of the Piece
(1960)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A sleazy showbiz promoter is murdered, but all those with motive also have alibis. Aki's proverb provides Johnny the epiphany he needs to dispel the smoke and reveal the villain of the piece,
Director: John English | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Yuki Shimoda, Adam West, Kaye Elhardt
Votes: 8
4. Thriller (1960–1962)
TV-PG | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Experience the complete series of the show that was hailed as the most frightening ever created for television--now available for the first time.
Stars: Boris Karloff, Richard Peel, Henry Daniell, Lillian O'Malley
Votes: 1,661
5.
The Deputy (1959–1961)
Episode:
Meet Sergeant Tasker
(1960)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Clay tries to help a two-fisted but gullible sergeant recover two thousand dollars of Army funds stolen by a beautiful blonde saloon hostess and her two card sharp confederates.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Read Morgan, Joan O'Brien
Votes: 22
6.
The Deputy (1959–1961)
Episode:
Mother and Son
(1960)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Marshal Fry paroles the brains behind an outlaw gang so he can visit with his mother who is unaware of his criminal activities.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Read Morgan, James Franciscus
Votes: 30
7. M Squad (1957–1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The hard-hitting adventures of tough Lieutenant Frank Ballinger, a member of the Chicago Police Department's M Squad, an elite crime-fighting unit.
Stars: Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Gail Kobe, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 387
8.
Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)
Episode:
The Has-Been
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Western
Jim Hardie is riding shotgun guard on a stage that has to make an unscheduled stop to pick up a gold shipment from the Army. Riding on board are three passengers including a famous singer whose memory is slipping since his wife's death.
Director: James P. Yarbrough | Stars: Dale Robertson, J. Pat O'Malley, Andra Martin, Adam West
Votes: 47
9.
Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)
Episode:
Town Against a Man
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Western
Jim Hardie arrives with a wedding gift for his friend Tony Crandall only to find he is dead and buried. Plus no one knew he was going to get married or to whom. Jim has inherited his ranch and suspects Tony's death was not an accident.
Director: James P. Yarbrough | Stars: Dale Robertson, Val Avery, Lurene Tuttle, Casey Tibbs
Votes: 42
10. Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)
TV-14 | 60 min | Western
Agent Jim Hardie splits his life between being an agent helping Wells Fargo cope with bad guys, and owning a ranch near San Francisco, California.
Stars: Dale Robertson, Art Felix, Kit Carson, William Demarest
Votes: 1,234
11. Notorious (1946)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
The daughter of a convicted German spy is asked by American agents to gather information on a ring of German scientists in South America. How far will she have to go to ingratiate herself with them?
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Louis Calhern
Votes: 107,290 | Gross: $10.46M
12. Johnny Midnight (1960)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Johnny Midnight (Edmond O'Brien) is an ex-actor/theater owner, now turned private eye. His turf is Broadway and New York City's theater district. He lives in a penthouse apartment above the... See full synopsis »
Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Yuki Shimoda, Arthur Batanides, Barney Phillips
Votes: 51
13.
Tales of Wells Fargo (1957–1962)
Episode:
The Hand That Shook the Hand
(1961)
TV-14 | 30 min | Western
An incoming stage has problems with a drunken, violent passenger. Hardie struggles to remove him. Soon, they realize he is heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan, and they've delayed him on his journey to an important match.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Dale Robertson, Vito Scotti, I. Stanford Jolley, Jim Hayward
Votes: 54
14.
Checkmate (1960–1962)
Episode:
Runaway
(1960)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A girl shows up at Corey's apartment, claiming that she is running from someone who is trying to kill her. However, the detectives all find that nothing she has said checks out, including ... See full summary »
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Anthony George, Doug McClure, Sebastian Cabot, Anna Maria Alberghetti
Votes: 19
15. Laramie (1959–1963)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
In the 1870s Wyoming Territory, Slim Sherman and his 14-year-old brother Andy try to hang on to their ranch after their father's death.
Stars: Robert Fuller, John Smith, Spring Byington, Dennis Holmes
Votes: 1,481
16.
Bachelor Father (1957–1962)
Episode:
Kelly and the College Man
(1960)
30 min | Comedy, Family
16-year-old Kelly gets in over her head after lying about her age to a 22-year-old college man because she wants to date him. She tells him that she's 19, and surprisingly, she gets Uncle Bentley to back up her lie.
Director: Ezra Stone | Stars: John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, Sammee Tong, Jimmy Boyd
Votes: 21
17.
Laramie (1959–1963)
Episode:
Cactus Lady
(1961)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
When a sick passenger arrives on the stage, Slim and Jess try to help him but are surprised when he is a she. On top of that she is looking for Jess who wants nothing to do with her as her family are all outlaws but Slim thinks otherwise.
Director: Maurice Geraghty | Stars: John Smith, Robert Fuller, Arthur Hunnicutt, L.Q. Jones
Votes: 92
18. The Narrow Margin (1952)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman planning to testify against the mob must be protected against potential assassins on the train trip from Chicago to Los Angeles.
Directors: Richard Fleischer, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert
Votes: 8,658
19. Checkmate (1960–1962)
60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Don Corey and Jed Sills operate Checkmate, Inc., a very high-priced detective agency in San Francisco. Helping them protect the lives of their clients is British criminologist (once an Oxford professor) Carl Hyatt.
Stars: Anthony George, Doug McClure, Sebastian Cabot, Ken Lynch
Votes: 317
20. Overland Trail (1960)
60 min | Western
The adventures of a crusty superintendent for the Overland Stage Co. and his young sidekick as they try to keep the stage routes safe.
Stars: William Bendix, Doug McClure, Harry Guardino, Sean McClory
Votes: 93
21.
Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Wichita Arrows
(1960)
60 min | Adventure, Western
While Holden is away from the riverboat seeking business, The Enterprise, under temporary command of Brad Turner, stops at a landing for a cargo of fur pelts and find the proprietors dead ... See full summary »
Director: William Witney | Stars: Dan Duryea, Jack Lambert, Bart Patton, Michael McGreevey
Votes: 9
22. Murder, My Sweet (1944)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger
Votes: 14,703
23. The Catered Affair (1956)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Jane tells her parents that she is getting married to Ralph Halloran, her mother Agnes starts planning an elaborate wedding, even though Jane does not wish it.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds, Barry Fitzgerald
Votes: 3,826
24. Riverboat (1959–1961)
60 min | Adventure, Western
Grey Holden wins a river boat in a poker game, which he then pilots, along with his crew, in various adventures along the Mississippi River. This action series is set in the nineteenth century.
Stars: Darren McGavin, Dick Wessel, Jack Lambert, Burt Reynolds
Votes: 228
25.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Not the Running Type
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
When Capt. Ernest Fisher learns that Milton Potter has been released from prison after serving his 15-year sentence, he tells his subordinates about this very strange case. Potter was a ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Hartman, Robert Bray, Bert Freed
Votes: 447
26.
Overland Trail (1960)
Episode:
The Vigilantes of Montana
(1960)
60 min | Western
Kelly and Flip go undercover as notorious bandits to penetrate Montana outlaw gang who had been robbing Overland Stage conveyances and stealing gold shipments. The Virginia City vigilante ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: William Bendix, Doug McClure, Walter Coy, Werner Klemperer
Votes: 12
27. Bachelor Father (1957–1962)
30 min | Comedy, Family
The misadventures of a single adoptive father raising a teenage niece with the help of his manservant.
Stars: John Forsythe, Noreen Corcoran, Sammee Tong, Bernadette Withers
Votes: 582
28. 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
29. The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
A high school girl falls for a playboy artist, with screwball results.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, Shirley Temple, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 9,609
30. On Dangerous Ground (1951)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Rough city cop Jim Wilson is disciplined by his captain and is sent upstate, to a snowy mountain town, to help the local sheriff solve a murder case.
Directors: Nicholas Ray, Ida Lupino | Stars: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond, Charles Kemper
Votes: 8,067
31.
Riverboat (1959–1961)
Episode:
The Two Faces of Grey Holden
(1960)
49 min | Adventure, Western
When a pretty Cajun girl catches Captain Holden's eye, he's naturally interested in a bit of romance, until he learns that the young lady thinks he is her fiancée, who was killed in a riverboat explosion over a year before.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Darren McGavin, Noah Beery Jr., Suzanne Pleshette, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 12
32. Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Passed | 122 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A fictionalized account of the career of jazz singer Ruth Etting and her tempestuous marriage to gangster Marty Snyder, who helped propel her to stardom.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Doris Day, James Cagney, Cameron Mitchell, Robert Keith
Votes: 4,743
33. The Locket (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond
Votes: 3,064
34. The Fat Man: The Thirty-Two Friends of Gina Lardelli (1959 TV Movie)
59 min | Mystery
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Robert Middleton, Tony Travis, Frank Gerstle, Jan Arvan
Votes: 21
35. I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A nurse is hired to care for the wife of a sugar plantation owner, who has been acting strangely, on a Caribbean island.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Frances Dee, Tom Conway, James Ellison, Edith Barrett
Votes: 13,666
36.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode:
Cell 227
(1960)
TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery
Professor Herbert Morrison is on death row awaiting his sentence to go through. His lawyer is trying to get a last-minute stay of execution but the professor says he doesn't want a reprieve.
Director: Paul Henreid | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Brian Keith, James Best, James Westerfield
Votes: 419
37.
M Squad (1957–1960)
Episode:
A Gun for Mother's Day
(1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Lieutenant Ballinger works to solve a series of armed holdups as a means toward the capture of shotgun-wielding Ma Phelan, who murdered a detective while helping her son Pete escape from police custody.
Director: Herman Hoffman | Stars: Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Marvin Kaplan, Jeremy Slate
Votes: 12
38. The Deputy (1959–1961)
TV-PG | 30 min | Western
Clay McCord is who often helped Chief Marshal Simon Fry in 1880's Arizona territory. McCord eventually becomes Fry's Chief Deputy assigned to Silver City. Fry and McCord are assisted by Sergeant Hapgood Tasker Army cavalry Sergeant.
Stars: Henry Fonda, Allen Case, Read Morgan, Wallace Ford
Votes: 402
39. The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two fishermen pick up a psychopathic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Director: Ida Lupino | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman, José Torvay
Votes: 10,528
40. Shotgun Slade (1959–1961)
30 min | Western
A late entry in the late-1950s television Western boom that featured a lead unlike other show heroes. Slade wasn't a Marshal, Sheriff, or gunfighter for hire; he was a private detective ... See full summary »
Stars: Scott Brady, Frank Ferguson, Monica Lewis, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 128
41. Berlin Express (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A multinational group of train passengers become involved in a post-World War II Nazi assassination plot.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, Paul Lukas
Votes: 3,596
42. Deadline at Dawn (1946)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
After a woman he meets is murdered, a soon-to-ship-out sailor has until dawn to find the killer, aided by a weary dance hall girl.
Directors: Harold Clurman, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 2,133
43.
M Squad (1957–1960)
Episode:
Diary of a Bomber
(1960)
Not Rated | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Ballinger is on a case involving threats against a visiting prince to Chicago. Mo one is taking the situation too seriously until a little girl accidentally finds the detonating device for a home made bomb.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Debbie Megowan, Robert Carricart
Votes: 9
44. The Seventh Victim (1943)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A woman in search of her missing sister uncovers a Satanic cult in New York's Greenwich Village and finds that they could have something to do with her sibling's random disappearance.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Kim Hunter, Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 7,576
45. The Leopard Man (1943)
Approved | 66 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Thriller
A seemingly-tame leopard used for a publicity stunt escapes and kills a young girl, spreading panic throughout a sleepy New Mexico town.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 5,961
46. Tribute to a Bad Man (1956)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance, Western
With no law within 200 miles horse rancher Jeremy Rodak runs his spread with an iron hand and deals with rustlers even more ruthlessly.
Director: Robert Wise | Stars: James Cagney, Don Dubbins, Stephen McNally, Irene Papas
Votes: 1,724
47.
Thriller (1960–1962)
Episode:
The Watcher
(1960)
TV-PG | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A schoolteacher and religious hypocrite takes a creepy interest in a handsome 20-year-old and the girl supposedly corrupting him. He murders her, but then discovers the young man has a more serious interest in another "corrupter".
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Boris Karloff, Martin Gabel, Stuart Erwin, Olive Sturgess
Votes: 212
48. Macao (1952)
Passed | 81 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Nick Cochran, an American in exile in Macao, has a chance to restore his name by helping capture an international crime lord. Undercover, can he mislead the bad guys and still woo the attractive singer/petty crook, Julie Benson?
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Mel Ferrer, Nicholas Ray, Robert Stevenson | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, William Bendix, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 3,803
49. Rogue Cop (1954)
Approved | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After witnessing a murder, honest cop Eddie Kelvaney is silenced by gangster Dan Beaumonte, prompting Eddie's brother, Detective Chris Kelvaney, to search for the killer.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Taylor, Janet Leigh, George Raft, Steve Forrest
Votes: 1,019
50.
Shotgun Slade (1959–1961)
Episode:
Charcoal Bullet
(1960)
30 min | Western
The smoking gun in a masked bank robbery comes in the unlikely form of a charcoal pencil held by the drunken sketch artist who witnessed the criminals plotting the robbery and can now ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Scott Brady, Robert F. Simon, Jacqueline Holt, Ned Glass
Votes: 17