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1. Frankenstein (1931)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles

Votes: 79,686

2. Sagebrush Trail (1933)

Passed | 54 min | Drama, Western

A man framed for murder escapes prison and goes west, where he joins a gang with the real killer involved.

Director: Armand Schaefer | Stars: John Wayne, Nancy Shubert, Lane Chandler, Yakima Canutt

Votes: 1,397

3. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)

Passed | 144 min | Drama, History

Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.

Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann

Votes: 502

4. Law and Order (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Western

A lawman sets out to tame Tombstone, Arizona.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Walter Huston, Harry Carey, Raymond Hatton, Russell Hopton

Votes: 341

5. Riders of Destiny (1933)

Passed | 53 min | Music, Romance, Western

Loner rider Singin' Sandy Saunders rides into town to discover local ranchers are being victimized by a land-grabbing villain who controls the water supply and wants their land.

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: John Wayne, Cecilia Parker, Forrest Taylor, George 'Gabby' Hayes

Votes: 1,198

6. Scaramouche (1923)

Passed | 124 min | Drama, Romance

When a nobleman murders his best friend, a lawyer becomes a revolutionary with his heart set on vengeance.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Lloyd Ingraham, Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone

Votes: 704 | Gross: $0.94M

7. The Regeneration (1915)

Passed | 72 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh

Votes: 1,430

8. The Silent Call (1921)

70 min | Adventure, Family

When Flash's master, Clark Moran, goes out of town on business, Flash, who is part wolf, is falsely accused of sheepicide and sentenced to death by local ranchers. Escaping into the ... See full summary »

Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Strongheart the Dog, John Bowers, Kathryn McGuire, William Dyer

Votes: 24

9. The Pony Express (1925)

110 min | Drama, Western

Traitorous California Senator tries to use the newly founded Pony Express to further his plans for a California Republic, but Unionist Frisco Jack will try to stop him.

Director: James Cruze | Stars: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery

Votes: 93 | Gross: $0.27M

10. Overland Bound (1929)

Passed | 58 min | Western

Trying to trick Ma (Lydia Knott) and Mary Winters (Allene Ray) into selling their rundown ranch, which will be in the path of a future railroad, Underwood (Charles K.French) hires Keno ... See full summary »

Director: Leo D. Maloney | Stars: Leo D. Maloney, Allene Ray, Jack Perrin, Lydia Knott

11. All Night (1918)

58 min | Comedy, Drama

A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.

Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Dorian, Mary Warren

Votes: 107

12. Wild Bill Hickok (1923)

70 min | History, Western

After the America Civil War ends, important political and military figures gather in Washington D.C. Gunfighter Wild Bill Hickok (William Hart) retires to Dodge City where he hangs up his ... See full summary »

Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley

Votes: 28

13. Whom the Gods Would Destroy (1919)

70 min | Drama

After a young inventor discovers a powerful new explosive, agents from a German chemical firm induce him to study at a German university. While there, he is repelled by certain aspects of ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Pauline Starke, Kathryn Adams, Harvey Clark

14. Texas Buddies (1932)

Passed | 59 min | Western

Kincade and Blake cause a mail plane carrying a payroll to make a forced landing in the desert. When they try to get the money, prospectors Ted and Si drive them away. With the pilot shot, ... See full summary »

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Bob Steele, Nancy Drexel, Francis McDonald, Harry Semels

Votes: 77

15. Code of Honor (1930)

Passed | 55 min | Western

Cardsharp Jack Cardigan decides to go straight when he meets Doris Bradfield, but is forced to use his talents on behalf of her dad, whose land-grant title has fallen into the hands of Jed ... See full summary »

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Mahlon Hamilton, Doris Hill, Robert Graves, Stanley Taylor

Votes: 46

16. The Riding Tornado (1932)

Passed | 64 min | Western

Newcomer Torrent wins $500 from Olcott and $500 and a wild horse, by riding the horse, from Engle. Then loses the $1000 to Engle in a poker game. Torrent goes to work for Olcott. Torrent ... See full summary »

Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Tim McCoy, Shirley Grey, Montagu Love, Wheeler Oakman

Votes: 20

17. The Red Glove (1919)

Action, Thriller

On the American frontier in the last decades of the 19th century, Billie is a female cowboy who fights a series of bad men in this film serial.

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Marie Walcamp, Pat O'Malley, Truman Van Dyke, Thomas G. Lingham

18. Black Orchids (1917)

50 min | Drama, Horror

Frivolous young Marie de Severac is frightened into following a more virtuous path, when her father relates a story in which an equally frivolous woman is entombed alive.

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Cleo Madison, Dick La Reno, Francis McDonald, Wedgwood Nowell

Votes: 25

19. Strawberry Roan (1933)

TV-PG | 59 min | Western

The mares Jim Edwards are losing is being blamed on a wild horse when it is actually his foreman Hawkins. Colonel Bownlee offers his ranch to anyone who can ride this wild palomino. Ken takes up the challenge and also seeks the real thief.

Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Ruth Hall, Harold Goodwin, Frank Yaconelli

Votes: 93

20. '49-'17 (1917)

Unrated | 61 min | Drama, Western

A retired judge comes West to restore a ghost town.

Director: Ruth Ann Baldwin | Stars: Joseph W. Girard, Leo Pierson, William Dyer, Mattie Witting

Votes: 363

21. Crushed (1924)

20 min | Comedy, Short

Mr. Jones must go to the big city and get married in order to receive an inheritance, but his marriage-of-convenience turns into a nightmare.

Director: Fred Hibbard | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Dorothy Seastrom, Blanche Payson, Fenwick Oliver

Votes: 16

22. Quicksands (1923)

70 min | Crime, Drama

Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Helene Chadwick, Richard Dix, Alan Hale, Noah Beery

Votes: 21

23. Thunder Riders (1928)

Passed | 50 min | Western

As Betty arrives from the East Coast to take over the ranch and fortune left by her late father, the trip is interrupted by an Indian attack.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Ted Wells, Charlotte Stevens, William Steele, William Dyer

Votes: 51

24. Hard Boiled Yeggs (1926)

Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy

A recent college graduate (Billy West) inherits a large sum of money, as well as a dive on the rough side of town. The will states that, in the event of Billy's death, two thugs get the ... See full summary »

Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Billy West, Ethelyn Gibson, William Dyer, Les Bates

Votes: 45

25. The Man in the Saddle (1926)

Passed | 60 min | Western

A party of campers return to Tom Stewart's ranch resort to report they have been held up by bandits. Lawrence, their guide, explains that it is a staged stunt for their benefit; Stewart ... See full summary »

Directors: Lynn Reynolds, Clifford Smith | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Charles Hill Mailes, Clark Comstock, Fay Wray

Votes: 27

26. Singer Jim McKee (1924)

70 min | Western

Jim McKee and his friend Buck rob a stagecoach to get money to support Buck's daughter. Buck is killed, but Jim and the daughter escape. Fifteen years later, Jim finds that he must turn ... See full summary »

Director: Clifford Smith | Stars: William S. Hart, Phyllis Haver, J. Gordon Russell, Bert Sprotte

27. Anything Once (1917)

50 min | Drama, Western, Comedy

"Coyote" Crosby, owner of the "Big Star" ranch is in a feud with "Horned Toad" Smith, an Arizona bad-man, who claims Crosby's house is on his land, "Horned Toad" draws first and kills "... See full summary »

Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Franklyn Farnum, Eugene Owen, Raymond Wells, Marjory Lawrence

28. Honor of the Mounted (1932)

57 min | Western

Tom Halliday (Tom Tyler), of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is implicated and framed on a murder charge. The real killer has gone back into the United States, so Halliday, with no ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Tom Tyler, Stanley Blystone, Francis McDonald, Gordon De Main

Votes: 17

29. Trailing Trouble (1930)

Passed | 58 min | Crime, Western

Ed King travels east to sell Pop Blake's cattle. While there Buck, another of Blake's hands, plans to rob Ed by using a local girl Ming Toy as a decoy. Ming Toy gets the money and returning... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Hoot Gibson, Margaret Quimby, William McCall, Pete Morrison

Votes: 23

30. Triumph (1917)

50 min | Drama

While awaiting the train to Broadway, Nell Baxter meets the leading man of a repertory company to whom she confides her ambitions. Upon arriving in the city, Nell attracts the lascivious ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph De Grasse | Stars: Dorothy Phillips, Lon Chaney, William Stowell, William Dyer

Votes: 31

31. Whistlin' Dan (1932)

Approved | 65 min | Western

A cowboy and sidekick infiltrate a rustler gang to avenge the murder of their pal.

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Ken Maynard, Tarzan, Joyzelle Joyner, Georges Renavent

Votes: 73

32. Tea: With a Kick! (1923)

60 min | Comedy, Drama

To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a ... See full summary »

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Doris May, Creighton Hale, Ralph Lewis, Rosemary Theby

33. The Screaming Shadow (1920)

Action, Adventure

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Directors: Ben F. Wilson, Duke Worne | Stars: Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Frances Terry, Howard Crampton

Votes: 24

34. The Great Problem (1916)

50 min | Romance, Drama

Bill Carson is sentenced to 12 years for housebreaking. He vows that he will, upon ending his term, have vengeance upon George Devereaux, the prosecuting attorney whose speech swayed the ... See full summary »

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Violet Mersereau, Dan Hanlon, Lionel Adams, Kittens Reichert

35. The Trail Drive (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Western

Honest John is pulling off a swindle by buying cattle in Texas with worthless scrip and selling them in New Mexico for cash. Ken is leading the cattle drive not knowing that when they cross... See full summary »

Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, William Gould, Frank Rice

Votes: 29

36. The Love Call (1919)

50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

Kid Allen, the daughter of Mate Allen, a drunken ex-sailor, waits every night to take Mate home from a saloon. After Mate beats up saloon owner O'Keefe for trying to kiss Kid, O'Keefe kills... See full summary »

Director: Louis Chaudet | Stars: Billie Rhodes, Lloyd Whitlock, Jack Hoxie, William Dyer

37. The Trail of the Octopus (1919)

Not Rated | 300 min | Mystery, Thriller, Action

Carter Holmes, master criminologist, must help the oft-kidnapped Ruth Stanhope to find the 9 daggers that will unlock the secret of the cursed Devil's Trademark!

Director: Duke Worne | Stars: Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, William Dyer, Howard Crampton

Votes: 45

38. The Busher (1923)

20 min | Comedy, Short

The historic (and comedic) game between the Snipeville Katydids and the Poseyville Caterpillars, with Lee on the mound for the former and Mike in the box for the latter team, is shown.

Directors: Arvid E. Gillstrom, Jack White | Stars: Lee Moran, Mike Donlin, William Dyer, Lillian Hackett

39. Women First (1924)

51 min | Drama

En route to apply for a job as horse-trainer for Colonel Doon, ex-jockey Billy Decker rescues a girl on a runaway horse and discovers that she is Jennie Doon, the late colonel's daughter ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: William Fairbanks, Eva Novak, Lydia Knott, Bob Rhodes

40. Lone Hand Saunders (1926)

60 min | Western

Buck and Charlie, two hard-boiled cowboys, arrive at the Bar Nothing Ranch in Arizona and determine to take advantage of the peculiarity of the owner, Fred Saunders, known as "Lone Hand" ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Fred Thomson, Bess Flowers, Billy Butts, Frank Hagney

41. Gun Justice (1933)

Passed | 60 min | Western

Wanting the Lance ranch, Burkett kills Lance and brings in an impostor to pose as the heir, Ken Lance. Ken learns of the plan, captures the impostor, and arrives posing as himself. In an ... See full summary »

Director: Alan James | Stars: Ken Maynard, Cecilia Parker, Hooper Atchley, Walter Miller

Votes: 17

42. Perils of the Wild (1925)

300 min | Adventure

The Swiss Family Robinson, with Emily Montrose as passenger, sail for Australia with a cargo of gunpowder. Capt. William Robinson in command, Sir Charles Leicester, wayward son, sea rover ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Ford | Stars: Joe Bonomo, Margaret Quimby, Jack Mower, Alfred Allen

Votes: 25

43. Don't Shoot (1922)

60 min | Crime, Drama

Court, a crook, is forced to marry Velma by her enraged fiancé, who mistakes him for her clandestine suitor. Velma tries to reform Court but is hindered by the machinations of Boss McGinnis... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, William Dyer, Harvey Clark, Wade Boteler

44. The Desert of the Lost (1927)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfe's. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Hal Taliaferro, Peggy Montgomery, William Dyer, Edward Cecil

Votes: 34

45. Man's Desire (1919)

Passed | 50 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Tom Denton comes from the East to the Northwest lumber region and becomes co-owner of a lumber camp with Howard Patton, whose bored wife Vera insists on flirting with Tom despite his ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Lewis Stone, Jane Novak, Jack Curtis, William Dyer

46. Broken Fetters (I) (1916)

50 min | Drama

An American diplomat in China is murdered, and a wealthy Chinese friend of the family raises his daughter Mignon. When she grows up, she wants to return to the U.S. and is tricked into ... See full summary »

Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Kittens Reichert, Violet Mersereau, Charles H. France, Earl Simmons

47. Looking for Trouble (1926)

Passed | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Romance

Jack Pepper accidentally fires his gun while forcing a newspaper editor to retract his statement regarding Miss Tulip Hellier, and the sheriff goes after Jack. While hiding out, Jack finds ... See full summary »

Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Jack Hoxie, Marceline Day, J. Gordon Russell, Clark Comstock

Votes: 26

48. The Cowboy King (1922)

Western

Hadley, owner of a nearby ranch, had fenced off a water hole belonging to Miss Dunlap, thus depriving her stock of water. Undaunted, the young Eastern woman and her two-fisted fighting ... See full summary »

Director: Charles R. Seeling | Stars: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Patricia Palmer, Elizabeth De Witt, William Austin

49. The Courage of Marge O'Doone (1920)

70 min | Drama

Michael O'Doone, his wife Margaret and daughter Marge are settlers living in the Northwest. One winter day, while on a journey, Michael meets with an accident and fails to return home. ... See full summary »

Director: David Smith | Stars: Pauline Starke, Niles Welch, George Stanley, Jack Curtis

50. The Martyr Sex (1924)

Summoned to a cabin in the southern woods, Dr. Ross Wayne treats Branch Paxton, wounded in a feud, by amputating an arm. At the same time he warns Paxton that his daughter, Beulah, who has ... See full summary »

Director: Duke Worne | Stars: William Dyer, William Fairbanks, Les Bates, Billie Bennett