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1. Destry Rides Again (1939)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Western
Deputy sheriff Destry tames the town of Bottle Neck, including saloon singer Frenchy.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, James Stewart, Mischa Auer, Charles Winninger
Votes: 12,557 | Gross: $0.35M
2. Stella Dallas (1937)
Approved | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A working-class woman is willing to do whatever it takes to give her daughter a socially promising future.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 6,281 | Gross: $2.00M
3. The Invisible Woman (1940)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
An attractive model with an ulterior motive volunteers as guinea pig for an invisibility machine.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Virginia Bruce, John Barrymore, John Howard, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 3,359
4. In Old California (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Western
During the California Gold Rush, Boston pharmacist Tom Craig sets up shop in Sacramento where he clashes with local town crook Britt Dawson.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: John Wayne, Binnie Barnes, Albert Dekker, Helen Parrish
Votes: 1,546
5. Honor Among Lovers (1931)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Jerry Stafford, a businessman, is in love with his secretary but she deserts him for another man. When she realizes her mistake, she goes back to him. Doris Brown is her girlfriend who is in love with a man named Monty Dunn.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 536
6. Paris Underground (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Among the terrified refugees jamming the roads out of Paris in 1940 are Kitty de Mornay, a rich American divorced from her French husband, and her companion Emmyline (Emmy) Quayle. A German... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, Jorge Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger
Votes: 317
7. One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jim "Lucky" Moore (Allan Jones), an insurance salesman, comes up with a novel policy for his friend, Steve (Robert Cummings): a 'love insurance policy', that will pay out $1-million if ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Allan Jones, Nancy Kelly, Robert Cummings, Bud Abbott
Votes: 1,858
8. Follow the Boys (1944)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were ... See full summary »
Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, John Rawlins | Stars: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald, Charley Grapewin
Votes: 502
9. Three Husbands (1950)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy
When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands.
Director: Irving Reis | Stars: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 335
10. Another Language (1933)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Stella and Victor meet in Europe, fall deeply in love, and marry soon thereafter. Then they sail back to the States to meet Victor's family, and the honeymoon is over: Victor's family, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Louise Closser Hale, John Beal, Henry Travers, Margaret Hamilton
Votes: 399
11. First Love (1939)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
An orphaned boarding school graduate secretly attends a prestigious ball, where she falls for the boyfriend of her snobbish cousin.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish
Votes: 764
12. If You Could Only Cook (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
An executive lets an attractive cook talk him into taking a job as butler.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Jean Arthur, Leo Carrillo, Lionel Stander
Votes: 1,426
13. No More Orchids (1932)
Passed | 78 min | Drama, Romance
An heiress forced to marry into royalty in order to save her banker father falls in love with another man while on a cruise.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Louise Closser Hale, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 510
14. The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
82 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her ... See full summary »
Directors: George Cukor, Cyril Gardner | Stars: Ina Claire, Fredric March, Mary Brian, Henrietta Crosman
Votes: 441
15. Service de Luxe (1938)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
The manager of a service agency for the wealthy clashes with--and falls for--an inventor who is seeking funding for a new kind of tractor.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Constance Bennett, Vincent Price, Charles Ruggles, Helen Broderick
Votes: 226
16. Palooka (1934)
Unrated | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 416
17. Thieves Fall Out (1941)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy
Eddie Barnes, tired of being a nobody and living with his parents, decides to cash in his mother's legacy and use the money to buy a business. Unfortunately, Eddie's mother has to die ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie, Jane Darwell, Alan Hale
Votes: 253
18. Ellery Queen and the Murder Ring (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Mystery
The benefactor of the Stack Memorial Hospital dies after an operation. Ellery Queen investigates when it is revealed the cause of death was murder by strangulation.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Mona Barrie
Votes: 186
19. Love Before Breakfast (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A rich businessman stalks another man's fiancée.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carole Lombard, Preston Foster, Cesar Romero, Janet Beecher
Votes: 899
20. Mother Carey's Chickens (1938)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Romance
An 1890s widow has two daughters and two sons. The daughters fall in love with the same gentleman.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Anne Shirley, Ruby Keeler, James Ellison, Fay Bainter
Votes: 340
21. Winter Wonderland (1946)
Approved | 71 min | Drama
A farm girl has a romance with a ski instructor.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Charles Drake, Roman Bohnen, Eric Blore
Votes: 67
22. Cocktail Hour (1933)
Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Cynthia Warren, independently wealthy through her ability as an illustrator and poster artist, rebels against the premise that every woman is destined for matrimony and motherhood, and ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Randolph Scott, Sidney Blackmer, Muriel Kirkland
Votes: 186
23. Follow the Leader (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ed Wynn, a waiter, tries to get hit employers daughter a start on the stage; Ginger Rogers replaces Ethel Merman when Merman is kidnapped.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Ed Wynn, Ginger Rogers, Stanley Smith, Lou Holtz
Votes: 132
24. The Sap from Syracuse (1930)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ellen Saunders is an heiress on a cruise to Europe being pursued by a day laborer mistaken for a prominent mining engineer. During the cruise, he foils two crooks try to get rid of her.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Jack Oakie, Ginger Rogers, Granville Bates, George Barbier
Votes: 116
25. Redheads on Parade (1935)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A film star finds herself in trouble with her co-star when she has to flirt with the backer to prevent him withdrawing his support. But all ends well.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: John Boles, Dixie Lee, Jack Haley, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 44
26. The Lady and the Mob (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Society-lady Hattie Leonard organizes her own band of 'gang-busters' when she discovers a garment she sent to the dry-cleaners had been taxed 25 cents to pay for gang 'protection.' She ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Fay Bainter, Ida Lupino, Lee Bowman, Henry Armetta
Votes: 284
27. Child of Manhattan (1933)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
Paul Vanderkill is extraordinarily wealthy because his grandfather happened to buy farmland in what was to become Midtown Manhattan. The Loveland Dance Hall is one of the tenants of the ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Nancy Carroll, John Boles, Buck Jones, Jessie Ralph
Votes: 274
28. Hitting a New High (1937)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Lili Pons and Jack Oakie star as a nightclub singer with aspires to be an opera diva and the met star whom she chases all the way to a safari in Africa to make her dreams come true in this wacky musical comedy.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Lily Pons, Jack Oakie, John Howard, Eric Blore
Votes: 342
29. The Girl Habit (1931)
77 min | Comedy
A mild Lothario tries to get arrested as protection from the gangster husband who has threatened him.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Tamara Geva, Sue Conroy, Margaret Dumont
Votes: 28
30. A Close Call for Ellery Queen (1942)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Two mysterious seamen come from Alan Rogers' past to blackmail him as he seeks to locate his missing daughters. Ellery Queen is called in by Stewart Cole, Rogers' secretary. Queen goes to ... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: William Gargan, Margaret Lindsay, Charley Grapewin, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 144
31. 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
32. The Witness Chair (1936)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Romance
A woman watches as false murder-trial evidence surrounds the man she loves.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille, Frances Sage
Votes: 187
33. Make Way for a Lady (1936)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
A teenager plays cupid for her widowed father but picks the wrong woman.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Anne Shirley, Gertrude Michael, Margot Grahame
Votes: 225
34. Reckless Age (1944)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Linda Wadsworth (Gloria Jean) rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth (Henry Stephenson), and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Gloria Jean, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 24
35. The Girl Friend (1935)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall
Votes: 51
36. Ice Capades Revue (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Promoter Ann Porter (Ellen Drew) decides to start her own ice show despite the efforts of ex-racketeer Duke Baldwin (Harold Huber) who owns a rival show. Jeff Stewart (Richard Denning), a ... See full summary »
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Ellen Drew, Richard Denning, Jerry Colonna, Barbara Jo Allen
Votes: 28
37. Vanity Street (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A NYC police-detective rescues a down-and-out showgirl from a bad situation, gets her a job in the 'Follies", and falls in love with her. Then, as he is about to lead her to the altar, he ... See full summary »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Charles Bickford, Helen Chandler, Mayo Methot, George Meeker
Votes: 119
38. This Is the Life (1935)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler
Votes: 60
39. Super-Sleuth (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery
An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alan Bruce
Votes: 393
40. She Was a Lady (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Sheila Vane, daughter of Stanley, an English aristocrat, and Alice, a former maid of the Vane family, has displayed the traits of her aristocratic heritage since childhood. While living in ... See full synopsis »
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Donald Woods, Ralph Morgan, Monroe Owsley
41. Music for Madame (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A singer arriving in Hollywood is tricked by jewel thieves to distract a wealthy audience. After running away he'll have to find a way to prove his innocence to both the police and the ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Nino Martini, Joan Fontaine, Alan Mowbray, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 229
42. The Night Mayor (1932)
65 min | Drama
Opportunistic film seeking to capitalize on a scandal in New York mayor Jimmy Walker's office before his name was out of the newspapers. Tracy plays a mayor who has a penchant for the night... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Lee Tracy, Evalyn Knapp, Don Dillaway, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 33
43. Arkansas Judge (1941)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
Peaceful Valley town-founder, Judge Abner Weaver is distressed when the townspeople begin gossiping and "bearing false witness'" against Mary Shoemaker , the community handy-woman, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Roy Rogers
Votes: 64