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1. Lost Horizon (1937)

Approved | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard

Votes: 14,448

2. He Walked by Night (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller

This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop.

Directors: Alfred L. Werker, Anthony Mann | Stars: Richard Basehart, Scott Brady, Roy Roberts, Whit Bissell

Votes: 6,700

3. Soldier of Fortune (1955)

Approved | 96 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

After Jane Hoyt's journalist husband disappears, she arrives in Hong Kong determined to find him but instead meets shady shipping magnate Hank Lee.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Clark Gable, Susan Hayward, Michael Rennie, Gene Barry

Votes: 1,722

4. Sudden Fear (1952)

Approved | 110 min | Film-Noir, Thriller

After an ambitious actor insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy middle-aged playwright and marries her, he plots with his mistress to murder her.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Joan Crawford, Jack Palance, Gloria Grahame, Bruce Bennett

Votes: 7,334

5. Green Dolphin Street (1947)

Approved | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart

Votes: 1,804

6. Pal Joey (1957)

Approved | 111 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Joey Evans is a charming, handsome, funny, talented 1st class, A-Number 1 heel. When Joey meets the former chorus girl and now rich widow Vera Simpson, the pair of lecherous souls seem made for each other.

Director: George Sidney | Stars: Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, Kim Novak, Barbara Nichols

Votes: 5,857

7. 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: 3,801

8. Song of the Thin Man (1947)

Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

Nick and Nora Charles are on a gambling boat when someone is murdered. The two main suspects are at large and come to Nick for help. Nick turns them in to the police but then sets out to figure out the mystery.

Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn, Dean Stockwell

Votes: 5,733 | Gross: $3.06M

9. Dante's Inferno (1935)

Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance

Jim Carter moves in on the McWade's carnival concession which shows scenes from Dante's "Inferno". He makes it a going concern, marrying Betty along the way. An inspector calls the ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Claire Trevor, Henry B. Walthall, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 917

10. Blood Alley (1955)

Approved | 110 min | Action, Adventure

His ship seized by the Chinese Communists, American Merchant Captain Tom Wilder languishes in prison but Chinese villagers help him escape to sail them to Hong-Kong.

Directors: William A. Wellman, John Wayne | Stars: John Wayne, Lauren Bacall, Paul Fix, Joy Kim

Votes: 3,527

11. The Left Hand of God (1955)

Approved | 87 min | Drama

At a Catholic mission in China, long-awaited "Father O'Shea" proves to be a tough guy, disturbingly attractive to mission nurse Anne.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Gene Tierney, Lee J. Cobb, Agnes Moorehead

Votes: 2,902

12. Sorrowful Jones (1949)

Not Rated | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. Her father disappears and he learns that taking care of her cramps his free-wheeling life. Sorrowful must evade gangsters and do some horse-thieving.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Demarest, Bruce Cabot

Votes: 856

13. Saigon (1947)

Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After WW2, two army buddies, one of them terminally-ill, embark on a series of adventures in South-East Asia and run across a dangerous criminal and his pretty secretary.

Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Douglas Dick, Wally Cassell

Votes: 371

14. Crossroads (1955–1957)

30 min | Drama

The anthology series dramatized the lives of clergymen of all faiths and the problems they faced in both their professional and personal lives.

Stars: Ray Teal, Robert Carson, Frank J. Scannell, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 92

15. Shadows Over Chinatown (1946)

64 min | Crime, Mystery

Charlie investigates murders connected with insurance fraud. This one is set in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Tanis Chandler

Votes: 768

16. The Seventh Sin (1957)

94 min | Drama

In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with a married man. Her husband discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to a remote mainland village or face the scandal of a very public divorce.

Directors: Ronald Neame, Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Eleanor Parker, Bill Travers, George Sanders, Jean-Pierre Aumont

Votes: 331

17. Target Zero (1955)

Not Rated | 92 min | Drama, War

Set during the Korean War, a unit of American soldiers, together with three British tank crew, find themselves trapped behind enemy lines.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Richard Conte, Peggie Castle, Charles Bronson, Richard Stapley

Votes: 423

18. China Venture (1953)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, War

During WW2, an American commando team is sent to rescue the prisoner of a warlord in Japanese-occupied China.

Director: Don Siegel | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Barry Sullivan, Jocelyn Brando, Leo Gordon

Votes: 156

19. Shadow of Chinatown (I) (1936)

Passed | 281 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

A madman sets out to destroy a group of Chinatown merchants.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Bruce Bennett, Joan Barclay, Luana Walters

Votes: 295

20. Smuggler's Island (1951)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

In 1950s Macao, an American expat diver is hired by a mysterious woman to retrieve a sunken cargo that eventually attracts unwanted attention from a crooked banker, corrupt authorities and local pirates.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Evelyn Keyes, Philip Friend, Marvin Miller

Votes: 126

21. A Son Comes Home (1936)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance

The heart-stirring story of a mother, Mary Grady (Mary Boland), forced to choose between saving the life of a falsely-accused innocent boy while, if she does, she will be sending her own son to his death.

Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Mary Boland, Julie Haydon, Donald Woods, Wallace Ford

Votes: 17

22. Jump Into Hell (1955)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, War

Four young French Army officers volunteer to join the Foreign Legion to fight in Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam) in 1954.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Jacques Sernas, Kurt Kasznar, Arnold Moss, Peter van Eyck

Votes: 181

23. Dangerous Millions (1946)

Passed | 69 min | Drama

A shipping magnate hatches a plan for testing the worth of his heirs, none of whom he has ever seen. He summons them all to China, and lays psychological and physical snares in the path of ... See full summary »

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Kent Taylor, Dona Drake, Tala Birell, Leonard Strong

Votes: 62

24. Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953)

30 min | Drama

American television anthology drama series. At least 21 episodes aired on CBS from November 11, 1952 to August 30, 1953. From January 6, 1953 to May 26, 1953 it alternated weekly with Demi-Tasse Tales.

Stars: Sheldon Leonard, Barbara Whiting, Bob Sweeney, Ford Rainey

Votes: 22

25. Roaming Lady (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Romance

Joyce Reid (Fay Wray), a wealthy young debutante, stows away on a cargo ship to China, carrying as passengers her dashing aviator sweetheart, Dan Bailey (Ralph Bellamy) and and her ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Fay Wray, Ralph Bellamy, Thurston Hall, Edward Gargan

Votes: 68

26. China's Little Devils (1945)

74 min | Drama, War

A group of young Chinese boys are led by an older boy, and rescue downed American pilots from the Japanese army in WW II.

Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Harry Carey, Paul Kelly, 'Ducky' Louie, Gloria Ann Chew

Votes: 101

27. West of Rainbow's End (1938)

Approved | 57 min | Western

Tim arrives looking for the killer of his friend Lightning Ed. Johnson is behind the murder as he wants to buy the Carter ranch cheap so he can sell it to the railroad at a big profit. When... See full summary »

Director: Alan James | Stars: Tim McCoy, Kathleen Eliot, Walter McGrail, George Cooper

Votes: 40

28. Crossroads (1955–1957)
Episode: The Inner Light (1956)

Drama

Fr. Raymond, a Missionary in China, helps villager Po Ling deal with his blindness after a fireworks manufacturing accident.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: George Brent, Benson Fong, Marya Marco, Keye Luke

29. Your Jeweler's Showcase (1952–1953)
Episode: Juice Man (1952)

Drama

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Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: Steve Brodie, George Chan, Howard Chuman, Ted de Corsia