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1. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,355 | Gross: $4.36M
2. Libeled Lady (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
Votes: 8,924
3. The Good Earth (1937)
Passed | 138 min | Drama, Romance
Although married Chinese farmers Wang and O-Lan initially experience success, their lives are complicated by declining fortunes and lean times, as well as the arrival of the beautiful young Lotus.
Directors: Sidney Franklin, Victor Fleming, Gustav Machatý, Sam Wood | Stars: Paul Muni, Luise Rainer, Walter Connolly, Tilly Losch
Votes: 5,413
4. Lady for a Day (1933)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Drama
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warren William, May Robson, Guy Kibbee, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 4,662
5. Twentieth Century (1934)
91 min | Comedy, Romance
A flamboyant Broadway impresario who has fallen on hard times tries to get his former lover, now a Hollywood diva, to return and resurrect his failing career.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 7,254
6. Man's Castle (1933)
75 min | Drama, Romance
Bill takes Trina into his depression camp cabin. Later, just as he finds showgirl LaRue who will support him, Trina becomes pregnant.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Loretta Young, Marjorie Rambeau, Glenda Farrell
Votes: 1,774
7. Servants' Entrance (1934)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The daughter of a rich man going through financial difficulties takes a job as a maid and falls in love with the chauffeur.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres, Ned Sparks, Walter Connolly
Votes: 58
8. Whom the Gods Destroy (1934)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
Broadway's most successful producer, John Forrester, is deeply in love with his wife Margaret and dreams of the future when his son Jack will step into his shoes. He sails to England to ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Walter Connolly, Robert Young, Doris Kenyon, Macon Jones
Votes: 103
9. East of Fifth Avenue (1933)
74 min | Drama
Heavyhearted melodrama centering on the tenants of a modest New York City rooming house.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Wallace Ford, Mary Carlisle, Dorothy Tree, Walter Connolly
Votes: 59
10. The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Chinese warlord and an engaged Christian missionary fall in love.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Toshia Mori, Walter Connolly
Votes: 4,304
11. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,270
12. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison
Votes: 1,796
13. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
To avoid his abusive father, a rambunctious boy rafts the Mississippi River with a slave, encountering many wild characters.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Walter Connolly, William Frawley, Rex Ingram
Votes: 1,408
14. Good Girls Go to Paris (1939)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Midwesterner waitress, scheming to gold-dig her way to Paris, gets mixed up with a wealthy New York family.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Joan Blondell, Walter Connolly, Alan Curtis
Votes: 594
15. Broadway Bill (1934)
Approved | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A runaway heiress and her sister's husband join forces to race the latter's fast horse, Broadway Bill.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Walter Connolly, Helen Vinson
Votes: 1,160
16. The Music Goes 'Round (1936)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
On a leave of absence from Broadway, Harry Wallace (Harry Richman), the star of a musical comedy, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Harry Richman, Rochelle Hudson, Walter Connolly, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 21
17. Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly
Votes: 1,679
18. 8 Girls in a Boat (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance
In an exclusive Swiss school for young girls, Christa Storm discovers that she is expecting a baby. She keeps the secret from everyone except her lover, young medical student David Perrin. ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Dorothy Wilson, Douglass Montgomery, Kay Johnson, Walter Connolly
Votes: 40
19. Washington Merry-Go-Round (1932)
TV-G | 79 min | Drama
Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton, while falling for the granddaughter of the... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Lee Tracy, Constance Cummings, Walter Connolly, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 179
20. White Lies (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
John Mitchell is a powerful and ruthless newspaper publisher, who doesn't care who gets hurt if a good story can run in his paper. Caught speeding, by honest cop Terry Condon, his first ... See full summary »
Director: Leo Bulgakov | Stars: Victor Jory, Walter Connolly, Fay Wray, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 19
21. Those High Grey Walls (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dr. MacAuley, a kindly, beloved country doctor, is sent to Fillmore Prison. His crime was for removing a bullet from a young man who was escaping from the police. This is man whom he had ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Walter Connolly, Onslow Stevens, Paul Fix, Bernard Nedell
Votes: 37
22. Lady by Choice (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An elderly, brash drunk is hired to help improve the image of a controversial dancer, and the two women form an unlikely friendship.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly
Votes: 639
23. 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
24. Penitentiary (1938)
Approved | 74 min | Drama
A District Attorney becomes a Prison Warden, and finds himself overseeing the sentence of a meek man who he'd once prosecuted as the D.A.. He discovers his new job is more complex than he'd thought, especially with this meek prisoner.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Walter Connolly, John Howard, Jean Parker, Robert Barrat
Votes: 24
25. She Couldn't Take It (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of patriarch Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered, bubble-headed wife has a fondness for ... See full summary »
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: George Raft, Joan Bennett, Walter Connolly, Billie Burke
Votes: 190
26. So Red the Rose (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
"So Red the Rose" is King Vidor's quietly-affecting Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Janet Beecher
Votes: 216
27. The Captain Hates the Sea (1934)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A cruise ship heads south from L.A. with a variety of passengers - a reporter, a P.I., crooks, a general etc.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Wynne Gibson, Alison Skipworth, John Gilbert
Votes: 750
28. Once to Every Woman (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
During a number of bizarre cases, a dedicated nurse finds love with one doctor while she resents another new doctor who is extremely talented.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Fay Wray, Walter Connolly, Walter Byron
Votes: 201
29. Four's a Crowd (1938)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Rosalind Russell, Patric Knowles
Votes: 1,335
30. Father Brown, Detective (1934)
Unrated | 68 min | Mystery
Father Brown is trying to stop a known theft taking 10 diamonds and showing he is wrong in the eyes of god.
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Walter Connolly, Paul Lukas, Gertrude Michael, Robert Loraine
Votes: 75
31. Let's Get Married (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy
Political kingmaker Joe Quinn (Walter Connally) attempts to elevate his daughter's ambitious suitor, George Willoughby (Reginald Denny), into the the higher echelons of politics by getting ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Ida Lupino, Walter Connolly, Ralph Bellamy, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 60
32. Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Drama
After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
Directors: George Marshall, Otto Preminger | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly, Peter Lorre, June Lang
Votes: 133
33. One-Way Ticket (1935)
Passed | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Jerry, the son of a bank depositor who was cheated out of his savings, is sent to prison after he robs the bank of the exact sum his father lost. Captain Bill Bourne lives on the grounds of... See full summary »
Director: Herbert J. Biberman | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Peggy Conklin, Walter Connolly, Edith Fellows
Votes: 24
34. The King Steps Out (1936)
Approved | 85 min | Biography, Musical, Romance
Princess is destined to marry the Emperor, until her sister steps in.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Franchot Tone, Grace Moore, Walter Connolly, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 238
35. The Girl Downstairs (1938)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Franciska Gaal, Franchot Tone, Walter Connolly, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 286
36. First Lady (1937)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy
As presidential election time approaches in Washington it is the women behind the scenes who seem to be making the decisions.
Director: Stanley Logan | Stars: Kay Francis, Preston Foster, Anita Louise, Walter Connolly
Votes: 515
37. Soak the Rich (1936)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
Conservative millionaire Humphrey Craig is fearful that a "soak-the-rich" bill will pass in the United States Senate. He keeps apprised of the situation by having Captain Pettijohn report ... See full summary »
Directors: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Walter Connolly, John Howard, Mary Taylor, Lionel Stander
Votes: 56
38. Paddy the Next Best Thing (1933)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
In Ireland, Major Adair's older daughter Eileen is about to marry Lawrence Blake for his money in order to pay off her father's debts, even though she really loves Jack Breen.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Warner Baxter, Walter Connolly, Harvey Stephens
Votes: 50
39. Start Cheering (1938)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Fed up with movie life, film star Ted Crosley quits pictures to enroll in Midland College, much to the horror of his manager Sam Lewis and his stooge-friend Willie Gumbatz. Ted wishes to ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Walter Connolly, Joan Perry, Charles Starrett
Votes: 267
40. Coast Guard (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Steady, dependable Coast Guard Lieutenant Raymond "Ray" Dower and reckless aviator Thomas "Speed" Bradshaw are the closest of friends. Ray saves the life of Captain Tobias Bliss, tramp ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Randolph Scott, Frances Dee, Ralph Bellamy, Walter Connolly
Votes: 133
41. The League of Frightened Men (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
In the second of Columbia's Nero Wolfe movies, the housebound detective is confronted with several deaths and a disappearance among a group of 10 Harvard alumni who had years earlier hazed ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Walter Connolly, Lionel Stander, Eduardo Ciannelli, Irene Hervey
Votes: 122
42. The Great Victor Herbert (1939)
Approved | 91 min | Biography, Music, Musical
A fictionalized version of famous opera composer Victor Herbert where he witnesses the romance, stardom, parenthood, and troubled experiences of his star singers.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Mary Martin, Walter Connolly, Lee Bowman
Votes: 133 | Gross: $0.30M
43. Bridal Suite (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
An American playboy dumps his greedy fiancee and ends up marrying a woman from the Alps.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen
Votes: 251
44. Man Against Woman (1932)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Johnny McCloud, a tough police inspector given more to fisticuffs than investigating has the hots for torch-singer Lola Parker, but Miss Parker is much taken with a good-looking crook named... See full summary »
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jack Holt, Lillian Miles, Walter Connolly, Gavin Gordon
Votes: 22
45. Master of Men (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A steel-mill worker, Buck Garrett (Jack Holt) betters himself and becomes involved in the New York stock market. He marries Kay Walling (Fay Wray), who disapproves his market schemes and ... See full summary »
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Walter Connolly, Berton Churchill
46. Screen Snapshots, Series 14, No. 1 (1934)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Stars: Walter Connolly, Jackie Cooper, Inez Courtney, Leon Errol
47. The Marked Woman (1914)
50 min | Drama
A Nihilist Russian, Olga Petcoff goes after her younger sister killer, only to find herself being the romantic interest of several military men willing to wage war to win her heart.
Director: O.A.C. Lund | Stars: Barbara Tennant, O.A.C. Lund, Rawland Ratcliffe, Joseph Baker
49. A Soldier's Oath (1915)
50 min | Drama
While engaged in battle, Pierre Duval, a French soldier, stumbles onto the mortally wounded Count de Morave. Before dying, the count begs Pierre to deliver some family jewels and papers to ... See full summary »
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: William Farnum, Dorothy Bernard, Kittens Reichert, Alma Frederic
50. Many Happy Returns (1930)
18 min | Short, Drama, Family
Director: Arthur Hurley | Stars: Walter Connolly, Madge Evans, Ferdinand Gottschalk, Jean Shelley