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1. The Untouchables (1959–1963)
Episode: Pilot (1959)

103 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.2
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Based on the autobiography "The Untouchables," by Elliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, a young treasury agent assembles an incorruptible squad to dismantle the criminal empire of "Scarface" Al Capone.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Pat Crowley

Votes: 138

2. The Untouchables (1959–1963)

50 min | Action, Crime, Drama

8.0
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Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptable agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.

Stars: Robert Stack, Walter Winchell, Nicholas Georgiade, Paul Picerni

Votes: 3,079

3. Waterfront (1954–1956)

30 min | Adventure, Crime

8.0
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John Herrick was the Captain of the tug "Cheryl Ann" in Los Angeles harbor. His family consisted of wife May, Police Detective son Jim, and the crew of the tug, his son Carl, Tip, and ... See full summary »

Stars: Preston Foster, Douglas Dick, Lois Moran, Willie Best

Votes: 113

4. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960)

60 min | Drama

8.0
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An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959).

Stars: Desi Arnaz, Betty Furness, Bruce Gordon, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 143

5. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960)
Episode: The Untouchables: Part 1 (1959)

60 min | Drama

8.0
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Two part telling of how Treasury Department agent in Chicago, Eliot Ness, set up a special squad of prohibition agents to root out the Al Capone gang.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Wolfe Barzell, Richard Benedict, John Beradino

Votes: 37

6. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

7.6
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Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.

Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae

Votes: 154

7. Studio 57 (1954–1958)

30 min | Drama, Family

7.6
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This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.

Stars: Joel Aldrich, Tim Graham, Jean Byron, Marguerite Chapman

Votes: 244

8. It Started with Eve (1941)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

7.6
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In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 1,833

9. A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

7.6
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Henny, talent scout for the Margaret Ames Film Agency in Hollywood, mistakes understudies Judy and Marian for Eileen and Betty, the real stars of a Broadway show and signs them up for ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Elyse Knox, Ann Gillis, Sally Eilers, Richard Lane

Votes: 72

10. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960)
Episode: The Untouchables: Part 2 (1959)

60 min | Drama

7.6
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Part two of the telling of how Elliot Ness, Treasury Department agent in Chicago, set up a special squad of prohibition agents to root out the Al Capone gang.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Wolfe Barzell, Richard Benedict, John Beradino

Votes: 32

11. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)
Episode: The Sunrise Gun (1959)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

7.6
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Johnny Sunrise is training his son to avenge the injury to his hand which was caused by Sam Duskin. Then Sam Duskin, Jr. comes to town and the sons agree to avoid a fight. But can they?

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Dennis Hopper, Everett Sloane, Ben Cooper, Frank Faylen

Votes: 28

12. Zane Grey Theatre (1956–1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

7.5
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An anthology based (earlier more so than later) on the novels and stories of Zane Grey. Dick Powell was often the star, as well as the host.

Stars: Dick Powell, Walter Sande, Denver Pyle, Bill Erwin

Votes: 582

13. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)

30 min | Drama

7.5
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This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

Stars: Philip Carey, Laraine Day, Willis Bouchey, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 276

14. Scandal Sheet (1952)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.4
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The editor of an exploitation newspaper commits a murder and assigns his protégé to investigate hoping to divert attention away from himself.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Derek, Donna Reed, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 3,480

15. 99 River Street (1953)

Not Rated | 83 min | Action, Crime, Drama

7.4
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A former boxer turned cab driver has to hide from the police when his badgering wife is murdered by the jewel thief she was having an affair with.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Evelyn Keyes, Brad Dexter, Frank Faylen

Votes: 3,439

16. Kansas City Confidential (1952)

Not Rated | 99 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.3
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An ex-con trying to go straight is framed for a million dollar armored car robbery and must go to Mexico in order to unmask the real culprits.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Coleen Gray, Preston Foster, Neville Brand

Votes: 8,147

17. TV Reader's Digest (1955–1956)

30 min | Drama

7.3
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Family-oriented stories from the pages of "Reader's Digest" were dramatized on film.

Stars: Hugh Reilly, Gene Raymond, Richard Reeves, Helen Mowery

Votes: 60

18. The Phenix City Story (1955)

Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

7.2
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A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews

Votes: 3,259

19. The Scarface Mob (1959 TV Movie)

102 min | Drama, Crime

7.2
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Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Robert Stack, Keenan Wynn, Barbara Nichols, Pat Crowley

Votes: 283

20. The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)

Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

7.2
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A light-hearted comedy when a bit player in a musical tries to convince her friends that she is a countess.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Reginald Owen, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 35

21. Waterfront (1954–1956)
Episode: Lighthouse (1954)

30 min | Adventure, Crime

7.2
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A fugitive gangster comes ashore one night at the lighthouse and terrorizes the old watchman.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Preston Foster, Lois Moran, Harry Lauter, John Dehner

Votes: 7

22. Off to See the Wizard (1967–1968)

60 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

7.1
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Family-oriented TV series, produced by MGM, in which guest hosts and animated versions of the "Wizard of Oz" characters were used as wrap-arounds to introduce various family-oriented films ... See full summary »

Stars: Daws Butler, Mel Blanc, June Foray, Vito Scotti

Votes: 77

23. Gunman's Walk (1958)

Approved | 97 min | Western

7.0
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A powerful rancher always protects his wild adult son by paying for damages and bribing witnesses, until his crimes become too serious to rectify.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Kathryn Grant, James Darren

Votes: 2,127

24. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)

Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller

7.0
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54 Metascore

Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.

Director: Joe May | Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran

Votes: 1,516

25. Louisiana (1947)

Approved | 85 min | Drama

7.0
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Fourteen-year-old James Houston Davis, the music-loving son of a poor sharecropper, is determined to get a good education and help improve life in his beloved state of Louisiana. With the ... See full synopsis »

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Jimmie Davis, Margaret Lindsay, John Gallaudet, Freddie Stewart

Votes: 28

26. Walking Tall (1973)

R | 125 min | Action, Biography, Crime

6.9
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60 Metascore

Based on the life of Tennessee sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost single-handily cleaned up his small town of crime and corruption, but at a personal cost of his family life and nearly his own life.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Elizabeth Hartman, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn

Votes: 6,751 | Gross: $4.75M

27. Hell to Eternity (1960)

Approved | 131 min | Biography, Drama, War

6.9
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When his adoptive Japanese-American family is sent to Manzanar after Pearl Harbor, a young Chicano enlists in the marines to become a hero in the Battle of Saipan.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens

Votes: 1,578

28. Princess O'Hara (1935)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

6.9
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King, the driver of a horse-drawn hansom cab, is killed in a turf war between Vic Toledo's cab company and his competitors. Vic sends his goons to get King's daughter Princess a new horse but they steal a prized racing horse.

Director: David Burton | Stars: Jean Parker, Chester Morris, Leon Errol, Vince Barnett

Votes: 37

29. The Brothers Rico (1957)

Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.8
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A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant, Larry Gates

Votes: 1,618

30. The Young Doctors (1961)

Approved | 100 min | Drama

6.8
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Medical drama set at one of New York City's hospitals during the early 1960s.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin

Votes: 602

31. His Exciting Night (1938)

Approved | 61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

6.8
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Adam Tripp (Charles Ruggles), a mild-mannered, timid office clerk, becomes the butt of several practical jokes on his wedding-eve night, and nearly loses his bride-to-be, Anne Baker (Ona Munson).

Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ona Munson, Maxie Rosenbloom, Stepin Fetchit

Votes: 18

32. In the Navy (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy

6.7
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Russ Raymond, America's number one crooner, disappears and joins the Navy under the name Tommy Halstead. Dorothy Roberts, a magazine journalist, is intent on finding out what happened to ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Powell, Claire Dodd

Votes: 3,213

33. Alias Mary Dow (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Drama

6.7
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A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Sally Eilers, Ray Milland, Henry O'Neill, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 80

34. Rocky (1948)

Approved | 76 min | Drama

6.7
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Out fishing one day, painter John Hammond and his son Chris come across Bert Hillman, the foreman of a local ranch. He and his ranch hand are searching for a wild dog that killed one of ... See full summary »

Directors: Phil Karlson, William Beaudine | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Edgar Barrier, Nita Hunter, Gale Sherwood

Votes: 53

35. Tight Spot (1955)

Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

6.6
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A female inmate is whisked out of prison and into a police-guarded hotel until the district attorney can convince her to testify against the mob.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Edward G. Robinson, Brian Keith, Lucy Marlow

Votes: 2,542

36. Kilroy Was Here (1947)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy

6.6
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"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes and wisecracks regarding his name.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Jackie Coogan, Wanda McKay, Frank Jenks

Votes: 55

37. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

6.6
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When Public Enemy No. 3 Sonny McGann meets composer Bob Gunther, he gets the idea of having Bob write music to a poem he has written about his long-lost sweetheart Sadie McGlonsky. ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Jessie Ralph, Johnny Downs, Peggy Moran

Votes: 36

38. The Affair of Susan (1935)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance

6.6
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Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan

Votes: 32

39. She Gets Her Man (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime

6.6
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Esmeralda is a cook in a diner in a small Arkansas town. When a gang of crooks moves into town and plots a bank robbery, Esmeralda unintentionally wrecks their plans, resulting in fame for ... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell, Helen Twelvetrees, Lucien Littlefield

Votes: 20

40. The Invisible Man Returns (1940)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

6.5
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The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.

Director: Joe May | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton

Votes: 5,297

41. Seven Sinners (1940)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

6.5
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Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale charms to woo politicians, navy personnel, gangsters, riff-raff, judges and a ship's doctor in order to achieve her aims.

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Broderick Crawford

Votes: 1,659

42. Dark Alibi (1946)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

6.5
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A public defender enlists Charlie to exonerate one of his clients, an ex-con falsely accused of bank robbery and murder, scheduled for execution in nine days.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong

Votes: 1,453

43. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)

Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

6.5
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In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

Director: René Clair | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Bruce Cabot, Roland Young, Mischa Auer

Votes: 1,302

44. You're Not So Tough (1940)

Approved | 65 min | Drama

6.5
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The Dead End Kids are out of the slums of New York's East Side and running around the sunny valleys of California looking for a way to make a quick buck. The idea of working never enters ... See full summary »

Director: Joe May | Stars: The Dead End Kids, Nan Grey, Rosina Galli, Henry Armetta

Votes: 58

45. My Pal, the King (1932)

74 min | Western

6.5
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The king of a European country, who is a child, meets the cowboy star of a traveling circus.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Tom Mix, Mickey Rooney, James Kirkwood, Wallis Clark

Votes: 49

46. Framed (1975)

R | 106 min | Action, Crime, Drama

6.4
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A gambler kills a sheriff in self defense. But as everyone in conspiring against him, he is condemned to a long sentence in prison.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Joe Don Baker, Conny Van Dyke, Gabriel Dell, John Marley

Votes: 738 | Gross: $2.12M

47. Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)

Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror

6.4
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An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.

Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners

Votes: 609

48. The Shanghai Cobra (1945)

Approved | 64 min | Mystery

6.4
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Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie investigates.

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, James Cardwell

Votes: 1,243

49. Thunderhoof (1948)

Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance, Western

6.4
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Texas rancher Scotty Mason goes into the Mexican desert-country in search of a wild horse, and takes his young wife, Margarita and his hired-hand, The Kid, whose life Scotty had saved a few... See full summary »

Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Preston Foster, Mary Stuart, William Bishop, Dice

Votes: 147

50. Werewolf of London (1935)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

6.3
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After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.

Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews

Votes: 6,506



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