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1. Gangs of New York (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 170
2. Prison Nurse (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes, Ben Welden
Votes: 97
3. Come on, Leathernecks! (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The father of a star football player at Annapolis wants his son to follow the family pattern and join the Marines.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Marsha Hunt, Edward Brophy, Leon Ames
Votes: 57
4. The Wrong Road (1937)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Bank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Richard Cromwell, Helen Mack, Lionel Atwill, Horace McMahon
Votes: 310
5. Sutter's Gold (1936)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Drama, History
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Arnold, Lee Tracy, Binnie Barnes, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 140
6. Two Fisted (1935)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A fast-talking boxing manager and the somewhat hapless fighter he manages happen to run into a young man who was a good prizefighter in his day but is now out of the sport and has a ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Lee Tracy, Roscoe Karns, Gail Patrick, Kent Taylor
Votes: 46
7. David Harum (1934)
Passed | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Will Rogers, Louise Dresser, Evelyn Venable, Kent Taylor
Votes: 111
8. Their Big Moment (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
A vaudeville magician act is hired to right a wrong. Some comedy relief.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, William Gaxton, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 194
9. Helldorado (1934)
Approved | 74 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Arthur T. Ryan, a hitchhiker, gets a ride from haughty, society girl Glenda Wynant and her fiance, wealthy J. F. Van Avery after he helps them to replace the top of their convertible when ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Richard Arlen, Madge Evans, Ralph Bellamy, James Gleason
Votes: 34
10. I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh
Votes: 774
11. Mr. Skitch (1933)
70 min | Comedy, Adventure, Romance
The Missouri Skitches (Will Rogers, ZaSu Pitts, Rochelle Hudson) drive to California via Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Will Rogers, Rochelle Hudson, Zasu Pitts, Florence Desmond
Votes: 127
12. Sailor Be Good (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Romance
A Navy boxer meets a dance-hall hostess who tries to sober him up for his fight.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Jack Oakie, Vivienne Osborne, George E. Stone, Lincoln Stedman
Votes: 17
13. Racetrack (1933)
Passed | 79 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Joe Tomasso is an Italian-American bookmaker and gambler who, outwardly, is hard but soft-hearted inwardly. He becomes fond of a homeless waif, Jackie Curtis, and begins to look upon him as... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Frank Coghlan Jr., Kay Hammond, Lee Moran
Votes: 25
14. If I Had a Million (1932)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama
A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.
Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft
Votes: 2,306
15. 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
16. Salvation Nell (1931)
84 min | Drama
Young Nell loses her job and home and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out bent on continuing his life of crime.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ralph Graves, Helen Chandler, Sally O'Neil, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 32
17. Women Go on Forever (1931)
Passed | 64 min | Drama
Daisy Bowman runs a boarding house in New York City and becomes romantically involved with new boarder Jake. Among the other boarders are shopgirl Betty and her taxi-driver fiance Eddie. ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Marian Nixon, Paul Page, Thomas E. Jackson
18. Hell Bound (1931)
Passed | 81 min | Drama
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Lloyd Hughes, Ralph Ince, Lola Lane
Votes: 26
19. Hello Sister (1930)
80 min | Drama
Olive Borden plays a modern jazz maiden who is forced to be good for six months or lose out on her grandfather's inheritance.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Olive Borden, Lloyd Hughes, George Fawcett, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 32
20. Once a Gentleman (1930)
85 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Lois Wilson, Francis X. Bushman, King Baggot
21. La fuerza del querer (1930)
Drama
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Maria Alba, Carlos Barbe, Andrés de Segurola, Vincent Padula
22. Cock o' the Walk (1930)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated ... See full summary »
Directors: Walter Lang, Roy William Neill | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Myrna Loy, Philip Sleeman, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 39
23. The Costello Case (1930)
65 min | Crime, Drama
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Tom Moore, Lola Lane, Roscoe Karns, Wheeler Oakman
Votes: 35
24. She Got What She Wanted (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Betty Compson, Lee Tracy, Alan Hale, Gaston Glass
Votes: 23
25. The Big Fight (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a ... See full summary »
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Lola Lane, Ralph Ince, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Stepin Fetchit
Votes: 34
26. The Great Gabbo (1929)
Passed | 92 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
An insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist.
Directors: James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Donald Douglas, Betty Compson, Marjorie Kane
Votes: 1,004
27. A Man's Man (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Peggy goes Hollywood in an attempt to break into movies and marries a gullible soda jerk, who buys worthless stock from an assistant director who claims he can make the wife,who he has his own designs on,into a star.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: William Haines, Josephine Dunn, Sam Hardy, Mae Busch
Votes: 64
28. The Duke Steps Out (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: William Haines, Joan Crawford, Karl Dane, Tenen Holtz
Votes: 219
29. The Night Flyer (1928)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Jimmy Bradley, a fireman on an old locomotive, sees an engineer try to rival him both on the work and love front as they compete for the love of the same woman, and for the run as the official mail train.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: William Boyd, Jobyna Ralston, Philo McCullough, Anne Schaefer
Votes: 70
30. The Mating Call (1928)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
A WWI vet takes on the KKK when he loses his wife to a womanizing Klansman.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Evelyn Brent, Renée Adorée, Alan Roscoe
Votes: 395
31. Excess Baggage (1928)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
Director: James Cruze | Stars: William Haines, Josephine Dunn, Neely Edwards, Kathleen Clifford
Votes: 25
32. Wife Savers (1928)
57 min | Comedy
Louis Hozenozzle and 2d Lieut. Rodney Ramsbottom, two American soldiers, are stationed in Switzerland after World War I. Ramsbottom is in love with Colette, a pretty Swiss girl, and when he... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Zasu Pitts, Sally Blane
33. The Red Mark (1928)
80 min | Drama
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Nina Quartero, Gaston Glass, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Rose Dione
Votes: 15
34. The City Gone Wild (1927)
60 min | Crime, Romance, Drama
Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Marietta Millner, Louise Brooks, Fred Kohler
Votes: 11
35. We're All Gamblers (1927)
70 min | Drama
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Marietta Millner, Cullen Landis, Philo McCullough
36. On to Reno (1927)
60 min | Comedy
When Vera and Bud, a young married couple, become financially hard pressed, Vera accepts an offer from Mrs. Holmes, a rich matron who wishes Vera to impersonate her in Reno to fulfill the ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Marie Prevost, Cullen Landis, Ethel Wales, Ned Sparks
Votes: 19
37. Old Ironsides (1926)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, History
An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft
Votes: 312 | Gross: $1.43M
38. Mannequin (1926)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Dim-witted nursemaid Annie Pogani, who loves children, steals a baby girl from Selene Herrick, a wealthy woman who cares more for auctions than for family life. The girl, known as Orchid, ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Alice Joyce, Warner Baxter, Dolores Costello, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 26
39. The Waiter from the Ritz (1926)
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Raymond Griffith, Alice Day, Trixie Friganza, George Fawcett
40. 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
41. Beggar on Horseback (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Impoverished composer Neil McRae loves Cynthia Mason, but fearing poverty, he proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. One night he dozes in an armchair and has a nightmare of a wedding to and life... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Erwin Connelly, Gertrude Short
Votes: 96
42. Welcome Home (1925)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Old man Prouty arrives unexpectedly at the small apartment occupied by his son and daughter-in-law and announces that he has come to stay. Fred and Nettie do their best to make him happy ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Luke Cosgrave, Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Ben Hendricks Sr.
43. Waking Up the Town (1925)
63 min | Comedy
A young girl visits her grandfather, who owns an auto repair shop. She falls in love with his handsome assistant, who is also an engineer trying to talk the town banker into financing his ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer
Votes: 35
44. The End of the World (II) (1925)
Adventure
Jack Joyce, who worked in old Abner Hope's garage, was always dreaming of big schemes, but had no capital with which to realize them. Abner Hope, who is regarded as a "queer one," tell Jack... See full summary »
Director: Harvey G. Matherson | Stars: Jack Pickford, Claire McDowell, Alec B. Francis, Norma Shearer
Votes: 15
45. Marry Me (1925)
60 min | Comedy
Pretty schoolteacher Hetty Gandy visits a chicken farm and falls in love with John Smith, who soon proposes marriage to her. Before she can give her consent, she is called away, leaving ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Florence Vidor, Edward Everett Horton, John Roche, Helen Jerome Eddy
46. The Goose Hangs High (1925)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Having a municipal position, Bernard Ingals has almost bankrupted himself sending his three children to college. The youngsters all arrive home for Christmas Eve, and their parents do their... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Constance Bennett, Myrtle Stedman, George Irving, Esther Ralston
Gross: $0.18M
47. The Enemy Sex (1924)
80 min | Drama
When chorus girl "Dodo" Baxter is invited to a party given by millionaire Albert Sassoon, she meets five wealthy and worldly-wise men who attempt various schemes to add her to their ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Betty Compson, Percy Marmont, Sheldon Lewis, Huntley Gordon
48. Leap Year (1924)
Passed | 56 min | Comedy
A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives marriage advice to his girlfriends.
Directors: James Cruze, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Lucien Littlefield, Mary Thurman, John McKinnon
Votes: 362
49. The Fighting Coward (1924)
66 min | Comedy
Tom Rumford was born in the South but raised by pacifist Quaker relatives in the North and taught not to fight. When he returns to the South as a young man, he is tormented by the local ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ernest Torrence, Mary Astor, Noah Beery, Cullen Landis
Votes: 58
50. The Garden of Weeds (1924)
60 min | Drama
Phillip Flagg, a wealthy theater promoter given to entertaining showgirls at his estate, The Garden of Weeds, causes Dorothy Delbridge to be fired when she refuses to accept his attentions.... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Betty Compson, Rockliffe Fellowes, Warner Baxter, Charles Ogle