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1. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)

Approved | 123 min | Drama, Western

A senator returns to a Western town for the funeral of an old friend and tells the story of his origins.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Lee Marvin

Votes: 82,367

2. Sergeant Rutledge (1960)

Approved | 111 min | Crime, Drama, Western

Respected Black cavalry Sergeant Brax Rutledge stands court-martial for raping and killing a white woman and murdering her father, his superior officer.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Jeffrey Hunter, Woody Strode, Constance Towers, Billie Burke

Votes: 5,374

3. The Colossus of New York (1958)

Unrated | 70 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A brilliant surgeon encases his dead son's brain in a large robot body, with unintended results...

Director: Eugène Lourié | Stars: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton

Votes: 1,245

4. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: Easy Going Man (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

A boy plays cupid for his widowed mother and her old flame.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Virginia Grey, Alan Lee, Lee Marvin, Danny Richards Jr.

5. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: Night Drive (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

A drive with an old lady over a lonely road turns out to be a nightmare for a young woman when the old lady proves to be a man with a gun.

Director: Frederick Stephani | Stars: Constance Cummings, Ethyl May Halls, Thomas E. Jackson, Vivi Janiss

6. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: One Left Over (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

An auto accident takes the lives of a man's wife and his two sons, and he must find the courage to live for his daughter.

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: Joan Banks, Jeanne Bates, Frances Bavier, Steve Brodie

7. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The Blue Hotel (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Strangers stranded in a hotel by a blizzard pass the time by playing poker. Tensions rise when one of them accuses another of cheating.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Vincent Price, Lee Van Cleef, Chick Chandler, Adam Kennedy

8. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The Enchanted (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

A man brings a young girl into his house with the intention of training her to be his wife.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Paul Brinegar, John Ericson, Kurt Kasznar

9. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The Lady Was a Flop (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Red McGivney, a former jockey who now works as an exercise boy, is sure that a race horse named Lady has the makings of a champion. After everyone else has given up, Red buys her to train and race himself.

Director: Leslie H. Martinson | Stars: Mickey Rooney, J. Pat O'Malley, Hayden Rorke, Pierce Lyden

10. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: The Wedding Present (1957)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

A lonely woman, tired of her reputation as a respectable spinster, takes a drifter in as a boarder and discovers he's wanted for murder.

Director: Justus Addiss | Stars: Celeste Holm, Gary Merrill, Gail Kobe, Pamela Baird

11. The Lone Ranger (1956)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Western

Wealthy rancher Reese Kilgore aims to grab silver-rich Indian land by skilfully pitting Indians against settlers but the suspicious territorial governor sends The Lone Ranger to investigate.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Clayton Moore, Jay Silverheels, Lyle Bettger, Bonita Granville

Votes: 1,181

12. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
Episode: Once Upon a Crime (1956)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

A small girl teaches a thief about honesty after she sees him commit a crime.

Director: Don Weis | Stars: Henry Corden, Jane Darwell, Ray Ferrell, Anthony Jochim

13. I Died a Thousand Times (1955)

Passed | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

After aging criminal Roy Earle is released from prison he decides to pull one last heist before retiring - by robbing a resort hotel.

Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson, Lee Marvin

Votes: 1,623

14. Cross-Up (1954)

80 min | Crime, Drama

On the first night of his London assignment, news agency reporter John Desmond becomes heavily involved with enigmatic Anna Ray. The affair ends when she is shot struggling for a gun she ... See full summary »

Director: John Gilling | Stars: Larry Parks, Constance Smith, Lisa Daniely, Cyril Chamberlain

Votes: 145

15. The Loretta Young Show (1953–1961)

30 min | Drama

A drama anthology series hosted by actress Loretta Young. In addition to hosting the series, she played the lead in various episodes.

Stars: Loretta Young, John Milton Kennedy, John Newland, Robert Foulk

Votes: 304

16. Jamboree (1953)

54 min | Documentary

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Directors: Paul Burnford, Willis Goldbeck, D. Ross Lederman

17. The Loretta Young Show (1953–1961)
Episode: Trial Run (1953)

Not Rated | 30 min | Drama

The first episode of the series, explaining the letter anthology format. A shop girl is courted by a man whose family looks down upon her, so she feigns crassness to teach them a lesson. One of a few episodes with a laugh track.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Loretta Young, George Nader, Jorja Curtright, Ellen Corby

Votes: 36

18. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.

Stars: James Mason, Irene Dunne, Robert Paige, Walter Coy

Votes: 338

19. Ten Tall Men (1951)

Approved | 97 min | Action, Adventure, War

During the Riff War in Morocco, the French Foreign Legion's outpost of Tarfa is threatened by Khalif Hussein's tribes but Sergeant Mike Kincaid devises a plan of survival until the arrival of French reinforcements.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Jody Lawrance, Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore

Votes: 1,122

20. Johnny Holiday (1949)

92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Young street tough sent to a reform farm is torn between friends from his past and those who are trying to help him change his life.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: William Bendix, Stanley Clements, Hoagy Carmichael, Allen Martin Jr.

Votes: 108

21. Dark Delusion (1947)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Mystery

Dr. Leonard Gillespie, for several reasons and not all medically related, asks a young surgeon, Dr. Tommy Coalt, to go to a small town and replace a local doctor while he is on vacation. ... See full summary »

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, James Craig, Lucille Bremer, Jayne Meadows

Votes: 273

22. Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Andy Hardy goes to college after returning from World War II. He is in love with Kay Wilson this time.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Sara Haden, Bonita Granville

Votes: 774

23. She Went to the Races (1945)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy

Scientists have developed a method for winning at the track. Lovely Ava is a horse owner interest to a desperate gambler.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner, Edmund Gwenn

Votes: 309

24. Between Two Women (1945)

Passed | 83 min | Drama

Red's still being chased by his rich society girlfriend, and while he's dodging her proposals of marriage, he takes the time to cure a nightclub singer of her inability to eat ("... See full summary »

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Van Johnson, Lionel Barrymore, Gloria DeHaven, Keenan Wynn

Votes: 194

25. Rationing (1944)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance, War

A village butcher bickers with the postmistress in charge of World War II ration stamps.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Wallace Beery, Marjorie Main, Donald Meek, Dorothy Morris

Votes: 273

26. 3 Men in White (1944)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

At Blair Hospital, physician Dr. Leonard Gillespie must choose an assistant from among his two brightest interns, Dr. Randall 'Red' Adams and Dr. Lee Wong How.

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Marilyn Maxwell, Keye Luke

Votes: 324

27. Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case (1943)

Approved | 89 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

When Roy, a homicidal maniac was put away for murder, Gillespie tried to get him committed to an insane asylum instead. Now the guy's ex-fiancee wants to marry a soldier, and she goes to ... See full summary »

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Keye Luke, Alma Kruger

Votes: 373

28. Dr. Gillespie's New Assistant (1942)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Dr. Gillespie's health is failing, and the hospital is urging him to get a new assistant that he doesn't want. So, he poses a stumper in class to discourage all the bright young students. ... See full summary »

Director: Willis Goldbeck | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Van Johnson, Susan Peters, Richard Quine

Votes: 248

29. Calling Dr. Gillespie (1942)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

Dr. Gillespie is called in to investigate when a young man suffering from mental problems disappears on a killing spree.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed, Philip Dorn, Phil Brown

Votes: 470

30. Dr. Kildare's Victory (1942)

Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama

Dr. Jimmy Kildare is back at work at Blair General hospital, though several people admit that he is not himself since suffering his loss. He's taken a liking to a young intern, Don Winthrop... See full summary »

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Ann Ayars, Robert Sterling

Votes: 336

31. Dr. Kildare's Wedding Day (1941)

Passed | 83 min | Drama

It is a week before Dr. Kildare's wedding to pretty Nurse Mary Lamont. The hospital is a-buzz with preparation for the big day. Good old Dr. Gillespie, despite fatigue, has agreed to help a... See full summary »

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Red Skelton

Votes: 381

32. The People vs. Dr. Kildare (1941)

Passed | 78 min | Drama

Kildare saves the life of an ice skater who was in an auto accident. But even though her broken leg has knit, she can't walk, and she tries to sue Kildare for malpractice, and Kildare's ... See full summary »

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Bonita Granville

Votes: 413

33. Dr. Kildare's Strange Case (1940)

Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama

Young Dr. Kildare tries to help an unlucky brain surgeon and his seemingly insane patient.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Shepperd Strudwick

Votes: 617

34. Dr. Kildare Goes Home (1940)

Passed | 79 min | Drama

Dr. James Kildare has just completed his internship at Blair General Hospital and is assigned to work with his mentor, Dr. Leonard Gillespie. But fearing for the health of his father, Dr. ... See full summary »

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Samuel S. Hinds

Votes: 451

35. Dr. Kildare's Crisis (1940)

Passed | 75 min | Drama

Nurse Mary Lamont is excited about her brother's impending visit. The young man's strange behavior puzzles Dr. Kildare who believes he may be hiding a serious illness.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Robert Young

Votes: 387

36. Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)

Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 583

37. The Secret of Dr. Kildare (1939)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance

Dr. Gillespie's cancer has gotten worse, and to force him to take a rest instead of pursuing a sulfa-drug/pneumonia study, Kildare refuses to assist Gillespie, and instead accepts a case of... See full summary »

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Lionel Atwill, Helen Gilbert

Votes: 509

38. Young Dr. Kildare (1938)

Approved | 82 min | Drama, Mystery

Dr. James Kildare decides to take a position at a large New York hospital instead of joining his father's country practice but he finds himself in serious trouble when he saves a suicidal woman.

Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Lew Ayres, Lynne Carver, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 709

39. The Garden of Allah (1936)

Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery

The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, Tilly Losch, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 1,708

40. Two in the Dark (1936)

Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith) connects him to a well-known producer--who's just been murdered.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Wallace Ford, Gail Patrick

Votes: 307

41. Murder on the Blackboard (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A pretty young music teacher is bludgeoned to death in Hildegarde's school, where she's reunited with Oscar, but the autopsy report says she was dying from poison too.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot, Gertrude Michael

Votes: 791

42. Wednesday's Child (1934)

Passed | 68 min | Drama

A boy is miserable when his parents get divorced and can't seem to fit him into their new lives.

Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Karen Morley, Edward Arnold, Frankie Thomas, Robert Shayne

Votes: 192

43. Freaks (1932)

Not Rated | 64 min | Drama, Horror

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Wallace Ford, Leila Hyams, Olga Baclanova, Roscoe Ates

Votes: 50,641 | Gross: $0.63M

44. Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Mae Clarke

Votes: 1,416

45. The Roadhouse Murder (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Thriller

To gain fame, a reporter arranges to be suspected of murder.

Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Dorothy Jordan, Eric Linden, Purnell Pratt, Roscoe Ates

Votes: 184

46. Wild Orchids (1929)

TV-G | 100 min | Romance, Drama

A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther, Dick Sutherland

Votes: 764 | Gross: $0.62M

47. Desert Nights (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Drama

A con man and his beautiful accomplice kidnap a manager and steal $500,000 worth of diamonds, but end up stranded in the desert without water.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan, Claude King

Votes: 1,244

48. Lilac Time (1928)

80 min | Drama, Romance, War

All of those handsome young men in their flying machines are billeted in a field next to the Widow Berthelot's farmhouse in France. Her daughter Jeannine is curious about the young men ... See full summary »

Directors: George Fitzmaurice, Frank Lloyd | Stars: Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Eugenie Besserer, Burr McIntosh

Votes: 731

49. Diamond Handcuffs (1928)

70 min | Drama

In South Africa, a worker in a diamond mine is sentenced to death for stealing a huge diamond he found in the mine. Before he dies he passes the stone to a local girl, Musa. Known as the "... See full summary »

Director: John P. McCarthy | Stars: Eleanor Boardman, Lawrence Gray, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee

50. The Enemy (1927)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Ralph Emerson, Frank Currier

Votes: 129 | Gross: $0.47M