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1. The Locket (1946)

Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Just before a wedding, the bridegroom hears a complex tale painting his lovely bride as devilish and unbalanced.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laraine Day, Robert Mitchum, Brian Aherne, Gene Raymond

Votes: 3,063

2. Sister Kenny (1946)

Approved | 116 min | Biography, Drama

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.

Director: Dudley Nichols | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Alexander Knox, Dean Jagger, Philip Merivale

Votes: 1,263

3. That Brennan Girl (1946)

Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance

A mother encourages Ziggy, her teen daughter, to grow up quickly, and her boyfriend recruits Ziggy into his racket. Living fast and loose, Ziggy is soon a single mother herself.

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: James Dunn, Mona Freeman, William Marshall, June Duprez

Votes: 359

4. A Song to Remember (1945)

Approved | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Biography of Frederic Chopin.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Paul Muni, Merle Oberon, Cornel Wilde, Nina Foch

Votes: 1,618

5. Son of Lassie (1945)

Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

Laddie (Son of Lassie !) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage ?

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Peter Lawford, Donald Crisp, June Lockhart, Nigel Bruce

Votes: 944

6. The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

Approved | 66 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

The Falcon and his friend Goldie Locke check into what appears to be a silk-smuggling racket in San Francisco.

Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: Tom Conway, Paula Corday, Edward Brophy, Sharyn Moffett

Votes: 802

7. Dangerous Intruder (1945)

65 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An actress, Jenny (Veda Ann Borg), is hitchhiking across the country when she is accidently struck by a car. The driver, Max Ducone (Charles Arnt), offers to take her into his home until ... See full summary »

Director: Vernon Keays | Stars: Charles Arnt, Veda Ann Borg, Tom Keene, Fay Helm

Votes: 88

8. Phantom Lady (1944)

Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda

Votes: 5,750

9. Lady in the Dark (1944)

Approved | 100 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Liza Elliott, "Allure" magazines editor-in-chief, suffers from headaches and continuous daydreams and undergoes psychoanalysis to determine why.

Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Ray Milland, Warner Baxter, Jon Hall

Votes: 562

10. One Body Too Many (1944)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery

An insurance salesman arrives at a creepy mansion to discover his potential eccentric millionaire client already dead. Instead he gets embroiled in a house full of greedy, murderous relatives competing for the inheritance.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Jean Parker, Bela Lugosi, Blanche Yurka

Votes: 1,568

11. Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, War

In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Wise | Stars: Simone Simon, John Emery, Kurt Kreuger, Alan Napier

Votes: 619

12. Ladies Courageous (1944)

Approved | 88 min | Adventure, Drama, War

The story of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron, a unit of female pilots during WW II who flew bombers from the factories to their final destinations.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Diana Barrymore, Anne Gwynne

Votes: 155

13. Captive Wild Woman (1943)

Passed | 61 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

An insane scientist doing experimentation in glandular research becomes obsessed with transforming a female gorilla into a human...even though it costs human life.

Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: John Carradine, Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Lloyd Corrigan

Votes: 1,038

14. Calling Dr. Death (1943)

Approved | 63 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery

A doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.

Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce

Votes: 1,258

15. The Crystal Ball (1943)

Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

A woman becomes a fortune teller after losing a beauty contest.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Gladys George, Virginia Field

Votes: 819

16. Young and Willing (1943)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold... See full summary »

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Robert Benchley, Susan Hayward

Votes: 319

17. Hers to Hold (1943)

Passed | 94 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

The third film in the "3 Smart Girls" trilogy starring Deanna Durbin as Penny Craig, the youngest sister in the Craig Family. Now all grown up, she goes to work in a munitions factory ... See full summary »

Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Joseph Cotten, Charles Winninger, Ludwig Stössel

Votes: 280

18. Honeymoon Lodge (1943)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy

The glamorous and successful play-writing couple Bob and Carol Sterling are at the threshhold of divorce when Carol proposes a 'do-over'. They return to the Sierra resort where they first ... See full summary »

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: David Bruce, Harriet Nelson, June Vincent, Rod Cameron

Votes: 40

19. Moonlight in Vermont (1943)

Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

A poor country girl from Vermont travels to New York City to attend a theatrical school.

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Gloria Jean, Ray Malone, George Dolenz, Fay Helm

Votes: 52

20. Night Monster (1942)

Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Kurt Ingston, a rich recluse, invites the doctors who left him a hopeless cripple to his desolate mansion in the swamps as one by one they meet horrible deaths.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Leif Erickson, Irene Hervey

Votes: 1,854

21. Wings for the Eagle (1942)

Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, George Tobias

Votes: 333

22. Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world... See full summary »

Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Monty Woolley, Ida Lupino, Cornel Wilde, Sara Allgood

Votes: 252 | Gross: $0.20M

23. Halfway to Shanghai (1942)

Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Mystery

A murder occurs on a train bound for Shanghai during World War II.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Henry Stephenson, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 74

24. Give Out, Sisters (1942)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music

Peggy (Peggy Ryan)), a messenger, delivers a telegram to The Flamingo Club where the Andrews Sisters (The Andrews Sisters) and Bob Edwards' Orchestra are appearing. Peggy learns that the ... See full summary »

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Laverne Andrews, Patty Andrews, Maxene Andrews, Grace McDonald

Votes: 63

25. The Wolf Man (1941)

Passed | 70 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance

Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Claude Rains, Warren William, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Bellamy

Votes: 30,686

26. Blossoms in the Dust (1941)

Approved | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt

Votes: 2,294

27. The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Romance

After local grocery clerk rescues a baby from an escaped lion, a circus owner builds him into an attraction but balks when he falls in love with his sister.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Sylvia Sidney, Eddie Albert, Joan Leslie

Votes: 1,195

28. Million Dollar Baby (1941)

Approved | 100 min | Comedy, Romance

An older woman discovers that her multimillion-dollar fortune was based on embezzlement, so she sets out to right the wrong. She goes to America to meet the young woman who is the one and ... See full summary »

Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Ronald Reagan, May Robson

Votes: 557

29. The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She must overcome the suspicions of the other students in order to prove herself.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Lynne Overman

Votes: 62

30. Two in a Taxi (1941)

Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama

Jimmy Owens (Russell Hayden) is a driver for a taxicab-fleet trying to scrape together $300.00 in order to buy a small, roadside gas station from its elderly owner George Cleveland. In ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Anita Louise, Russell Hayden, Noah Beery Jr., Dick Purcell

Votes: 30

31. Ride, Kelly, Ride (1941)

59 min | Crime, Drama, Sport

Jockey (Stephens) struggles against gamblers with the help of stable trainer (Pallette) and horse onwer's daughter (Quigley).

Director: Norman Foster | Stars: Eugene Pallette, Marvin Stephens, Rita Quigley, Mary Healy

Votes: 15

32. The Dog in the Orchard (1941)

20 min | Short, Drama, Romance

This Warner Bros. "Featurette" , based on Mary Roberts Rinehart's story with the same title, is about a man who murders his wife so he can marry another woman. However, the barking of the ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Howard Da Silva, Barbara Pepper, Addison Richards, David Bruce

33. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)

Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History

Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.

Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard

Votes: 2,060

34. Kitty Foyle (1940)

Passed | 108 min | Drama, Romance

A hard-working white-collar girl from a middle-class family meets and falls in love with a young socialite, but she soon clashes with his family.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Dennis Morgan, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli

Votes: 4,053

35. Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940)

Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood and Blondie are overjoyed when Mr. Dithers invites them to stay in an old mansion with servants and everything else--including ghosts.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 331

36. Blondie on a Budget (1940)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Family

Dagwood wants to join the trout club and Blondie wants a fur coat. Jealousy reigns when Dag's old girlfriend Joan shows up, but nothing else matters when a drawing at the movie theatre provides money for the coat.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 558

37. Untamed (1940)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dr. Bill Crawford, on a hunting trip to Canada, is attacked by a bear and his guide, Joe Easter, saves his life and takes the badly-mauled Crawford to his cabin home, where he lives with ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Morison, Akim Tamiroff, William Frawley

Votes: 68

38. 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: 615

39. Life with Henry (1940)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Romance

Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.

Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernst, Eddie Bracken, Fred Niblo

Votes: 53

40. Dancing on a Dime (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

From Wikipedia Dancing on a Dime is a 1940 Paramount Pictures movie directed by Joseph Santley about five actors and dancers putting on a show while living in a theatre. It is adapted from ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Grace McDonald, Robert Paige, Virginia Dale, Peter Lind Hayes

Votes: 39

41. Parole Fixer (1940)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama

This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige, Gertrude Michael

Votes: 59

42. Women Without Names (1940)

Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A newly married couple is framed for the murder of a police officer. She is sent to prison, while he is sentenced to die in the electric chair. She sets out to prove their innocence.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett, John Miljan

Votes: 45

43. Little Orvie (1940)

66 min | Comedy, Drama

Little Orvie is told he cannot have a dog, but finds a stray and keeps it for a day.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Ernest Truex, Dorothy Tree, Ann E. Todd

Votes: 98

44. The Flag of Humanity (1940)

Passed | 19 min | Short, Biography, Drama

This 'Special' entry from the Warners/Vitaphone shorts department is less the story of Clara Barton, and more the story of how Clara Barton helped further the cause of the Red Cross in the ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Nana Bryant, Fay Helm, John Hamilton, Ted Osborne

Votes: 127

45. Dark Victory (1939)

Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance

A young socialite is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor, and must decide whether or not she'll meet her final days with dignity.

Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, George Brent, Humphrey Bogart, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Votes: 12,398

46. The Light That Failed (1939)

Passed | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dick Heldar, a London artist, is gradually losing his sight. He struggles to complete his masterpiece, the portrait of Bessie Broke, a cockney girl, before his eyesight fails him.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ronald Colman, Walter Huston, Muriel Angelus, Ida Lupino

Votes: 520

47. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis

Votes: 454

48. They All Come Out (1939)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan

Votes: 315

49. A Child Is Born (1939)

Approved | 79 min | Drama

A maternity ward, staffed by sympathetic nurses, serves mothers-to-be from all walks of life. These include a happy mother of a large family; a secretly-married teenager who thinks their ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Jeffrey Lynn, Gladys George, Gale Page

Votes: 213 | Gross: $0.04M

50. Blondie Brings Up Baby (1939)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family

A salesman convinces Blondie that Baby Dumpling is a budding genius, so the Bumsteads enroll him in a special school from which he disappears.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Daisy

Votes: 412