non-music/als watched
by bderoes | created - 12 Oct 2017 | updated - 1 day ago | PublicRelated lists:
musicals with worthwhile dancing:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls020899620
musicals watched:
http://www.imdb.com/list/ls020839949
non-features watched (shorts):
https://www.imdb.com/list/ls090702360/
Films where I wanted to make notes, not public reviews.
Most notes live at the public site
http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/
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1. The Emperor Jones (1933)
G | 72 min | Drama, Music
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
Directors: Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille | Stars: Paul Robeson, Dudley Digges, Frank H. Wilson, Fredi Washington
Votes: 817
John Krimsky and Gifford Cochran Inc. (distr. UA), dir. Dudley Murphy, William C. de Mille (uncredited); http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-emperor-jones-1933-5.html
2. Kiss and Make-Up (1934)
78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A handsome plastic surgeon has a beauty clinic, where many a beautiful client falls in love with him. His unnoticed secretary is in love with him, too.
Director: Harlan Thompson | Stars: Cary Grant, Helen Mack, Genevieve Tobin, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 514
Paramount, dir. Thompson; 6+ http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/kiss-and-make-up-1934-6.html
3. Baby, Take a Bow (1934)
PG | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry, have both gone straight... See full summary »
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Shirley Temple, James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 823
Fox Film Corp., dir. Lachman; 5 http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/baby-take-bow-1934-5.html
4. Check and Double Check (1930)
77 min | Comedy
Typical Amos 'n Andy storyline has the boys trying to make a go of their "open-air" taxi business while they get caught up in a society hassle, involving driving musicians to a fancy party.... See full summary »
Director: Melville W. Brown | Stars: Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll, Sue Carol, Irene Rich
Votes: 338
RKO, dir. Brown; 5- http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/check-and-double-check-1930-5.html
5. Palooka (1934)
86 min | Comedy, Music
Knobby discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, also drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, Stuart Erwin, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 311
Edward Small Prod, dir. Stoloff; 6-- (sic) http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/palooka-1934-6.html
6. Young Man of Manhattan (1930)
79 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two flappers (Claudette Colbert and Ginger Rogers) try to get their newspaper reporter boyfriends to pay attention to them.
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Norman Foster, Ginger Rogers, Charles Ruggles
Votes: 142
Paramount, dir. Bell; 7- http://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/young-man-of-manhattan-1930-7.html
7. A Bill of Divorcement (1932)
70 min | Drama
A man, Hilary Fairfield returns home after fifteen years in a mental asylum. However, he finds things are not the way they were when he left.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: John Barrymore, Katharine Hepburn, Billie Burke, David Manners
Votes: 1,446
RKO, dir. Cukor; 7 Very effective. Watched on YouTube.
8. Now and Forever (1934)
PG | 81 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A swindler and his girlfriend take in his young daughter, who has been living with the family of his deceased wife.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple, Guy Standing
Votes: 853
Paramount, dir. Hathaway; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/10/now-and-forever-1934-6.html
9. Our Little Girl (1935)
65 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Don Middleton is so caught up with his work he neglects his wife Elsa. Lonely Elsa begins to spend more time with Don's best friend and they become attracted to one another. Don and Elsa ... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Shirley Temple, Rosemary Ames, Joel McCrea, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 425
Fox Film Corp, dir. Robertson; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/our-little-girl-1935-6.html
10. Metropolis (1927)
G | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 154,848 | Gross: $1.24M
Universum Film (UFA), dir. Lang; 6. The 1984 Giorgio Moroder version is Blu. The 2010 Complete version is DVD. https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/metropolis-1927-1984-6.html
11. She (1935)
101 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to discover the land and its secret of immortality... See full summary »
Directors: Lansing C. Holden, Irving Pichel | Stars: Helen Gahagan, Randolph Scott, Helen Mack, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 1,419
RKO, dir. Holden & Pichel, 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/she-1935-8-nm.html
12. Casablanca (1942)
G | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 506,359 | Gross: $1.02M
Warner, dir. Curtiz, 9 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/casablanca-1942-9-nm.html
13. Hearts Divided (1936)
87 min | Drama, History, Musical
Napoleon needs money to fight his wars in Europe so he wants 20 million dollars for the Louisiana Territory in the United States. To help the negotiations, he sends his brother, Jerome, to ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Marion Davies, Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Claude Rains
Votes: 770
Warner, dir. Borzage; 5+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/hearts-divided-1936-5-nm.html
14. So Big! (1932)
81 min | Drama, Romance
Following the death of Selena's father, she's offered a job as a teacher in a small town and a new chapter of her life begins.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Dickie Moore, Bette Davis
Votes: 1,366
Warner, dir. Wellman; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/so-big-1932-7-nm.html
15. T-Men (1947)
PG | 92 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Thriller
Two US Treasury agents hunt a successful counterfeiting ring.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Wallace Ford, Alfred Ryder, Mary Meade
Votes: 3,042
https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/t-men-1947-5-nm.html
16. Trouble in Texas (1937)
G | 63 min | Action, Music, Romance
Rodeo stars are being killed with poisoned needles, and Tex Ritter is next on the list.
Director: Robert N. Bradbury | Stars: Tex Ritter, Rita Hayworth, White Flash, Earl Dwire
Votes: 153
prod. Boots and Saddles Pictures, distr. Grand National Pictures, dir. Bradbury; 4- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/trouble-in-texas-1937-4.html
17. In Old Kentucky (1935)
86 min | Comedy
Horse trainer Steve Tapley is caught between the feuding Martingale and Shattuck families. He sides with young Nancy Martingale and her grandfather Ezra, and the feud is to be resolved by a... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Will Rogers, Dorothy Wilson, Russell Hardie, Charles Sellon
Votes: 105
Fox, dir. Marshall; 6. NOT a musical, but Bill Robinson dances. https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/in-old-kentucky-1935-6-nm-but.html
18. Sweetheart of the Navy (1937)
61 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Singer struggles to make her new nightclub succeed in a naval port after her partner leaves with the funds but not the bills.
Director: Duncan Mansfield | Stars: Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker, Roger Imhof, Bernadene Hayes
Votes: 18
B. F. Ziedman Film, distr. Grand National, dir. Mansfield; 4 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/sweetheart-of-navy-1937-4-nm.html
19. King Solomon's Mines (1937)
G | 77 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
White hunter Allan Quartermain and his enigmatic guide help a young Irish woman locate her missing father in unexplored Darkest Africa.
Directors: Robert Stevenson, Geoffrey Barkas | Stars: Paul Robeson, Cedric Hardwicke, Roland Young, John Loder
Votes: 1,039
Gaumont British Picture Corporation, dir. Stevenson & Barkas; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/11/king-solomons-mines-1937-7-nm.html
20. Heidi (1937)
88 min | Drama, Family, Musical
A plucky little orphan girl gets dumped abruptly into her gruff, hermit grandfather's care, then later gets retaken and delivered as a companion for an injured girl.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Shirley Temple, Jean Hersholt, Arthur Treacher, Helen Westley
Votes: 4,007
Fox, dir. Dwan; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/heidi-1937-6-nm.html
21. Fools for Scandal (1938)
80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fernand Gravey, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 400
Warner, dir. LeRoy & Connolly; 5+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/fools-for-scandal-1938-5-nm.html
22. Battle of Broadway (1938)
84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two American Legionnaires on convention in New York share adventures and rivalries in an around show biz.
Directors: George Marshall, Allan Dwan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 42
Fox, dir. Marshall & Dwan; 5- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/battle-of-broadway-1938-5-nm.html
23. The Midshipmaid (1932)
84 min | Comedy
Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along, and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.
Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Jessie Matthews, A.W. Baskcomb, Basil Sydney, Frederick Kerr
Votes: 37
Gaumont British; dir. de Courville, 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/midshipmaid-gob-1932-6.html
24. Give Me a Sailor (1938)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Jack Whiting
Votes: 360
Paramount, dir. Nugent; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/give-me-sailor-1938-6.html
25. Room Service (1938)
78 min | Comedy
A penniless theatrical producer must outwit the hotel efficiency expert trying to evict him from his room, while securing a backer for his new play.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Lucille Ball
Votes: 4,638
MGM, dir. Seiter; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/room-service-1938-6-nm.html
26. Climbing High (1938)
78 min | Comedy
Wealthy young man Nicky (Sir Michael Redgrave) pretends to be poor to be close to model Diana (Jesse Matthews) though he's nearly engaged to aristocrat Lady Constance (Margaret Vyner).
Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Jessie Matthews, Michael Redgrave, Noel Madison, Alastair Sim
Votes: 163
Gaumont British, dir. Carol Reed; 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/climbing-high-1938-6-nm.html
27. Road Demon (1938)
65 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
At the Indianapolis Speedway mobsters try to bump off a young racer just as they did his dad. Junk yard owner tap dances.
Director: Otto Brower | Stars: Henry Arthur, Joan Valerie, Henry Armetta, Thomas Beck
Fox, dir, Brower; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/road-demon-1938-5-nm.html
28. Blondie Meets the Boss (1939)
75 min | Comedy, Music
Blondie takes over Dagwood's job while he goes off on a fishing trip.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Jonathan Hale
Votes: 285
Columbia, dir. Strayer; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2017/12/blondie-meets-boss-1939-5-nm.html
29. Bridal Suite (1939)
70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An American playboy dumps his greedy fiance and ends up marrying a woman from the Alps.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen
Votes: 152
MGM, dir Thiele; 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/bridal-suite-1939-6-nm.html
30. Fast and Furious (1939)
73 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Rare book dealers Joel and Garda take a summertime jaunt to the seashore where he becomes involved in a beauty pageant as investor and judge much to her chagrin.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey, Lee Bowman
Votes: 678
MGM, dir. Berkeley; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/fast-and-furious-1939-6-nm.html
31. Everything Happens at Night (1939)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
Two competing reporters fall in love with the daughter of a Nobel Prize winner living in hiding.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Sonja Henie, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings, Maurice Moscovitch
Votes: 150
Fox, dir. Cummings; 5+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/everything-happens-at-night-1939-5-nm.html
32. Slightly Honorable (1939)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A lawyer is framed for the murder of a young party girl and tries to clear his name.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Edward Arnold, Broderick Crawford, Ruth Terry
Votes: 356
Walter Wanger Productions, dir. Garnett; 5- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/slightly-honorable-1939-5-nm.html
33. The Blue Bird (1940)
88 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, a woodchopper's children, are led by the Fairy Berylune on a magical trip through the past, present, and future to locate the Blue Bird of Happiness.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Shirley Temple, Spring Byington, Nigel Bruce, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 1,524
Fox, dir. Lang; 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-blue-bird-1940-8-nm-color.html
34. Angels Over Broadway (1940)
79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A cuckolded embezzler on the verge of suicide is helped by a tout, an alcoholic playwright, and a pick-up girl to reimburse the money with a gambling sting.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Lee Garmes | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, John Qualen
Votes: 954
Columbia, dir. Hecht; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/angels-over-broadway-1940-6-nm.html
35. Golden Earrings (1947)
95 min | Adventure, Romance, War
On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester
Votes: 980 | Gross: $7.00M
Paramount, dir. Leisen, 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/golden-earrings-1947-7-nm.html
36. The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
79 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
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: 950
Universal, dir. Clair, 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/the-flame-of-new-orleans-1941-6-nm.html
37. Affectionately Yours (1941)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females. He's in Lisbon attempting his latest "conquest" when ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Merle Oberon, Dennis Morgan, Rita Hayworth, Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 405
Warner, dir. Bacon; 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/affectionately-yours-1941-6-nm.html
38. Parachute Battalion (1941)
75 min | Drama, Romance, War
In this pre-Pearl Harbor recruiting poster, colonel's estranged son Bill Burke, football hero Donald Morse, and hillbilly Jeff Hollis enlist in the paratroopers. Their training at Fort ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Robert Preston, Nancy Kelly, Edmond O'Brien, Harry Carey
Votes: 200
RKO, dir. Goodwins; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/parachute-battalion-1941-6-nm.html
39. Kathleen (1941)
88 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kathleen is a 12 year old who lives in a big house with a nanny, a butler, maids, no mother and a father who is working most of the time. She dreams of a family with a mother, father and ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Shirley Temple, Herbert Marshall, Laraine Day, Gail Patrick
Votes: 408
MGM, dir. Bucquet; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/kathleen-1941-6-nm.html
40. Ball of Fire (1941)
111 min | Comedy, Romance
A group of professors working on a new encyclopedia encounter a mouthy nightclub singer who is wanted by the police to help bring down her mob boss lover.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oskar Homolka, Henry Travers
Votes: 10,301
Goldwyn, dir. Hawks; 8+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/ball-of-fire-1941-8-nm.html
41. All Through the Night (1942)
PG | 107 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell
Votes: 3,724
Warner, dir. Sherman; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/01/all-through-night-1942-7-nm.html
42. Saboteur (1942)
PG | 109 min | Thriller, War
An aircraft factory worker goes on the run after being wrongly accused of starting a fire that killed his best friend.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger, Alan Baxter
Votes: 22,499
Frank Lloyd Prod./Universal, dir. Hitchcock; 7+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/saboteur-1942-7-nm.html
43. Big City Blues (1932)
63 min | Comedy, Drama
Young man from small town moves to New York City looking for better life.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Eric Linden, Jobyna Howland, Ned Sparks
Votes: 530
Warner, dir. LeRoy; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/big-city-blues-1932-6.html
44. Back to the Future (1985)
PG | 116 min | Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.
Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover
Votes: 1,015,635 | Gross: $210.61M
Universal, Amblin, U-Drive Prod., dir. Zemeckis; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/back-to-future-1985-6.html
45. Primer (2004)
G | 77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
Director: Shane Carruth | Stars: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya
Votes: 95,261 | Gross: $0.42M
Indie, dir. Carruth; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/primer-2004-5-nm.html
46. Maisie Gets Her Man (1942)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Parting company with her on-stage partner Professor Orco partly due to the job being potentially hazardous to her health, streetwise but kind-hearted vaudeville performer Maisie Ravier, in ... See full summary »
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Ann Sothern, Red Skelton, Leo Gorcey, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 368
MGM, dir. Del Ruth; 7- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/maisie-gets-her-man-1942-7-nm.html
47. Tales of Manhattan (1942)
118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda
Votes: 1,937
Fox, dir. Duvivier; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/tales-of-manhattan-1942-6-nm.html
48. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Nazis seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker
Votes: 2,482 | Gross: $0.86M
RKO, dir. McCarey; 7+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/once-upon-honeymoon-1942-7-nm.html
49. Hitler's Children (1943)
82 min | Drama, Romance
This lurid exposé of the Hitler Youth follows the woes of an American girl declared legally German by the Nazi government.
Directors: Edward Dmytryk, Irving Reis | Stars: Tim Holt, Bonita Granville, Kent Smith, Otto Kruger
Votes: 813 | Gross: $3.36M
RKO, dir. Dmytryk & Reis; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/hitlers-children-1943-6-nm.html
50. Mission to Moscow (1943)
124 min | Drama, History, War
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Oskar Homolka, George Tobias
Votes: 828
Warner, dir. Curtiz; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/mission-to-moscow-1943-7-nm.html
51. Hitler's Madman (1943)
84 min | Drama, War
Story of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Patricia Morison, John Carradine, Alan Curtis, Howard Freeman
Votes: 673
Angelus Productions, Producers Releasing Corporation (PRC), distr. MGM, dir. Sirk; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/hitlers-madman-1943-7-nm.html
52. The North Star (1943)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Romance, War
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Walter Brennan
Votes: 1,234
Goldwyn, distr. RKO, dir. Milestone; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-north-star-1943-6-nm.html
53. A Guy Named Joe (1943)
120 min | Drama, Romance, War
A dead World War II bomber pilot named Pete Sandidge, becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond
Votes: 2,216
MGM, dir. Fleming; 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/a-guy-named-joe-1943-8-nm.html
54. True to Life (1943)
94 min | Comedy
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life ... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Mary Martin, Franchot Tone, Dick Powell, Victor Moore
Votes: 97
Paramount, dir. Marshall; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/true-to-life-1943-6-nm.html
55. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
98 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Votes: 6,571
Paramount, dir. Sturges; 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-miracle-of-morgans-creek-1943-6-nm.html
56. Hands Across the Border (1944)
72 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Horse breeders Adams and Brock are vying for the Army contract. When Adams is killed trying to ride his horse Trigger, Roy saves the horse from being shot. He trains him and then plans to ride him in the race to win the contract.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, Ruth Terry, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams
Votes: 96
Republic, dir. Kane; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/hands-across-border-1944-5-nm.html
57. Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
87 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
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: 389
Universal, dir. Walker; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-mystery-of-edwin-drood-1935-5-nm.html
58. Edge of Darkness (1943)
119 min | Drama, War
After two years under German rule, a small Norwegian fishing village rises up and revolts against the occupying Nazis.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Nancy Coleman
Votes: 1,945
Warner, dir. Milestone; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/edge-of-darkness-1943-7-nm.html
59. Uncertain Glory (1944)
102 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After a career criminal is recaptured and knows he faces the guillotine, he offers to exchange his life for 100 hostages slated for execution by the Nazis.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Errol Flynn, Paul Lukas, Lucile Watson, Faye Emerson
Votes: 1,109
Warner, dir. Walsh; 7- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/uncertain-glory-1944-7-nm.html
60. Destination Tokyo (1943)
G | 135 min | Adventure, History, War
In order to provide information for the first air raid over Tokyo, a U.S. submarine sneaks into Tokyo Bay and places a spy team ashore.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Cary Grant, John Garfield, Alan Hale, John Ridgely
Votes: 4,518
Warner, dir. Daves; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/02/destination-tokyo-1943-7-nm.html
61. The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
126 min | Drama, Romance, War
London based American nurse, Lady Susan Ashwood (Irene Dunne), is at a hospital awaiting the imminent arrival of wounded soldiers. She is hoping that her enlisted son, Sir John Ashwood II (... See full summary »
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Irene Dunne, Alan Marshal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan
Votes: 1,373
MGM, dir. Brown; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-white-cliffs-of-dover-1944-6-nm.html
62. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
PG | 101 min | Comedy, War
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Votes: 4,107
Paramount, dir. Sturges; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/hail-conquering-hero-1944-7-nm.html
63. Kismet (1944)
100 min | Adventure, Fantasy
In ancient Bagdad, Hafiz is a beggar - self coined the King of Beggars - and a master of the slight of hand. He often likes to wander the streets late at night pretending to be a Prince, ... See full summary »
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Ronald Colman, Marlene Dietrich, James Craig, Edward Arnold
Votes: 982
MGM, dir. Dieterle; 7+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/kismet-1944-7-nm-color.html
64. To Have and Have Not (1944)
PG | 100 min | Adventure, Comedy, Film-Noir
During World War II, American expatriate Harry Morgan helps transport a French Resistance leader and his beautiful wife to Martinique while romancing a sensuous lounge singer.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran
Votes: 30,012
Warner, dir. Hawks; 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/to-have-and-have-not-1944-8-nm.html
65. The Conspirators (1944)
PG | 101 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
During WW2, in neutral Portugal, a Dutch resistance fighter is attempting to find passage to England while trying to avoid Nazi spies and Portuguese policemen.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
Votes: 943
Warner, dir. Negulesco; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-conspirators-1944-5-nm.html
66. Candles at Nine (1944)
82 min | Mystery
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young ... See full summary »
Director: John Harlow | Stars: Eliot Makeham, Beatrix Lehmann, John Salew, Joss Ambler
Votes: 89
British National Films, dir. Harlow; 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/candles-at-nine-1944-6-nm.html
67. The Kid Sister (1945)
56 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Joan Hollingsworth is the younger sister of Ethel and their mother believes Ethel is entitles to all the advantages until she acquires a husband, but Joan thinks otherwise. Forbidden to ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Roger Pryor, Judy Clark, Frank Jenks, Constance Worth
Votes: 45
Indie, distr. PRC, dir. Newfield; 5- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-kid-sister-1945-5-nm.html
68. Vertigo (1958)
G | 128 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller
A former police detective juggles wrestling with his personal demons and becoming obsessed with a hauntingly beautiful woman.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
Votes: 348,693 | Gross: $3.20M
Alfred J. Hitchcock Prod., distr. Paramount, dir. Hitchcock; 10 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/vertigo-1958-10.html
69. Pillow to Post (1945)
92 min | Comedy
With a war on and most men being drafted, Howard Oil Supply Company has no salesmen left. So daughter Jean hits the road and does not make one sale. She finally gets one tentative sale with... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Ida Lupino, Sydney Greenstreet, William Prince, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 391
Warner, dir. Sherman; 5+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/pillow-to-post-1945-5-nm.html
70. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
G | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
Director: Peter Godfrey | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 7,432
Warner, dir. Godfrey; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/christmas-in-connecticut-1945-7-nm.html
71. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
PG | 105 min | Drama, Family
A Norwegian farmer lovingly raises his daughter in rural World War II-era Benson Junction, Wisconsin.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Frances Gifford
Votes: 1,668
MGM, dir. Rowland; 8+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/our-vines-have-tender-grapes-1945-8-nm.html
72. A Thousand and One Nights (1945)
93 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Tongue-in-cheek fantasy film set in Baghdad and loosely based on the One Thousand and One Nights medieval story.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Evelyn Keyes, Phil Silvers, Adele Jergens, Cornel Wilde
Votes: 507
Columbia, dir. Green; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-thousand-and-one-nights-1945-6-color.html
73. Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The misadventures of a group of diverse guests at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
Votes: 1,056 | Gross: $9.51M
MGM, dir. Leonard; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/week-end-at-waldorf-1945-6-nm.html
74. Cornered (1945)
102 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
Canadian flyer Laurence Gerard finds that his wife has been murdered by a French collaborator. His quest for justice leads him to Switzerland and Argentina.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Micheline Cheirel, Nina Vale
Votes: 2,013
RKO, dir Dmytryk; 6- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/cornered-1945-6-nm.html
75. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
108 min | Biography, Drama, War
During WW2, Pulitzer prize winner and war correspondent Ernie Pyle joins the army and writes articles about his comrades in his daily columns.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
Votes: 2,900
Lester Cowan Productions, distr. UA, dir. Wellman; 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/story-of-gi-joe-1945-8-nm.html
76. The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
91 min | Drama, Music
A former reporter comes back home after serving in the army during World War I and finds that it's much more difficult to find work than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, James Gleason
Votes: 418
MGM, dir. Taurog; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-hoodlum-saint-1946-5-nm.html
77. A Night in Casablanca (1946)
85 min | Comedy
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Charles Drake
Votes: 5,811
Loma Vista Productions, distr. UA, dir. Mayo; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/a-night-in-casablanca-1946-6-nm.html
78. Easy to Wed (1946)
106 min | Comedy, Romance
To prevent a libel case against the paper, a reporter tries to compromise the reputation of a tycoon's slandered daughter.
Directors: Edward Buzzell, Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Van Johnson, Esther Williams, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 641
MGM, dir. Buzzell+; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/easy-to-wed-1946-6-color-nm.html
79. Genbaku no ko (1952)
97 min | Drama, War
Post war Hiroshima: It's been four years since the last time she visited her hometown. Takako faces the after effects of the A-bomb when she travels around the city to call on old friends.
Director: Kaneto Shindô | Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Osamu Takizawa, Masao Shimizu, Jûkichi Uno
Votes: 933
dir. Shindô; 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/children-of-hiroshima-1952-8-nm.html
80. Three Wise Fools (1946)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
40 years since Richard, James, and Theodore insulted 'The O'Monahan' and he put a vexing blessing on them, all three have obtained their dreams of grandeur, but they all live in one house ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 313
MGM, dir. Buzzell; 5- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/03/three-wise-fools-1946-5-nm.html
81. Mr. Hex (1946)
63 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Sach is given a post-hypnotic suggestion that turns him into a championship prizefighter.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 258
Monogram, dir. Beaudine; 5- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/mr-hex-1946-5-nm.html
82. The Locket (1946)
PG | 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: 2,301
RKO, dir. Brahm; 7- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-locket-7-nm.html
83. Mr. Wu (1927)
91 min | Drama, Romance
When Mandarin Wu's unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Lon Chaney, Louise Dresser, Renée Adorée, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 524 | Gross: $0.47M
MGM, dir. Nigh; 8 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/mr-wu-1927-8-nm-silent.html
84. Lost Horizon (1937)
132 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
A plane crash delivers a group of people to the secluded land of Shangri-La - but is it the miraculous utopia it appears to be?
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard
Votes: 11,701
Columbia; dir. Capra; 8+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/lost-horizon-1937-8-nm.html
85. Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1948 rural America, two stepbrothers compete for the same gal and the younger brother buys two untamed mules for work projects while the older brother tries to sabotage him.
Director: F. Hugh Herbert | Stars: June Haver, Lon McCallister, Walter Brennan, Anne Revere
Votes: 270
Fox, dir. Herbert; 7+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/scudda-hoo-scudda-hay-1948-7-nm-color.html
86. Bill and Coo (1948)
G | 61 min | Musical, Family, Fantasy
The feathered residents of Chirpendale are terrorized by an evil black crow by the name of "The Black Menace". But to the citizen's rescue comes a brave young taxi puller named Bill!
Director: Dean Riesner | Stars: Burton's Birds, Jimmy the Crow, George Burton, Elizabeth Walters
Votes: 214
Ken Murray Prod., distr. Republic, dir. Riesner; 4 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/bill-and-coo-1948-4-nm.html
87. The Iron Curtain (1948)
87 min | Biography, Crime, History
The story of Soviet cypher-clerk Igor Gouzenko who was posted to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa,Canada in 1943 and defected in 1945 to reveal the extent of Soviet espionage activities directed against Canada.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, June Havoc, Berry Kroeger
Votes: 731
Fox, dir. Wellman; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-iron-curtain-1948-6-nm.html
88. Miranda (1948)
80 min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue soon after.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Glynis Johns, Googie Withers, Griffith Jones, John McCallum
Votes: 850
Gainsborough Pictures, dir. Annakin; 6+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/miranda-1948-6-nm.html
89. The Time of Your Life (1948)
G | 109 min | Comedy, Drama
A wide variety of persons come into Nick's Pacific Street Saloon, some to ask for work and others just to pass the time.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: James Cagney, William Bendix, Wayne Morris, Jeanne Cagney
Votes: 1,089
William Cagney Prod., distr. UA, dir. Potter; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-time-of-your-life-1948-6-nm.html
90. A New Leaf (1971)
102 min | Comedy, Romance
Henry Graham lives the life of a playboy. When his lawyer tells him one day that his lifestyle has consumed all his funds, he needs an idea to avoid climbing down the social ladder. So he intends to marry a rich woman and - murder her.
Director: Elaine May | Stars: Walter Matthau, Elaine May, Jack Weston, George Rose
Votes: 4,814
indie, Paramount, dir. May; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-new-leaf-1971-7-nm.html
91. Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin' (1948)
78 min | Comedy
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Marjorie Main, Percy Kilbride, Penny Edwards
Votes: 128
Universal, dir. Sherman; 6 {nm} but DO dances twice. https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/feudin-fussin-and-fightin-1948-nm.html
92. Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
While on vacation in the Caribbean with his wife, a middle-aged man unexpectedly finds, and falls in love with, a mermaid.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: William Powell, Ann Blyth, Irene Hervey, Andrea King
Votes: 1,049
Nunnally Johnson Prod., distr. Universal, dir. Pichel; 7- https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/mr-peabody-and-mermaid-1948-7-nm.html
93. The One Man Jury (1978)
98 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Frustrated with the lenient criminal justice system, an LAPD homicide cop goes vigilante on various criminals, including a serial killer of women.
Director: Charles Martin | Stars: Jack Palance, Christopher Mitchum, Pamela Susan Shoop, Cara Williams
Votes: 161
indie prod., dir. Charles Martin; 5 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-one-man-jury-1978-5.html
94. The Three Musketeers (1948)
125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
D'Artagnan (Gene Kelly) and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu (Vincent Price) to usurp King Louis XIII's (Frank Morgan's) power.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin
Votes: 5,563
MGM, dir. Sidney; 6. GK athletics & stunts, no dancing. https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-three-musketeers-1948-6-nm-color.html
95. That's Black Entertainment: Westerns (2002 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
This documentary provides a look into the B westerns produced for African-American theatres in the 1930s and 1940s and their impact on westerns featuring African Americans in recent years.
Director: Walid Khaldi | Stars: Mario Van Peebles, Pearl Bowser, Ossie Davis, William Greaves
Votes: 8
Indie; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/thats-black-entertainment-2002-7-nm.html
96. That's Black Entertainment: Comedians (2002 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Survey of comedic African-American "race" films of the 1920's through 1940's, particularly the work of Bert Williams, Stepin Fetchit, Mantan Moreland, Spencer Williams, Dusty Fletcher
Director: Walid Khaldi | Stars: Pearl Bowser, Ossie Davis, William Greaves, Nick Stewart
Indie; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/thats-black-entertainment-2002-7-nm.html
97. That's Black Entertainment: Actors (2002 TV Movie)
50 min | Documentary
Survey of African-American "race" films of the 1920's through 1940's, particularly the work of Paul Robeson, Oscar Micheaux, Clarence Muse, Spencer Williams, Francine Everett, Sheila Guyse, and July Jones.
Director: Walid Khaldi | Stars: Pearl Bowser, Ossie Davis, William Greaves, Mario Van Peebles
Votes: 7
Indie; 7 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/04/thats-black-entertainment-2002-7-nm.html
98. Black Panther (2018)
PG | 134 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
T'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.
Director: Ryan Coogler | Stars: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira
Votes: 587,668 | Gross: $700.06M
Marvel Studios, Disney, dir. Coogler; 8+ https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/05/black-panther-2018-8-nm.html
99. It's Black Entertainment (2002 TV Special)
80 min | Documentary, Music
Survey of musical performers on film from the 20th century, organized into segments: Dancers, Divas, Rock and Soul, Jazz and Swing, Male Singers, and Hip Hop.
Director: Stan Lathan | Stars: Debbie Allen, Carl Anderson, Louis Armstrong, Josephine Baker
Votes: 66
indie, dir. Lathan; 6 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/05/its-black-entertainment-2002-6-nm.html
100. The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend (1949)
77 min | Comedy, Western
Temperamental saloon singer Freddie Jones, jealously shoots at her cheating boyfriend Blackie but mistakenly hits Judge Alfalfa J. O'Toole's honorable behind, forcing her to skip town under the guise of a schoolteacher.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Betty Grable, Cesar Romero, Rudy Vallee, Olga San Juan
Votes: 696 | Gross: $1.49M
Fox, dir. Sturges; 4 https://bdrdiary.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-beautiful-blonde-from-bashful-bend.html
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