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1. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)

Passed | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill

Votes: 9,974

2. The Cocoanuts (1929)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Directors: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx

Votes: 8,204 | Gross: $3.92M

3. Reap the Wild Wind (1942)

Passed | 123 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Florida ship salvager Loxi falls for Jack, captain of a ship wrecked on the Key West shore. However, their romance is complicated by the arrival of another suitor.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey

Votes: 3,549

4. The Mad Miss Manton (1938)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Mystery

After the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves them wrong.

Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene, Frances Mercer

Votes: 2,828

5. She Knew All the Answers (1941)

Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance

Chorus girl Gloria Winters is overjoyed that wealthy young Randy Bradford is so eager to marry her that he's asked her to elope. Before they can leave, he is contacted by Mark Willows, who ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, John Hubbard, Eve Arden

Votes: 100

6. Son of Dracula (1943)

Unrated | 80 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

When Katherine, a beautiful Southern girl obsessed with thoughts of eternal life, invites Count Alucard to come to her mansion in the U.S., she unleashes a Pandora's box of horror on unsuspecting relatives and neighbors.

Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers

Votes: 6,205

7. Du Barry Was a Lady (1943)

Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A nightclub's coatroom attendant who's in love with the club's singer accidentally sips a drugged drink that makes him dream he's French King Louis XV, courting the infamous Madame Du Barry.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, Virginia O'Brien

Votes: 1,724

8. 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: 4,055

9. The Wild Party (1929)

Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue ... See full summary »

Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara

Votes: 555

10. Man Made Monster (1941)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A mad scientist turns a man into an electrically-controlled monster to do his bidding.

Director: George Waggner | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Nagel, Frank Albertson

Votes: 1,881

11. On with the Show! (1929)

Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star.

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil

Votes: 376

12. Ghosts on the Loose (1943)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy

The East Side Kids try to fix up a house for newlyweds, but find the place next door "haunted" by mysterious men.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Bobby Jordan, Bela Lugosi

Votes: 1,537

13. 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: 320

14. Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 (1929)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry. George buys a majority interest in ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: John Breeden, Lola Lane, DeWitt Jennings, Sharon Lynn

Votes: 28

15. The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)

Approved | 118 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of twenty-four.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Robert Donat, Geoffrey Atkins, Jean Cadell, Robert Morley

Votes: 445

16. Campus Rhythm (1943)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A radio songstress runs away from her sponsor and guardian to enroll in college under an assumed name.

Director: Arthur Dreifuss | Stars: Johnny Downs, Gale Storm, Robert Lowery, Douglas Leavitt

Votes: 138

17. Disputed Passage (1939)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, War

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Akim Tamiroff, John Howard, Judith Barrett

Votes: 161

18. Music Man (1948)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

In New York City, Italian American songwriting brothers Phil and Freddie Russo turn out one successful song after another for their publisher, Sanders. One day, Freddie and Phil accept an ... See full synopsis »

Director: Will Jason | Stars: Jimmy Dorsey, Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra, Freddie Stewart, Phil Brito

Votes: 79

19. Dixie (1943)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Musical

A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bing Crosby, Dorothy Lamour, Billy De Wolfe, Marjorie Reynolds

Votes: 175

20. Lady of the Pavements (1929)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee Diane has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane ... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lupe Velez, William Boyd, Jetta Goudal, Albert Conti

Votes: 139

21. Murder in Times Square (1943)

Passed | 65 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

Actor-playwright Cory Williams (Edmund Lowe) is sitting in a nightclub when Longacre Lil (Esther Dale), a Broadway vagrant, comes in and asks him for some money. He not only refuses her but... See full summary »

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Marguerite Chapman, John Litel, William Wright

Votes: 77

22. Nothing But the Truth (1929)

Passed | 78 min | Action, Comedy, Romance

A young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth.

Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Richard Dix, Helen Kane, Louis John Bartels, Ned Sparks

Votes: 104

23. Power of the Press (1943)

Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.

Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Lee Tracy, Gloria Dickson, Otto Kruger

Votes: 477

24. Stage Struck (1948)

Passed | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

The police find the body of hostess Helen Howard (Wanda McKay), disposed of by petty racketeer Nick Mantee (Kane Richmond) after she was shot in his Bluejay night club by Benny Nordick (... See full summary »

Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kane Richmond, Audrey Long, Conrad Nagel, Ralph Byrd

Votes: 205

25. Salute to the Marines (1943)

Passed | 101 min | Drama, Romance, War

Wallace Beery stars in this patriotic World War II drama about a tough retired Marine who is caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign, experiencing action, heroics and tragedy. ... See full summary »

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Keye Luke

Votes: 273

26. Henry Aldrich for President (1941)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family

Complications arise when Henry Aldrich runs for Centerville High School Student Body President.

Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, June Preisser, Mary Anderson, Charles Smith

Votes: 151

27. Secret Service Investigator (1948)

Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A returning war hero who looks like a forger gets mixed up with gangsters and the Secret Service.

Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Lloyd Bridges, George Zucco, June Storey

Votes: 53

28. Fired Wife (1943)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Romance

In this comedy, a husband and wife want to keep their marriage a secret on professional grounds, and are consequently pursued romantically by an 'other man' and 'other woman', resulting in awkward complications.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Diana Barrymore, Walter Abel

Votes: 30

29. Thrill of a Lifetime (1937)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such thing as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: James V. Kern, Charles Adler, George Kelly, Billy Mann

Votes: 60

30. Sleepy Lagoon (1943)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical

Transient workers are pouring into Sleepy Lagoon by the thousands to work in the local defense factories, with no means of finding good clean fun in a town that has been as moribund as its ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Dennis Day, Ruth Donnelly, Joe Sawyer

Votes: 44

31. Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour (1943)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

Henry Aldrich becomes the most sought after guy in town when he wins a date with a movie star.

Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney

Votes: 133

32. Follow the Band (1943)

Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A farmer goes to New York to become a singer, has success and marries his neighbor's girl-friend.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leon Errol, Mary Beth Hughes, Eddie Quillan, Samuel S. Hinds

Votes: 48

33. Nearly Divorced (1928)

Passed | 25 min | Comedy, Short

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Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Betty Francisco, Cyril Chadwick

34. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Forty Steps to Glory (1959)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Buff McCloud runs a Nevada town with an iron fist, dispatching opposition ruthlessly. After bringing in dance hall girl Fay, he's jealous of her friendship with Randall who stands up to him. Randall uses psychology and faith to oppose him.

Director: Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Gregg Palmer, Patrice Wymore, Don Megowan, Alexander Lockwood

Votes: 29

35. Profit (1996–1997)
Episode: Cupid (1997)

45 min | Crime, Drama

Problems with a merger open new opportunities for Profit, but reveal secrets that may cause trouble. Bobby plot get herself a rich man causes problems for Profit at Gracen & Gracen.

Director: Scott Paulin | Stars: Adrian Pasdar, Sherman Augustus, Lisa Blount, Lisa Darr

Votes: 68