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51. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 154
52. The Trap (1959)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a remote Californian desert town, a lawyer arranges for a wanted mobster to skip the country via a small airstrip but the local sheriff and his deputy could pose a problem.
Director: Norman Panama | Stars: Richard Widmark, Lee J. Cobb, Tina Louise, Earl Holliman
Votes: 699
53. Double Indemnity (1973 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A scheming wife lures an insurance investigator into helping murder her husband and then declare it an accident. The investigator's boss, not knowing his man is involved in it, suspects murder and sets out to prove it.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, Robert Webber, Samantha Eggar
Votes: 616
54. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
30 min | Drama
This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.
Stars: Philip Carey, Laraine Day, Willis Bouchey, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 276
55. Gorilla at Large (1954)
Not Rated | 83 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
At a carnival called the Garden of Evil, a man is murdered, apparently by a gorilla...or someone in a gorilla suit.
Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Anne Bancroft, Lee J. Cobb, Raymond Burr
Votes: 719
56. Golden Boy (1939)
Approved | 99 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A poor young Italian man who is a virtuoso on the violin wishes to become a champion boxer to make a fortune for his family. But what is the road to success and happiness, and what is the price?
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Adolphe Menjou, William Holden, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,187
57. The Luck of the Irish (1948)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Tyrone Power, Anne Baxter, Cecil Kellaway, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 1,181
58. The Garment Jungle (1957)
Approved | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The struggle of a lady's garment workers' organization to unionize a New York clothing sweat shop; the owner of which is determined to keep the union out of his business at any cost.
Directors: Vincent Sherman, Robert Aldrich | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Kerwin Mathews, Gia Scala, Richard Boone
Votes: 1,227
59. Mafia (1968)
M | 108 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The new chief of the Carabinieri in a small Sicilian town must fight corrupt officials, the frightened silence of witnesses and the local Mafia boss to solve a murder.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Tano Cimarosa
Votes: 1,895
60. Medic (1954–1956)
30 min | Drama
Highlights the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors and surgeons headed by Dr. Konrad Styner. One of the first medical shows on TV that paid strict attention to detail, and... See full summary »
Stars: Richard Boone, Mary Stewart, Robert Stevenson, Robert Bray
Votes: 182
61. La polizia sta a guardare (1973)
95 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Commissioner Cardone arrives in a small town in North Italy, where he declares war to a criminal gang specialized in kidnapping of young rich boys; a war that may cost him both his job and his family.
Director: Roberto Infascelli | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Lee J. Cobb, Jean Sorel, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 272
62. Startime (I) (1959–1961)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The Ford Motor Company sponsored this hour-long program which rotated between variety shows, dramatic productions, and musical comedies. One of the offerings was turned into a regular series, Sing Along with Mitch (1961).
Stars: Ethel Merman, Dean Martin, William Hickey, Alice Backes
Votes: 230
63. The Tall Texan (1953)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Western
A group of travelers in the Southwest band together to search for gold on Indian burial grounds. Convict Ben Trask attempts to maintain order within the group as they are faced with greed and danger.
Director: Elmo Williams | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Lee J. Cobb, Marie Windsor, Luther Adler
Votes: 201
64. The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Approved | 120 min | Drama
A press agent brings a dead actress home for burial. To promote her one film, he asks churches to ring bells for 3 days, hoping to get the studio head to release it.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 1,128
65. But Not for Me (1959)
Approved | 111 min | Comedy, Romance
Without a new play and money, a 55 y.o. Broadway theater producer retires. But when fired, his 22 y.o. secretary says, she loves him. He decides to make that a scene in a new play and her to write it and play the role.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Clark Gable, Carroll Baker, Lilli Palmer, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 586
66. The Moon Is Down (1943)
90 min | Drama, War
During the Nazi occupation of Norway, a small Norwegian village struggles to cope with the invaders and some locals choose collaboration while others prefer armed resistance.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Henry Travers, Lee J. Cobb, Dorris Bowdon
Votes: 543
67. Winged Victory (1944)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Pinkie Scariano, Alan Ross and Frankie Davis all join the Army Air Forces with hopes of becoming pilots. In training, they meet and become pals with Bobby Grills and Irving Miller, and the ... See full summary »
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Mark Daniels, Edmond O'Brien, Lon McCallister, Don Taylor
Votes: 228
68. Macho Callahan (1970)
R | 99 min | Drama, Western
Macho Callahan breaks out of a Confederate military prison, intent on revenge against the man who conscripted him into the army. Before he gets started, he kills another man in a petty dispute and is in turn pursued by the vengeful widow.
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski | Stars: David Janssen, Jean Seberg, Lee J. Cobb, James Booth
Votes: 484
69. Men of Boys Town (1941)
Not Rated | 106 min | Drama
Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy return in this sequel to the original Boys Town. This time the school faces financial trouble as Father Flanagan tries to help every little boy he meets. ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Bobs Watson, Larry Nunn
Votes: 1,239
70. The Vanishing Shadow (1934)
Passed | 242 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A 12-episode serial in which a son avenges the death of his father at the hands of corrupt politicians. He develops a wide variety of complex devices in his crusade . . . Ray guns, robots and a 'vanishing belt.'
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Onslow Stevens, Ada Ince, Walter Miller, James Durkin
Votes: 143
71. Yankee Pasha (1954)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Romance
In 1800, trapper Jason Starbuck falls for Massachusetts girl Roxana but has to rescue her from slavery when sea pirates capture Roxana and sell her to a Moroccan harem.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Rhonda Fleming, Mamie Van Doren, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 259 | Gross: $1.25M
72. The Racers (1955)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, Sport
Follows the professional and personal life of race car driver Gino Borgesa (Douglas), as he struggles on the track and in his love life.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Kirk Douglas, Bella Darvi, Gilbert Roland, Cesar Romero
Votes: 414
73. The DuPont Show of the Month (1957–1961)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The award winning bing play of Mary Chase came to television in 1958. It tells the story of Elwood P. Dowd (Art Carney), a personable chap who drinks a little, and befriends a "pookah", a ... See full summary »
Stars: Tim O'Connor, James Valentine, Hurd Hatfield, John Colicos
Votes: 105
74. Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A movie company is filming the "Arabian Nights" when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Roosevelt's New Deal, he ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Tony Martin, Roland Young, June Lang
Votes: 610
75. Buckskin Frontier (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Western
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 228
76. Paris Calling (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flee the city when the goose-stepping German storm troopers arrive. After her mother ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Randolph Scott, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 131
77. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1958–1960)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series hosted by Betty Furness in the first season, and Desi Arnaz in the second. Stories came from several genres, often based on fact. A two part episode was spun off as the popular show The Untouchables (1959).
Stars: Desi Arnaz, Betty Furness, Bruce Gordon, Keenan Wynn
Votes: 143
78. The Family Secret (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama
A lawyer faces a difficult decision when his son accidentally kills his best friend with no witnesses present, and a rift develops when his mother and father offer contradictory solutions to their son's dilemma.
Director: Henry Levin | Stars: John Derek, Lee J. Cobb, Jody Lawrance, Erin O'Brien-Moore
Votes: 390
79. The Young Lawyers (1969–1971)
60 min | Drama
David Barrett heads an organization in Boston that supports poor and indigent clients with the aid of young lawyers, Aaron Silverman is the young idealist, Pat Walters is the black ... See full summary »
Stars: Zalman King, Judy Pace, Lee J. Cobb, Phillip Clark
Votes: 90
80. The 27th Annual Academy Awards (1955 TV Special)
Family
The 27th Academy Awards, held on March 30th, 1955 to honor the best films of 1954. Hosted by Bob Hope at the RKO Pantages Theatre in Hollywood with Thelma Ritter hosting from the NBC Century Theatre in New York City.
Directors: Bill Bennington, Grey Lockwood | Stars: Bob Hope, Buddy Adler, Anna Maria Alberghetti, June Allyson
Votes: 261
81. The DuPont Show with June Allyson (1959–1961)
30 min | Drama
A drama anthology series presented by, and occasionally starring, June Allyson.
Stars: June Allyson, Don Rickles, Naomi Stevens, Dick Powell
Votes: 244
82. Nick the Sting (1976)
97 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his ... See full summary »
Director: Fernando Di Leo | Stars: Luc Merenda, Lee J. Cobb, Gabriele Ferzetti, Luciana Paluzzi
Votes: 290
83. Rustlers' Valley (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy clears Lucky on a charge of bank robbery and foils the plot of a crooked lawyer to rustle a herd of pedigree cattle and take over the valley.
Director: Nate Watt | Stars: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 229
84. Trapped Beneath the Sea (1974 TV Movie)
97 min | Action, Drama
Based on an incident that occurred off the coast of Florida in 1973, this film tells the story of four men who find themselves trapped in a mini-submarine in the ocean depths.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Martin Balsam, Joshua Bryant, Paul Michael Glaser
Votes: 75
85. The Linkletter Show (1952–1970)
TV-G | 30 min | Family
Daytime variety show starring Art Linkletter.
Stars: Art Linkletter, Jack Slattery, Edith Head, Jack Linkletter
Votes: 201
86. Last Moments (1974)
G | 89 min | Drama
Giacomino a little boy abandoned by his mother and raised by an alcoholic father. Giacomino is sweet, innocent, hardworking and sadly he is dying. He longs to be reunited with his mother and to go to the circus.
Director: Mario Gariazzo | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, James Whitmore, Renato Cestiè, Marina Malfatti
Votes: 107
87. The Road to Denver (1955)
Approved | 90 min | Western
Two fugitive Texan brothers at odds with one another flee to Colorado where they take jobs with rival bosses.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: John Payne, Lee J. Cobb, Mona Freeman, Ray Middleton
Votes: 339
88. Alle origini della mafia (1976– )
50 min | Drama, Crime
Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.
Stars: Richard Johnson, Katharine Ross, Lee J. Cobb, Trevor Howard
Votes: 38
89. The Alcoa Hour (1955–1957)
60 min | Drama
This live series featured adaptations of other works (novels, plays, et cetera) plus original works for the show. It was primarily dramas, but a few musicals also were presented. The show ... See full summary »
Stars: Luis Van Rooten, Robert Emhardt, Loïs Bolton, Robert Dryden
Votes: 98
90. Day of Triumph (1954)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, History
An inspiring and ground breaking film on the life and ministry of Jesus Christ.
Directors: Irving Pichel, John T. Coyle | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Robert Holton, James Griffith, Joanne Dru
Votes: 86
91. The Fighter (1952)
Not Rated | 78 min | Drama, Sport
In Mexico, a young boxer uses his winnings to buy guns to avenge his family's murder.
Director: Herbert Kline | Stars: Richard Conte, Vanessa Brown, Lee J. Cobb, Frank Silvera
Votes: 171
92. Tonight We Raid Calais (1943)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
During WW2, a British commando lands in German-occupied France to locate a German munitions plant and to mark the target with a beacon for the Allied night bombers sent to destroy it.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Annabella, John Sutton, Lee J. Cobb, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 297
93. Danger on the Air (1938)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Caesar Kluck, soft-drink magnate, is found dead in the office of a big radio-broadcasting company. Benjamin Franklin Butts, a sound engineer, discovers that Kluck met his death from ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Nan Grey, Donald Woods, Jed Prouty, Berton Churchill
Votes: 227
94. This Thing Called Love (1940)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy
A woman insists to her new husband that they must remain celibate for the first three months of their marriage, which he tries desperately to get around.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Melvyn Douglas, Binnie Barnes, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 213
95. Mark il poliziotto spara per primo (1975)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama
Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: Franco Gasparri, Lee J. Cobb, Nino Benvenuti, Ely Galleani
Votes: 196
96. La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine (1976)
88 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery so he finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
Director: Stelvio Massi | Stars: John Saxon, Lee J. Cobb, Renzo Palmer, Lino Capolicchio
Votes: 194
97. Somerset Maugham TV Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama
A short-lived attempt to adapt the works of the veteran British writer William Somerset Maugham for a television audience. Introductions and epilogues often depicted the writer himself, and... See full summary »
Stars: W. Somerset Maugham, Robert H. Harris, Ross Martin, Joan Chandler
Votes: 42
98. Miami Exposé (1956)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Miami cop Bart Scott tracks down, in Cuba, a fugitive witness who can shed light in a double homicide and about the activities of a Miami mob lawyer who uses murder and blackmail in order to force the legalization of gambling in Florida.
Director: Fred F. Sears | Stars: Lee J. Cobb, Patricia Medina, Edward Arnold, Michael Granger
Votes: 234
99. North of the Rio Grande (1937)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy's brother has been murdered and he is on the trail of the murderers. To get them he makes himself seem to be a wanted man.
Director: Nate Watt | Stars: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 231
100. Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man (1970 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Director: Walter C. Miller | Stars: Anne Bancroft, Mel Brooks, Jack Cassidy, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 31