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51. Two Guys from Milwaukee (1946)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy

In the midst of a political vote, a Balkan prince comes to New York City to observe ordinary life, where he befriends a cabby and falls for his girlfriend.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Joan Leslie, Janis Paige

Votes: 720 | Gross: $2.50M

52. Playmates (1941)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music

For the sake of a lucrative radio contract, John Barrymore agrees to turn bandleader Kay Kyser into a Shakespearian actor.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez, Ginny Simms

Votes: 357

53. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)

Approved | 105 min | Musical, Comedy, Romance

The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. The ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Martha Vickers, Jack Carson, Janis Paige

Votes: 354

54. Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)

Passed | 112 min | Biography, Musical, Romance

Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Irene Manning

Votes: 454

55. 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

56. The Blue Eagle (1926)

Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama

George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them, making them settle their differences through a boxing fight.

Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell, Margaret Livingston

Votes: 215

57. The Plastic Age (1925)

Not Rated | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Sport

Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to go to parties. He finds that it is impossible to please ... See full summary »

Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Donald Keith, Clara Bow, Mary Alden, Henry B. Walthall

Votes: 377

58. Salute (1929)

Passed | 84 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Fraternal rivalry intensifies when two brothers play on opposing teams in a big Army-Navy football match.

Directors: David Butler, John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney, Stepin Fetchit

Votes: 263

59. The Story of Will Rogers (1952)

Approved | 109 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama

The homespun humorist and social critic starts as a cowboy and goes on to vaudeville, movies, and radio.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Will Rogers Jr., Jane Wyman, Carl Benton Reid, Eve Miller

Votes: 529

60. Caught in the Draft (1941)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy

A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken

Votes: 893

61. East Side of Heaven (1939)

Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Family, Music

A man finds himself the father, by proxy, of a ten-month-old baby and becomes involved in the turbulent lives of the child's family.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Joan Blondell, Mischa Auer, Irene Hervey

Votes: 301

62. Painting the Clouds with Sunshine (1951)

Approved | 87 min | Musical

Tired of her boyfriend's gambling, a young woman joins two vaudeville performers on a trek to Las Vegas to search for millionaires to marry.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Lucille Norman

Votes: 241

63. If I Had My Way (1940)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

After a fellow bridge builder is killed in an accident, two of his co-workers take his now-orphaned daughter to New York to be adopted by relatives.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Gloria Jean, Charles Winninger, El Brendel

Votes: 211

64. Captain Z-Ro (1955–1956)

30 min | Sci-Fi

From his secret laboratory, Captain Z-Ro and his associates use their time machine, the ZX-99, to learn from the past and plan for the future.

Stars: Roy Steffens, Bruce Haynes, Jack Cahill, Richard Glyer

Votes: 66

65. Two Guys from Texas (1948)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Western

Two performers become stranded in Texas after their car breaks down, and become embroiled in criminal and romantic misadventures.

Directors: David Butler, Friz Freleng, Frank Tashlin | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Dorothy Malone, Penny Edwards

Votes: 433

66. Glory (1956)

Approved | 100 min | Drama

Clarabel lives on a Kentucky horse farm and has a special love for the filly Glory. With the help of Chad, Clarabel can prevent Glory's sale and keep her to train her and eventually enter her for the Kentucky Derby.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan, Charlotte Greenwood, John Lupton

Votes: 216

67. Bringing Up Buddy (1960–1961)

30 min | Comedy

Buddy Flower, a financial advisor, lives with his maiden aunts Iris and Violet who adore him but are a little eccentric. They keep him busy getting them out of scrapes, extricating himself ... See full summary »

Stars: Frank Aletter, Doro Merande, Enid Markey, Frank Albertson

Votes: 38

68. That's Right - You're Wrong (1939)

Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Radio sensation Kay Kyser and his band are lured to Hollywood to make a movie, but the screenwriters assigned to the project have difficulty tailoring a script to Kyser's persona.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, Adolphe Menjou, May Robson, Lucille Ball

Votes: 374

69. My Wild Irish Rose (1947)

Approved | 101 min | Biography, Musical

The life of Irish tenor Chauncey Olcott is chronicled from his childhood to his days as the toast of New York. In between, his rise to the top is complicated by romances with two women: his... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Andrea King, Arlene Dahl, Alan Hale

Votes: 435

70. Kentucky Moonshine (1938)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

Tony Martin goes to Kentucky to find talent to boost radio ratings. There it is learned that the Ritz brothers are really from New York and only pretending to be hillbillies to get on Martin's show.

Director: David Butler | Stars: The Ritz Brothers, Harry Ritz, Tony Martin, Jimmy Ritz

Votes: 120

71. Buckskin (1958–1959)

30 min | Western

Annie O'Connell's boarding house in Buckskin, Montana, in 1880, is the setting for dramas unfolding for travelers and townies alike. Stories are seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Jody.

Stars: Tom Nolan, Sallie Brophy, Mike Road, Orville Sherman

Votes: 51

72. Where's Charley? (1952)

97 min | Comedy, Musical

From the popular Broadway show, a musical adaptation Brandon Thomas's 1890's farce about an Oxford undergraduate posing as a classmate's aunt from Brazil--"where the nuts come from." ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Ray Bolger, Allyn Ann McLerie, Robert Shackleton, Horace Cooper

Votes: 167

73. High Society Blues (1930)

Passed | 102 min | Music, Romance

When the high class Divine family meet the newly rich Grangers from Iowa as neighbors in New York and Eleanor Divine is attracted to Eddie Granger instead of the aristocratic pairing her ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, William Collier Sr., Hedda Hopper

Votes: 31

74. C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967)

84 min | Comedy, Musical

Standard boy-girl malt shoppe doings, with a free speech on campus sub-plot dropped in.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Bobby Vee, Jackie DeShannon, Eddie Hodges, Suzie Kaye

Votes: 88

75. Bottoms Up (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Promoter Smoothie King helps a pair of phonies con their way into a movie company. As Wanda heads toward stardom, she turns more and more from King toward the matinée idol. King must decide between his plans and her happiness.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Pat Paterson, John Boles, Sid Silvers

Votes: 173

76. Handy Andy (1934)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy

A small-town druggist is henpecked by his social-climbing wife to sell his pharmacy to a national chain. In addition, she tries to set up her pretty young daughter with the nitwit son of ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Peggy Wood, Mary Carlisle, Paul Harvey

Votes: 87

77. Delicious (1931)

106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel, Raul Roulien

Votes: 246

78. My Weakness (1933)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy

A wealthy young man bets his uncle that he can transform a clumsy cleaning lady into a glamorous fashion plate, then marry her off to his bachelor cousin.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Lilian Harvey, Lew Ayres, Charles Butterworth, Harry Langdon

Votes: 39

79. The Greatest Thing in Life (1918)

70 min | Drama, Romance, War

Jeannette Peret, daughter of a cigar-store owner, leaves her Greenwich Village home for France in hopes of finding there the love which eludes her at home. She becomes enamored of le Bebe, ... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Adolph Lestina, David Butler

Votes: 88

80. John Loves Mary (1949)

Approved | 96 min | Comedy

A GI marries the English girlfriend of his best friend to get her into the U.S. for his friend who lost track of her in the war only to find on returning home that he is stuck with the girl because the friend has married someone else.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris, Edward Arnold

Votes: 503

81. The Temple of Venus (1923)

Passed | 70 min | Fantasy, Romance

Venus sends Cupid to earth to find if romance still exists there. He finds Moira and Peggy, a fisherman's daughters, who become entangled in the amorous pursuits of an artist and a fisherman. Cupid returns to Venus with his report.

Director: Henry Otto | Stars: Will Walling, Mary Philbin, Mickey McBan, Alice Day

Votes: 23

82. Handle with Care (1932)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Bill Gordon (James Dunn), whose lot-in-life is rising, falls in love with Helen Barlow (Boots Mallory), who is raising two cute motherless children who nearly wreck her romance when they ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: James Dunn, Boots Mallory, El Brendel, Victor Jory

Votes: 18

83. The Alien (1915)

Drama

A poor ditch-digger, Pietro Massena, lovingly raises his motherless daughter Rosina. Phil Griswold, in order to throw a party to celebrate his expected inheritance, induces his friend ... See full summary »

Directors: Reginald Barker, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: George Beban, Blanche Schwed, Edward Gillespie, Jack Nelson

84. Jump Into Hell (1955)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, War

Four young French Army officers volunteer to join the Foreign Legion to fight in Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam) in 1954.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Jacques Sernas, Kurt Kasznar, Arnold Moss, Peter van Eyck

Votes: 182

85. Look for the Silver Lining (1949)

Approved | 106 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

Marilyn Miller grows up in a showbiz family and hits Broadway before she is sixteen. She falls in love with her dancer-mentor Jack, but he is married. When she marries her stage partner Frank he soon is called to arms in World War I.

Director: David Butler | Stars: June Haver, Ray Bolger, Gordon MacRae, Charles Ruggles

Votes: 434

86. Business and Pleasure (1932)

77 min | Comedy

On a Mediterranean cruise, Earl Tinker, a manufacturer of razor blades, is the target of a femme fatale in the pay of a business rival, and he becomes embroiled in a feud between two Arab tribes.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Jetta Goudal, Joel McCrea, Dorothy Peterson

Votes: 62

87. Down to Earth (1932)

79 min | Comedy

The Pike Peters family deals with the trappings of wealth. That is, until the depression begins to catch up with them.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Dorothy Jordan, Irene Rich, Matty Kemp

Votes: 91

88. Marlon Brando Screentest for Rebel Without a Cause (1947)

5 min | Documentary, Short

Marlon Brando was asked by Warner Bros. to do a five-minute screen test in 1947 for their new project "Rebel Without a Cause". The studio abandoned the original project, and eventually revived it eight years.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Marlon Brando, Ruth Ford

Votes: 13

89. White Fang (1936)

Approved | 70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Jack London tale of a woman and weakling brother who inherit a mine. When the brother commits suicide the guide is accused of murder.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Michael Whalen, Jean Muir, Slim Summerville, Charles Winninger

Votes: 75

90. The Village Blacksmith (I) (1922)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

In a prologue, Johnnie, one of the village blacksmith's two sons, falls from a tree that the squire's son Anson Brigham dared him to climb, and is crippled. The squire is an enemy of the ... See full summary »

Director: John Ford | Stars: Will Walling, Virginia True Boardman, Virginia Valli, Ida Mae McKenzie

Votes: 128

91. The Right Approach (1961)

Approved | 92 min | Drama, Music

The story of five fun-loving young bachelors who live together in a converted nightclub in the Hollywood Hills. Newcomer Leo Mack is a young Hollywood hopeful who stirs up trouble when he ... See full summary »

Director: David Butler | Stars: Frankie Vaughan, Martha Hyer, Juliet Prowse, Gary Crosby

Votes: 122

92. Doubting Thomas (1935)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Will Rogers, Billie Burke, Alison Skipworth, Sterling Holloway

Votes: 207

93. Meet the Prince (1926)

60 min | Comedy

Prince Nicholas Alexnov falls asleep on the fire escape of an East Side tenement in New York and dreams of his elegant palace in Russia: An old servant tries to rouse him, but he will not wake up even though a revolution is imminent.

Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Marguerite De La Motte, Vera Steadman, Julia Faye

94. The Arizona Express (1924)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama

A man is framed for the murder of his uncle, a bank president, and sentenced to hang. His sister and a mail clerk who's helping her discover information that may clear him, but they have to... See full summary »

Director: Tom Buckingham | Stars: Pauline Starke, Evelyn Brent, Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin

Votes: 47

95. The Sky Pilot (1921)

Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Western

The sky pilot is a preacher who helps Gwen walk again after a near-fatal accident.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: John Bowers, Colleen Moore, David Butler, Harry Todd

Votes: 176

96. Nugget Nell (1919)

50 min | Comedy, Western

Big Hearted Jim, the sheriff, loves the tomboyish Nugget Nell ( Dorothy Gish ), who runs a hash house in the mining country, but although she has romantic feelings, they are not aroused by ... See full summary »

Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Dorothy Gish, David Butler, Raymond Cannon, Regina Sarle

97. The Quarterback (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport

Elmer Stone, quarterback of the 1899 Colton College football team vows to remain a student until Colton beats its biggest rival, State University. Twenty-seven years later, Elmer is still ... See full summary »

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Richard Dix, Esther Ralston, Harry Beresford, David Butler

Votes: 28 | Gross: $0.27M

98. The Sea Wolf (1913)

70 min | Drama

The cruel captain of a schooner dominates the shipwreck victims he picks up.

Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Herbert Rawlinson, Viola Barry, J. Charles Haydon

Votes: 29

99. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, War

Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Adolph Lestina, Carol Dempster, Frances Parks, Richard Barthelmess

Votes: 142

100. The Adventures of Kathlyn (1913)

300 min | Adventure

The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.

Director: Francis J. Grandon | Stars: Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, Horace B. Carpenter, Lafe McKee

Votes: 46