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51. The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When hyper-efficient small-town accountant Andrew Long finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Montagu Love
Votes: 196
52. Bring on the Girls (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical
A millionaire joins the Navy hoping to find a girl who'll marry him for himself, not for his money. A beautiful gold-digger who works at a resort hotel sets out to get him.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Veronica Lake, Sonny Tufts, Eddie Bracken, Marjorie Reynolds
Votes: 162
53. Standing Room Only (1944)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance, War
During World War II, Lee Stevens travels to Washington D.C. with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. Not thinking it through, Jane cancels their hotel ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Paulette Goddard, Fred MacMurray, Edward Arnold, Hillary Brooke
Votes: 232
54. Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A rueful wife (circa 1910) recalls 20 years of her husband's financial fumbles, as she keeps a boarding house to support the family.
Director: George Seaton | Stars: Dan Dailey, Celeste Holm, Colleen Townsend, Alan Young
Votes: 292
55. Secrets of a Secretary (1931)
71 min | Drama
When her father dies, a wealthy young women discovers that she's not wealthy at all--her father lost all of his money in the 1929 stock market crash and she's now officially broke. She ... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Georges Metaxa, Betty Lawford
Votes: 159
56. Butch Minds the Baby (1942)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy
The Broadway citizen Aloysius 'Butch' Grogan is known far and wide to be involved with criminal activities. Butch is motivated to pursue a life of crime in order to provide the lovely widow... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Virginia Bruce, Broderick Crawford, Dick Foran, Porter Hall
Votes: 51
57. The Woman of the Town (1943)
Approved | 90 min | Western
Bat Masterson's girl tries to get him to give up gunfighting and become a respectable journalist, but Bat has other problems - his rival is in town gunning for him.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Claire Trevor, Albert Dekker, Barry Sullivan, Henry Hull
Votes: 241
58. Chevron Theatre (1952–1953)
30 min | Drama
When a chamber in a mansion manifests a loud, eerie whistling, Carnacki is called to investigate. He makes an exceedingly thorough search of the room, but can find no explanation. He is ... See full summary »
Stars: Lynn Bari, Onslow Stevens, Randy Stuart, Gar Moore
Votes: 23
59. Return to Treasure Island (1954)
Approved | 75 min | Adventure, Family
A descendant of Jim Hawkins (Dawn Addams) visits Treasure Island with a priceless map.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Tab Hunter, Dawn Addams, Porter Hall, James Seay
Votes: 247
60. King of Alcatraz (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A convict who has just escaped from Alcatraz Prison takes over a passenger ship. Two of the ship's crew hatch a plot to overpower him and rescue the ship's passengers.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Gail Patrick, Lloyd Nolan, Harry Carey, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 115
61. The Bigelow Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama, Family
A live CBS half-hour dramatic anthology series, but on two networks in its second season (as "Bigelow-Sanford Theater"); Sunday evenings over CBS and Thursday evenings over DuMont.
Stars: Don DeFore, William Frawley, Jeffrey Silver, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 59
62. Prison Farm (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A young woman falls in love with with an armed robber. She gets arrested while visiting him in prison, and winds up in prison herself.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Shirley Ross, Lloyd Nolan, John Howard, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 98
63. Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Mystery
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn help an Arkansas preacher falsely accused of murder.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Billy Cook, Donald O'Connor, Porter Hall, Phil Warren
Votes: 65
64. Trail of the Vigilantes (1940)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Western
A reporter goes undercover to break up an outlaw gang.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Franchot Tone, Warren William, Broderick Crawford, Andy Devine
Votes: 114
65. Scandal Street (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Romance
Joe McKnight temporarily leaves his fiance, Nora Langdon, for an expedition in a South American jungle. Nora gets a position as librarian in the small town of Midberg, where she boards with... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louise Campbell, Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall
Votes: 43
66. Henry Goes Arizona (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Western, Comedy, Drama
An actor from New York inherits a ranch in Arizona.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Frank Morgan, Virginia Weidler, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville
Votes: 244
67. Life with Luigi (1952– )
30 min | Comedy
An American radio situation comedy series that was short lived as a TV series.
Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Vito Scotti, Jody Gilbert
Votes: 21
68. Men with Wings (1938)
105 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Plot #1 is the love triangle between two guys and one girl as they grow into adults and affiliate themselves in the new aircraft industry. Plot #2 is aircraft evolution from the days of Wilbur and Orville Wright to just prior to WWII.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, Louise Campbell, Andy Devine
Votes: 199
69. This Way Please (1937)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young woman is hired as a theater usherette and encounters her matinée idol, who helps her become a hit, and soon she finds herself engaged to another man, prompting a battle of romantic wits ensues.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, Jim Jordan
Votes: 71
70. The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A folksy drifter (Bob Burns) helps an old friend's widow (Fay Bainter) and daughter (Jean Parker) save their newspaper.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Bob Burns, Fay Bainter, John Beal, Jean Parker
Votes: 75
71. Too Many Parents (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of the boys who are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart (George Ernest) writes ... See full summary »
Director: Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Frances Farmer, Lester Matthews, Porter Hall, Henry Travers
Votes: 85
72. Holiday for Sinners (1952)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Three men, reared together in New Orleans, but whose paths have drifted apart, each face a crisis during the last weekend of Mardi Gras: Dr. Jason Kent must decide between accepting a ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: Gig Young, Keenan Wynn, Janice Rule, William Campbell
Votes: 190
73. Snowed Under (1936)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance
Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Patricia Ellis
Votes: 461
74. Grand Jury Secrets (1939)
Passed | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Newspaper reporter and amateur ham radio operator John Keefe, anxious for a scoop, plants a shortwave radio in the courtroom to eavesdrop on the grand jury's investigation into the ... See full synopsis »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: John Howard, Gail Patrick, William Frawley, Jane Darwell
Votes: 27
75. The Parson of Panamint (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
The mayor of wild and woolly mining town Panamint, is in San Francisco to fetch a preacher for the new church, and happens upon young Philip Pharo, as handy with his fists as with a sermon.... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ellen Drew, Phillip Terry, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 50
76. Hotel Haywire (1937)
66 min | Comedy, Romance
A couple has an ideal marriage until she finds women's lingerie in his coat pocket. An astrologer advises her to make her husband unhappy. Meanwhile their daughter plans to elope in the same hotel her father has unknowingly moved into.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Mary Carlisle, Lynne Overman, George Barbier
Votes: 47
77. Stolen Heaven (1938)
88 min | Crime, Drama
Stolen Heaven is a 1938 American drama film directed by Andrew L. Stone and written by Eve Greene, Frederick J. Jackson and Stone. The film stars Gene Raymond, Olympe Bradna, Glenda Farrell... See full summary »
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Gene Raymond, Olympe Bradna, Glenda Farrell, Lewis Stone
Votes: 31
78. And Sudden Death (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone by reckless driving.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Randolph Scott, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Billy Lee
Votes: 72
79. Let's Make a Million (1936)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy
After the U.S. Senate allocates two billion dollars for veteran bonuses, Harrison Gentry, owner of Gentry Machinery and Supply Co. in Gentry, Oklahoma, plans to use his $1,100 bonus to ... See full summary »
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Charlotte Wynters, Porter Hall, J.M. Kerrigan
Votes: 36
80. Wild Money (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
Newspaper reporter Perry Brown is infatuated with fellow reporter Judy McGowan, but although she flirts with him, she is not romantically inclined toward him. The staff accountant, P. E. ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Louise Campbell, Lynne Overman, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 31
81.
Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956)
Episode:
My Wife Geraldine
(1952)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A man learns that he is suspected of murdering his wife, whom he now claims never existed.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Charles Boyer, Porter Hall, Una Merkel, Noreen Nash
Votes: 67
82.
The Bigelow Theatre (1950–1951)
Episode:
The Man Who Had Nothing to Lose
(1950)
30 min | Drama, Family
A man who has escaped from jail breaks and enters an elderly couples' home. The husband tries to make the convict see that he must turn himself in to the police.
Director: Frank Woodruff | Stars: Porter Hall, Neville Brand, Elisabeth Risdon, Al Bridge
83.
Fireside Theatre (1949–1955)
Episode:
Moses and Mr. Aiken
(1954)
30 min | Drama
The life of sedate, meticulous, never-late-to-the-office Mr. Aiken is completely disrupted by a little kitten called Moses.
Director: Frank Wisbar | Stars: William Bakewell, Dorothy Bruce, Richard Crane, Lillian Culver
84.
Life with Luigi (1952– )
Episode:
Citizenship
(1952)
Comedy
As Luigi prepares to take his U.S. citizenship test he is unaware that Pasquale is plotting to sabotage His chances when Luigi refuses to marry his fat daughter.
Director: Norman Tokar | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Alan Reed, Sig Ruman, Mary Shipp
85.
Chevron Theatre (1952–1953)
Episode:
Second Son
(1953)
Drama
A young waif is taken in by two men who use him as a means to get handouts. But the little boy is too honest to be good at the job, creating complications for the men.
Director: Richard Irving | Stars: Porter Hall, Teddy Infuhr, Hank Patterson, Danny Richards Jr.