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51. Studio 57 (1954–1958)
30 min | Drama, Family
This dramatic anthology series went into open syndication when the DuMont Television Network ceased operations.
Stars: Joel Aldrich, Tim Graham, Jean Byron, Marguerite Chapman
Votes: 244
52. Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1948–1967)
60 min | Music
Perry Como was an American Singer, who got his start on NBC Radio. In 1948, Because of his popularity, The cameras were simply brought into the radio studio to televise the radio broadcast ... See full summary »
Stars: Perry Como, Mitchell Ayres Orchestra, The Ray Charles Singers, Mitchell Ayres
Votes: 121
53. Remember the Day (1941)
Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, War
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Claudette Colbert, John Payne, Shepperd Strudwick, Ann E. Todd
Votes: 633
54. Hidden Fear (1957)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
When his sister is arrested in Denmark for murder, American cop Mike Brent aids Danish police with the case and stumbles upon a currency counterfeiting ring.
Director: André De Toth | Stars: John Payne, Alexander Knox, Conrad Nagel, Natalie Norwick
Votes: 346
55. Crosswinds (1951)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Adventurer tries to recover gold from sunken plane.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Rhonda Fleming, Forrest Tucker, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 217
56. Iceland (I) (1942)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
Marine James Murfin, is unaware of Icelandic customs. When he flirts with Katina, her Icelandic family take his actions as a proposal of marriage to her. Desperately wanting out, James gets his buddy to help him. Good Luck.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Felix Bressart
Votes: 217
57. Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)
Approved | 99 min | Musical
In turn-of-the-century San Francisco, an ambitious vaudevillian takes his quartet from a honky tonk to the big time, while spurning the love of his troupe's star singer for a selfish heiress.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Alice Faye, John Payne, Jack Oakie, Lynn Bari
Votes: 559 | Gross: $3.40M
58. Hold Back the Night (1956)
80 min | Drama, War
A Marine officer tells his squad the story behind a bottle of liquor that he always keeps with him but never drinks from.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: John Payne, Mona Freeman, Peter Graves, Chuck Connors
Votes: 182
59. Footlight Serenade (1942)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A boxing champ gets involved with a Broadway show and a shapely chorine...who's engaged to his new sparring partner.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: John Payne, Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jane Wyman
Votes: 260
60. Hell's Island (1955)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, Film-Noir
Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John Payne, Mary Murphy, Francis L. Sullivan, Eduardo Noriega
Votes: 416
61. The Great American Broadcast (1941)
90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
After WWI two men go into radio. Failure leads the wife of one to borrow money from another; she goes on, after separation, to stardom. A coast-to-coast radio program is set up to bring everyone back together.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Alice Faye, Jack Oakie, John Payne, Cesar Romero
Votes: 292
62. Tin Pan Alley (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Alice Faye, Betty Grable, Jack Oakie, John Payne
Votes: 564
63. College Swing (1938)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Gracie Alden tries to graduate college to get an inheritance.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope
Votes: 580
64. Wake Up and Dream (1946)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A little girl asks her guardians to take her by boat to a nearby swamp believing her older brother, a sailor who recently went M.I.A. in WWII, is somehow there. She finds a grumpy old Crusoe-like hermit, instead, but there's still hope.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: John Payne, June Haver, Charlotte Greenwood, Connie Marshall
Votes: 171
65. The Bob Braun Show (1967–1984)
Talk-Show
This was a local Cincinnati, Ohio talk show hosted by Bob Braun, a Cincinnati personality. Bob Braun got his start as the sidekick for Ruth Lyons, another Cincinnati legend.
Stars: Bob Braun, Rob Reider, The Cliff Lash Orchestra, Nancy James
Votes: 156
66. The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1956–1961)
30 min | Comedy, Music
Hosted by Tennessee Ernie Ford, the likeable singer, comedian, entertainer received his own variety show sponsored by the Ford Motor Company which gave Ernie the venue to entertain millions... See full summary »
Stars: Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Top Twenty, The Voices of Walter Schumann, Cliff Arquette
Votes: 70
67. 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
68. Captain China (1950)
Passed | 97 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Charles Chinnough, aka Captain China, washed ashore off his ship during a storm, is later rescued, but is relieved of duty after his former first mate, Brendensen (who thought he was dead),... See full summary »
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: John Payne, Gail Russell, Jeffrey Lynn, Lon Chaney Jr.
Votes: 141
69. Rebel in Town (1956)
Approved | 99 min | Western
After the Civil War, five Confederates find trouble in a Yankee town when one of them accidentally shoots and kills a young local boy.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: John Payne, Ruth Roman, J. Carrol Naish, Ben Cooper
Votes: 412
70. Kid Nightingale (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Comedy, Music, Sport
A singing waiter gets into an argument with some obnoxious customers and winds up knocking them out. The incident is witnessed by a shady boxing promoter who sees an opportunity to cash in ... See full summary »
Director: George Amy | Stars: John Payne, Jane Wyman, Walter Catlett, Edward Brophy
Votes: 246
71. The Best of Broadway (1954–1955)
60 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The Best of Broadway is a 60-minute live television anthology series that aired on CBS Television on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time from September 15, 1954, to May 4, 1955, for... See full summary »
Stars: Betty Furness, Claudette Colbert, Margaret Hamilton, Helen Hayes
Votes: 49
72. Caribbean (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
Francis Barclay, a former member of the British Admiralty, who was captured in the early 1700s and sold into slavery by Andrew MacAllister, and forced into piracy, enlists the aid of Dick ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Payne, Arlene Dahl, Cedric Hardwicke, Francis L. Sullivan
Votes: 234
73. The Blazing Forest (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery
Kelly Hansen, the tough boss of a timber crew clearing property owned by Jessie Crain and her niece Sharon Wilks, is--unknown to anybody else--working to pay back money stolen by his ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: John Payne, William Demarest, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Arlen
Votes: 141
74. The Great Profile (1940)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
Barrymore lampoons himself. A famous actor, given to drink, nearly destroys the show, but his leading lady returns to save it. Meanwhile a young girl tries to reform him.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: John Barrymore, Mary Beth Hughes, Gregory Ratoff, John Payne
Votes: 270
75. Hats Off (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Music
Rival press agents Jimmy Maxwell and Jo Allen have both been assigned to stir up publicity for separate exhibitions at the 1936 Texas Centennial.
Director: Boris Petroff | Stars: Mae Clarke, John Payne, Helen Lynd, Luis Alberni
Votes: 194
76. Love on Toast (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A female press agent must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a struggling soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk who doesn't want to play along.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Stella Adler, John Payne, Grant Richards, Kathryn Kane
Votes: 61
77. The Name's the Same (1951–1955)
30 min | Family, Game-Show
Guests who have the same name as famous persons, fictional characters, or things, are quizzed by celebrity panelists who try to determine their name.
Stars: Joan Alexander, Robert Q. Lewis, Gene Rayburn, Roger Price
Votes: 98
78. All Star Revue (1950– )
60 min | Comedy
This early comedy program started off with a rotating cast of four famous comedians, each of whom would take turns hosting the show. The program format was similar to that of a Vaudeville ... See full summary »
Stars: Jimmy Durante, Eddie Jackson, Jack Roth, Danny Thomas
Votes: 171
79. Wings of the Navy (1939)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Biplanes flying in formation past the Washington Monument. A flotilla of seaplanes rising majestically off the surface of the Atlantic.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, John Payne, Frank McHugh
Votes: 361
80. Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Joe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, John Payne, Gale Page
Votes: 254
81. Garden of the Moon (1938)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Romance blooms between a publicist and a singing band leader in the Garden of the Moon night club.
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Margaret Lindsay, John Payne, Johnnie Davis
Votes: 328
82. Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama
Live anthology series featuring a wide format of stories (western, musical comedy, dramatic, et cetera).
Stars: William Gaxton, Frank Sutton, Ralph Riggs, Dane Clark
Votes: 37
83. The Silver Theatre (1949–1950)
30 min | Drama, Romance
The teleplays normally concerned the various aspects of romance.
Stars: Conrad Nagel, George Reeves, Don DeFore, Diana Lynn
Votes: 33
84. King of the Lumberjacks (1940)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Two men and one woman in logging country and their changing love triangle.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: John Payne, Gloria Dickson, Stanley Fields, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 188
85. Fair Warning (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
In California's Death Valley, a chemistry whiz-kid helps a sheriff track the man who murdered a wealthy mine owner who had been staying at a fancy winter resort.
Director: Norman Foster | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Betty Furness, John Payne, Victor Kilian
Votes: 85
86. They Ran for Their Lives (1968)
92 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A geologist aids the escape of a young woman whose father was murdered to recover forged oil documents.
Directors: John Payne, Oliver Drake | Stars: John Payne, Scott Brady, Luana Patten, Jim Davis
Votes: 56
87. All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985 TV Special)
60 min | Comedy, Music
A televised event in honor of the 40th president, Ronald Reagan, the year he was sworn in for his second term of office.
Director: Dick McDonough | Stars: Eydie Gormé, Monty Hall, John Harlan, Charlton Heston
Votes: 56
88. The Royal Rodeo (1939)
Approved | 15 min | Short, Musical, Romance
A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace.
Director: George Amy | Stars: John Payne, Lucile Fairbanks, Cliff Edwards, Scotty Beckett
Votes: 265
89. We, the People (1948–1952)
30 min | Talk-Show
The host interviewed entertainers, politicians and average Americans to discuss important events in their lives.
Stars: The Oscar Bradley Orchestra, Lee Vines, Dan Seymour, Dwight Weist
Votes: 20
90. Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 1: Hollywood in Uniform (1943)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
Several prominent actors are seen in their new roles as WWII military officers and enlisted men. Highlights include Robert Stack (a former amateur skeet shooting champion) displaying his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Eddie Albert, Desi Arnaz, Gene Autry, Art Baker
Votes: 51
91. The Steve Allen Show presented by Knickerbocker Beer (1951–1958)
40 min | Music
Stars: Steve Allen, Bobby Byrne, Helene Dixon, Steve Lawrence
92. Tear Gas Squad (1940)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music
Nightclub singer becomes police cadet to impress blond female from police family, ends up with her current dating partner as his cadet trainer.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson, George Reeves
Votes: 324
93. The Faye Emerson Show (1949– )
15 min | Family, Talk-Show
Stars: Faye Emerson, Skitch Henderson, Alice Pearce, Abe Burrows
94. The 28th Annual Tony Awards (1974 TV Special)
Director: Clark Jones | Stars: Alan Alda, Jane Alexander, Maxene Andrews, Patty Andrews
Votes: 132
95. O'Conner's Ocean (1960 TV Movie)
60 min | Drama
Tom O'Connor, a retired lawyer, wants to do nothing but sail his boat along the California coast. Instead, he gets wrapped up in solving the problems of strangers.
Director: Earl Bellamy | Stars: John Payne, Irene Hervey, Edward Andrews, Charles Cooper
96. TV Club (1950–1951)
60 min | Documentary, Family
Don McNeil had a very successful morning radio show from 1933 to 1968. This was an attempt to bring the same thing (regulars plus guest stars) to nighttime television). His signature in both mediums: "Be good to yourself."
Stars: Don McNeill, Fran Allison, Johnny Desmond, Sam Cowling
97. B-29 Flight Engineer (1944)
37 min | Documentary, Short
This government documentary short film depicts and explains proper procedures for functioning as a flight engineer on the B-29 bomber. Lieutenant Anderson is normally the co-pilot of this B... See full summary »
Stars: Don Castle, John Payne, Ronald Reagan, James Seay
Votes: 7
98. Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 1 (1938)
10 min | Documentary, Short
At Lake Arrowhead, Beverly Roberts, Sigrid Gurie, Gene Lockhart and Donald Meek are seen sporting; Ben Alexander, Patricia Ellis, Toby Wing and Franklin Pangborn are seen hunting and Gene ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ben Alexander, Gene Autry, Lucille Ball, John Boles
Votes: 7
99. Save Our Stream (1965)
10 min | Documentary, Short
Directors: Fielder Cook, Jerry Paris | Stars: James Whitmore, Lloyd Bochner, Paul Fix, Bill Idelson
100. The Saturday Night Revue with Jack Carter (1950–1951)
60 min | Comedy, Music
It was NBC Saturday Night Revue, a three-hour weekly show.
Stars: Jack Carter, Donald Richards, Harry Sosnik, William Callahan