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51. The Trial of Vivienne Ware (1932)
56 min | Crime, Drama
Incredibly fast-moving courtroom yarn in which Bennett is defended by ex-beau Cook when she's accused of killing her faithless fiance, while the trial is broadcast live on the radio.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Joan Bennett, Donald Cook, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Zasu Pitts
Votes: 133
52. Women Are Trouble (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama
When Prohibition ends, the mobsters move into the "protection" racket; those who do not pay are knocked off. Small-town reporter Ruth wants a job at the big-city paper, but the editor will ... See full summary »
Director: Errol Taggart | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Paul Kelly, Florence Rice, Margaret Irving
Votes: 127
53. Stolen Harmony (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Musical, Romance
Bandleader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and... See full summary »
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: George Raft, Ben Bernie, Grace Bradley, Iris Adrian
Votes: 101
54. Prairie Moon (1938)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Gene takes care of three tough kids sent west from Chicago after their father died and left them a cattle ranch. They help him catch a bunch of rustlers.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Shirley Deane, Tommy Ryan
Votes: 101
55. Surrender (1931)
69 min | Drama
French POW Dumaine is sequestered near the castle of a prideful Prussian nobleman, Count Reinmacher, who lives for the day that his four sons will march triumphantly into Paris. Axelle, the... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Warner Baxter, Leila Hyams, Ralph Bellamy, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 96
56. Queen of the Mob (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama
Mobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas ... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, Jeanne Cagney
Votes: 94
57. Sky Bandits (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Sgt. Renfrew and Constable Kelly go aloft to search for a plane missing with a shipment of gold from the Yukon Mine Company. Inventor Speavy has devised a power ray which disrupts ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: James Newill, Louise Stanley, Dewey Robinson, William Pawley
Votes: 89
58. Cafe Hostess (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jo (Ann Dvorak), a "percentage girl" at the notorious Club 46, is in despair. She can see no way out of the dreary and sordid routine of entertaining customers - called drinking and dancing... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Preston Foster, Ann Dvorak, Douglas Fowley, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 87
59. Yukon Flight (1940)
Approved | 57 min | Adventure
When the plane owned by the "Yukon and Columbia Mail Service" crashes, RCMP Sergeant Renfrew (James Newill) and Constable Kelly (Dave O'Brien) suspect murder. Their suspicions are confirmed... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: James Newill, Louise Stanley, Warren Hull, William Pawley
Votes: 86
60. Jimmy and Sally (1933)
65 min | Comedy
Happy-go-lucky Jimmy O'Connor, a publicist for the Marlowe Meat Packing Company, continually relies on Sally Johnson, his secretary and sweetheart, to keep him organized and do his work ... See full summary »
Director: James Tinling | Stars: James Dunn, Claire Trevor, Harvey Stephens, Lya Lys
Votes: 81
61. Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944)
Passed | 65 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In 1931, Captain Steven Warren, the chief investigator for the Chicago District Attorney's office, tries to arrest the henchmen of notorious gangster and bootlegger Roger Touhy for a series... See full synopsis »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Preston Foster, Victor McLaglen, Lois Andrews, Kent Taylor
Votes: 75
62. Flirtation (1934)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A precode romantic melodrama about a burlesque dancer and a country boy who must pretend to be married.
Director: Leo Birinsky | Stars: Jeanette Loff, Ben Alexander, Arthur Tracy, Emma Dunn
Votes: 73
63. Wicked (1931)
Approved | 57 min | Drama
"Wicked" (1931) is an American Pre-Code prison melodrama about a woman who commits murder while trying to save her bandit husband and bears a child in prison. The movie is also known as "... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Elissa Landi, Victor McLaglen, Una Merkel, Irene Rich
Votes: 64
64. Double Alibi (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
A man's ex-wife is found murdered, and he finds himself to be the prime suspect.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Wayne Morris, Margaret Lindsay, William Gargan, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 63
65. Robbers' Roost (1932)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Running from the law, Jim Hall joins Hays' gang. Hays is foreman on the Herrick ranch and plans to rustle Herrick's cattle. Attracted to Herrick's sister Helen, Jim decides to tell the ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: George O'Brien, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter McGrail, Maude Eburne
Votes: 62
66. Fatal Lady (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance
On her debut as an opera star, Mary Stuart is interrogated and possibly implicated in the death of a male acquaintance. Released, although thoroughly shaken-up, Mary attempts to perform but... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Mary Ellis, Walter Pidgeon, John Halliday, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 55
67. Public Deb No. 1 (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy
When a waiter gives a society girl a public spanking for attending a Communist rally, her soup-tycoon uncle makes the waiter a vice-president of his company.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: George Murphy, Brenda Joyce, Ralph Bellamy, Elsa Maxwell
Votes: 55
68. The Daring Young Man (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Two reporters plan to marry but the bride is left waiting at the altar because her groom has gone undercover to expose gang activity.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: James Dunn, Mae Clarke, Neil Hamilton, Sidney Toler
Votes: 50
69. Disorderly Conduct (1932)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
When motorcycle cop Dick Fay gives a ticket to Phyllis Crawford, her father's graft-fed influence leads to his demotion to foot patrolman. When Fay leads a raid on a gangster's place he ... See full summary »
Director: John W. Considine Jr. | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Sally Eilers, El Brendel, Dickie Moore
Votes: 44
70. Mercy Plane (1939)
Passed | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In this Producers Pictures Corporation production, distributed by Producers Distributing Corporation (and both company names would soon become Producers Releasing Corporation, both as a ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Harlan | Stars: James Dunn, Frances Gifford, Matty Fain, William Pawley
Votes: 34
71. The Affair of Susan (1935)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
Two people go to Coney Island to find romance and wind up in jail.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Hugh O'Connell, Walter Catlett, Tom Dugan
Votes: 32
72. Chicken Wagon Family (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
Addie Fippany, her father Jean Paul Batiste Fippany, her mother Josephine, and her sister Cecile roam the countryside in a mule-drawn wagon, trading trinkets to farmers for chickens which ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Jane Withers, Leo Carrillo, Marjorie Weaver, Spring Byington
Votes: 32
73. 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
74. Crime Takes a Holiday (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Following the murder of a policeman and unable to get proof against the real killer, District attorney Walter Forbes takes a novel approach to get there. He induces an ex-convict to stand ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Marcia Ralston, Russell Hopton, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 27
75. That I May Live (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Crooks use a man's safe-cracking skills then involve him in more crime after he spends three years in jail. He falls in love with a waitress and they go to work for a traveling salesman.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Robert Kent, J. Edward Bromberg, Jack La Rue
Votes: 26
76. Trapped by G-Men (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"River of Missing Men" is the story-source title and, briefly, the working title of this film while in production, but it is not an "alternate" title since "Trapped By G-Men" was never ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Wynne Gibson, C. Henry Gordon, Jack La Rue
Votes: 20
77. Amateur Daddy (1932)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance
Jim Gladden, a construction site foreman, is partially responsible for the accidental death of one of his workers, Fred Smith, and makes good on Fred's deathbed request to go to Scotch ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Warner Baxter, Marian Nixon, Rita La Roy, William Pawley
Votes: 17
78. West of Abilene (1940)
Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western
Settlers of the rapidly-growing frontier town of Vaquero, who bought their land at five dollars an acre from an irrigation company, are being victimized by Forsythe (Don Beddoe) and Chris ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ceder | Stars: Charles Starrett, Bruce Bennett, Marjorie Cooley, William Pawley
Votes: 16
79. Cheaters at Play (1932)
58 min | Drama
Modest picture centering on a blunderous jewel heist aboard an ocean liner.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Charlotte Greenwood, William Bakewell, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 9