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1. Call Her Savage (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Drama

Sexy Texas gal storms her way through life, brawling and boozing until her luck runs out, forcing her to learn the errors of her ways.

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Thelma Todd, Monroe Owsley

Votes: 902

2. Sun Valley Serenade (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy

After Phil Corey's band arrives at the Idaho ski resort, its pianist Ted Scott is smitten with a Norwegian refugee he has sponsored, Karen Benson. Later, soloist Vivian Dawn quits and Karen stages an ice show as a substitute.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Sonja Henie, John Payne, Glenn Miller, Milton Berle

Votes: 1,950

3. Something for the Boys (1944)

Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical

The oddly-assorted Hart cousins--revue singer Blossom, con man Harry and machinist Chiquita (who gets radio through her teeth!)--inherit Southern plantation Magnolia Manor, which alas ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Carmen Miranda, Michael O'Shea, Vivian Blaine, Phil Silvers

Votes: 365

4. Only Yesterday (1933)

Passed | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A one-night fling during World War I results in a young girl getting pregnant. Years later, she meets him again. Now a successful businessman, he doesn't even remember her, but tries to seduce her.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, John Boles, Edna May Oliver, Billie Burke

Votes: 421

5. Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)

Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

While investigating the theft of antiquities from an ancient tomb excavation, Charlie discovers the body of the expedition's leader concealed inside the mummy's wrappings.

Director: Louis King | Stars: Warner Oland, Pat Paterson, Thomas Beck, Rita Hayworth

Votes: 2,166

6. Friends of Mr. Sweeney (1934)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

An editorial hack becomes a new man after a wild night out.

Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ann Dvorak, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat

Votes: 205

7. Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940)

Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery

Charlie tries to discover the identity of a strangler who strikes multiple times on a cruise ship bound from Honolulu to California.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Sidney Toler, Marjorie Weaver, Lionel Atwill, Victor Sen Yung

Votes: 1,477

8. Charlie Chan's Secret (1935)

Passed | 72 min | Mystery

The heir to a huge fortune is presumed drowned, then shows up, is then murdered.

Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Warner Oland, Rosina Lawrence, Charles Quigley, Henrietta Crosman

Votes: 1,753

9. Pin Up Girl (1944)

Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A U.S.O. singer poses as a Broadway star in order to attract a handsome war hero.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Betty Grable, John Harvey, Martha Raye, Joe E. Brown

Votes: 852

10. Kid Millions (1934)

Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A musical comedy about a Brooklyn boy (Eddie Cantor) who inherits a fortune from his archaeologist father, but must go to Egypt to claim it.

Directors: Roy Del Ruth, Willy Pogany | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ann Sothern, Ethel Merman, George Murphy

Votes: 590

11. Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Approved | 100 min | Musical

A reworking of the movie "Three Blind Mice" (1938) based on the play of the same name, which in turn led to the remake, "Moon Over Miami" (1941). This version is set during the turn of the ... See full summary »

Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone, John Brahm | Stars: June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm

Votes: 314

12. Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (1937)

Passed | 72 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Although Charlie and Lee are in Monaco for an art exhibit, they become caught up in a feud between rival financiers which involves the Chans in a web of blackmail and murder.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Virginia Field, Sidney Blackmer

Votes: 1,632

13. Now I'll Tell (1934)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Golden is a two-bit gambler who has promised wife Virginia he'll quit when he makes $200,000. When he fixes a fight he gets mobster Mossiter mad, then loses his fortune to him. He pawns his... See full summary »

Director: Edwin J. Burke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Helen Twelvetrees, Alice Faye, Robert Gleckler

Votes: 246

14. Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)

Approved | 71 min | Mystery

When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane

Votes: 1,832

15. The Monster Walks (1932)

Passed | 57 min | Horror, Mystery

People in an old dark house on a stormy night are menaced by a killer ape.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Mischa Auer, Martha Mattox, Rex Lease, Vera Reynolds

Votes: 1,085

16. Star Dust (1940)

Approved | 90 min | Drama

Carolyn Sayres gets a Hollywood contract from talent scout Brooke but is later rejected because she's too young. She falls in love with Bud Borden, another contractee who helps her to ... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Linda Darnell, John Payne, Roland Young, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 385

17. Murder at Midnight (1931)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Mystery

A murder during a game of charades at a society party leads the police to begin the hunt through the guest list for a motive and culprit.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Aileen Pringle, Alice White, Hale Hamilton, Leslie Fenton

Votes: 475

18. Gambling Lady (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Drama, Mystery

Lady Lee, gambler's daughter, plies her trade while pondering the proposal of a social-register suitor.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Pat O'Brien, Claire Dodd

Votes: 1,141

19. 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

20. Broadway (1929)

Passed | 104 min | Crime, Music, Romance

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Director: Pál Fejös | Stars: Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson

Votes: 460

21. American Madness (1932)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Mystery

Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all during the same day.

Directors: Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill | Stars: Walter Huston, Pat O'Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings

Votes: 2,262

22. Do You Love Me (1946)

Approved | 91 min | Musical, Romance

The woman dean of a music school undergoes a glamorous transformation after she meets a swing bandleader.

Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Maureen O'Hara, Dick Haymes, Harry James, Reginald Gardiner

Votes: 297

23. Charlie Chan at the Circus (1936)

Approved | 72 min | Mystery

While visiting the circus with his family, Charlie is recruited by the big top's co-owner to investigate threatening letters that he's received.

Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, George Brasno, Olive Brasno

Votes: 1,806

24. The Sphinx (1933)

Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery

A man known to be a mute is suspected of committing a murder, as he was noticed at the scene. However, witnesses saw and heard him talking as he was leaving the scene of the crime. The ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Sheila Terry, Theodore Newton, Paul Hurst

Votes: 528

25. Susannah of the Mounties (1939)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Western

Susannah is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in. Everybody suffers further Indian attacks and the Mountie is saved from ... See full summary »

Directors: William A. Seiter, Walter Lang | Stars: Shirley Temple, Randolph Scott, Margaret Lockwood, Martin Good Rider

Votes: 996

26. Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Mystery

Returning from European exile where she avoided testifying against her criminal associates, a former singer with a tell-all diary is murdered to ensure her silence.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Joan Marsh, J. Edward Bromberg

Votes: 1,595

27. City in Darkness (1939)

Approved | 75 min | Crime, Mystery

While in Paris for a reunion on the eve of World War II, Charlie finds that the murder of a hated businessman leads him to a conspiracy to smuggle arms to Germany.

Director: Herbert I. Leeds | Stars: Sidney Toler, Lynn Bari, Richard Clarke, Harold Huber

Votes: 1,356

28. Charlie Chan at the Race Track (1936)

Approved | 70 min | Mystery

When a friend of Charlie's is found kicked to death by his own race horse on board a Honolulu-bound liner, the detective discovers foul play and uncovers an international gambling ring.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Keye Luke, Helen Wood, Thomas Beck

Votes: 1,600

29. 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

30. 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: 215

31. Four Jills in a Jeep (1944)

Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair

Votes: 553

32. The Devil Plays (1931)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A murder mystery evolves during a weekend at an exclusive mansion.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas E. Jackson, Richard Tucker

Votes: 191

33. Slightly Married (1932)

Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Romance

A drunk stranger offers to provide a woman accused of prostitution with an alibi in court. Things escalate quickly, and before the court hearing is over, the judge has married the two.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Evalyn Knapp, Walter Byron, Marie Prevost, Jason Robards Sr.

Votes: 185

34. This Is Your Life (1950–1987)

30 min | Biography, Family, Reality-TV

Each week, an unsuspecting celebrity would be lured by some ruse to a location near the studio. The celebrity would then be surprised with the news that they are to be the featured guest. ... See full summary »

Stars: Ralph Edwards, Bob Warren, Eddie Cantor, Bob Hope

Votes: 314

35. Song of the Islands (1942)

Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But... See full summary »

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Betty Grable, Victor Mature, Jack Oakie, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 287

36. Aloha (1931)

Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance

In the South Seas, a half-caste island girl refuses to follow tradition and marry a fellow islander, instead falling in love with a white man and heir to an American fortune.

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Ben Lyon, Raquel Torres, Robert Edeson, Alan Hale

Votes: 35

37. The Squealer (1930)

67 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A gangster's wife, fearful that he is about to be murdered by his rivals, tips off the police to his whereabouts in order to save his life. Her husband, however, believes her reason was ... See full summary »

Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier, Davey Lee, Matt Moore

38. The Phantom Express (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Mystery, Romance, Thriller

A railway is threatened by mysterious wrecks, which turn out to be caused by criminals using a unique deception.

Director: Emory Johnson | Stars: William Collier Jr., Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, Hobart Bosworth

Votes: 231

39. 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: 258

40. The Lady in Scarlet (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Mystery, Romance

When a wealthy art dealer is murdered, the private investigator hired for the case discovers a web of blackmail, corruption and stolen bonds.

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Reginald Denny, Patricia Farr, Jameson Thomas, Dorothy Revier

Votes: 189

41. Behind Stone Walls (1932)

58 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Esther Clay, wife of District Attorney John Clay and mother of attorney Bob Clay, is having an affair with Jack Keene. Scorned by him Esther kills Jack. Bob comes to her defense and ... See full summary »

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Priscilla Dean, Ann Christy, Robert Elliott

Votes: 102

42. Madame Spy (1934)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Maria is married to Captain Franck of German Intelligence. He does not know she is a Russian assigned to spy on him. When he is told to uncover a leak, he vows revenge on his wife.

Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Nils Asther, Edward Arnold, John Miljan

Votes: 36

43. 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

44. I'll Get By (1950)

Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Updated version of "Tin Pan Alley" concerns two songwriters and their romantic entanglements with the pretty pair of sisters helping them plug their songs.

Director: Richard Sale | Stars: June Haver, William Lundigan, Gloria DeHaven, Dennis Day

Votes: 215

45. A Very Honorable Guy (1934)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

Well respected local good guy, Feet Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to ... See full summary »

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Alice White, Robert Barrat, Alan Dinehart

Votes: 237

46. Lucky Cisco Kid (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Western

In between romantic bouts with a widow, the Cisco Kid corrals a gang of bad guys led by a crooked judge; the gang are driving people off their land and blaming it on the Kid.

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Cesar Romero, Mary Beth Hughes, Dana Andrews, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 107

47. High School (1940)

Approved | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Texas ranch teenager (Withers) is sent to school in San Antonio where she learns to get along with others.

Directors: George Nicholls Jr., Norman Foster | Stars: Jane Withers, Joe Brown Jr., Paul Harvey, Lloyd Corrigan

Votes: 89

48. Music Is Magic (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

Aging star (Daniels) finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus (Faye).

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Alice Faye, Ray Walker, Bebe Daniels, Frank Mitchell

Votes: 140

49. Dance, Girl, Dance (1933)

Not Rated | 74 min | Musical

Vaudeville couple Joe and Sally split on bad terms. Sally, a beautiful and talented young woman, gets a break as a chorus girl in a musical production, and then hits the big time with a song she wrote.

Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Alan Dinehart, Evalyn Knapp, Edward J. Nugent, Ada May

Votes: 60

50. Broadway to Cheyenne (1932)

Passed | 60 min | Drama, Western

A cowboy detective goes up against a gang of big-city thugs trying to set up a protection racket out west.

Director: Harry L. Fraser | Stars: Rex Bell, Marceline Day, Matthew Betz, Huntley Gordon

Votes: 162