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1. The Public Enemy (1931)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama

An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell

Votes: 23,015 | Gross: $1.01M

2. Baby Face (1933)

Approved | 71 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman, sexually exploited all her life, decides to turn the tables and exploit the hapless men at a big city bank by gleefully seducing her way to the top.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, George Brent, Donald Cook, Alphonse Ethier

Votes: 8,161

3. Show Boat (1936)

Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, Paul Robeson

Votes: 3,692

4. Safe in Hell (1931)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

After accidentally killing the man who raped her and forced her into prostitution, a New Orleans woman flees to a Caribbean island. While she awaits her fiancé, the vicious local police chief sets his sights on her.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Donald Cook, Ralf Harolde, John Wray

Votes: 2,040

5. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.

Stars: James Mason, Irene Dunne, Robert Paige, Walter Coy

Votes: 338

6. Here Come the Co-eds (1945)

Approved | 90 min | Comedy

Two bumblers become caretakers at an all-girls' college. During their misadventures, the duo raise money to free the school from its traditionally-minded landlord.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Peggy Ryan, Martha O'Driscoll

Votes: 1,474

7. The Mad Genius (1931)

Passed | 81 min | Drama, Horror, Romance

A crippled man finds a boy and vows to make him a great dancer.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Charles Butterworth, Donald Cook

Votes: 781

8. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.

Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae

Votes: 153

9. Taxi (1931)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Independent cabbie Matt Nolan is primed to let his fists and handgun deliver payback after a big taxi firm uses intimidation and violence to squeeze out small-timers.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 1,554

10. Goodyear Playhouse (1951–1957)

60 min | Drama

The show featured original plays plus plays adapted from works.

Stars: Walter Matthau, David White, Constance Ford, Kim Stanley

Votes: 111

11. Smart Money (1931)

Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama

A Greek barber has uncommon skills in playing poker and soon rises in the seedy world of illegal gambling, but pretty blondes remain his Achilles' heel.

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, James Cagney, Evalyn Knapp, Ralf Harolde

Votes: 2,235

12. Viva Villa! (1934)

Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western

After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.

Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook

Votes: 1,568 | Gross: $1.11M

13. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948–1956)

60 min | Drama

This live dramatic series featured original stories and adaptations of novels, plays, etc., during its eight-year run. During the first year, the show was sponsored by the Actor's Equity ... See full summary »

Stars: Bert Lytell, Jay Jackson, Bob Stanton, E.G. Marshall

Votes: 137

14. Penguin Pool Murder (1932)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery

Shady stockbroker and abusive husband Gerald Parker is found dead in the penguin pool of a NYC aquarium after being knocked cold by his wife's boyfriend.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Mae Clarke

Votes: 1,416

15. The Casino Murder Case (1935)

Passed | 82 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance

After socialite Lynn Llewellyn receives an anonymous threat, he is poisoned at his uncle's casino, and although he recovers, his wife is murdered by the same killer.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook, Rosalind Russell

Votes: 795

16. The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery

When a famous doctor kills his adulterous wife, he is defended by his best friend, an attorney who suspects that his own wife is having an affair.

Director: James Whale | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan, Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart

Votes: 700

17. Our Very Own (1950)

Approved | 93 min | Drama, Romance

Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted during a heated argument with her sister, Joan. With the reluctant support of her adoptive parents and baby sister, Penny, Gail goes in search of her biological mother and true identity.

Director: David Miller | Stars: Ann Blyth, Farley Granger, Joan Evans, Jane Wyatt

Votes: 655

18. The 9th Guest (1934)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis

Votes: 673

19. Frisco Jenny (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Music

The San Francisco earthquake shakes up the life of Jenny, a madam who gives birth to an illegitimate son and gives him up to protect him.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Ruth Chatterton, Louis Calhern, Helen Jerome Eddy, Donald Cook

Votes: 1,187

20. The Man Who Played God (1932)

TV-G | 80 min | Drama, Romance

After losing his hearing, a musician uses lip-reading to help others.

Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: George Arliss, Bette Davis, Violet Heming, André Luguet

Votes: 1,276

21. Murder in the Blue Room (1944)

61 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir

A party is thrown at a haunted mansion, people start to die, and a man who spent a night in the "blue room" disappears.

Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Anne Gwynne, Donald Cook, John Litel, Grace McDonald

Votes: 395

22. The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935)

Passed | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Detective Ellery Queen's vacation is interrupted when murder strikes next door to his oceanside cabin.

Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Donald Cook, Berton Churchill, Frank Sheridan

Votes: 326

23. The Night Is Young (1935)

Passed | 81 min | Romance, Musical, Drama

Austrian Emperor Franz Josef has arranged a marriage for his nephew, the Archduke Paul Gustave - nicknamed Gustl - to the suitable Princess Matilda, a woman Gustl can't even remember. He is... See full summary »

Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Evelyn Laye, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel

Votes: 283

24. Ring Around the Moon (1936)

65 min | Drama

(1936, Chesterfield) Donald Cook, Ann Doran, Erin Moore, Doug Fowley. Cook is a high-flying newspaperman who falls into an engagement to a lady he does not love. Lots of poverty row ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald Cook, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Alan Edwards, Ann Doran

Votes: 70

25. Brief Moment (1933)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Music, Romance

A dissolute rich society boy marries a worldly nightclub singer, and she begins to have a wholly unexpected effect on him.

Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, Gene Raymond, Donald Cook, Monroe Owsley

Votes: 362

26. Whirlpool (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Carnie owner Buck Rankin marries local girl Helen and plans to go straight, but after a brawl ends up with a twenty-year sentence for manslaughter. When a pregnant Helen vows to wait for ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Jack Holt, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 445

27. The Conquerors (1932)

Passed | 86 min | Drama, Romance, Western

A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.

Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Richard Dix, Ann Harding, Edna May Oliver, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 345

28. Bowery to Broadway (1944)

Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In the Gay 90s, Michael O'Rourke (Jack Oakie) and Dennis Dugan (Donald Cook) are owners of rival night spots in the Bowery. They both move uptown and continue to compete in establishments, ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Maria Montez, Jack Oakie, Susanna Foster, Turhan Bey

Votes: 84

29. The World Changes (1933)

Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance

An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat-packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Mary Astor, Aline MacMahon, Donald Cook

Votes: 527

30. The Woman I Stole (1933)

70 min | Action, Adventure

A man (Jack Holt) wins his best friend's wife (Fay Wray) and seems to be plotting to ruin the man's oil business.

Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Donald Cook, Noah Beery

Votes: 78

31. Murder in the Fleet (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Mystery, Comedy, Drama

Taylor is cast as Lt. Tom Randolph, one of several naval officers confined to his ship when a murder occurs. The victim was in the process of delivering the components for a new electrical ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Taylor, Jean Parker, Ted Healy, Una Merkel

Votes: 251

32. The Circus Queen Murder (1933)

Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a ... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Donald Cook, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens

Votes: 333

33. Jennie Gerhardt (1933)

85 min | Drama

Jennie Gerhardt is a destitute young woman. While working in a hotel in Columbus, Ohio, Jennie meets George Brander, a United State Senator, who becomes infatuated with her. He helps her family and declares his wish to marry her.

Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Donald Cook, Mary Astor, Edward Arnold

Votes: 170

34. Ellis Island (1936)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Jack La Rue, Joyce Compton

Votes: 80

35. The Plymouth Playhouse (1953– )

30 min | Drama

ABC, which had a reputation for producing shows that were not as good as their competitors CBS and NBC, used this program to audtition possible series in the hope of gaining sponsorship for... See full summary »

Stars: Donald Cook, Boris Karloff, Wendell Corey, Wanda Hendrix

Votes: 33

36. Behind the Evidence (1935)

Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Millionaire playboy Tony Sheridan suddenly loses his fortune and, faced with working for a living, decides to become a newspaperman. He is hired by Hackett, the city editor, who assigns him... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Norman Foster, Sheila Bromley, Donald Cook, Geneva Mitchell

37. Jealousy (1934)

Approved | 66 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is... See full summary »

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Nancy Carroll, George Murphy, Donald Cook, Raymond Walburn

Votes: 69

38. Most Precious Thing in Life (1934)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

The Most Precious Thing in Life is a 1934 American film directed by Lambert Hillyer and starring Richard Cromwell, Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, and Mary Forbes. The film tells a ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Jean Arthur, Donald Cook, Richard Cromwell, Anita Louise

Votes: 130

39. Party Husband (1931)

TV-G | 74 min | Comedy

A liberated couple's divergent lifestyles almost ruin their marriage.

Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, James Rennie, Dorothy Peterson, Joe Donahue

Votes: 111

40. The Heart of New York (1932)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy

In the Jewish enclave of New York's lower East Side, hapless inventor Mendel is constantly in debt since he uses all his (and other people's) money to tinker with machines that will make ... See full summary »

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Joe Smith, Charles Dale, George Sidney, Ruth Hall

Votes: 192

41. Gigolette (1935)

Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance

Kay Parrish, a society girl, finds she is penniless when her father dies. However she persuades Terry Gallagher to give her a hostess job at his New York City clip-joint, which he operates ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Adrienne Ames, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Cook, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 45

42. 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

43. Circus Girl (1937)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Trapeze artist Kay Rogers marries aerial-act member Charles Jerome, who immediately become jealous of fellow-trapeze artist Bob McAvoy, and sets out to kill him through a series of staged ... See full summary »

Director: John H. Auer | Stars: June Travis, Robert Livingston, Donald Cook, Betty Compson

Votes: 58

44. The Calling of Dan Matthews (1935)

Approved | 67 min | Drama

Dan Matthews (Richard Arlen), a young parson, is in love with Hope Strong (Charlotte Wynters), the daughter of James B. Strong ('FRederick Burton'), a man who controls the town with his ... See full summary »

Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Richard Arlen, Charlotte Wynters, Douglass Dumbrille, Mary Kornman

Votes: 32

45. Confidential (1935)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A federal agent goes undercover to avenge the murder of a friend but one of the gang thinks he seems familiar.

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Donald Cook, Evalyn Knapp, Warren Hymer, J. Carrol Naish

Votes: 133

46. The Girl from Mandalay (1936)

Approved | 68 min | Action, Drama, Romance

John Foster (Conrad Nagel) and Kenneth Grainger (Donald Cook) are a couple of Englishmen stationed at a teak wood post. When Foster's fiancée, Mary Trevor (Esther Ralston), writes him that ... See full summary »

Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Linaker, Donald Cook, Esther Ralston

Votes: 23

47. Ladies Love Danger (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A mystery-comedy with multiple backgrounds set in a back-stage and penthouse backgrounds finds actress Rita Witherspoom mistakenly entering the apartment of Ricardo Souchet, a rich bachelor... See full summary »

Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Mona Barrie, Gilbert Roland, Donald Cook, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 41

48. Patrick the Great (1944)

Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. He learns of a great part in New York City and auditions. But after winning the role he finds out it was originally intended for... See full summary »

Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Donald Cook

Votes: 59

49. Long Lost Father (1934)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Carl Bellairs and his daughter Lindsey Lane meet many years after he deserted her and her mother. They don't much like each other, but wind up working in the same nightclub. Bellairs ... See full summary »

Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: John Barrymore, Helen Chandler, Donald Cook, Alan Mowbray

Votes: 176

50. How I Play Golf by Bobby Jones No. 11: 'Practice Shots' (1931)

11 min | Short, Comedy, Sport

Golfer Bobby Jones and a few actors are on the golf course waiting for the director to arrive so they can film Jones' latest instructional short. To fill the time, he answers the actors' questions and demonstrates some practice shots.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bobby Jones, O.B. Keeler, Anthony Bushell, James Cagney

Votes: 116