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1. Meet John Doe (1941)

Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan

Votes: 14,900

2. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)

Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance

In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Cedric Hardwicke, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 12,278 | Gross: $3.27M

3. The Ten Commandments (1923)

Passed | 136 min | Biography, Drama, History

After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye

Votes: 2,661 | Gross: $5.36M

4. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)

Approved | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh

Votes: 2,334

5. Show People (1928)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Romance

A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli

Votes: 4,007 | Gross: $1.10M

6. One Romantic Night (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance

A scheming mother wishes to make a successful match between her daughter and a prince, yet another man, a commoner, may stand in the way.

Director: Paul L. Stein | Stars: Lillian Gish, Rod La Rocque, Conrad Nagel, Marie Dressler

Votes: 466

7. The Shadow Strikes (1937)

Approved | 61 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

Lamont Cranston assumes his secret identity as "The Shadow", to break up an attempted robbery at an attorney's office. When the police search the scene, Cranston must assume the identity of the attorney.

Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Agnes Anderson, James Blakeley, Walter McGrail

Votes: 587

8. Forbidden Paradise (1924)

76 min | Comedy

Alexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Adolphe Menjou, Rod La Rocque, Pauline Starke

Votes: 223 | Gross: $0.25M

9. Our Modern Maidens (1929)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Comedy

A flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Anita Page

Votes: 906

10. The All New Truth or Consequences (1950–1988)

30 min | Game-Show

Contestants must perform an embarrassing stunt if they fail to answer a question correctly.

Stars: Bob Barker, Jack Bailey, Ralph Edwards, Jerry Lawrence

Votes: 98

11. The Locked Door (1929)

74 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

On her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene.

Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Barbara Stanwyck, William 'Stage' Boyd, Betty Bronson

Votes: 593

12. 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

13. Resurrection (1927)

100 min | Drama, Romance

Prince Dimitri comes from St. Petersburg to spend the summer in a rural district and falls in love with Katusha, an orphaned peasant girl who works for his relatives. Later, en route to the... See full summary »

Director: Edwin Carewe | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Dolores Del Río, Rita Carewe, Marc McDermott

Votes: 24 | Gross: $0.45M

14. The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery

A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick, George Barbier

Votes: 305

15. Braveheart (1925)

71 min | Western

Chief Standing Rock's tribe has a treaty protecting their fishing grounds, but a canning corporation is violating the treaty through intimidation and force. The tribe is divided as to how ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Hale | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Lillian Rich, Robert Edeson, Arthur Housman

Votes: 216

16. Let Us Be Gay (1930)

Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama

Dowdy housewife Kitty dotes on her self-centered husband but divorces him when his mistress shows up at their home one day to break up their marriage. Bob had become bored with her ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Norma Shearer, Rod La Rocque, Marie Dressler, Gilbert Emery

Votes: 627

17. Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)

Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Mystery

Jewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron.

Director: László Kardos | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco

Votes: 68

18. A Society Scandal (1924)

Passed | 60 min | Drama

Hector Colbert sues his wife Marjorie for a divorce after Peters, an admirer of Marjorie, deliberately compromises her. Colbert's lawyer, Daniel Farr, believing that Marjorie's behavior was... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Rod La Rocque, Ricardo Cortez, Allan Simpson

Votes: 78 | Gross: $0.20M

19. International Crime (1938)

Passed | 62 min | Drama

Lamont Cranston (Rod La Rocque), amateur criminologist and detective, with a daily radio program, sponsored by the Daily Classic newspaper, has developed a friendly feud that sometimes ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Astrid Allwyn, Thomas E. Jackson, Oscar O'Shea

Votes: 522

20. Stand and Deliver (1928)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Bored with peacetime lack of action, a Great War veteran dashes off to the Greek army to hunt down a marauding bandit. His hatred for women is tested by a saucy young lady he rescues there.

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Lupe Velez, Warner Oland, Louis Natheaux

Votes: 48

21. Ruggles of Red Gap (1918)

70 min | Western, Comedy

Harry Leon Wilson has written nothing more diverting than this story of the irreproachable English valet who is lost in a poker game to a rough-and-ready westerner and taken to Red Gap ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence C. Windom | Stars: Taylor Holmes, Frederick Burton, Lawrence D'Orsay, Virginia Valli

Votes: 19

22. The One Woman Idea (1929)

Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance

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Director: Berthold Viertel | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Marceline Day, Shirley Dorman, Sharon Lynn

23. Jazzmania (1923)

80 min | Drama

Queen Ninon of the Balkan country Jazzmania refuses to marry Prince Otto, who starts a revolution in retaliation. Persuaded by American newspaperman Sonny Daimler to abdicate and leave the ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Robert Frazer, Edmund Burns

Votes: 15

24. Wild, Wild Susan (1925)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

Wealthy New York girl, Susan Van Dusen, in search of thrills and laughter, leaves home and finds work with a private detective agency. She meets Tod Waterbury, who, under another name, is ... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Rod La Rocque, Henry Stephenson, Jack Kane

Votes: 14

25. The Golden Bed (1925)

Passed | 90 min | Drama

Femme fatale Flora marries a titled European to save the family plantation. Her husband and a rival fall to their deaths in a glacier. Next Flora weds her sister Margaret's love Admah and ... See full summary »

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Lillian Rich, Vera Reynolds, Henry B. Walthall, Rod La Rocque

Votes: 44 | Gross: $0.20M

26. Code of the Sea (1924)

60 min | Drama

Bruce McDow, son of a skipper, believes he has inherited the cowardice of his father and loses the respect of his associates. Jenny, who loves and believes in him, gets him a job as mate of... See full summary »

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Jacqueline Logan, George Fawcett, Maurice 'Lefty' Flynn

Votes: 54

27. Mystery Woman (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Crime

A French military officer is convicted of treason and sent to Devil's Island. His wife takes it upon herself to obtain the stolen document and prove his innocence.

Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Mona Barrie, Gilbert Roland, John Halliday, Rod La Rocque

Votes: 15

28. What's Wrong with the Women? (1922)

Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance

Men try to understand the women in their lives.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Wilton Lackaye, Constance Bennett, Montagu Love, Julia Swayne Gordon

29. Till We Meet Again (1936)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Romance, War

In August 1914 London, Austrian star Elsa Duranyi (Gertrude Michael) and English matinee idol Alan Barclay (Herbert Marshall) are in love and plan to marry immediately. But the War comes ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Michael, Lionel Atwill, Rod La Rocque

Votes: 70

30. The Fighting Eagle (1927)

Passed | 70 min | Romance, Drama

The exploits of Brigadier Gerard who helps expose Foreign Minister Talleyrand as a traitor to Napoleon.

Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Phyllis Haver, Sam De Grasse, Max Barwyn

Votes: 78

31. The Dream Doll (1917)

50 min | Fantasy, Drama

A cracked-brain chemist, appropriately named A. Knutt, in a big toy factory, claims the discovery of an elixir which will bring dolls to life. Ruby, the beautiful daughter of the toy king, ... See full summary »

Director: Howard S. Moss | Stars: Marguerite Clayton, John Cossar, Rod La Rocque, Robert Bolder

32. S.O.S. Iceberg (1933)

Passed | 77 min | Drama

In a departure from the trademark Alpine settings of Arnold Fanck's Bergfilme ("Mountain Films"), S.O.S. ICEBERG (S.O.S. EISBERG) takes place off the coast of Greenland, where an explorer, ... See full summary »

Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Leni Riefenstahl, Sepp Rist, Gibson Gowland

Votes: 157

33. The Fable of the Girl Who Took Notes and Got Wise and Then Fell Down (1917)

20 min | Short, Comedy

Once upon a time there was a girl whose principal ambition in life was to stand ace high with all the nice men of her set. She was so foxy that at times she got in front of herself and ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Foster Baker | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Thelma Blossom, Thomas Commerford, Mrs. Margaret A. Wiggin

34. The Coming of Amos (1925)

71 min | Drama, Romance

An Australian sheep rancher fulfills his promise to his dying mother by visiting his uncle on the French Riviera. He meets and falls in love with a Russian princess who was forced into a bad marriage to save her family from the Communists.

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Jetta Goudal, Noah Beery, Richard Carle

Votes: 66

35. Feet of Clay (1924)

Passed | 100 min | Drama

Kerry falls in love with Amy and saves her life in a surfboard race though his foot is bitten by a shark. Dr. Lansell tells him to keep off his foot for a year. He weds Amy, but Dr. Lansell's wife Bertha wants him too.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Vera Reynolds, Rod La Rocque, Julia Faye, Ricardo Cortez

Gross: $0.25M

36. The Garter Girl (1920)

50 min | Drama

Vaudeville dancer Rosalie Ray, disgusted by the advances of her admirers, quits the stage and retires to the anonymity of a small town. At her rooming house she meets young minister Arthur ... See full summary »

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Corinne Griffith, Sally Crute, Earl Metcalfe, Rod La Rocque

37. Hi, Gaucho! (1935)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

The setting is Argentina. When an outlaw band holds up a stage, their leader finds an old man from Spain who has just arrived to marry into a very rich family. So he assumes his identity ... See full summary »

Director: Thomas Atkins | Stars: John Carroll, Steffi Duna, Rod La Rocque, Montagu Love

Votes: 131

38. Dr. Christian Meets the Women (1940)

Approved | 68 min | Drama, Romance

A "professor" hits Dr. Christian's town, promising the local women dramatic weight loss in a very short time if they follow his regimen of strict diet and a particular type of diet pill.

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Lovett, Edgar Kennedy, Rod La Rocque

Votes: 126

39. Gigolo (1926)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance, War

The heir to a family business travels to Paris to try to stop his youth-obsessed mother from squandering the family fortune with her new husband, who married her for her money. After he ... See full summary »

Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Jobyna Ralston, Louise Dresser, Cyril Chadwick

Votes: 17

40. Frisco Waterfront (1935)

66 min | Drama

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from ... See full summary »

Directors: Arthur Lubin, Joseph Santley | Stars: Ben Lyon, Helen Twelvetrees, Rod La Rocque, Russell Hopton

Votes: 32

41. Uneasy Money (1918)

50 min | Comedy

Lord Dawlish is made the heir of an eccentric English millionaire, who cuts off a nephew and niece, living in America. Dawlish is engaged to Claire Edmont, an actress. Dawlish offers half ... See full summary »

Director: Lawrence C. Windom | Stars: Taylor Holmes, Virginia Valli, Arthur W. Bates, Charles Gardner

42. The Drag-Net (1936)

Passed | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama

A playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

Director: Vin Moore | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Marian Nixon, Betty Compson, Jack Adair

Votes: 64

43. Slim Shoulders (1922)

60 min | Drama

In trying to conceal evidence of her father's forgery, society girl Naomi Warren agrees to marry wealthy promoter Edward Langden, who holds the damning notes; but he dies on the eve of the ... See full summary »

Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Irene Castle, Rod La Rocque, Anders Randolf, Warren Cook

44. Night Life of New York (1925)

Passed | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

John Bentley hates New York City, because of an unhappy romance as a young man, but his son, Ronald, tired of living in Iowa, is determined to take up residence in Manhattan. The elder ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Dorothy Gish, Ernest Torrence, George Hackathorne

45. The French Doll (1923)

70 min | Comedy, Drama

Georgine Mazulier, the daughter of a French furniture dealer, is exploited by her father and Snyder, an American hustler, to sell fake antiques to millionaires. Concerned by Georgine's ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Mae Murray, Orville Caldwell, Rod La Rocque, Rose Dione

46. Beau Bandit (1930)

Passed | 69 min | Western

Hounded by a passel of bounty hunters, smooth-talking bandit Montero and his deaf-mute sidekick Colosso, arrive in town intent on robbing a bank belonging to the smarmy Lucius Perkins. ... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Doris Kenyon, Mitchell Lewis, Tom Keene

Votes: 100

47. The Cruise of the Jasper B (1926)

60 min | Comedy, Romance

Jerry Cleggett, the descendant of a seafaring buccaneer, is seeking a wife he must marry before noon on his 21st birthday or lose his inheritance.

Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris, Snitz Edwards, Jack Ackroyd

Votes: 103

48. Captain Swagger (1928)

Passed | 65 min | Drama

Hugh Drummond goes broke living too high and turns to crime in order to pay his bills.

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Sue Carol, Richard Tucker, Victor Potel

Votes: 46

49. A Philistine in Bohemia (1920)

20 min | Short

Mr. Brunelli, a roomer at a boarding house, has caught the eye of Kate, the daughter of the woman who owns the house. Kate knows her mother, who doesn't want her daughter to have anything ... See full summary »

Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Edna Murphy, Rod La Rocque, Nellie Parker Spaulding

50. Taming the Wild (1936)

Approved | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance

June Bolton (Maxine Doyle) is strong-willed, beautiful, reckless girl,blessed with money and a fond mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Bolton (Zella Russell), who knows not the first principle of ... See full summary »

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Rod La Rocque, Maxine Doyle, Barbara Pepper, Bryant Washburn

Votes: 65