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1. Great Guy (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The adventures of an investigator (Cagney) for the Bureau of Weights and Measures.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, James Burke, Edward Brophy
Votes: 1,133
2. Six of a Kind (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy
When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns
Votes: 728
3. Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman
Votes: 503
4. So Red the Rose (1935)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, War
"So Red the Rose" is King Vidor's quietly-affecting Civil War romance starring Margaret Sullavan as a Southern aristocrat, the mistress of a Southern plantation, whose sheltered life is ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, Walter Connolly, Randolph Scott, Janet Beecher
Votes: 214
5. Laugh and Get Rich (1931)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
Man takes his wife's stashed money and is conned into investing it in an oil well.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Hugh Herbert, Dorothy Lee, Russell Gleason
Votes: 281
6. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs, who hasn't been heard from since he wandered off long ago. Do-gooder Miss Lucy ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Pauline Lord, W.C. Fields, Zasu Pitts, Evelyn Venable
Votes: 257
7. Johanna Enlists (1918)
72 min | Comedy, Romance
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
Director: William Desmond Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Anne Schaefer, Fred Huntley, Monte Blue
Votes: 655
8. 23 1/2 Hours Leave (1937)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Music, War
Army training Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can get himself invited to breakfast with his commanding officer, General Markley. But he gets into an unhappy tangle with a couple of enemy spies before the bet is finally decided.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: James Ellison, Terry Walker, Morgan Hill, Arthur Lake
Votes: 69
9. Accent on Youth (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A young secretary falls in love with her boss, a middle-aged playwright. Complications ensue when her boss tries to fix her up with a man closer to her age and already in love with her.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Herbert Marshall, Phillip Reed, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 129
10. That's My Baby (1926)
70 min | Comedy
On the eve of his wedding, businessman Alan Boyd gets a telegram notifying him that his "bride" has fallen in love with another man and eloped with him. Announcing that he is through with ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Margaret Morris, Claude Gillingwater, Eugenie Forde
11. New Wine (1941)
Passed | 87 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. Fleeing Austria, he arouses passion strongly akin to mother love in a beautiful bucolic girl, who loves him to much to sacrifice genius on the altar of marriage.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Alan Curtis, Ilona Massey, Billy Gilbert, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 42
12. Caught Plastered (1931)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Wheeler and Woolsey play two unemployed vaudevillians who get involved in helping an old lady save her moribund drug store. Problems and laughs begin when the villain spikes the Lemon Sodas they are selling.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Lucy Beaumont
Votes: 233
13. Seven Keys to Baldpate (1925)
66 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
William Magee, author, returns from Europe and declares that instead of writing while he was there he was buying presents for Mary Norton, daughter of his publisher, to whom he is engaged. ... See full summary »
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Edith Roberts, Anders Randolf, Crauford Kent
Votes: 18
14. Hold That Lion! (1926)
60 min | Comedy
Jimmie Hastings falls wildly in love with Marjorie Brand, and he and his pal Dick Warren follow the two on a trip around the world. He meets her in Africa and she invites him on a hunt for ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Walter Hiers, Constance Howard, Cyril Chadwick
15. Tillie and Gus (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry ... See full summary »
Director: Francis Martin | Stars: W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop
Votes: 534
16. Let It Rain (1927)
70 min | Comedy
Riley, a marine sergeant and ringleader aboard ship in the traditional warfare between gobs and leathernecks, falls in love with a telephone girl and breaks arrest to go to her when his pet... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Shirley Mason, Wade Boteler, Frank Campeau
17. Soft Cushions (1927)
70 min | Adventure, Comedy
While spying a beautiful slave girl, a young thief penetrates the harem in which she is imprisoned and, when apprehended, announces that he wants to buy her. Though she dreams of winning ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Sue Carol, Richard Carle, Russ Powell
Votes: 17
18. People Will Talk (1935)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
Henry and Clarice Wilkins have been married twenty-three years and are a model suburban couple who have never had a quarrel. But when their daughter, Peggy, and her husband, Bill Trask, ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Leila Hyams, Dean Jagger
Votes: 62
19. Mary of the Movies (1923)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Romance
Mary's kid brother needs an operation and, in order to pay for it, Mary goes to a Hollywood studio and applies for a job as an actress. Mary is given a job as a waitress in the commissary, ... See full summary »
Director: John McDermott | Stars: Marion Mack, Florence Lee, Mary Kane, Harry Cornelli
Votes: 20
20. Ladies of the Jury (1932)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Mystery
Society matron Mrs. Crane (Edna May Oliver) is selected as a juror in the trial of ex-chorus girl Yvette Gordon (Jill Esmond), who's accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. In court,... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Roscoe Ates, Ken Murray
Votes: 424
21. A Man of Action (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Wealthy Bruce MacAllister is goaded by his fiancée, Helen Sumner, into proving that he is a man of action rather than a pampered youth. After telling his estate administrator, Eugene ... See full summary »
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Marguerite De La Motte, Raymond Hatton, Wade Boteler
22. The Rookie's Return (1921)
50 min | Comedy
A young soldier is discharged from the service and has trouble making a living. However, when he inherits a great deal of money, he finds his troubles only beginning.
Director: Jack Nelson | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Doris May, Frank Currier, Leo White
23. Never Say Die (1924)
60 min | Comedy
A corps of noted physicians mistakes the buzzing of a bee for heart tremors and erroneously gives Jack Woodbury 3 months to live. Jack's avaricious friend, Hector, persuades his sweetheart,... See full summary »
Director: George Crone | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Lillian Rich, Helen Ferguson, Hallam Cooley
24. Cracked Nuts (1931)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
To impress his fiancee's aunt, a young man tries to become king in a small kingdom, but the people there have already crowned one, who has won this honor by gambling. So he plans a coup ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Edna May Oliver
Votes: 394
25. Tian lun (1935)
65 min | Drama
To fulfill his father's deathbed wish, a businessman moves his extended family from the city to the countryside, and opens a school for poor children and a sanctuary for childless elders. But his adult children miss urban life and rebel.
Directors: Mu Fei, Ming-Yau Lo | Stars: Cho-cho Lam, Kwah-Wu Shang, Yanyan Chen, Cho-Cho Lai
Votes: 75
26. The Homebreaker (1919)
50 min | Comedy
Traveling saleswoman Mary Marbury thrashes a masher on a train when he tries to kiss a young girl in a tunnel. After the man and his female companion are escorted from the train, Mary ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Douglas MacLean, Edwin Stevens, Frank Leigh
27. Two for Tonight (1935)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A songwriter has to come up with a full-length theatrical piece within a few days.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Bing Crosby, Joan Bennett, Lynne Overman, Mary Boland
Votes: 82
28. Too Many Cooks (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
Two young lovers are building their house, but their relatives don't stop interfering, finally cutting off the young man's income and alienating them, but he is impressing everybody by continuing working at his home.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Dorothy Lee, Roscoe Ates, Robert McWade
Votes: 155
29. The Fair Barbarian (1917)
50 min | Comedy, Romance
An Englishman who has made his fortune in America decides to return to England. He takes his daughter Octavia to pay a visit to her relatives, especially Miss Belinda Bassett, an aunt whom ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Thornby | Stars: Vivian Martin, Clarence Geldert, Douglas MacLean, Jane Wolfe
30. The Sunshine Trail (1923)
50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
War veteran James Henry "Jimmy" MacTavish returns to his hometown in the West to see his childhood sweetheart, June Carpenter. Despite his penchant for doing good deeds, Jimmy soon finds ... See full summary »
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Edith Roberts, Muriel Frances Dana, Rex Cherryman
31. Captain Kidd, Jr. (1919)
50 min | Comedy
An old man wills a map to his grandson, with instructions showing a buried treasure, but it is accidentally sold to a book store. The owner and her granddaughter Mary discover it. Mary and ... See full summary »
Director: William Desmond Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Douglas MacLean, Spottiswoode Aitken, Robert Gordon
Votes: 18
32. Melody in Spring (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Charlie Ruggles plays a souvenir-buff in quest of a real Swiss cowbell.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Lanny Ross, Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Ann Sothern
Votes: 43
33. Mama Loves Papa (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Romance
A woman's ceaseless badgering sends her husband on a drinking bender. Along the way, he makes a new female acquaintance.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Lilyan Tashman, George Barbier
34. The Hottentot (1922)
60 min | Comedy
A young man happens to have the same name as a famous steeplechase jockey, and when he finds out that people keep mistaking him for the jockey (although he's never been on a horse in his ... See full summary »
Directors: James W. Horne, Del Andrews | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Madge Bellamy, Lila Leslie, Martin Best
Gross: $0.27M
35. The Hun Within (1918)
50 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A German-American father, loyal to his new U.S. home, finds himself on opposite sides with his son in the wartime conflict between Germany and America. The son becomes involved with German ... See full summary »
Director: Chester Withey | Stars: Dorothy Gish, George Fawcett, Charles K. Gerrard, Douglas MacLean
Votes: 21
36. The Vamp (1918)
50 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Nancy, a naive young girl who works backstage at a musical-comedy theatre, learns from the chorus girls the notion of winning a man by the seductive method of "vamping" him. She tries the ... See full summary »
Director: Jerome Storm | Stars: Enid Bennett, Douglas MacLean, Charles K. French, Robert McKim
37. Passing Through (1921)
50 min | Comedy
Billy Barton a bank teller, shoulders the blame for a cash shortage for which Fred Kingston, a fellow employee, is responsible and is sentenced to prison. On his way there, the train is ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Madge Bellamy, Otto Hoffman, Cameron C. Coffey
38. Mama Loves Papa (1945)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy
A woman tries to propel her husband toward an important public job, but he baulks at having to compromise his honesty.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Leon Errol, Elisabeth Risdon, Edwin Maxwell, Emory Parnell
Votes: 57
39. The Jailbird (1920)
Approved | 50 min | Comedy, Drama
Shakespeare Clancy is a jailbird who walks out with a crowd of visitors about the time "Skeeter" Burns, the prison printer, is discharged. When Clancy is notified that a legacy awaits him ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Doris May, Louis Morrison, William Courtright
40. Bell Boy 13 (1923)
44 min | Short, Comedy
Harry Elrod takes a job as a bellboy when he is disinherited by his uncle and fails in his efforts to elope with actress Kitty Clyde.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Douglas MacLean, John Steppling, Margaret Loomis, William Courtright
Votes: 31
41. One a Minute (1921)
56 min | Comedy
Putting Barnum's axiom "There's one born every minute" to the test, a young man tries to boost business at his newly inherited drug store by concocting and selling a phony miracle cure-all powder.
Director: Jack Nelson | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Marian De Beck, Victor Potel, Frances Raymond
Votes: 29
42. The Upper Crust (1917)
50 min | Comedy
Poor Molly O'Toole takes a job as housekeeper at the country home of wealthy Mrs. J. Van Ranselear Todd. Arriving at "Castle Crags," Molly is mistaken by the villagers for Mrs. Todd, and ... See full summary »
Director: Rollin S. Sturgeon | Stars: Gail Kane, Douglas MacLean, Eugenie Forde, John Gough
43. Going Up (1923)
60 min | Comedy
Robert Street, an author of aviation novels, has acquired the reputation of being an expert pilot, though he is without experience and has an unreasonable fear of airplanes. He is ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Hallam Cooley, Arthur Stuart Hull, Francis McDonald
44. The Home Stretch (1921)
50 min | Drama
Johnny Hardwick inherits a thoroughbred, "Honeyblossom," and stakes his entire bankroll on her, but in rescuing Gwen Duffy from danger at the racetrack he causes his horse to lose. Later, ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Nelson | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Beatrice Burnham, Walt Whitman, Margaret Livingston
45. Fuss and Feathers (1918)
50 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
An uneducated young girl becomes suddenly wealthy and hires the disinherited son of an upper-class family to tutor her in the ways of society.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Enid Bennett, Douglas MacLean, J.P. Lockney, Charles K. French
46. Screen Snapshots, Series 2, No. 22-F (1922)
Documentary, Short
Stars: May Allison, George Beban, Wallace Beery, Enid Bennett
47. The Boss (1915)
50 min | Drama
With the $1,000 prize money that wharf rat Michael Regan wins boxing, he is able to purchase a saloon and a freight-handling concern and begin his rise to success. By persuading his men to ... See full summary »
Director: Emile Chautard | Stars: Holbrook Blinn, Alice Brady, William Marion, Charles S. Abbe
Votes: 17
48. A Tour of the Thomas Ince Studio (1920)
26 min | Documentary, Short
A behind-the-scenes look at Thomas H. Ince Studios in Culver City, California.
Director: Hunt Stromberg | Stars: Enid Bennett, Hobart Bosworth, Ralph Dixon, Louise Glaum
Votes: 23
49. 23 1/2 Hours' Leave (1919)
50 min | Comedy
Brash young Sgt. Gray makes a bet that he can have breakfast with his commanding general. But a couple of enemy spies, intent on infiltrating the training camp, get in the way of Sgt. Gray's plans.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Douglas MacLean, Doris May, Tom Guise, Maxfield Stanley
50. Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 17 (1921)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Betty Compson, Carter DeHaven, Flora Parker DeHaven, Sessue Hayakawa