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1. The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
Passed | 176 min | Drama, Musical
The ups and downs of Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., famed producer of extravagant stage revues, are portrayed.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, Frank Morgan
Votes: 8,989
2. Fury (1936)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 13,725
3. A Day at the Races (1937)
Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones
Votes: 14,582
4. Three Comrades (1938)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance
The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young
Votes: 2,077
5. Honky Tonk (1941)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor
Votes: 1,246 | Gross: $6.31M
6. The Gilded Lily (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A stenographer becomes a famed entertainer and is courted by an English nobleman and an informal American reporter.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Ray Milland, C. Aubrey Smith
Votes: 792
7. The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
Approved | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
The story of the dancing team who taught the world to two-step.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edna May Oliver, Walter Brennan
Votes: 2,789 | Gross: $1.12M
8. Caravan (1934)
Approved | 101 min | Musical
Member of royal family is forced to marry a vagabond.
Director: Erik Charell | Stars: Charles Boyer, Loretta Young, Jean Parker, Phillips Holmes
Votes: 150
9. The Gay Deception (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mirabel wins a $5, 000 lottery which will enable her to live like a queen in New York. There she meets Sandro, a bellboy who is really a prince, so she does get to be a queen after all.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Francis Lederer, Frances Dee, Benita Hume, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 459
10. The Mayor of 44th Street (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
Joe Jonathan tries to keep his business on the level after some shady dealings but will his cronies let him?
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, William Gargan, Richard Barthelmess
Votes: 211
11. The Toy Wife (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, History, Romance
The beautiful, frivolous wife of a plantation owner in antebellum Louisiana proves unsatisfactory at running the household, leading her serious-minded husband to enlist the help of her unmarried sister.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Luise Rainer, Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 400
12. X Marks the Spot (1942)
Approved | 55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
In 1942, rubber is a valuable commodity during WWII. Eddie Delaney is a second lieutenant in the Army, but also a private detective. Eddie swings into action, when his father, ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Dick Purcell, Helen Parrish, Neil Hamilton, Jack La Rue
Votes: 290
13. Love on Toast (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A female press agent must select a "Mr. Manhattan" and "Miss Brooklyn" for an ad campaign mounted by a struggling soup company. The Mr. Manhattan chosen is a singing soda jerk who doesn't want to play along.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Stella Adler, John Payne, Grant Richards, Kathryn Kane
Votes: 61
14. Romance in the Dark (1938)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
"Romance in the Dark" is a 1938 film directed by H. C. Potter and starring Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore, and Claire Dodd. It is one of five movies produced by Paramount in ... See full summary »
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Gladys Swarthout, John Boles, John Barrymore, Claire Dodd
Votes: 75
15. Picture Brides (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Four "Picture Brides" from New Orleans arrive in the Brazilian jungle on a riverboat, brought there to marry workers at Lottagrasso, a remote mining site of the Standard Diamond Mines. On ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Dorothy Mackaill, Regis Toomey, Dorothy Libaire, Alan Hale
Votes: 112
16. Sailor's Luck (1933)
Not Rated | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
On shore leave in San Pedro, U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan meets and falls for Sally Brent. She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Dunn, Sally Eilers, Victor Jory, Sammy Cohen
Votes: 106
17. Sunset Murder Case (1938)
Approved | 59 min | Mystery
Small-time showgirl, loved by two decent men, poses as a stripper to infiltrate a nightclub whose owner is believed responsible for her father's murder.
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Sally Rand, Henry King, Esther Muir, Lona Andre
Votes: 195
18. Sweepings (1933)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Starting over with almost nothing after the great Chicago Fire, Daniel Pardway builds the biggest department store in town. He wants to pass on the business to his daughter and three sons, ... See full summary »
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Eric Linden, William Gargan, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 475
19. The Nuisance (1933)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An ambulance-chasing lawyer gets tangled up with a female investigator out to end his shyster ways.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Lee Tracy, Madge Evans, Frank Morgan, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 335
20. I'll Take Romance (1937)
Passed | 90 min | Music, Romance
An opera manager tries to woo a contract-breaking soprano into performing in Buenos Aires.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Grace Moore, Melvyn Douglas, Helen Westley, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 139
21. Adorable (1933)
Approved | 88 min | Musical, Comedy, Romance
Janet Gaynor plays a rebellious princess who must try to marry the man she loves, instead of the stuffy old prince her parents want her to marry. But will this ordinary man love her back once he finds out she's a princess?
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Henri Garat, C. Aubrey Smith, Herbert Mundin
Votes: 157
22. Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933)
90 min | Drama, Musical
Racketeer Frank Rocci is smitten with Joan Whelan, a dancer at Texas Guinan's famous Broadway night spot. He uses his influence to help her get a starring role in the show, hoping that it ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Constance Cummings, Russ Columbo, Paul Kelly, Blossom Seeley
Votes: 241
23. Misbehaving Husbands (1940)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
The owner of a department store is threatened with divorce by his wife, who has gotten reports that he's been seen in the arms of a beautiful blonde on the night of their 20th wedding anniversary. He has to find a way to convince her that the "beautiful blonde" in question was actually a store mannequin that he was taking in for repairs.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Harry Langdon, Betty Blythe, Esther Muir, Ralph Byrd
Votes: 165
24. On Again-Off Again (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Music
This wacky vaudeville-style romp casts the irreverent comedy team as feuding co-owners of a drug company.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Marjorie Lord, Patricia Wilder
Votes: 137
25. Battle of Broadway (1938)
Approved | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two American Legionnaires on convention in New York share adventures and rivalries in an around show biz.
Directors: George Marshall, Allan Dwan | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy, Gypsy Rose Lee, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 77
26. The Party's Over (1934)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Bruce Blakely, a meek, mild-mannered certified public accountant, finally gets fed up with his money-grubbing family sponging off of him, and decides to partake of a different side and slice of life. A blonde secretary helps guide him.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Ann Sothern, Arline Judge, Chick Chandler
Votes: 26
27. I Love That Man (1933)
74 min | Crime, Drama
A woman falls in love with a con artist despite the fact that he does not want to marry her. They try to start a respectable life in a small town, but his shady past threatens to catch up with them.
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Lew Cody
Votes: 39
28. Stolen Paradise (1940)
79 min | Drama
Robert Gordon (Leon Janney), a sheltered 18-year-old youth reared in a Catholic school, believes he has a vocation for the priesthood. He is taken to live with his father in his palatial ... See full summary »
Director: Louis J. Gasnier | Stars: Leon Janney, Eleanor Hunt, Esther Muir, Wilma Francis
Votes: 28
29. A Dangerous Affair (1931)
75 min | Mystery
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Jack Holt, Ralph Graves, Sally Blane, Susan Fleming
Votes: 17
30. The Law West of Tombstone (1938)
Approved | 73 min | Western
Notoriuos liar Bill Barker, having been banished westward by the law, talks the townspeople of Martinez into making him Mayor and Judge. Here he must deal with the outlaw the Tonto Kid and ... See full summary »
Director: Glenn Tryon | Stars: Harry Carey, Tim Holt, Evelyn Brent, Jean Rouverol
Votes: 259
31. Coronado (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to, and is frequented by, members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego tracks, in a tent-city with ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Johnny Downs, Betty Burgess, Jack Haley, Andy Devine
Votes: 47
32. High Hat (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
Director: Clifford Sanforth | Stars: Frank Luther, Dorothy Dare, Lona Andre, Gavin Gordon
Votes: 39
33. It Always Happens (1935)
20 min | Comedy, Short
While on a business trip, Andy accidentially gets into a compromising position with the wife of a client.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Andy Clyde, Geneva Mitchell, Esther Muir, Bud Jamison
Votes: 10
34. The Girl and the Gambler (1939)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Learning of a certain cantina dancer, notorious outlaw El Rayo bets he can bring her back voluntarily that night. Arriving, he learns that she loves the craps table operator Johnny Powell. ... See full summary »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Tim Holt, Steffi Duna, Donald MacBride
Votes: 47
35. The Woman Who Dared (1933)
60 min | Drama
A young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's employees.
Director: Millard Webb | Stars: Claudia Dell, Monroe Owsley, Lola Lane, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 17
36. Unknown Blonde (1934)
Passed | 67 min | Drama
An unprincipled hustler who makes his living getting--or making up--evidence in divorce cases finds that he's framing his own daughter.
Director: Hobart Henley | Stars: Edward Arnold, Barbara Barondess, Barry Norton, John Miljan
Votes: 19
37. Wine, Women and Song (1933)
70 min | Drama
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Lilyan Tashman, Lew Cody, Marjorie Reynolds, Matty Kemp
Votes: 7
38. Western Jamboree (1938)
Passed | 56 min | Drama, Music, Western
Knowing that it contains valuable helium gas, a gang of bad guys first tries to purchase the ranch that Gene straw-bosses; when that fails, they lay a hidden pipeline to snag the gas.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, Jean Rouverol, Esther Muir
Votes: 100
39. Here's to Romance (1935)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Kathleen Gerard, a high-society wife fed up with her husband's artistic "protegées", decides to take one of her own in promising tenor Nino, patronizing him to study in Paris. He and his ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Nino Martini, Genevieve Tobin, Anita Louise, Maria Gambarelli
Votes: 17
40. City Girl (1938)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama
A racketeer uses a waitress to get information from the district attorney whom she comes to love.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Phyllis Brooks, Robert Wilcox, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 28
41. The Price of a Party (1924)
60 min | Drama
Kenneth Bellwood, an unscrupulous broker, discovers that hated business rival Robert Casson has secured a valuable option in Brazil and quickly determines to keep Robert in New York until ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Hope Hampton, Harrison Ford, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Mary Astor
Votes: 16
42. So This Is Africa (1933)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Musical
Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey play a couple of broke, hungry vaudevillians who are holed up in a hotel room with a few (tame) lions. They are hired by a movie producer who wishes to send ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Robert Woolsey, Bert Wheeler, Raquel Torres, Esther Muir
Votes: 155
43. Public Stenographer (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Drama
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Lola Lane, William Collier Jr., Esther Muir, Jason Robards Sr.
Votes: 47
44. The First Baby (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
By the time daughter and son-in-law have their second child, mother-in-law learns not to be so domineering.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Johnny Downs, Shirley Deane, Jane Darwell, Dixie Dunbar
Votes: 12
45. Hell and High Water (1933)
68 min | Drama
The life of an avowed bachelor who tows garbage is changed when he meets a runaway taxi dancer.
Directors: Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt | Stars: Richard Arlen, Judith Allen, Charley Grapewin, Gertrude Hoffman
46. A Girl's Best Years (1936)
Approved | 19 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A woman reporter is hired by an author-songwriter to help him avoid additional breach-of-promise suits.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Mary Doran, John Warburton, Barnett Parker, Sheila Terry
Votes: 117
47. The Wrong Way Out (1938)
Passed | 17 min | Crime, Short, Drama
In this entry in the "Crime Does Not Pay" series, young Ann Stevens and "Windy" Brown, against the advice of both sets of parents, run away and get married as they yearn for "independence."... See full summary »
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Kenneth Howell, Linda Perry, William Bailey, Robert Elliott
Votes: 162
48. Racing Luck (1935)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Racehorse-owner Dan Morgan is ruled off the track and out of racing when his horse is doped by a rival owner who knows that Dan's horse can win a high-stakes race. Trying to clear his name,... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: William Boyd, Barbara Worth, George Ernest, Esther Muir
Votes: 47
49. Under Suspicion (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Mystery, Romance
When auto magnate Robert Bailey announces he is going to retire and turn his plant over to the employees he incurs the enmity of K.Y. Mitchell, a large stockholder in the company; Carey ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Katherine DeMille, Luis Alberni, Rosalind Keith
Votes: 12
50. His Weak Moment (1933)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Andy Clyde, Cecilia Parker, Bruce Riley, Fern Emmett