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1. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)

Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.

Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson

Votes: 7,973 | Gross: $12.45M

2. Cleopatra (1917)

125 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony.

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe

Votes: 393

3. Carson City (1952)

Approved | 87 min | Western

When a banker finds his stagecoach shipments of gold from Carson City are vulnerable to holdups, he commissions the building of a railroad through the mountains.

Director: André De Toth | Stars: Randolph Scott, Lucille Norman, Raymond Massey, Richard Webb

Votes: 1,191

4. Roman Scandals (1933)

Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical

A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting, Gloria Stuart, Edward Arnold

Votes: 804 | Gross: $5.33M

5. Ride 'Em Cowboy (1942)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Western

Two peanut vendors at a traveling rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Dick Foran, Anne Gwynne

Votes: 1,733

6. Keep 'Em Flying (1941)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy

When a barnstorming stunt pilot joins the Air Corps, his two goofball assistants decide to go with him.

Directors: Arthur Lubin, Ralph Ceder | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Martha Raye, Carol Bruce

Votes: 1,747

7. There's One Born Every Minute (1942)

60 min | Comedy

The advertising slogans of Jimmy Hanagan (Tom Brown) and the lab reports reveal that the patented prepared pudding invented by Lemuel P. Twine (Hugh Herbert) has a treasure of Vitamin Z and... See full summary »

Director: Harold Young | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Peggy Moran, Tom Brown, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 197

8. The Queen of Sheba (1921)

90 min | Adventure, Drama

The story of the ill-fated romance between Solomon, king of Israel, and the Queen of Sheba.

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Betty Blythe, Fritz Leiber, Claire de Lorez, George Siegmann

Votes: 67

9. Jack London (1943)

Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Biography, War

Episodes in the adventurous life of the American novelist (1876-1916).

Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Susan Hayward, Osa Massen, Harry Davenport

Votes: 446

10. Song of the Open Road (1944)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth ... See full summary »

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Bonita Granville, W.C. Fields

Votes: 164

11. Northwest Stampede (1948)

Approved | 79 min | Western

When his father dies, rodeo star Dan Bennett returns to his ranch but hires on as a ranch hand. A horse known as the White Outlaw is the leader of a herd of wild horses and Dan's obsession ... See full summary »

Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Joan Leslie, James Craig, Jack Oakie, Chill Wills

Votes: 156

12. Big Town (1950–1956)

TV-MA | 30 min | Drama

"Big Town" was a long-running, highly-successful network radio series (1937- 1952) and film series ("I Cover the Underworld," "Underworld After Dark," and "Underworld Scandal") before ... See full summary »

Stars: Patrick McVey, Mark Stevens, Jane Nigh, Mary K. Wells

Votes: 58

13. Horses' Collars (1935)

Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Western, Short

The Stooges are private detectives in the Old West trying to help a girl recover an IOU from a bad guy. Their attempts to steal the IOU from the villain's wallet, then from a safe, meet ... See full summary »

Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Dorothea Kent

Votes: 758

14. Gang Busters (1942)

Approved | 251 min | Drama

Detective lieutenant Bill Bannister is assigned to run down an unknown gang of terrorists who have spread a net of crime over the city.

Directors: Noel M. Smith, Ray Taylor | Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, Ralph Morgan, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 130

15. The Dentist (1932)

Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short

An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray, Dorothy Granger

Votes: 1,763

16. The Silver Horde (1930)

Passed | 75 min | Drama, Romance

A salmon fisherman has to choose between a bad girl and a society doll.

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Evelyn Brent, Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Raymond Hatton

Votes: 628

17. The Fall of a Nation (1916)

75 min | Drama

Three acts and a prologue. Act 1: A nation falls. Act 2: The heel of the conqueror. Act 3: The uprising two years later.

Director: Thomas Dixon Jr. | Stars: Lorraine Huling, Percy Standing, Arthur Shirley, Flora Macdonald

Votes: 106

18. Honeymoon Limited (1935)

Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A publisher bets an author that he won't be able to write a romantic adventure novel while on a walking trip from New York to San Francisco. The author takes the bet, and runs into some ... See full summary »

Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Irene Hervey, Lloyd Hughes, Henry Kolker

Votes: 70

19. The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1944)

Passed | 107 min | Drama, Romance

A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.

Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Lynn Bari, Akim Tamiroff, Francis Lederer, Alla Nazimova

Votes: 216

20. Salome (1918)

80 min | Drama

When Herodias divorces her husband and marries his brother Herod Antipas, governor of Judea, the prophet John the Baptist protests and is imprisoned. Salome, daughter of Herodias and both ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, G. Raymond Nye, Alan Roscoe, Herbert Heyes

Votes: 53

21. Danger Lights (1930)

Passed | 74 min | Adventure, Drama

The tough boss of a railroad yard befriends a young hobo, and unwittingly places in jeopardy his relationship with the woman he loves.

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Louis Wolheim, Jean Arthur, Robert Armstrong, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 638

22. The Rose of Blood (1917)

70 min | Drama

After the death of Princess Arbassoff, Lisza Tapenko, a governess in the household of Prince Arbassoff, fills her place in everything but name. When the prince refuses to marry her because ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Genevieve Blinn, Charles Clary, Marie Kiernan

23. Here Comes Trouble (1948)

Approved | 55 min | Comedy

A newspaper publisher sends his future son-in-law to handle a job that ends up with unexpected trouble.

Director: Fred Guiol | Stars: William Tracy, Joe Sawyer, Emory Parnell, Betty Compson

Votes: 301

24. Wild Oranges (1924)

Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance

Millie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and ... See full summary »

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier

Votes: 565

25. The Restless Breed (1957)

Approved | 86 min | Western

A very bright young lawyer with a very quick temper travels to Mission, a small Texas border town to even the score for the murder of his father, a secret service operator at the hands of gun-runners.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Scott Brady, Anne Bancroft, Jay C. Flippen, Jim Davis

Votes: 442

26. The Barber Shop (1933)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.

Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: W.C. Fields, Elise Cavanna, Harry Watson, Dagmar Oakland

Votes: 850

27. Hypnotized (1932)

58 min | Comedy

A circus worker wins a sweepstakes prize of $150,000 and must travel to England to present his ticket and collect his winnings. He books passage on a transatlantic liner, but on board is a ... See full summary »

Director: Mack Sennett | Stars: George Moran, Charles Mack, Ernest Torrence, Charles Murray

Votes: 38

28. The Fabulous Joe (1947)

Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy

The adventures of a talking dog, Joe, who advises henpecked Milo Terkel to muster the courage to confront his dominating wife Emily and assorted in-laws while tackling a buxom blonde who just happens to undress in the Terkels' apartment.

Director: Harve Foster | Stars: Walter Abel, Margot Grahame, Marie Wilson, Donald Meek

Votes: 142

29. The Devil's Pipeline (1940)

Approved | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

A secretary sends a coded plea for help in her monthly report; two detectives investigate and find out that men are jailed on phony charges, forced to work in oil fields and then murdered if they try to escape.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, John Eldredge, Jean Brooks

Votes: 41

30. Mickey (1948)

Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama

Young girl is constantly getting into trouble and embarrassing her father, who finally puts his foot down.

Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Lois Butler, Bill Goodwin, Irene Hervey, John Sutton

Votes: 142

31. Madame Du Barry (1917)

Passed | 105 min | Drama, History

Jeanette (Theda Bara), unknown in Paris but of great beauty and wit, attracts the attention of Louis XV (Charles Clary) who expresses a desire to meet her to Jean Du Barry (Herschel Mayall)... See full synopsis »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Charles Clary, Fred Church, Herschel Mayall

Votes: 23

32. The Keeper of the Bees (1925)

60 min | Drama

World War hero James Lewis MacFarlane, tired of being shunted from one government hospital to another for a wound that will not heal, runs away when he learns that he has but a year to live... See full summary »

Director: James Leo Meehan | Stars: Robert Frazer, Josef Swickard, Martha Mattox, Clara Bow

Votes: 27

33. Keep Your Seats, Please! (1936)

82 min | Comedy, Musical

A fortune in gems is hidden in one of six chairs, and it's up to the prospective heir to find it.

Director: Monty Banks | Stars: George Formby, Florence Desmond, Gus McNaughton, Alastair Sim

Votes: 266

34. Mystery of the White Room (1939)

Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery

In the middle of an eye-surgery operation in a large hospital, the lights in the operating room go out and the chief surgeon is murdered. It is the job of Police-Detective Spencer to figure... See full summary »

Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Joan Woodbury, Constance Worth

Votes: 81

35. Who Killed 'Doc' Robbin? (1948)

Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Family

A group of people find themselves trapped in a creepy mansion, complete with secret passageways, a mad doctor and a murderous gorilla.

Director: Bernard Carr | Stars: Larry Olsen, Eilene Janssen, Peter Miles, Ardda Lynwood

Votes: 352

36. Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939)

Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Romance

Story deals with slave-running between Hawaii and California in 1840, featuring a wild mutiny aboard a slave ship on the high seas, the bartering of natives for slavery in a tropical ... See full summary »

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Richard Arlen, Andy Devine, Constance Moore, Noah Beery

Votes: 74

37. Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (1931)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Adventure, Comedy

A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Burgess, Robert Frazer

Votes: 38

38. Destination Unknown (1942)

Passed | 63 min | Drama, Romance, War

A beautiful Dutch girl finds herself in Peking being pursued by agents of the Japanese government.

Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Sam Levene, Turhan Bey

Votes: 52

39. Mr. Dynamite (1941)

63 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

A ball player takes his girlfriend to a carnival, only to discover a ring of saboteurs.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Irene Hervey, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Armstrong

Votes: 80

40. Outlaws of the Prairie (1937)

Approved | 59 min | Drama, Music, Western

The Rangers are after a large outlaw gang. Dart arrives early with the rest of the troop following disguised as a medicine show. Dart learns Lupton is behind the gold shipment robberies and... See full summary »

Director: Sam Nelson | Stars: Charles Starrett, Donald Grayson, Iris Meredith, Norman Willis

Votes: 24

41. The She Devil (1918)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Lolette (Theda Bara), an exotic and spirited peasant girl lives In the small Spanish village of Juanguera. Although ardently courted by the native swains, and particularly a bandit called ... See full summary »

Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Alan Roscoe, Fred Bond, George A. McDaniel

Votes: 19

42. Gallant Bess (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, War

An orphaned young man, Tex, has loved and trained his loyal horse, keeping alive his father's dream of starting a ranch. He decides to put his life on hold to serve the United States during... See full summary »

Director: Andrew Marton | Stars: Marshall Thompson, George Tobias, Clem Bevans, Donald Curtis

Votes: 219

43. Don Winslow of the Coast Guard (1943)

Approved | 245 min | Action, Drama, War

A Coast Guard officer is assigned to protect the coastline from spies, saboteurs and enemy agents.

Directors: Lewis D. Collins, Ray Taylor | Stars: Don Terry, Walter Sande, Elyse Knox, Philip Ahn

Votes: 60

44. Laburnum Grove (1936)

65 min | Comedy

In Mr. Radfern's house relatives and in-law parasites are pestering him about lending them money. One day he discloses that he is earning his living by illegal means, scaring them off for good. But did he just tell that story in jest?

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Edmund Gwenn, Cedric Hardwicke, Victoria Hopper, Ethel Coleridge

Votes: 129

45. Courage of Black Beauty (1957)

Not Rated | 78 min | Adventure

After some hesitation, 10-year-old Bobby accepts the gift of a magnificent black foal from his severe, thoughtless and overprotective father.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Johnny Crawford, Mimi Gibson, John Bryant, Diane Brewster

Votes: 71

46. Burma Convoy (1941)

Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.

Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Charles Bickford, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Albertson, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 68

47. He's My Guy (1943)

Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Music

The former members of a vaudeville team meet up again in a defense plant during WW II.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Dick Foran, Irene Hervey, Joan Davis, Fuzzy Knight

Votes: 28

48. Skyscraper (1928)

68 min | Drama

A man pretends to be interested in his fellow steel worker's sweetheart, in order to help the man recover his spirit and come out of depression.

Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Alan Hale, Sue Carol, Alberta Vaughn

Votes: 149

49. Unseen Enemy (1942)

Approved | 62 min | Adventure, Drama

German saboteurs, escaped from a Canadian internment camp, turn next to the waterfronts of San Francisco to stir up pro-Fascist subversion.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Irene Hervey, Don Terry, Leo Carrillo, Andy Devine

Votes: 30

50. Midshipman Easy (1935)

73 min | Adventure

A young man runs away to sea but finds more adventures than he was expecting.

Director: Carol Reed | Stars: Hughie Green, Margaret Lockwood, Harry Tate, Robert Adams

Votes: 211