Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows With Frederick Hazlitt Brennan

1. Always (1989)

PG | 122 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.

Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, Brad Johnson, John Goodman

Votes: 32,783 | Gross: $43.86M

2. The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1955–1961)

TV-PG | 30 min | Western

Loosely based on historical fact, the series portrays the gunslinging Wyatt Earp and his successful determination for law and order.

Stars: Hugh O'Brian, Jimmy Noel, Ethan Laidlaw, Bill Coontz

Votes: 1,106

3. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama

An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

Stars: Ronald Reagan, Don Herbert, Nancy Reagan, Lee Marvin

Votes: 431

4. The Californians (1957–1959)

30 min | Western

San Franciscans during the goldrush of the 1850s attempt to maintain law and order in their wild city. Newly arrived Matthew Wayne becomes sheriff, then marshal, and organizes the city police force.

Stars: Richard Coogan, Sean McClory, Adam Kennedy, Nan Leslie

Votes: 137

5. Union Pacific (1939)

Passed | 135 min | Drama, Western

In 1862, Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads compete westward across the wilderness toward California.

Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff, Robert Preston

Votes: 3,382

6. A Guy Named Joe (1943)

Passed | 120 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance

A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Irene Dunne, Van Johnson, Ward Bond

Votes: 2,911

7. Follow the Sun (1951)

93 min | Biography, Drama, Romance

The inspiring film biography of the courageous champion golfer Ben Hogan.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Glenn Ford, Anne Baxter, Dennis O'Keefe, June Havoc

Votes: 450

8. Adventure (1945)

Not Rated | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dark, romantic, complicated drama about a rowdy merchant mariner and sophisticated librarian who clash over their lifestyles and values - and then fall in love.

Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clark Gable, Greer Garson, Joan Blondell, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 1,237

9. College Holiday (1936)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Expecting to put on a musical show, singing and dancing college students are brought to a struggling hotel to be guinea pigs in an ancient Greek-themed eugenics experiment.

Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Mary Boland

Votes: 197

10. Words and Music (1929)

Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Music

Phil and Pete compete for Mary's love and also in a contest for best song written by a college student.

Director: James Tinling | Stars: Lois Moran, Tom Patricola, David Percy, Helen Twelvetrees

Votes: 91

11. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)

30 min | Drama

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to Hollywood, California, where Hollywood actors and actresses headed the cast.

Stars: Philip Carey, Laraine Day, Willis Bouchey, Thomas Mitchell

Votes: 276

12. Branded (1950)

Not Rated | 104 min | Adventure, Romance, Western

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

Director: Rudolph Maté | Stars: Alan Ladd, Mona Freeman, Charles Bickford, Robert Keith

Votes: 1,020

13. The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)

Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

The Bellows family causes comic confusion on an ocean liner, with time out for radio-style musical acts.

Directors: Mitchell Leisen, James P. Hogan | Stars: W.C. Fields, Martha Raye, Dorothy Lamour, Shirley Ross

Votes: 1,088

14. Killer McCoy (1947)

Approved | 104 min | Drama

Following a mishap in the ring, hard-nosed lightweight Tommy "Killer" McCoy gets mixed up with a big time gambler and falls for his educated daughter Sheila, against her father's better wishes.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Brian Donlevy, Ann Blyth, James Dunn

Votes: 505 | Gross: $2.00M

15. Thunder in the East (1952)

Approved | 97 min | Drama, War

In a remote region of post-independence India, the love of a blind British woman pricks the conscience of an arms dealer.

Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Alan Ladd, Deborah Kerr, Charles Boyer, Corinne Calvet

Votes: 411

16. TV Reader's Digest (1955–1956)

30 min | Drama

Family-oriented stories from the pages of "Reader's Digest" were dramatized on film.

Stars: Hugh Reilly, Gene Raymond, Richard Reeves, Helen Mowery

Votes: 60

17. College Swing (1938)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Gracie Alden tries to graduate college to get an inheritance.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Martha Raye, Bob Hope

Votes: 574

18. Greenwich Village (1944)

Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

In 1922, a would-be classical composer gets involved with people putting on a musical revue.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Carmen Miranda, Don Ameche, William Bendix, Vivian Blaine

Votes: 466

19. A Girl in Every Port (1952)

Approved | 86 min | Comedy

After two sailors are conned into buying a lame race-horse, they go ashore to sort out the problem, but when they realize that the horse is one of a pair of identical twins, their plan for revenge becomes more complicated.

Director: Chester Erskine | Stars: Groucho Marx, Marie Wilson, William Bendix, Don DeFore

Votes: 712

20. God's Gift to Women (1931)

Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance

A Parisian descendant of Don Juan vows to stop philandering in order to win the hand of a virtous young lady with a disapproving father.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Frank Fay, Laura La Plante, Joan Blondell, Charles Winninger

Votes: 452

21. Devil's Canyon (1953)

Approved | 92 min | Western

In 1897 Arizona, an ex-marshal is sent to the territorial prison where many of his enemies, among guards and inmates alike, are eager for a chance at payback.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Virginia Mayo, Dale Robertson, Stephen McNally, Arthur Hunnicutt

Votes: 487

22. Little Miss Nobody (1936)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

A girl gets into trouble at her orphanage and is sent away to reform school. She escapes en route but is found and brought to trial. Her father is the prosecutor.

Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Jane Withers, Jane Darwell, Ralph Morgan, Sara Haden

Votes: 45

23. Fearless Fagan (1952)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy

A man brings his devoted pet with him when he is drafted into the army. The pet happens to be an adult lion, named Fearless Fagan. Based on a true story.

Director: Stanley Donen | Stars: Janet Leigh, Carleton Carpenter, Keenan Wynn, Richard Anderson

Votes: 379 | Gross: $0.95M

24. Sporting Blood (1931)

Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

The saga of thoroughbred Tommy Boy, born in a rain puddle, and his various owners as he evolves into a a champion stakes horse.

Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Clark Gable, Ernest Torrence, Madge Evans, Lew Cody

Votes: 378

25. One Night at Susie's (1930)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

A woman who owns a boarding house winds up being the "mother hen" to the assorted mobsters and racketeers who live there. Her foster son takes the blame for a murder that was actually ... See full summary »

Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Helen Ware, Tully Marshall

Votes: 188

26. St. Louis Blues (1939)

92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A Broadway musical comedy star tires of the same old grind and flees the city. She runs into the skipper of a showboat who befriends her, and they make plans to put together a musical revue... See full summary »

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Lloyd Nolan, Tito Guízar, Jerome Cowan

Votes: 81

27. The St. Louis Kid (1934)

Approved | 67 min | Drama, Romance

Trucker Eddie Kennedy gets involved with the law when he has an car accident with Ann Reid and knocks the owner of a dairy out. He evades a penalty when he claims, that he had done it as an... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: James Cagney, Patricia Ellis, Allen Jenkins, Robert Barrat

Votes: 502

28. Untamed (1940)

Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Dr. Bill Crawford, on a hunting trip to Canada, is attacked by a bear and his guide, Joe Easter, saves his life and takes the badly-mauled Crawford to his cabin home, where he lives with ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Morison, Akim Tamiroff, William Frawley

Votes: 68

29. Shanghai Madness (1933)

68 min | Drama

In the 1920s Pat Jackson destroys a Chinese post and is discharged from the Navy. Li Po Chang hires him to run a gunboat up the river. He drops Wildeth off at a mission for safety, but when... See full summary »

Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Fay Wray, Ralph Morgan, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 48

30. Wives Never Know (1936)

75 min | Comedy

J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.

Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Adolphe Menjou, Vivienne Osborne

Votes: 59

31. Play Girl (1932)

Unrated | 60 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, Norman Foster, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 366

32. My Pal Wolf (1944)

Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A girl with a strict governess heads to Washington to purchase her dog from the Secretary of War.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Sharyn Moffett, Jill Esmond, Una O'Connor, George Cleveland

Votes: 172

33. Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy

Two broke ex-chorus girls in California hope to get back to Broadway by winning the "Miss Pacific Fleet" popularity contest.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins

Votes: 294

34. The Sin Sister (1929)

Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

A story of hardships in Alaska in which the true characters of five people are brought out when they are subjected to one problem or another. Some pass the tests and some don't.

Director: Charles Klein | Stars: Nancy Carroll, Lawrence Gray, Josephine Dunn, Myrtle Stedman

Votes: 24

35. Speakeasy (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.

Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Paul Page, Lola Lane, Henry B. Walthall, Helen Ware

Votes: 83

36. Strong Boy (1929)

62 min | Comedy, Drama

"Strong Boy" is offered a promotion for saving a child from being crushed by a trunk, but to the frustration of his girlfriend Mary, he is not ambitious enough to take a white-collar position.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Leatrice Joy, J. Farrell MacDonald, Clyde Cook

Votes: 60

37. Sailor's Lady (1940)

Approved | 67 min | Comedy

Sailor (Hall) is going to marry his girlfriend (Kelly) when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Jon Hall, Joan Davis, Dana Andrews

Votes: 102

38. Masquerade (1929)

70 min

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Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Alan Birmingham, Leila Hyams, Arnold Lucy, Clyde Cook

Votes: 21

39. The Ghost Talks (1929)

61 min | Comedy, Crime

Miriam Holt hopes to solve the disappearance of a million dollars in bonds allegedly stolen by her late uncle. A team of crooks is following her, though, in hopes she'll uncover the missing... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Charles Eaton, Carmel Myers, Stepin Fetchit

Votes: 22

40. Sweet Mama (1930)

Passed | 54 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

A young girl falls in love with a member of a gang of crooks. She determines to bring the rest of the gang to justice so she can save the man she loves.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Alice White, David Manners, Kenneth Thomson, Rita Flynn

Votes: 92

41. The Gulf Playhouse (1952–1953)

30 min | Drama

This live show was seen through the "eye" of the camera. The actors in each episode would talk to the camera as if it were a person.

Stars: James Westerfield, Mildred Dunnock, Henry Jones, Eddie Bracken

Votes: 35

42. First Person (1960–1961)

Drama

A Canadian dramatic television series featuring astonishing observations and subjective stories.

Stars: Don Bryn, Geoffrey Alexander, Aileen Seaton, Norman Ettlinger

43. Blue Skies (1929)

60 min | Drama, Romance

Dorothy enters the picture.

Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Carmencita Johnson, Freddie Burke Frederick, Ethel Wales, Helen Twelvetrees

44. A Song of Kentucky (1929)

Passed | 79 min | Drama, Musical

Jerry, a young song writer, falls in love with Lee Coleman, a wealthy Southern girl. She is being forced into marriage with a fortune hunter who upon learning of her infatuation pays a ... See full summary »

Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Lois Moran, Joseph Wagstaff, Dorothy Burgess, Douglas Gilmore

45. Protection (1929)

62 min | Drama, Mystery

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Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Dorothy Burgess, Robert Elliott, Paul Page, Ben Hewlett

46. Footlights Theater (1952–1953)

30 min | Drama

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Stars: Eddy Waller, Grandon Rhodes, Katherine Warren, Robert Anderson

47. A Man of Sentiment (1933)

62 min | Drama, Romance

A man and woman fall in love at first sight, but everyone in their universe tries to keep them apart except one old fool with a sentimental heart.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Marian Marsh, Owen Moore, Christian Rub, William Bakewell

Votes: 53

48. The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957)
Episode: The Divided Heart (1952)

30 min | Drama

A lawyer agrees to defend his girlfriend's brother despite the fact that he thinks he's guilty.

Director: Fletcher Markle | Stars: Stephen McNally, Barbara Hale, Raymond Greenleaf, Darryl Hickman

49. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
Episode: That Other Sunlight (1954)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama

A child's face helps restore a disabled vet's self-confidence.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: David Brian, Ross Elliott, Sheila James Kuehl, Marjorie Lord

50. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
Episode: Winners Never Lose (1953)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama

A gambler who suffers a head injury is nursed back to health by non-traditional methods and the head doctor is not thrilled by it.

Director: James V. Kern | Stars: Murray Alper, Ward Bond, Frankie Darro, Wallace Ford