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1. Black Tuesday (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gangster Vincent Canelli and bank robber Peter Manning escape from Death Row minutes before their execution by electric chair.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone
Votes: 659
2. Gun Crazy (1950)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Director: Joseph H. Lewis | Stars: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky
Votes: 14,874
3. Hopalong Cassidy (1952–1954)
TV-PG | 60 min | Western
Hopalong and his horse Topper catch bad guys with Red Connors for comic relief.
Stars: William Boyd, Edgar Buchanan, George D. Wallace, Rick Vallin
Votes: 393
4. Rocketship X-M (1950)
Approved | 77 min | Family, Sci-Fi
An astronaut crew on their way to the Moon are unexpectedly propelled by gravitational forces and end up on Mars instead.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 2,498
5. Al Capone (1959)
Approved | 104 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A chronicle of the rise and fall of Chicago crime boss Al Capone during the Prohibition era.
Director: Richard Wilson | Stars: Rod Steiger, Martin Balsam, Fay Spain, James Gregory
Votes: 1,911
6. Career Girl (1944)
Approved | 69 min | Musical
Joan Terry, a girl from the country wants to become a Broadway Star, but this proves to be not so easy.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Frances Langford, Edward Norris, Iris Adrian, Craig Woods
Votes: 217
7. The Trap (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Mystery
When a troupe of showgirls with their impresario and press agent vacation at a Malibu Beach resort, two of them are garroted. Charlie takes on the case assisted by Number Two Son Jimmy and faithful chauffeur Birmingham Brown.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Victor Sen Yung, Tanis Chandler
Votes: 1,230
8. The Come On (1956)
83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Unscrupulous con woman gets involved in murder.
Director: Russell Birdwell | Stars: Anne Baxter, Sterling Hayden, John Hoyt, Jesse White
Votes: 279
9. Portland Exposé (1957)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A tavern owner in mid-century Portland, Oregon finds the safety of himself and his family threatened when he becomes involved in a war between labor unions and a violent local crime syndicate.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Edward Binns, Carolyn Craig, Virginia Gregg, Russ Conway
Votes: 289
10. The Scarlet Clue (1945)
Approved | 65 min | Mystery
Charlie discovers a scheme for the theft of government radar plans while investigating several murders.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong
Votes: 1,565
11. When Strangers Marry (1944)
Passed | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.
Director: William Castle | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Kim Hunter, Dean Jagger, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 1,378
12. Decoy (1946)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley
Votes: 2,196
13. Suspense (1946)
Passed | 101 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
Frank Leonard, the proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes Joe Morgan, a peanut vendor at the show, to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville, Albert Dekker
Votes: 890
14. I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A forger is forced to work for a Nazi spy ring. His conscience gets the better of him, though, and he secretly conspires with the FBI to turn over the gang.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Dean Jagger, John Carradine, Mary Brian, William Henry
Votes: 228
15. Fall Guy (1947)
Passed | 64 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Tom Cochrane (Leo Penn'), full of dope (cocaine) and covered with blood, is picked up by the police and then questioned by detectives Shannon (Douglas Fowley) and Taylor (Harry Strang), but... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Teala Loring, Robert Armstrong, Leo Penn, Elisha Cook Jr.
Votes: 215
16. The Gray Ghost (1957– )
30 min | Adventure, War, Western
The Civil War exploits of Confederate cavalry officer John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost, was the basis of this syndicated series. Sgt. Magruder was the only other regular character but actual historic people were occasionally portrayed.
Stars: Tod Andrews, Phil Chambers, Sherwood Price, Jean Willes
Votes: 105
17. Dillinger (1945)
Passed | 70 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
John Dillinger begins his life of crime as a petty thief, meets his future gang in prison and eventually masterminds a series of daring robberies.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Edmund Lowe, Anne Jeffreys, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 2,143 | Gross: $4.00M
18. The Shadow Returns (1946)
Approved | 61 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Super-sleuth Lamont Cranston, (aka "The Shadow") investigates the theft of jewels from a grave.
Directors: Phil Rosen, William Beaudine | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, Tom Dugan, Joseph Crehan
Votes: 311
19. Dangerous Money (1946)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A treasury agent on the trail of counterfeit money confides to fellow ocean liner passenger Charlie Chan that there have been two attempts on his life.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Sidney Toler, Gloria Warren, Victor Sen Yung, Rick Vallin
Votes: 1,280
20. Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951–1958)
30 min | Family, Western
Hickok rode Buckshot while 300-pound Jingles rode Joker. Jingles described Hickok as "the bravest, strongest, fightingest U.S. Marshal in the whole West." And that's about it: he beat up all the bad guys and somehow kept his good looks.
Stars: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Sam Flint, William Haade
Votes: 232
21. Dark Alibi (1946)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A public defender enlists Charlie to exonerate one of his clients, an ex-con falsely accused of bank robbery and murder, scheduled for execution in nine days.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Ben Carter, Benson Fong
Votes: 1,453
22. Finger Man (1955)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An ex-con goes undercover for the government to "finger" the crime boss who made his sister a drug addict.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Forrest Tucker, Peggie Castle, Timothy Carey
Votes: 428
23. Ghost Chasers (1951)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A ghost helps the Bowery Boys capture a gang of crooks led by a mad doctor.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Lloyd Corrigan, Lela Bliss
Votes: 494
24. The Shanghai Cobra (1945)
Approved | 64 min | Mystery
Someone is attempting to steal radium stored in a bank. Death by cobra venom connects a number of murders. Charlie investigates.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong, James Cardwell
Votes: 1,244
25. Stump the Stars (1947– )
30 min | Game-Show
Television's first treatment of "Charades" as played by Hollywood celebrities. The giveaway was the use of gestures that defined "film", "TV show", "book" or "song" as well as "small word (... See full summary »
Stars: Mike Stokey, Vincent Price, Sebastian Cabot, Beverly Garland
Votes: 107
26. Charlie Chan in the Chinese Cat (1944)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Charlie Chan investigates the locked-room murder of a chess expert.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Sidney Toler, Joan Woodbury, Mantan Moreland, Benson Fong
Votes: 1,487
27. Cry Vengeance (1954)
Not Rated | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Violent ex-cop Vic Barron comes to Ketchikan, Alaska seeking revenge on an old enemy.
Director: Mark Stevens | Stars: Mark Stevens, Martha Hyer, Skip Homeier, Joan Vohs
Votes: 626
28. Captain Midnight (1942)
Passed | 270 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Secret Service Major Steel (Joseph W. Girard), is one of the few men in America aware of the fact that Captain Albright (Dave O'Brien) is also Captain Midnight, daring masked aviator ... See full summary »
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Dave O'Brien, Dorothy Short, James Craven, Sam Edwards
Votes: 152
29. Sensation Hunters (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A naive young girl, looking to escape from a bad family situation, falls in love with a man who turns out to be a cad, and leads her down the road to ruin.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Robert Lowery, Doris Merrick, Eddie Quillan, Constance Worth
Votes: 255
30. Bomba on Panther Island (1949)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Family
Bomba the Jungle Boy must stop a man-eating black panther while helping Judy Maitland and her brother Robert build an experimental farm.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Allene Roberts, Lita Baron, Charles Irwin
Votes: 233
31. The Underworld Story (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 1,329
32. Gang Busters (1952– )
30 min | Crime, Drama
True crime stories and their investigations are dramatized.
Stars: Robert Bice, Mike Ragan, Myron Healey, Don C. Harvey
Votes: 87
33. Bomba: The Jungle Boy (1949)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Family
George Harland and his daughter, Patricia, are photographers who discover a wild boy in the jungle. When Patricia become lost, Bomba brings her back, overcoming plagues of locusts, forest fires and fierce wild animals.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Peggy Ann Garner, Onslow Stevens, Charles Irwin
Votes: 353
34. The Scarlet Letter (1934)
G | 69 min | Drama, Romance
In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet "A" on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Colleen Moore, Hardie Albright, Henry B. Walthall, Cora Sue Collins
Votes: 502
35. The Dude Goes West (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Western
Eastern gunsmith Daniel Bone goes out west to ply his trade, encounters a girl searching for the murderer of her father.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Eddie Albert, Gale Storm, James Gleason, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 287
36. The Red Dragon (1945)
Approved | 64 min | Mystery
Chan is faced with suspects in a stolen atomic bomb formula case, that are being killed with bullets that are not fired from a gun.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Sidney Toler, Fortunio Bonanova, Benson Fong, Robert Emmett Keane
Votes: 745
37. Docks of New Orleans (1948)
Approved | 64 min | Mystery
After the partners in the LaFontaine Chemical Co. sign a legal agreement leaving their share to the surviving partner(s), two of them are murdered.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Roland Winters, Virginia Dale, Mantan Moreland, John Gallaudet
Votes: 423
38. Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A struggling young singer falls for a nightclub owner whose father, a millionaire, is trying to shut it down. Featuring The Three Stooges as waiters.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Gale Storm, Phil Regan, Moe Howard, Larry Fine
Votes: 440
39. Black Gold (1947)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, History, Sport
In the 1920s Texas, Indian farmer Charley Eagle is dreaming of winning the Kentucky Derby with his Black Hope horse but things change when oil is found on his land and the Black Gold colt is born.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Anthony Quinn, Katherine DeMille, 'Ducky' Louie, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 231
40. The Jade Mask (1945)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Sidney Toler, Mantan Moreland, Edwin Luke, Hardie Albright
Votes: 1,324
41. The Lost Volcano (1950)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure
When a young boy is kidnapped by hunters who believe he knows the location of a great treasure, Bomba the Jungle Boy seeks to rescue him from them and from a volcano which is about to erupt.
Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Donald Woods, Marjorie Lord, John Ridgely
Votes: 249
42. Loophole (1954)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A bank teller attempts to clear his name and rebuild his career after he is wrongly accused of theft.
Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Charles McGraw, Dorothy Malone, Don Haggerty
Votes: 436
43. The Hunted (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Despite her pleas of innocence, an honest cop arrests his own girlfriend for her alleged part in a jewel robbery and he keeps hounding her after her release from prison, even though he still loves her.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Larry J. Blake
Votes: 669
44. The Choppers (1961)
Not Rated | 66 min | Crime, Drama
A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Arch Hall Jr., Robert Paget, Burr Middleton, Rex Holman
Votes: 443
45. The Missing Lady (1946)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A jade statue, "The Missing Lady", is stolen and its owner killed. Lamont Cranston, alias the Shadow, sets out to catch the killer but is blamed for the murders himself as each time he ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler, James Flavin
Votes: 218
46. The Cruel Tower (1956)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Romance
Tension and rivalry among a crew of steeplejacks.
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: John Ericson, Mari Blanchard, Charles McGraw, Steve Brodie
Votes: 142
47. I Was an American Spy (1951)
Approved | 85 min | Biography, Drama, War
During World War II, an American woman posing as an Italian cabaret owner spies on the Japanese in Manila but becomes the target of a suspicious Japanese intelligence officer.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard Loo
Votes: 280
48. Wife Wanted (1946)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). As it happens, through his secretary Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Shayne, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 133
49. The Sky Dragon (1949)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Mystery
On a plane trip, Charlie Chan and the passengers are drugged, and when they wake up a quarter million dollars is missing.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Roland Winters, Keye Luke, Mantan Moreland, Noel Neill
Votes: 388
50. Hot Rhythm (1944)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band. ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Robert Lowery, Dona Drake, Tim Ryan, Irene Ryan
Votes: 110