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1. The Ed Sullivan Show (1948–1971)
TV-G | 60 min | Music, Talk-Show
The classic prime time variety show most famous for its vaudeville acts and rock music performances.
Stars: Ed Sullivan, The Ray Bloch Orchestra, Ray Bloch, Johnny Wayne
Votes: 1,562
2. The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady (1940)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A hardworking secretary for a rich woman finds herself engaged to the woman's son and accused of a murder she didn't commit. Lanyard, the Lone Wolf, and Jamison set out to find the real killer.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Warren William, Eric Blore, Jean Muir, Victor Jory
Votes: 447
3. Belle of the Nineties (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Ruby Carter, the American Beauty queen of the night club-sporting world, shifts her operations from St. Louis to New Orleans, mostly to get away from prizefighter Tiger Kid. Installed as ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Mae West, Roger Pryor, Johnny Mack Brown, John Miljan
Votes: 918
4. The Man They Could Not Hang (1939)
Unrated | 64 min | Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
When Dr. Savaard's experiment in cryonics is interrupted by the short-sighted authorities, his volunteer dies, and he is condemned to death. He vows vengeance if he can survive his own hanging.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lorna Gray, Robert Wilcox, Roger Pryor
Votes: 1,965
5. One Frightened Night (1935)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery
An eccentric millionaire, unable to locate his only granddaughter, decides to divide his estate among a group of people less close to him: his niece and nephew, his attorney, his doctor, ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Mary Carlisle, Arthur Hohl, Wallace Ford
Votes: 454
6. Lady by Choice (1934)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An elderly, brash drunk is hired to help improve the image of a controversial dancer, and the two women form an unlikely friendship.
Director: David Burton | Stars: Carole Lombard, May Robson, Roger Pryor, Walter Connolly
Votes: 640
7. Scared Stiff (1945)
Approved | 65 min | Mystery, Comedy
The jumpy chess editor at a newspaper accidentally gets involved in some murders at a sleazy tavern run by a pair of bizarre brothers.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Jack Haley, Ann Savage, Barton MacLane, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 230
8. Submarine Alert (1943)
Passed | 66 min | Thriller, War
German spies use a stolen shortwave transmitter prototype to broadcast top secret shipping info to an offshore Japanese sub. To nab the spy ring, the U.S. government has the West Coast's top radio engineers fired and shadowed.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Wendy Barrie, Nils Asther, Roger Pryor
Votes: 380
9. Flying Blind (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Marie Wilson
Votes: 140
10. The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A medical researcher visits the deserted home of a pioneer in cryogenic science who disappeared 10 years earlier and finds him frozen in ice but still alive.
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Boris Karloff, Roger Pryor, Jo Ann Sayers, Stanley Brown
Votes: 1,109
11. The Clock (1949–1952)
30 min | Drama, Mystery
Suspense/Anthology series based on an ABC radio series which ran from 1946-48. The half-hour series mostly consisted of original dramas concerning murder, mayhem or insanity. Series ... See full summary »
Stars: Larry Semon, Oliver Thorndike, Parker McCormick, Frankie Thomas
Votes: 60
12. South of Panama (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Jan Martin, sister of government chemist Paul Martin, realizes she is being followed by enemy agents after her brother. She ignores him at the Panama airport and embraces a stranger, Mike ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Roger Pryor, Virginia Vale, Lionel Royce, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 106
13. Identity Unknown (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, War
An amnesiac soldier, the only survivor of a group of four unidentified soldiers - victims of a bomb raid - visits each man's address with the hope of restoring his memory and identity.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Bobby Driscoll
Votes: 374
14. Gift of Gab (1934)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Music
Conceited radio announcer irritates everyone else at the station.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, Ruth Etting, Phil Baker
Votes: 183
15. So's Your Aunt Emma! (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A dizzy old spinster gets involved in the boxing racket and gangland murders as is falsely accused of being notorious murderer "Ma Parker."
Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Zasu Pitts, Roger Pryor, Warren Hymer, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 253
16. The Headline Woman (1935)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Crime, Drama
When the daughter of a newspaper publisher is falsely charged with murder, a reporter on her father's paper goes into hiding with her. At first hoping to get an exclusive story, the ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Heather Angel, Roger Pryor, Jack La Rue, Ford Sterling
Votes: 141
17. High Powered (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Two women towing a lunch wagon on their way to a construction site. pick up a male hitchhiker, and the adventure begins. Some comic relief.
Director: William Berke | Stars: Robert Lowery, Phyllis Brooks, Mary Treen, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 104
18. Ticket to Paradise (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Janes Forbes (Barrie) decides to help amnesiac Jack Doe (Pryor) to find the details of his true identity. She doesn't tell anyone she is leaving, which causes her worried father to hire a ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Wendy Barrie, Claude Gillingwater, Andrew Tombes
Votes: 130
19. Man from Oklahoma (1945)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Music, Western
Roy spends most of this movie rescuing Dale from terrible fates. The film includes a reenactment of land rush opening the Oklahoma Territory.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 90
20. She Couldn't Say No (II) (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy
Wally is a lawyer with no clients so when he gets a job to buy a lake and the surrounding 1000 acres for Trans Atlantic Airlines, he jumps at the chance. But when ole man Potter puts a load... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Roger Pryor, Eve Arden, Cliff Edwards, Clem Bevans
Votes: 192
21. Smart Alecks (1942)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Danny comes into money for capturing an elusive criminal - money which Mugs insists he split equally with the gang while gangsters want to split open Danny.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 548
22. The Girl Friend (1935)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
An actor and two songwriters become rural con men.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Roger Pryor, Thurston Hall
Votes: 51
23. Toni Twin Time (1950– )
Music
Stars: Jack Lemmon, The Ray Bloch Orchestra, The Terry Twins, James Kirkwood
24. Wake Up and Dream (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Music, Romance
The story of a small-time vaudeville trio and their rise to the big time.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Russ Columbo, Roger Pryor, June Knight, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 69
25. Thoroughbreds (1944)
Approved | 56 min | Drama
U.S. Cavalry Sergeant Rusty Curtis, stationed at Camp Ralston, adores horses and refuses to believe rumors that the Army intends to replace its horses with tanks. While on medical leave for... See full synopsis »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Tom Neal, Adele Mara, Roger Pryor, Paul Harvey
Votes: 14
26. Missing Girls (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama
A group of gangsters shoot Senator Benson (Wallis Clark) and take his daughter, Dorothy Benton (Muriel Evans) and her friend Ann Jason (Ann Doran) as hostages at Ma Barton's hideout. ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Roger Pryor, Muriel Evans, Sidney Blackmer, Noel Madison
Votes: 58
27. Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 126
28. Lady Bodyguard (1943)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy
A.C.Baker, advertising executive for an insurance company, approaches test pilot Terry Moore with a proposition that in return for using his picture and endorsement he will get a ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Eddie Albert, Anne Shirley, Raymond Walburn, Roger Pryor
Votes: 66
29. Sued for Libel (1939)
Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
The trial of Albert Pomeroy on the charge of murdering Edward Webster,arouses interest because Webster's widow, Muriel insists Pomeroy is innocent. Meanwhile, back to radio station NYEB, ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Kent Taylor, Linda Hayes, Lilian Bond, Morgan Conway
Votes: 177
30. I Live on Danger (1942)
73 min | Thriller
Eddie Nelson is wrongly accused of murder, and journalist Jeff Morrell and Nelson's sister, Susan Richards, fight to prove his innocence.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Elisabeth Risdon, Edward Norris
Votes: 109
31. Sitting on the Moon (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A pair of hit songwriters fall in love with an ex-film star and her friend, but a blackmailer arrives to disrupt the romances. Based on William Field's short story "Temperamental Lady."
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Roger Pryor, Grace Bradley, William Newell, Pert Kelton
Votes: 222
32. I'll Tell the World (1934)
Approved | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Stanley Brown, ace reporter for a news syndicate, is on a date when he receives a summons from Hardwick, his editor, to report to work and begin trailing Grand Duke Ferdinand, a visiting ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lee Tracy, Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor, Onslow Stevens
Votes: 75
33. Dinky (1935)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
Mrs. Daniels has been framed on a fraud charge and sent to prison. By bundling her son Dinky off to military school, she is able to keep her shame a secret from him. Upon learning the truth... See full summary »
Directors: Howard Bretherton, D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Henry Armetta
Votes: 176
34. Bowery Boy (1940)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Dr. Tom O'Hara takes over a public clinic in New York's desperately poor Bowery section. Boy gangleader Sock Dolan resents Tom's interference in moving Sock's kid brother to a hospital, ... See full summary »
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Louise Campbell, Jimmy Lydon, Helen Vinson
Votes: 29
35. Bullets for O'Hara (1941)
Approved | 50 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A detective (Roger Pryor) courts a gangster's (Anthony Quinn) ex-wife (Joan Perry) to lure him into a trap.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Joan Perry, Roger Pryor, Anthony Quinn, Maris Wrixon
Votes: 275
36. Straight from the Heart (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
"Straight from the Heart" is a 1935 American drama film directed by Scott R. Beal and starring Mary Astor, Roger Pryor and Juanita Quigley.
Director: Scott R. Beal | Stars: Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Juanita Quigley, Carol Coombe
Votes: 15
37. Power Dive (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Drama
Bradley Farrell, an ace test pilot for McMasters Aviation Corp., breaks his leg when a new airplane crashes because it is too heavy to get off the ground. When Brad's younger brother ... See full synopsis »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Helen Mack, Roger Pryor
Votes: 84
38. $1000 a Minute (1935)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Leila Hyams, Edward Brophy, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 199
39. Money and the Woman (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The City Trust and Savings Bank sends Vice President Dave Bennett to a branch office to check on a Charles Patterson. Charlie has greatly increased the amount of money in savings and is ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Jeffrey Lynn, Brenda Marshall, John Litel, Lee Patrick
Votes: 96
40. I Like It That Way (1934)
Passed | 67 min | Musical, Romance
A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: Gloria Stuart, Roger Pryor, Marian Marsh, Shirley Grey
Votes: 47
41. The Kid Sister (1945)
Passed | 56 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Joan Hollingsworth is the younger sister of Ethel and their mother believes Ethel is entitles to all the advantages until she acquires a husband, but Joan thinks otherwise. Forbidden to ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Roger Pryor, Judy Clark, Frank Jenks, Constance Worth
Votes: 76
42. Strange Wives (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
When a young man marries a Russian girl, he finds that he has "married" her entire family.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Roger Pryor, June Clayworth, Esther Ralston, Hugh O'Connell
Votes: 16
43. A Fugitive from Justice (1940)
Approved | 53 min | Crime, Drama
Fugitive Lee Leslie is wanted by three groups; the police, the gangsters who fear his testimony in court and the insurance company that carries a $1,000,000 policy on him and is anxious to ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Roger Pryor, Lucile Fairbanks, Eddie Foy Jr., Sheila Bromley
Votes: 136
44. Romance in the Rain (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
The publisher of a tabloid-type romance magazine decides to get some publicity by sponsoring a "Cinderella and Prince Charming" contest.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Roger Pryor, Heather Angel, Esther Ralston, Victor Moore
45. The Officer and the Lady (1941)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Helen Regan (Rochelle Hudson) is the daughter of a crippled ex-police officer whose disability makes her hesitant about getting romantically involved with policeman Bob Condon (Bruce ... See full summary »
Director: Sam White | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Bruce Bennett, Roger Pryor, Richard Fiske
Votes: 20
46. Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
Passed | 55 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gambling boss Greg Morella runs a crooked ship-- all the gaming tables on his floating casino are rigged. Because the ship operates outside of the three-mile state limit, the authorities ... See full summary »
Director: George Amy | Stars: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland, John Litel
Votes: 358
47. Gambling Daughters (1941)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Mystery
A couple of rich girls at a private boarding school find themselves mixed up in gambling and blackmail, and must steal from their parents to pay their gambling debts.
Director: Max Nosseck | Stars: Cecilia Parker, Roger Pryor, Robert Baldwin, Gale Storm
Votes: 33
48. A Man's World (1942)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Somewhere beyond the shores of the United States on a small island, where men ask no questions, women reveal no past, and spies neither receive nor expect any mercy, a giant chromite plant ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: William Wright, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 44
49. The Return of Jimmy Valentine (1936)
71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A wisecracking newspaper reporter comes up with what he believes to be the ultimate publicity stunt: have the newspaper offer a $5000 prize to whoever can find Jimmy Valentine, a once ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Roger Pryor, Charlotte Henry, Robert Warwick, James P. Burtis
Votes: 16
50. To Beat the Band (1935)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Musical
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Helen Broderick, Roger Pryor, Fred Keating
Votes: 79