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1. The Lawrence Welk Show (1955–1982)
TV-G | 60 min | Family, Music
One of the most successful and fondly-remembered shows in TV history, "The Lawrence Welk Show" featured musical numbers and skits, with host Welk leading the band.
Stars: Lawrence Welk, Myron Floren, Norma Zimmer, Dick Dale
Votes: 519
2. Jungle Book (1942)
Approved | 108 min | Action, Adventure, Family
A boy raised by wild animals tries to adapt to human village life.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia
Votes: 4,696 | Gross: $2.83M
3. That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Passed | 125 min | Drama, History, Romance
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Alan Mowbray, Sara Allgood
Votes: 5,059
4. Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
Approved | 108 min | Biography, Drama, War
At the close of WWII, Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle travels with the U.S. Army's Company C Division during their liberation of Italy.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Robert Mitchum, Freddie Steele, Wally Cassell
Votes: 3,724
5. The Red House (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Lon McCallister, Judith Anderson, Rory Calhoun
Votes: 4,949
6. The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Passed | 113 min | Adventure, History, Romance
Despotic King Louis XIV discovers he has a twin brother who has grown up under the tutelage of his foster father, the patriotic musketeer D'Artagnan.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Louis Hayward, Joan Bennett, Warren William, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 1,903
7. Captain Kidd (1945)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama
The unhistorical adventures of pirate Captain Kidd revolve around treasure and treachery.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Charles Laughton, Randolph Scott, Barbara Britton, John Carradine
Votes: 2,066
8. Apology for Murder (1945)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a reporter helps his girlfriend murder her rich husband, an innocent man gets the blame and faces execution.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Ann Savage, Russell Hicks, Charles D. Brown
Votes: 446
9. Master of the World (1961)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi
In 1868, an American scientist and his team become hostages of fanatical pacifist Robur who uses his airship Albatross to destroy military targets on Earth.
Director: William Witney | Stars: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster
Votes: 3,520
10. Guest in the House (1944)
Approved | 100 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A young manipulative woman moves in with her fiancé's family and turns a happy household against itself.
Directors: John Brahm, John Cromwell, André De Toth, Lewis Milestone | Stars: Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy, Aline MacMahon, Ruth Warrick
Votes: 1,012
11. Blonde for a Day (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A newspaper reporter, Tim Rourke (Paul Bryar) keeps writing articles attacking the police department for its failure to solve a chain of murders, and this nearly leads to the reporter's ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Hugh Beaumont, Kathryn Adams, Cy Kendall, Marjorie Hoshelle
Votes: 145
12. The Glass Wall (1953)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, Film-Noir
Peter is a refugee who wants to make a better life for himself in America, but he doesn't have the proper papers. Desperate for entry, he jumps ship and flees to New York to search for a World War II veteran whom he helped during the war.
Director: Maxwell Shane | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Gloria Grahame, Ann Robinson, Douglas Spencer
Votes: 1,338
13. The Flying Deuces (1939)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Family, War
Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Parker, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 5,739
14. 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: 1,452
15. The Macomber Affair (1947)
Approved | 89 min | Adventure, Drama
In British East Africa, a fatal triangle develops involving a frustrated wife, a weak and coward husband, and an English big-game hunter who comes between the couple.
Director: Zoltan Korda | Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Bennett, Robert Preston, Reginald Denny
Votes: 928
16. Second Chorus (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 1,760
17. Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
Approved | 84 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The ghosts of three elderly industrialists killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple they initially brought together.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger, Alex Melesh
Votes: 2,334
18. The Howards of Virginia (1940)
Approved | 116 min | Drama, History, War
Just prior to the American War of Independence, aristocratic Virginian Jane Peyton marries unsophisticated rustic farmer and surveyor Matt Howard who takes her to his Shenandoah Valley plantation and later goes to war.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal
Votes: 1,263
19. 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: 1,562
20. 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: 889
21. Paris Underground (1945)
Approved | 97 min | Action, Drama, Mystery
Among the terrified refugees jamming the roads out of Paris in 1940 are Kitty de Mornay, a rich American divorced from her French husband, and her companion Emmyline (Emmy) Quayle. A German... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gracie Fields, Jorge Rigaud, Kurt Kreuger
Votes: 316
22. Lydia (1941)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Romance
Four friends reminisce in old age. Each of the men had been in love with the main character, Lydia. The interweaving stories reveal the reason why she never married any of them and, indeed, never married at all.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Merle Oberon, Joseph Cotten, Edna May Oliver, Alan Marshal
Votes: 886
23. Delightfully Dangerous (1945)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Young Sherry Williams dreams of having a singing career, and she idolizes her older sister Josephine, who has gone to New York to perform on the stage. When Sherry is distraught just before... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Jane Powell, Ralph Bellamy, Constance Moore, Louise Beavers
Votes: 329
24. The Powers Girl (1943)
Approved | 93 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Two sisters living in New York City aspire to become high-profile models.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: George Murphy, Anne Shirley, Carole Landis, Dennis Day
Votes: 99
25. Behind the Mask (1946)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery
Lamont Cranston, aka the Shadow, has his hands full as the murder of blackmailing reporter Jeff Mann is blamed on him. Not only does the real murderer seem one step ahead of him as Lamont ... See full summary »
Directors: Phil Karlson, William Beaudine | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler, Dorothea Kent
Votes: 228
26. 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: 1,241
27. 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: 217
28. Silver on the Sage (1939)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy goes undercover as an Eastern gambler to rein in the fraternal perpetrators of a cattle-rustling scheme.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Ruth Rogers
Votes: 205
29. Strange Holiday (1945)
Approved | 61 min | Drama, Thriller
A man returns from a trip to find fascists have taken over the U.S. government.
Director: Arch Oboler | Stars: Claude Rains, Bob Stebbins, Barbara Bate, Paul Hilton
Votes: 242
30. The Great John L. (1945)
Approved | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Sport
Women in the life of prizefighter John L. Sullivan.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Linda Darnell, Barbara Britton, Greg McClure, Otto Kruger
Votes: 79
31. American Empire (1942)
Passed | 82 min | Western
Two men join forces to build a cattle empire, battle rustlers, bad weather and each other.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford
Votes: 312
32. The Face of Marble (1946)
Approved | 72 min | Horror
Dr. Randolph is so obsessed with re-animating the dead in his isolated old dark house and lab that he doesn't realize his wife is in love with his younger assistant.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: John Carradine, Claudia Drake, Robert Shayne, Maris Wrixon
Votes: 378
33. Leather Burners (1943)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
As rustled cattle have mysteriously disappeared, Bar 20 ranch hand Johnny Travers sends for old friends Hopalong Cassidy and California Carlson.
Director: Joseph Henabery | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory
Votes: 233
34. Isle of Destiny (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Society glamor girl/aviatrix Virginia Allerton decides to alter her around-the-world flight by stopping off on the Pacific isle of Palo Pango where her brother, Lieutenant Allerton is ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: William Gargan, Wallace Ford, June Lang, Gilbert Roland
Votes: 109
35. The Liberace Show (1952–1969)
30 min | Music
Liberace wanted his own show where he could control his presentation as he did with his club shows. This series was a smash hit.
Stars: Liberace, Gordon Robinson, Joan O'Brien, George Liberace
Votes: 46
36. 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
37. Mr. Ace (1946)
Approved | 84 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A rich society woman uses a gangster to win a congressional election.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: George Raft, Sylvia Sidney, Stanley Ridges, Sid Silvers
Votes: 229
38. White Pongo (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Adventure
Hunters and scientists venture into the jungle to track down a savage albino gorilla, which they believe could be the missing link between man and ape.
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Richard Fraser, Maris Wrixon, Lionel Royce, Al Eben
Votes: 696
39. Joe Palooka, Champ (1946)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Sport
Manager Knobby Walsh discovers young hunk Joe Palooka and trains him to fight the champ. Mobsters try to make life tough for Joe and his socialite girlfriend Anne. Cameos by several boxing stars.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Leon Errol, Joe Kirkwood Jr., Elyse Knox, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 52
40. Black Market Babies (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
This George Morris story was based on an article that appeared in "Woman's Home Companion" and later reprinted in "Reader's Digest." Eddie Condon, a two-bit racketeer, teams up with an ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Ralph Morgan, Kane Richmond, Jayne Hazard, Teala Loring
Votes: 37
41. 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
42. Friendly Enemies (1942)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
During World War I, two German friends who emigrated to the US and became millionaires agree on most things, with one major difference: one has taken the US side against Germany regarding ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Charles Winninger, Charles Ruggles, James Craig, Nancy Kelly
Votes: 111
43. Border Patrol (1943)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Western
When three Texas Rangers try to investigate kidnapped Mexicans being used as forced labor in the mines of Silver Bullet, they are framed for murder by the town's corrupt sheriff.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Russell Simpson
Votes: 330
44. Allotment Wives (1945)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Story of women who marry GIs just so they can receive the soldiers' pay and their life insurance if they are killed in action.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Kelly, Otto Kruger, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 569
45. Divorce (1945)
Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who has been married and divorced five times comes back to her small hometown, where she proceeds to complicate, and potentially destroy, the marriage of her childhood boyfriend.
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Kay Francis, Bruce Cabot, Helen Mack, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 383
46. Hoppy Serves a Writ (1943)
Approved | 67 min | Western
Sheriff Hoppy has to find a way to bring the bad guys, headed by Tom Jordan, to justice in the Lone Star state. The problem is that they are hiding out beyond his jurisdiction, in Oklahoma.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Jay Kirby, Victor Jory
Votes: 275
47. Melody for Three (1941)
Approved | 67 min | Drama
Dr. Christian takes an interest in a young boy, a violin prodigy, whose mother is a divorced music teacher. His interest isn't just in the boy's music career.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Jean Hersholt, Fay Wray, Walter Woolf King, Astrid Allwyn
Votes: 128
48. People Are Funny (1946)
Passed | 93 min | Musical
Two rival radio producers try to get the same sponsor, so they try to top each other with new ideas.
Director: Sam White | Stars: Jack Haley, Helen Walker, Rudy Vallee, Ozzie Nelson
Votes: 173
49. Club Havana (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Mystery
Edgar G. Ulmer directed this film about a number of different characters unfolding love, hate, and death problems during an evening in a fashionable Latin nightclub.
Director: Edgar G. Ulmer | Stars: Tom Neal, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Douglas, Lita Baron
Votes: 188
50. Danny Boy (1945)
Passed | 64 min | Adventure, Drama, War
The dog of a boy scout is kidnapped at the instigation of a neighbor. The boy gets the help of a war veteran.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Robert 'Buzz' Henry, Ralph Lewis, Sybil Merritt, Helen Brown
Votes: 72