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1. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,531
2. The Lady Eve (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 23,390
3. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Passed | 93 min | Horror
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 20,119 | Gross: $3.75M
4. The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
A New York inventor needs cash to develop his big idea, so his adoring wife decides to raise it by divorcing him and marrying an eccentric Florida millionaire with a capricious high-society sister.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrea, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee
Votes: 12,884 | Gross: $0.44M
5. Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, War
Woodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest
Votes: 5,144
6. The Great McGinty (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 4,412
7. Christmas in July (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Votes: 4,269
8. Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)
Approved | 120 min | Comedy
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Ronald Colman
Votes: 1,362
9. The Great Moment (1944)
Passed | 83 min | Biography, Drama
The biography of Dr. W. T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Betty Field, Harry Carey, William Demarest
Votes: 1,078
10. So This Is Paris (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Georgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Meanwhile, Suzanne lives across the street and reads romance novels while dreaming of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger
Votes: 755 | Gross: $0.11M
11. What Men Want (1930)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Romance
A playboy's mistress falls in love with another man. Her younger sister arrives in town. Complications ensue.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pauline Starke, Ben Lyon, Hallam Cooley, Barbara Kent
Votes: 57
12. Hell of a Reporter (1929)
54 min | Drama
An aspiring reporter lands a scoop when he comes across a group of wealthy American girls, who had been sightseeing in Berlin, being detained by crooks, and displays his skills in rescuing them.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Eddie Polo, Gritta Ley, Maria Forescu, Robert Garrison
Votes: 38
13. The Grip of the Yukon (1928)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Western
An old-time Alaskan miner dies and leaves his fortune and holdings to his daughter in the states. She comes north and is befriended by two old friends of her father. And she needs all the ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Neil Hamilton, June Marlowe, Otis Harlan
Votes: 22
14. Four Square Steve (1926)
Short, Western
Steve is a roaming cowboy and he saves Milly from the rude advances of a dyed-in-the-wool villain. She gets Steve a job on her father's ranch. The bad man returns and tricks Milly to a ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Fay Wray
Votes: 21
15. A One Man Game (1927)
50 min | Western
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Fay Wray, Harry Todd, Clarence Geldert
Votes: 11
16. Bashful Whirlwind (1925)
23 min | Short, Western
Bob Evans is the bashful foreman of the Denton ranch. He reads books and dreams of being a hero. He gets his chance when Gladys overhears Walling planning to smuggle stolen diamonds across ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Mary Beth Milford, Roy Hughes, Clark Comstock
Votes: 11
17. The Man Tamer (1927)
11 min | Short, Western
Hot-headed Tommy Ryan agrees to give up his brawling ways if his cute girlfriend, Martha Murray, will marry him. After arriving in town, Tommy approaches his cousin and primary combatant, ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Barbara Worth, Albert J. Smith, Eva Thatcher
Votes: 10
18. Held by the Law (1927)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The engagement party for Mary Travis and Tom Sinclair is thrown into turmoil when Tom's father is shot and killed. Tom unwittingly casts suspicion on Mary's father, who happens to be ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Ralph Lewis, Johnnie Walker, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert Ober
19. Hands Off (1927)
50 min | Western
When young drifter Sandy Loom finds prospector Jim Perkins dying, he promises to take care of his daughter Myra. Assited by Professor Hawley and "Stills" Manners, he works her father's gold... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Helen Foster, Buck Connors, Nelson McDowell
20. Prowlers of the Night (1926)
50 min | Western
Sheriff Jack Norton is badly wounded in a gun battle with bandits and is helped by Anita Parsons, the daughter, as he later learns, of the bandit leader. Torn between his love for the girl ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Barbara Kent, Slim Cole, John T. Prince
21. Red Clay (1925)
50 min | Drama, War
Chief John Nisheto is drafted into the U.S. Army during World War I. While fighting in France, he saves the life of Jack Burr, the son of a congressman sympathetic to Native Americans. ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: William Desmond, Marceline Day, Albert J. Smith, Byron Douglas
22. Die seltsame Vergangenheit der Thea Carter (1929)
Drama
Directors: Ernst Laemmle, Joseph Levigard | Stars: Olaf Fønss, June Marlowe, Inge Landgut, Olga Engl
23. The Bull Tosser (1924)
Short, Comedy, Western
Pete is a cowboy who is always telling highly colored and altogether improbable stories of his exploits, but when called upon to prove his ability falls down hard. He is a "natural-born" ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pete Morrison, Elinor Field, William McCall, Frances Martinson
24. The Sunset Trail (1924)
70 min | Comedy, Western
On a passenger train passing through the desert, Louise offers to pay the fares of Happy Hobo and Collie. The boy Collie accepts, but Happy continues on foot and finds on a dying man a map ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: William Desmond, Gareth Hughes, Lucille Hutton, S.E. Jennings
25. An Alpine Romance (1928)
8 min | Short
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Snappy, Zimmerman and Granville
26. Range Courage (1927)
50 min | Western
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Fred Humes, Gloria Grey, Dick Winslow, William Steele
27. The Storm King (1925)
Short, Western
The hero thwarts the plan of the villain to not only clean out a drove of horses but to steal "Storm King," a very valuable stallion.
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
28. Phyllis of the Follies (1928)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Romance
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Alice Day, Matt Moore, Edmund Burns, Lilyan Tashman
29. Her Rodeo Hero (1924)
Short, Western
Molly, loved by Pete Hawkins and Jake Carr, bawls them both out for fighting and says she's through with the next one she sees in a scrap. Jake cuts the belly and on the saddle of the horse... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Barbara Starr, Frank Newburg
30. The Little Savage (1924)
Short, Western
The action concerns the opposition of the hero to the fact the adjoining ranch has been sold to a "tenderfoot." In an argument with one of the "boys" he gets the worst of it and visits the ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Pete Morrison, Olive Hasbrouck
31. Tricked (1925)
Short, Western
Lariat is a slow, almost unromantic town now that civilization's hand reaches all over the west. The boys of the Diamond Bar Ranch, ten of them led by Bob Keene, are almost knocked off ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Peggy Montgomery
33. A Race for a Ranch (1924)
Short, Western
Dan Farrar wants to help his sweetheart's father, whose ranch is to be foreclosed. He finds a pocketbook with a telegram in it stating that a railroad is to buy land bordering the ranch. He... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Violet La Plante
34. Queen of the Round-Up (1925)
Short, Western
The Ellis Horse Ranch suffers bad luck and Patricia Ellis, affectionately known as Pat, decides to sell a number of the horses in order to meet a $5,000 note. Ned Bixby, foreman, discovers ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Josie Sedgwick, Edmund Cobb
35. The Ropin' Venus (1925)
Short, Western
A gang of rustlers, by a ruse, lure the sheriff's party to one ranch while they make a raid on another. Josie, as the sheriff's daughter, gets on to their plan and follows a suspicious ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Josie Sedgwick, Edward Cecil, Colin Chase
36. The Boss of Bar 20 (1924)
Short, Western
The story deals with a cowboy falsely accused of rustling, who becomes a fugitive. He and the foreman are both in love with the heroine, Ruth, who is owner of the ranch. The foreman, who is... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: W.E. Lawrence, Olive Hasbrouck, William Steele
37. The Red Rage (1924)
Short, Western
Billy is a youth who can't control his hot temper. His sweetheart is wearing valuable pearls at a party and is lured by a crook to his apartment. A friend intervenes and is locked in ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Violet La Plante
38. The Whip Hand (1925)
Short, Western
Billy plays an Australian who has difficulty in controlling his fiery temper. It is in the nature of a sequel to "The Red Rage'' reference being made to the incidents covered by that ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Billy Sullivan
39. The Wild West Wallop (1925)
Short, Western
An easterner is sent by his wealthy father to visit on the western ranch of his friend. In order to give the visitor a touch of what he really thinks the west is, Sallyann, daughter of the ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Lola Todd, Olive Hasbrouck, Howard Truesdale
40. An Eyeful (1924)
20 min | Short, Western
Billy Langdon, vamped by Stella Glendenning, a wealthy tourist, manages to get in wrong with his girl, Joyce, when she sees him too attentive to the city girl, who, she thinks, winked at ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Billy Sullivan, Lola Todd, Florence Lee
41. The Winged Rider (1926)
Short, Western
Tom Sage, Big Bar Ranch foreman, is also the head of the rustlers. He makes a dicker with the Winged Rider, noted outlaw, to help them over the border with a herd of the Big Bar horses. ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
42. The Pronto Kid (1925)
Short, Western
A bandit is being chased by the sheriff. He rides a white horse. Next we see Cobb riding into town on a white horse. He calls on the sheriff's daughter and it is a case of love at first ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
43. Seeing Red (1925)
Short, Western
Billy appears as an Australian who meets with adventures in our great West. He shows his skill with an Australian whip by knocking a pistol out of a bully's hand before he can draw. One of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Billy Sullivan
44. A Battle of Wits (1925)
Short, Western
Miss Teddy Ramsay is the darling of Cross X Ranch. Her brother is accused by the villain of horse stealing and will be exonerated from the charge only if she agrees to marry the villain. ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Josie Sedgwick, Edmund Cobb
45. The Lone Round-Up (1924)
Short, Western
The scene is laid in a western town and opens with its leading citizen and bank president giving a dance to his debutante daughter, recently returned from finishing school in the big ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Jack Dougherty, Eileen Sedgwick
46. Top Hand (II) (1925)
Short, Western
Crab Henshaw and Charley Miller dispute the "top hand" of the outfit at the Sherill ranch since the death of the father, who has willed the holdings to Gerry Sherill. Gerry reprimands "Crab... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Star: Edmund Cobb
49. One Glorious Scrap (1925)
Passed | Short, Western
Parson Biddle, a wandering preacher, arrives at Three Rivers, Mont., with his beautiful daughter. At an open air meeting, Jud Hawley, former foreman for Billy Lannigan, tears up a tract ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Edmund Cobb, Margaret Quimby, Blackie Whiteford, Bud Osborne
50. Dynamite's Daughter (1925)
Short, Western
A girl named "Lightning" runs a saloon which she has inherited from her father. She has sworn to "get" the man who betrayed her sister. When the mine workers threaten to kill the foreman ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Laemmle | Stars: Josie Sedgwick, Buck Williams, Henry Sedley, Douglas Haig