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1. The New Bike (2009)

Short, Drama

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Director: David Gantz | Stars: Matt Zemlin, John Riley Billings

Votes: 60

2. A Day at the Races (1937)

Passed | 111 min | Comedy, Family, Musical

A veterinarian posing as a doctor teams with a singer and his friends as they struggle to save an upstate New York sanitarium with the help of a misfit racehorse.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Allan Jones

Votes: 14,587

3. Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

Hard-working, henpecked Ambrose Wolfinger takes off from work to go to a wrestling match with catastrophic consequences.

Directors: Clyde Bruckman, W.C. Fields | Stars: W.C. Fields, Mary Brian, Kathleen Howard, Grady Sutton

Votes: 1,344

4. You're Telling Me! (1934)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy

A hard-drinking, socially-awkward inventor wrecks his daughter's chances of marriage into a rich family and bungles his own chances of success by selling one of his more practical inventions.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joan Marsh, Buster Crabbe, Adrienne Ames

Votes: 1,184

5. David Copperfield (1935)

Passed | 130 min | Adventure, Drama, Family

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

Director: George Cukor | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Edna May Oliver, Elizabeth Allan

Votes: 4,768

6. Tales of Manhattan (1942)

Passed | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.

Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda

Votes: 2,515

7. The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Votes: 1,136

8. The Bank Dick (1940)

Not Rated | 72 min | Comedy

Henpecked Egbert Sousé has comic adventures as a substitute film director and unlikely bank guard.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Evelyn Del Rio

Votes: 7,806

9. It's a Gift (1934)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

A henpecked New Jersey grocer makes plans to move to California to grow oranges, despite the resistance of his overbearing wife.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Jean Rouverol, Julian Madison

Votes: 5,761

10. Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy, Musical

A filmmaker attempts to sell a surreal script he has written, which comes to life as he pitches it.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Gloria Jean, Leon Errol, Billy Lenhart

Votes: 2,643

11. Running Wild (I) (1927)

68 min | Comedy

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian, Claude Buchanan

Votes: 260

12. Show-Business at War (1943)

17 min | Documentary, Short

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

Director: Louis De Rochemont | Stars: Carole Lombard, Walt Disney, John Ford, Darryl F. Zanuck

Votes: 388

13. Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 (1933)

10 min | Short, Comedy, Musical

Portraits on the wall of Willy Pogany's studio come to life.

Director: Louis Lewyn | Stars: Johnny Mack Brown, Willy Pogany, Harry Green, Bebe Daniels

Votes: 37

14. If I Had a Million (1932)

Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Drama

A dying tycoon gives million-dollar windfalls to eight people picked from the city directory.

Directors: James Cruze, H. Bruce Humberstone, Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Z. McLeod, Stephen Roberts, William A. Seiter, Norman Taurog, Lothar Mendes | Stars: Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, W.C. Fields, George Raft

Votes: 2,302

15. International House (1933)

Passed | 68 min | Comedy

Assorted wacky characters converge on a Chinese hotel to bid on a new invention: television.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Rudy Vallee, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,469

16. You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939)

Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Family

The owner of a debt-ridden circus contends with pursuing bill collectors and sheriffs, and his beloved daughter's relationships with one of his performers and a stuffy but wealthy young man.

Directors: George Marshall, Edward F. Cline | Stars: W.C. Fields, Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson

Votes: 1,886

17. Tillie and Gus (1933)

Passed | 58 min | Comedy

Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Martin | Stars: W.C. Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop

Votes: 535

18. My Little Chickadee (1940)

Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Western

After a scandal runs a gold-digger out of town, she meets a con artist and becomes embroiled in a string of petty deceits.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran

Votes: 3,064

19. Million Dollar Legs (1932)

Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Sport

A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Andy Clyde, Lyda Roberti

Votes: 1,460

20. His Lordship's Dilemma (1915)

Comedy, Short

Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying ... See full summary »

Director: William F. Haddock | Stars: W.C. Fields, Bud Ross, Walter Fields

Votes: 14

21. The Dentist (1932)

Passed | 21 min | Comedy, Short

An unconventional dentist deals with a variety of eccentric and difficult patients in slapstick fashion.

Director: Leslie Pearce | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Arnold Gray, Dorothy Granger

Votes: 1,764

22. Six of a Kind (1934)

Passed | 62 min | Comedy

When a respectable middle-class couple take a cross-country trip by auto, they share expenses with a decidedly oddball couple, none of whom know the car carries embezzled funds.

Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, W.C. Fields, George Burns

Votes: 732

23. The Barber Shop (1933)

Passed | 21 min | Short, Comedy

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill.

Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: W.C. Fields, Elise Cavanna, Harry Watson, Dagmar Oakland

Votes: 852

24. Poppy (1936)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy

Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rochelle Hudson, Richard Cromwell, Catherine Doucet

Votes: 755

25. Mississippi (1935)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Musical

Crosby plays a Philadelpia Quaker engaged to a Southern belle. He becomes a social outcast when he refuses to fight a duel. Fields then hires him to perform on his riverboat, promoting him ... See full summary »

Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Bing Crosby, W.C. Fields, Joan Bennett, Queenie Smith

Votes: 592

26. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)

Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy, Western

The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."

Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Richard Cramer

Votes: 1,898

27. Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy

Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt, Erville Alderson

Votes: 592 | Gross: $0.30M

28. 2nd House (1973–1976)

45 min | Talk-Show

BBC Arts program derived from Full House (1972).

Stars: Melvyn Bragg, Edwin Mullins, Roger McGough, Struan Rodger

Votes: 18

29. It's the Old Army Game (1926)

Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton

Votes: 331

30. So's Your Old Man (1926)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance

An unlucky inventor's attempt to demonstrate his break-proof glass at a convention goes humiliatingly wrong, but his luck may be about to change when he runs into pretty young woman on the train ride home.

Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: W.C. Fields, Alice Joyce, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Kittens Reichert

Votes: 242

31. The Pharmacist (1933)

Passed | 19 min | Comedy, Short

A henpecked but stoic pharmacist tries to maintains his precarious balance while dealing with demanding customers and his dysfunctional family.

Director: Arthur Ripley | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marjorie Kane, Elise Cavanna, Grady Sutton

Votes: 910

32. Fools for Luck (1928)

60 min | Comedy

Wealthy Sam Hunter is approached by scheming Richard Whitehead about investing in oil. There appears to be no oil, and everyone is angry until (surprise) oil is re-discovered.

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Sally Blane, Jack Luden

Votes: 25

33. Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Passed | 76 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy

In Victorian England a bored young girl dreams that she has entered a fantasy world called Wonderland populated by even more fantastic characters.

Directors: Norman Z. McLeod, Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising | Stars: Richard Arlen, Roscoe Ates, William Austin, Gary Cooper

Votes: 2,617

34. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1928)

57 min | Comedy

An overambitious ringmaster is deviously plotting to have his circus' owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over the whole show. However, World War I intervenes and he ... See full summary »

Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin, Mack Swain

Votes: 38

35. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1934)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs, who hasn't been heard from since he wandered off long ago. Do-gooder Miss Lucy ... See full summary »

Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Pauline Lord, W.C. Fields, Zasu Pitts, Evelyn Venable

Votes: 258

36. The Golf Specialist (1930)

Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Sport

J. Effingham Bellweather plays golf despite many slapstick setbacks.

Director: Monte Brice | Stars: W.C. Fields, Allan Bennett, William Black, Naomi Casey

Votes: 1,250

37. 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

38. Sensations of 1945 (1944)

Approved | 86 min | Music, Romance

Father and son press agents fail to see things eye to eye, in the final screen appearance of comedian W.C. Fields.

Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Dennis O'Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, Eugene Pallette

Votes: 185

39. Song of the Open Road (1944)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth ... See full summary »

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Bonita Granville, W.C. Fields

Votes: 165

40. Her Majesty, Love (1931)

Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Wealthy man falls in love with a poor girl and proposes to her, going against the wishes of his family.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Marilyn Miller, Ben Lyon, W.C. Fields, Leon Errol

Votes: 223

41. That Royle Girl (1925)

Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Drama

Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and ... See full summary »

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, James Kirkwood, Harrison Ford

Votes: 36

42. How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action (1933)

9 min | Short, Sport

In this episode of his "How To Break 90" series, 'Bobby Jones' explains how improper hip motion adversely affects the backswing.

Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bobby Jones, William B. Davidson, W.C. Fields, O.B. Keeler

Votes: 43

43. Follow the Boys (1944)

Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Music

During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were ... See full summary »

Directors: A. Edward Sutherland, John Rawlins | Stars: George Raft, Vera Zorina, Grace McDonald, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 502

44. Pool Sharks (1915)

TV-G | 10 min | Comedy, Short

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.

Director: Edwin Middleton | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marian West, Larry Westford, Bud Ross

Votes: 1,240

45. Janice Meredith (1924)

Passed | 153 min | Drama, History, Romance

It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of... See full summary »

Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford, Macklyn Arbuckle

Votes: 721 | Gross: $0.43M

46. The Potters (1927)

71 min | Comedy

Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: W.C. Fields, Mary Alden, Ivy Harris, Jack Egan

Votes: 10

47. Too Many Highballs (1933)

20 min | Short, Comedy

A man tired of his wife's mother and brother living in their house tries to teach his lazy brother-in-law a lesson. However, this prank and his attempt to skip work to attend the championship fight both backfire on him in comedic ways.

Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: Lloyd Hamilton, Marjorie Beebe, Tom Dugan, Aggie Herring

Votes: 74

48. Two Flaming Youths (1927)

55 min | Comedy

Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man... See full summary »

Director: John Waters | Stars: W.C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian, Jack Luden

49. Candid Hollywood (1962)

115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

A compilation of Ken Murray home movies featuring dozens of Hollywood stars at rest and play.

Director: Ken Murray | Stars: Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, Pat Boone, Gary Cooper

50. The Family Ford (1930)

9 min | Comedy, Short

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Director: Murray Roth | Stars: Jim Harkins, Marion Harkins, Marie Dolan, Hope Eden