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1. Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Originally billed as "Playhouse of the Stars" this long running anthology series was originally presented live from New York City. Irene Dunne was briefly the hostess in 1952, and the show frequently used Broadway performers in classic stories.
Stars: James Mason, Irene Dunne, Robert Paige, Walter Coy
Votes: 338
2. Lux Video Theatre (1950–1959)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Live dramatic shows featuring Hollywood stars, adaptations of motion pictures, and a host accompanying. The host would introduce each act, and would conduct an interview with the stars at the end of the play.
Stars: Ken Carpenter, Jay Jackson, Otto Kruger, Gordon MacRae
Votes: 154
3. Beginner's Luck (1935)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Spanky's mother pushes him to join a local theater's amateur night.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: George 'Spanky' McFarland, Matthew 'Stymie' Beard, Scotty Beckett, Billie 'Buckwheat' Thomas
Votes: 337
4. March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
Directors: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 7,563
5. Going My Way (1944)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of the church's newest member.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Frank McHugh, James Brown
Votes: 13,468 | Gross: $16.30M
6. Road to Morocco (1942)
Passed | 82 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Anthony Quinn
Votes: 5,860 | Gross: $1.63M
7. My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy
Karen Bentley, an English secret agent, links up with Larry Haines and his star penguin Percy in an attempt to outwit German spies.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco
Votes: 1,627
8. The Way to Love (1933)
80 min | Comedy, Romance
The Way to Love is a 1933 American Pre-Code romantic comedy film, starring Maurice Chevalier and Ann Dvorak.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Ann Dvorak, Edward Everett Horton, Minna Gombell
Votes: 72
9. Coronado (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to, and is frequented by, members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego tracks, in a tent-city with ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Johnny Downs, Betty Burgess, Jack Haley, Andy Devine
Votes: 47
10. Welcome Stranger (1947)
Approved | 107 min | Comedy
The old-time town doctor of Fallbridge plans his first vacation in 30 years. But his dislike of, and frequent squabbles with his young interim replacement may jeopardize more than his vacation.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Joan Caulfield, Wanda Hendrix
Votes: 346
11. Never Say Die (1939)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A wealthy hypochondriac and an heiress are both experiencing romantic complications, prompting them to marry each other.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Andy Devine, Alan Mowbray
Votes: 640
12. Hostages (1943)
Approved | 88 min | Drama, War
A group of twenty-six Czechoslovakian citizens are jailed until a 50,000 crown reward by the Gestapo uncovers the supposed killer of a Nazi officer whom virtually everyone suspects committed suicide.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Luise Rainer, Arturo de Córdova, William Bendix, Paul Lukas
Votes: 102
13. Bluebeard's 8th Wife (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Romance
Mona deBriac, the beautiful daughter of a French nobleman, is induced to marry wealthy American John Brandon because her family needs his money. When she learns that her husband has ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Huntley Gordon, Charles Greene, Lianne Salvor
Votes: 34 | Gross: $0.22M
14. Incendiary Blonde (1945)
Approved | 113 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life of boisterous entertainer Texas Guinan is recalled from her poor childhood with a down-on-his-luck father to her reign as the Queen of the Night Clubs. Along the way, she also finds romance and heartbreak.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, Arturo de Córdova, Charles Ruggles, Albert Dekker
Votes: 419
15. Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Votes: 3,376
16. Bonnie Scotland (1935)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
Stan and Ollie mistakenly enlist in the army and find themselves posted to the Northwest Frontier in India on a dangerous mission.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, June Lang, William Janney
Votes: 2,109
17. The Princess Comes Across (1936)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A woman pretends to be royalty in order to get aboard a cruise ship.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fred MacMurray, Douglass Dumbrille, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 1,238
18. Sailors, Beware! (1927)
Passed | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A con artist (Garvin) and her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward (Laurel.)
Directors: Fred Guiol, Hal Roach | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Anita Garvin, Chet Brandenburg
Votes: 616
19. Beyond the Rocks (1922)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis
Votes: 2,403 | Gross: $0.27M
20. The King of Wild Horses (1924)
50 min | Drama, Western
A stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him.
Director: Fred Jackman | Stars: Charley Chase, Rex, Edna Murphy, Sidney De Gray
Votes: 49
21. China (1943)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, War
During the Japanese invasion of China, a cynical, macho profiteer meets a compassionate, beautiful schoolteacher.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Loretta Young, Alan Ladd, William Bendix, Philip Ahn
Votes: 636
22. Wake Island (1942)
Passed | 88 min | Action, Drama, War
December, 1941. With no hope of relief or re-supply, a small band of United States Marines tries to keep the Japanese Navy from capturing their island base.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Robert Preston, Macdonald Carey, William Bendix
Votes: 2,200
23. Whispering Smith (1948)
Passed | 88 min | Western
Legendary railroad detective Whispering Smith becomes convinced that old friend and colleague Murray Sinclair has joined a criminal band to loot the railroad.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Alan Ladd, Robert Preston, Brenda Marshall, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,387
24. The Bohemian Girl (1936)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Musical
A band of Gypsies is camped outside the walls of Count Arnheim's palace. Oliver's wife kidnaps the Count's daughter Arline, then leaves the child and runs off with her lover, Devilshoof. ... See full summary »
Directors: James W. Horne, Charley Rogers, Hal Roach | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd, Antonio Moreno
Votes: 2,240
25. Road to Singapore (1940)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn
Votes: 4,090
26. Golden Earrings (1947)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
On the eve of WW2, a British spy goes to Germany to obtain a secret poison-gas formula from a scientist but things go awry and he is saved by a beautiful nomadic gypsy woman.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Ray Milland, Marlene Dietrich, Murvyn Vye, Bruce Lester
Votes: 1,275 | Gross: $7.00M
27. Made for Love (1926)
72 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman visits her archaeologist boyfriend at the site in Egypt where he is digging up ancient artifacts. Her frustration mounts when it appears that he is more interested in old ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Edmund Burns, Ethel Wales, Bertram Grassby
Votes: 44
28. The Kid from Brooklyn (1946)
Approved | 113 min | Comedy, Sport
After a timid milkman knocks unconscious a boxing champion who was accosting his sister, he decides to take up boxing himself in order to impress a beautiful nightclub singer.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Steve Cochran
Votes: 1,286
29. Fancy Pants (1950)
Approved | 92 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
An American actor impersonating an English butler is hired by a woman from New Mexico to refine her husband and headstrong daughter. The complications increase when the town believes Arthur... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Bruce Cabot, Jack Kirkwood
Votes: 1,492 | Gross: $2.60M
30. The Milky Way (1936)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Family, Sport
Timid milkman, Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), somehow knocks out a boxing champ in a brawl. The fighter's manager decides to build up the milkman's reputation in a series of fixed fights and ... See full summary »
Directors: Leo McCarey, Ray McCarey, Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Adolphe Menjou, Verree Teasdale, Helen Mack
Votes: 1,844 | Gross: $1.17M
31. Seeing the World (1927)
20 min | Comedy, Family, Short
The gang's teacher wins a trip to Europe, with the gang accompanying him; a hectic and stress-filled trip, including mishaps by Farina at Mt Vesuvius and the Eiffel tower. Oh what a nightmare this has become; If it was only a dream.
Directors: Robert A. McGowan, Robert F. McGowan | Stars: Stan Laurel, Joe Cobb, Jackie Condon, Johnny Downs
Votes: 73
32. Road to Bali (1952)
Approved | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Two unemployed show-biz pals accept treasure-diving work in Bali for a local princess and they find treasure, love and trouble.
Director: Hal Walker | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Murvyn Vye
Votes: 5,252
33. The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance
The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest
Votes: 1,251
34. Strike Me Pink (1936)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Meek Eddie Pink becomes manager of an amusement park beset by mobsters.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Ethel Merman, Sally Eilers, Harry Einstein
Votes: 496
35. Give Me a Sailor (1938)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
Jim and Walter are two brother sailors in the United States Navy. Walter tells Jim as soon as they get home he is going to ask his beautiful girlfriend, Nancy Larkin to marry him. But Jim ... See full summary »
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Martha Raye, Bob Hope, Betty Grable, Jack Whiting
Votes: 480
36. The Nickel-Hopper (1926)
37 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
Directors: F. Richard Jones, Hal Yates | Stars: Mabel Normand, Michael Visaroff, Theodore von Eltz, Jimmy Anderson
Votes: 138
37. Call of the Wild (1923)
70 min | Adventure
Buck, a young Saint Bernard, is stolen from his home in England and shipped to Canada where he is used on a dogsled. He is treated badly until John Thornton, a prospector, befriends him. ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Jackman | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Walter Long, Sidney D'Albrook, Laura Roessing
Votes: 37
38. No Man's Law (1927)
Passed | 54 min | Western
Two thugs plot to kill an old miner to get his claim, but one of them lusts after his beautiful daughter and wants her first.
Director: Fred Jackman | Stars: Rex, Barbara Kent, James Finlayson, Oliver Hardy
Votes: 94
39. The Great Moment (1921)
70 min | Drama
Sir Edward Pelham, married to a Russian Gypsy, fears that his daughter will follow in her mother's footsteps and arranges a marriage with her cousin, whom she does not love. During a trip ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Alec B. Francis, Milton Sills, Frank Butler
Votes: 25
40. Variety Girl (1947)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical
Almost everyone under contract to Paramount Pictures at the time make cameos or perform songs, with particularly large amounts of screen time featuring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Mary Hatcher, Olga San Juan, DeForest Kelley, Frank Ferguson
Votes: 506
41. Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Romance
The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she discovers that the ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Cary Grant, Frances Drake, Edward Everett Horton, Nydia Westman
Votes: 506
42. Prosperity (1932)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1925, John becomes President of the prosperous Warren Bank when Maggie retires. Six years later, John, Helen and the two children are happy in their home, but the two mother-in-laws are ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Marie Dressler, Polly Moran, Anita Page, Norman Foster
Votes: 292
43. The Honorable Mr. Buggs (1927)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Dr. Buggs, a bachelor and collector of bugs, is engaged to be married. A beautiful woman, the Baroness Stoloff, wanted by the police for the theft of a royal ruby, calls on Buggs with a ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Jackman | Stars: Matt Moore, Anna May Wong, Sôjin Kamiyama, Oliver Hardy
Votes: 28
44. Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Western
Two cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison
Votes: 64
45. Our Congressman (1924)
Comedy, Short
A Congressman deals with the efforts of his family to get social recognition.
Director: Rob Wagner | Stars: Will Rogers, Madge Hunt, Beth Darlington, Frank Butler
Votes: 12
46. The Sheik (1921)
Passed | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner
Votes: 3,663
47. A Medal for Benny (1945)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Outcast Benny Martin joined the army to escape public scorn. But when the townspeople learn that he is to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, they pretend that he and his family are cherished, eminent citizens.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Arturo de Córdova, J. Carrol Naish, Mikhail Rasumny
Votes: 219
48. The Star Maker (1939)
Approved | 94 min | Biography, Comedy, Music
This is a film based on the life of Gus Edwards, a well-known vaudeville composer, entertainer and producer.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bing Crosby, Louise Campbell, Linda Ware, Ned Sparks
Votes: 115
49. Girl Without a Room (1933)
78 min | Comedy
Young Tennessee painter Tom Duncan is thrilled to receive an art scholarship to Paris. When he arrives, he finds himself surrounded by a group of eclectic characters, as well as his ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Charles Farrell, Charles Ruggles, Marguerite Churchill, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 84
50. Champagne Waltz (1937)
85 min | Comedy
Champagne Waltz is one of five movies produced by Paramount in the 1930s featuring Gladys Swarthout, a very popular Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano. The studio was attempting to build on ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Gladys Swarthout, Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Veloz
Votes: 77