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1. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)

Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis

Votes: 14,424 | Gross: $1.42M

2. Cavalcade of America (1952–1957)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama

"Cavalcade of America" documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds.

Stars: James Seay, Robert Foulk, Richard Gaines, Raymond Greenleaf

Votes: 96

3. Heat Lightning (1934)

Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama

A lady gas station attendant gets mixed up with escaped murderers.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 1,020

4. Leather Gloves (1948)

Approved | 75 min | Drama, Sport

Dave Collins (Cameron Mitchell) is a prizefighter on the skids, who thumbs his way from town to town, looking for a chance to make some money, even if he is bribed to lose a fight. A former... See full summary »

Directors: William Asher, Richard Quine | Stars: Cameron Mitchell, Virginia Grey, Jane Nigh, Sam Levene

Votes: 15

5. The Stranger's Return (1933)

89 min | Comedy, Drama

A divorcée leaves New York to visit her grandfather's farm and recover in the Midwest, where she unexpectedly falls in love with a married farmer.

Director: King Vidor | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Miriam Hopkins, Franchot Tone, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 504

6. The Maltese Falcon (1931)

Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese Falcon.

Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, Dudley Digges, Una Merkel

Votes: 3,341

7. 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)

Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

Brash hoodlum Tom Connors enters Sing Sing cocksure of himself and disrespectful toward authority, but his tough but compassionate warden changes him.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 2,958

8. The Studebaker Story (1953)

30 min | Short, Drama, History

The history of the Studebaker family, their success at making wagons and the company's venture into automobiles.

Director: Seymour Friedman | Stars: Donald Woods, Harry Carey Jr., William Bishop, Myron Healey

Votes: 9

9. Moon Over Miami (1941)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Sisters Kay and Barbara arrive in Miami from Texas looking for rich husbands.

Director: Walter Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Betty Grable, Robert Cummings, Carole Landis

Votes: 1,391

10. Castle on the Hudson (1940)

Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama

An arrogant mobster, sentenced to a long prison term in Sing Sing, becomes a changed man when given a chance by the fair and progressive warden.

Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: John Garfield, Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, Burgess Meredith

Votes: 857

11. Blackmail (1939)

Passed | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

John Ingram, successful oil field firefighter, is really a chain gang escapee. Someone out of his past finds him.

Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Hussey, Gene Lockhart, Bobs Watson

Votes: 860

12. Ladies They Talk About (1933)

Approved | 69 min | Drama

Attractive Nan, member of a bank-robbery gang, goes to prison thanks to evangelist Dave Slade...who loves her.

Directors: Howard Bretherton, William Keighley | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Preston Foster, Lyle Talbot, Dorothy Burgess

Votes: 1,823

13. The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)

Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Perry interrupts his vacation plans when an ex-girlfriend, now newly married, asks him to help her with murder and bigamy charges.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Donald Woods, Claire Dodd

Votes: 1,168

14. Ever Since Eve (1937)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Romance

Lecherous bosses make it difficult for an attractive secretary to keep jobs, so she decides to appear considerably more homely in hopes of holding onto work.

Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Marion Davies, Robert Montgomery, Frank McHugh, Patsy Kelly

Votes: 1,577

15. Flying Hostess (1936)

Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

The story of the training and adventures of several airline stewardesses.

Director: Murray Roth | Stars: William Gargan, Judith Barrett, William Hall, Astrid Allwyn

Votes: 12

16. The Lady Fights Back (1937)

Approved | 61 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A beautiful environmentalist clashes with an engineer who is building a dam.

Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Kent Taylor, Irene Hervey, William Lundigan, Willie Best

Votes: 29

17. The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)

Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A con man who stages phony "lucky legs" beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Warren William, Genevieve Tobin, Patricia Ellis, Lyle Talbot

Votes: 888

18. Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)

Passed | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, History

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.

Directors: Irving Cummings, Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis

Votes: 454

19. The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1932)

Not Rated | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Molly Louvain's plans for a respectable marriage with her sweetheart Ralph fall through so she takes to the road with a two-bit crook and becomes wanted by the police in connection with a high-profile crime.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Ann Dvorak, Lee Tracy, Richard Cromwell, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 580

20. Three Blind Mice (1938)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.

Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, David Niven, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 407

21. Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)

Approved | 100 min | Musical

A reworking of the movie "Three Blind Mice" (1938) based on the play of the same name, which in turn led to the remake, "Moon Over Miami" (1941). This version is set during the turn of the ... See full summary »

Directors: H. Bruce Humberstone, John Brahm | Stars: June Haver, George Montgomery, Vivian Blaine, Celeste Holm

Votes: 313

22. Second Fiddle (1939)

Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Music, Romance

A studio publicist discovers a Minnesota skating teacher and takes her to Hollywood. She goes back to Minnesota but he follows her.

Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sonja Henie, Tyrone Power, Rudy Vallee, Edna May Oliver

Votes: 541

23. We're in the Money (1935)

Passed | 66 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

Two gold-digging process servers are tasked with subpoenaing one's boyfriend, who has been using a pseudonym to avoid breach-of-promise servings and suits.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, Hugh Herbert, Ross Alexander

Votes: 515

24. My True Story (1951)

Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

Story of a female jewel thief.

Director: Mickey Rooney | Stars: Helen Walker, Willard Parker, Elisabeth Risdon, Emory Parnell

Votes: 130

25. The Crime of Doctor Hallet (1938)

Approved | 68 min | Drama

Doctor in jungle works on cure for fever.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Josephine Hutchinson, William Gargan, Barbara Read

Votes: 58

26. Shed No Tears (1948)

Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has been having an affair for some time, and she has plans for the money - and they don't include him.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Wallace Ford, June Vincent, Mark Roberts, Frank Albertson

Votes: 466

27. Dark Hazard (1934)

Passed | 73 min | Drama

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years ... See full summary »

Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Robert Barrat

Votes: 587

28. The Avenger (1933)

Approved | 79 min | Drama

A disgraced former District Attorney plots his revenge on the members of a criminal gang who had him framed and sent to prison.

Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ralph Forbes, Adrienne Ames, Arthur Vinton, Claude Gillingwater

Votes: 21

29. While the Patient Slept (1935)

Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Mystery

Known as America's Agatha Christie, leading female crime novelist Mignon Eberhart cowrote this faithful adaptation of her popular novel While the Patient Slept.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Aline MacMahon, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot, Patricia Ellis

Votes: 442

30. Street of Women (1932)

Passed | 59 min | Drama, Romance

A married architect, stuck in a loveless marriage, due to his daughter, has an an affair with a dress designer (Natalie). Just when he's ready to ask his wife for a divorce, his daughter falls in love with Natalie's brother.

Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Kay Francis, Roland Young, Alan Dinehart, Gloria Stuart

Votes: 402

31. Sporting Blood (1940)

Passed | 82 min | Drama

Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Robert Young, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lewis Stone, William Gargan

Votes: 148

32. Snowed Under (1936)

Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance

Alan Tanner's new play opens in a week, but Tanner just can't finish the third act. He's retreated to a snowbound cottage to work, but blonde neighbor Pat Quinn wants to play. Producer ... See full summary »

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: George Brent, Genevieve Tobin, Glenda Farrell, Patricia Ellis

Votes: 460

33. Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A double-crossing woman, the two-timing P.I. she hired, the corpulent "empress of crime", and a gentleman thief are all after a legendary priceless eighth-century ram's horn.

Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Bette Davis, Warren William, Alison Skipworth, Arthur Treacher

Votes: 2,449

34. Play Girl (1932)

Unrated | 60 min | Drama, Romance

A young woman's financial problems continue through a troubled marriage to a gambler.

Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Winnie Lightner, Loretta Young, Norman Foster, Guy Kibbee

Votes: 365

35. I Sell Anything (1934)

Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Auctioneer Spot Cash Cutler is planning the scam of a lifetime, but will he get burned?

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Pat O'Brien, Ann Dvorak, Claire Dodd, Roscoe Karns

Votes: 170

36. The Florentine Dagger (1935)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

Juan Cesare, a descendant of the Borgia's of Vienna, thinks he may have a murder streak in him acquired from his long-dead relatives, is is love with Florence Ballau, but her father lodges ... See full summary »

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay, C. Aubrey Smith, Henry O'Neill

Votes: 214

37. Top of the Town (1937)

Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Music

Diana Borden (Doris Nolan, a bleeding-heart rich-girl, returns from a trip to Russia filled with sympathy for the "little" people of the slums and wants to do "something" artistic and ... See full summary »

Directors: Ralph Murphy, Walter Lang | Stars: Doris Nolan, George Murphy, Ella Logan, Hugh Herbert

Votes: 83

38. Life Begins with Love (1937)

Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A spoiled playboy is forced to leave town to avoid the press, which latches on to his statement, while tipsy, that he will give away his fortune. He disguises himself and gets a job as a ... See full summary »

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Jean Parker, Douglass Montgomery, Edith Fellows, Leona Maricle

Votes: 122

39. Marry the Girl (1937)

Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Romance

The offices of a great newspaper syndicate are presided over by John B. Radway, obviously a nut, and his sister Ollie Radway, obviously the brains in the family. David "Party" Partridge, ... See full summary »

Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Mary Boland, Frank McHugh, Hugh Herbert, Carol Hughes

Votes: 162

40. Speak No Evil (1950)

28 min | Short, Drama

A video on the consequences of gossip.

Director: S. Roy Luby | Stars: Nan Leslie, Linda Johnson, James Anderson, DeForest Kelley

41. Goodbye Broadway (1938)

Approved | 65 min | Comedy

Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. ... See full summary »

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Alice Brady, Charles Winninger, Tom Brown, Dorothea Kent

42. Oh, Doctor (1937)

Passed | 67 min | Comedy

A hypochondriac is afraid he will die before he gets an inheritance that will "cure" him.

Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Donrue Leighton, William Hall, Eve Arden

43. Crossroads - U.S.A. (1952)

25 min | Short, Drama

Group of people trapped in gas station during a storm teach a young man valuable life lessons.

Director: Jules Bricken | Stars: Regis Toomey, Rhys Williams, Darryl Hickman, James Bell

44. Cavalcade of America (1952–1957)
Episode: Experiment at Monticello (1953)

Not Rated | 30 min | Drama

Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, uses himself as a guinea pig and is inoculated with the germs of small pox in a heroic effort to establish control of the disease.

Director: Jules Bricken | Stars: Morgan Farley, Raymond Greenleaf, John Hamilton, Donald Randolph