Sort by IMDb Rating - Highest Rated Movies and TV Shows With Purnell Pratt
- Job Types
- Movies or TV
- Genres
- Keywords
- IMDb Rating
- Instant Watch Options
- In Theaters
- Release Year
1. A Night at the Opera (1935)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
A sly business manager and the wacky friends of two opera singers in Italy help them achieve success in America while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies.
Directors: Sam Wood, Edmund Goulding | Stars: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Harpo Marx, Kitty Carlisle
Votes: 34,785 | Gross: $2.54M
2. Scarface (1932)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 30,341
3. The Public Enemy (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell
Votes: 23,037 | Gross: $1.01M
4. Grand Hotel (I) (1932)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance
A group of very different individuals staying at a luxurious hotel in Berlin deal with each of their respective dramas.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Greta Garbo, John Barrymore, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery
Votes: 20,888 | Gross: $2.69M
5. Five Star Final (1931)
Not Rated | 89 min | Crime, Drama
The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Anthony Bushell
Votes: 2,533
6. Skyscraper Souls (1932)
Passed | 99 min | Drama, Romance
An entrepreneur will let nothing stand in his way of acquiring a 100-story office building.
Director: Edgar Selwyn | Stars: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page
Votes: 924
7. School for Girls (1934)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Annette Eldrige is sentenced to three years in a reformatory after being caught with stolen jewels. The sadistic woman in charge of the reformatory makes life terrible for everyone; ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Sidney Fox, Paul Kelly, Lois Wilson, Lucille La Verne
Votes: 30
8. Emma (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
After decades of raising the motherless Smith children, housekeeper Emma Thatcher is faced with resentment when she marries their father.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Marie Dressler, Richard Cromwell, Jean Hersholt, Myrna Loy
Votes: 1,144 | Gross: $2.00M
9. Midnight Lovers (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance, War
During World War I, a young woman marries a famous flying ace. After the honeymoon, he is called back into service and leaves for the battlefield. Not long afterwards she discovers evidence... See full summary »
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Lewis Stone, Anna Q. Nilsson, John Roche, Chester Conklin
Votes: 18
10. Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
Approved | 99 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Felix Bressart, Marsha Hunt
Votes: 2,293
11. The Plainsman (1936)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Western
Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody attempt to stop an Indian uprising that was started by white gun-runners.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, James Ellison, Charles Bickford
Votes: 2,431
12. Magnificent Obsession (1935)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Romance
The life of spoiled rich Robert Merrick is saved through the use of a hospital's sole resuscitator, but because the medical device cannot be in two places at once, it results in the death ... See full summary »
Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Charles Butterworth, Betty Furness
Votes: 1,130
13. The Return of Sophie Lang (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Drama
In order to give up her life of crime and go straight, renowned jewel thief Sophie Lang fakes her own death and retires to London. She soon finds a job as a companion to a wealthy old lady ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Guy Standing, Ray Milland, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 71
14. Grand Ole Opry (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Music
Abner Weaver, a small-town mayor in the Ozarks, through the music of performers from 'The Grand Ole Opry," and the antics and help of his family and the local citizens, manages to pass a ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Lois Ranson
Votes: 70
15. Diamond Jim (1935)
Approved | 88 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of legendary gambler Diamond Jim Brady and his romance with entertainer Lillian Russell.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Edward Arnold, Jean Arthur, Binnie Barnes, Cesar Romero
Votes: 254
16. The Unwritten Law (1932)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
A film producer is found murdered on a ship, and among the suspects are a young woman whose mother was mistreated by him and his recently fired electrician.
Directors: Christy Cabanne, Wilfred Lucas | Stars: Greta Nissen, Richard 'Skeets' Gallagher, Mary Brian, Lew Cody
Votes: 10
17. Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Romance
Hoping his son will attend his alma mater, Judge Hardy agrees to let Andy look for work in New York for the summer before committing to start college. In the big city, Andy is confronted with the harsh realities of life and love.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Fay Holden
Votes: 948
18. Pick-up (1933)
76 min | Crime, Drama
The scheme of a pair of married con artists goes awry when their victim dies, and they are both caught and imprisoned. When she gets out of prison, she tries to put her life back together.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Lilian Bond, William Harrigan
Votes: 222
19. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley
Votes: 197
20. Dancing Feet (1936)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Ben Lyon, Joan Marsh, Edward J. Nugent, Isabel Jewell
Votes: 95
21. The Band Plays On (1934)
Passed | 85 min | Drama, Sport
A judge hands four wayward boys to a college football coach who turns them into backfield stars.
Director: Russell Mack | Stars: Robert Young, Stuart Erwin, Leo Carrillo, Betty Furness
Votes: 73
22. False Faces (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
Dr. Silas Brenton is fired from his position at a large hospital, primarily for a lack of ethics, and goes to Chicago and sets himself up as a plastic surgeon (unqualified) and seducer of ... See full summary »
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Peggy Shannon, Lila Lee, Berton Churchill
Votes: 87
23. The Hell Cat (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge for the insult, ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Ann Sothern, Benny Baker, Minna Gombell
Votes: 18
24. Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Passed | 121 min | Biography, Drama, History
A prince plots to kill the mad monk Rasputin for the good of the czar, the czarina and Russia.
Directors: Richard Boleslawski, Charles Brabin | Stars: John Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,187
25. Black Fury (1935)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An immigrant coal miner finds himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan, Barton MacLane
Votes: 1,061
26. The Trespasser (1929)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall
Votes: 1,442
27. The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (1933)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
A campus flirt who has been "pinned" by most of the boys of Sigma Chi fraternity falls for a no-nonsense athlete who doesn't have time for such diversions as women.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Mary Carlisle, Buster Crabbe, Charles Starrett, Florence Lake
Votes: 57
28. Ladies of the Big House (1931)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Married couple is imprisoned for a crime they didn't commit.
Director: Marion Gering | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Gene Raymond, Wynne Gibson, Earle Foxe
Votes: 155
29. Hollywood Boulevard (1936)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Romance
With a full Hollywood background and settings, but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: John Halliday, Marsha Hunt, Robert Cummings, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 132
30. A Wicked Woman (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
Naomi is almost to term with her fourth child when Ed decides to leave taking all their money and the oldest son Curtis. With the sheriff after him, he is in no mood to think of his family.... See full summary »
Director: Charles Brabin | Stars: Mady Christians, Jean Parker, Charles Bickford, Betty Furness
Votes: 228
31. Wives Never Know (1936)
75 min | Comedy
J. Hugh Ramsey, author of "Marriage, the Living Death" decides that the marriage of his friends The Bigelows cannot possibly be as perfect as it appears.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Adolphe Menjou, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 61
32. Join the Marines (1937)
Approved | 67 min | Action
A New York City cop leaves the department to join the U.S. Olympic team. He falls for the spoiled daughter of a Marine colonel, and winds up getting kicked off the team. He joins the ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Paul Kelly, June Travis, Purnell Pratt, Reginald Denny
Votes: 37
33. High, Wide and Handsome (1937)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Music, Musical
Pennsylvania, 1859. Railroad tycoon Brennan (Alan Hale) is muscling in on oil-drilling farmers, led by Peter Cortland (Randolph Scott). Cortland must try to save their oil business, while also saving his marriage to Sally (Irene Dunne).
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Dorothy Lamour, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 410
34. 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: 544
35. Ringside Maisie (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Young undefeated boxer Terry Dolan, who's been lying to his invalid mother about his career, confides to Maisie that he hates and is terrified by boxing and wants out. Not wanting to let ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ann Sothern, George Murphy, Robert Sterling, Virginia O'Brien
Votes: 428
36. The Famous Ferguson Case (1932)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama
Reporters at a scandal sheet dwell on a murder case, with tragic results.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joan Blondell, Grant Mitchell, Vivienne Osborne, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 466
37. Midnight Alibi (1934)
Not Rated | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A gambler hides out from some gangsters in an old lady's house. Later he's arrested for murder, but the old woman provides him with an alibi by saying he was with her on the night of the murder.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Ann Dvorak, Helen Chandler, Helen Lowell
Votes: 363
38. The Public Defender (1931)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rich playboy Pike Winslow dons the mantle of 'The Reckoner', a mysterious avenger, when he learns that his lady friend Barbara Gerry's father has been framed in a bank embezzlement scandal.... See full summary »
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Shirley Grey, Purnell Pratt, Ruth Weston
Votes: 247
39. The Billion Dollar Scandal (1933)
81 min | Crime, Drama
"Fingers" Partos, known by fighters for his great massages, is paroled from prison and returns to straighten out his brother, "Babe." Fingers is convinced that Babe should be a classy ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Constance Cummings, Olga Baclanova, Frank Morgan
Votes: 42
40. Hat Check Girl (1932)
64 min | Comedy
Gerry Marsh is a hat-check girl in a nightclub surrounded by bootleggers, blackmailers and others before she falls in love with millionaire playboy Buster Collins. Gerry is supported by her girlfriend Jessie.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Sally Eilers, Ben Lyon, Ginger Rogers, Monroe Owsley
Votes: 83
41. Colorado Sunset (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Western
Gene and his buddies discover that the ranch they bought is really a dairy farm. And worse, it's subject to intimidation from a protection racket that prevents dairy products from safely reaching the market.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, June Storey, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 121
42. Under Suspicion (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Mystery, Romance
When auto magnate Robert Bailey announces he is going to retire and turn his plant over to the employees he incurs the enmity of K.Y. Mitchell, a large stockholder in the company; Carey ... See full summary »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Katherine DeMille, Luis Alberni, Rosalind Keith
Votes: 12
43. Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
After the death of her father and loss of the family fortune, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) gets a job as a cub reporter while her brother (William Bakewell) becomes involved in bootlegging.
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell
Votes: 1,247
44. Paid (1930)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Mary Turner goes up for three years on a crime she didn't commit. Once out she and former prison mates plan a scam in which old men can be sued for breach of promise - the "heart balm" ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 805
45. Men in White (1934)
Passed | 74 min | Drama, Romance
An idealistic doctor must make some hard choices between his dedication to the profession and his personal life.
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan
Votes: 789
46. Sinners' Holiday (1930)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance
Ma Delano (Lucille LaVerne) runs a boardwalk penny arcade and lives upstairs with her sons Harry and Joe (James Cagney and Ray Gallagher) and daughter Jennie (Evalyn Knapp); their story ... See full summary »
Director: John G. Adolfi | Stars: Grant Withers, Evalyn Knapp, James Cagney, Joan Blondell
Votes: 703
47. I Cover the Waterfront (1933)
Approved | 72 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An investigative reporter romances a suspected smuggler's daughter.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrence, Hobart Cavanaugh
Votes: 774
48. Wedding Present (1936)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
When Charlie Mason is promoted from irresponsible reporter to hard-nosed city editor, it costs him his girlfriend, ace reporter Rusty Fleming. After he hears she's engaged to another, he quits and tries to win her back.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 735
49. Bachelor Apartment (1931)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A New York playboy dates wild woman until he falls for a hard-working stenographer.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Irene Dunne, Mae Murray, Norman Kerry
Votes: 427
50. Common Clay (1930)
89 min | Drama, Romance
Young Ellen Neal gets work as a servant with the wealthy Fullerton family and falls in love with their handsome young son. But he leaves her with child, and when she attempts to gain ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Constance Bennett, Lew Ayres, Tully Marshall, Matty Kemp
Votes: 73