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1. Abe Lincoln in Illinois (1940)
Approved | 110 min | Biography, Drama, History
Humble Abraham Lincoln gains the respect of his Illinois neighbors, growing in stature and respect until he is elected President in 1860 and departs for Washington.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Raymond Massey, Gene Lockhart, Ruth Gordon, Mary Howard
Votes: 2,064
2. Florian (1940)
91 min | Drama
This film is (very) loosely based on the book by Austrian author Felix Salten. It follows the life of the Lippizaner stallion Florian. Of special note is the time when he pulled Emperor Franz Joseph's carriage.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Helen Gilbert, Charles Coburn, Lee Bowman
Votes: 100
3. In Name Only (1939)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance
After a wealthy man finds out his wife is a gold digger, he meets and falls for a widowed mother, and complications ensue.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Cary Grant, Carole Lombard, Kay Francis, Charles Coburn
Votes: 3,551
4. Union Depot (1932)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Travelers of different and varied backgrounds meet and interact on one night in a metropolitan train station and its environs.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Alan Hale
Votes: 1,186
5. The Great Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1938)
Approved | Western
A short plot summary finds Wild Bill Hickok (Bill Elliott), the U.S. Marshal in Abilene, Kansas, opposing the Phantom Raiders, a gang of renegades raiding the cattle drives over the ... See full summary »
Directors: Sam Nelson, Mack V. Wright | Stars: Bill Elliott, Monte Blue, Carole Wayne, Frankie Darro
Votes: 56
6. Madison Square Garden (1932)
74 min | Drama, Sport
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Jack Oakie, Thomas Meighan, Marian Nixon, William Collier Sr.
Votes: 35
7. Fifth Avenue Girl (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Romance
Feeling unwanted by his wife and children, a wealthy industrialist hires an unemployed young woman to pose as his mistress.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Walter Connolly, Verree Teasdale, James Ellison
Votes: 1,799
8. So Ends Our Night (1941)
TV-PG | 117 min | Drama, War
Story about three German refugees during World War II who are always hiding, always in fear of deportation.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Margaret Sullavan, Frances Dee, Glenn Ford
Votes: 650
9. Victory (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Betty Field, Cedric Hardwicke, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 124
10. Flying G-Men (1939)
Passed | 257 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Three government aviators called the "Flying G-Men", one of whom is disguised as "The Black Falcon", fight to protect the US and its allies from an enemy spy ring and to avenge the death of the fourth Flying G-Man.
Directors: James W. Horne, Ray Taylor | Stars: Robert Paige, Richard Fiske, James Craig, Lorna Gray
Votes: 43
11. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas
Votes: 2,139
12. The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Lew Ayres, James Cagney, Dorothy Mathews, Leon Janney
Votes: 1,327
13. Arkansas Judge (1941)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
Peaceful Valley town-founder, Judge Abner Weaver is distressed when the townspeople begin gossiping and "bearing false witness'" against Mary Shoemaker , the community handy-woman, who is ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Roy Rogers
Votes: 64
14. She Got What She Wanted (1930)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
Mahyna, a dissatisfied Russian peasant girl, marries Boris and comes to New York in search of "the soul of love," only to become a drudge in their cheap flat. Meanwhile, Boris, a bookshop ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Betty Compson, Lee Tracy, Alan Hale, Gaston Glass
Votes: 23
15. Doctor X (1932)
Unrated | 76 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Lee Tracy, Preston Foster
Votes: 4,266 | Gross: $0.88M
16. The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Passed | 66 min | Mystery
A bedridden eccentric millionaire, anticipating his own murder, hires Mason to help him rewrite his will, and the lawyer ends up defending the caretaker's cat.
Directors: William C. McGann, Alan Crosland | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan, Craig Reynolds
Votes: 787
17. 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
18. The Big Shot (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from his uncle, whom he hasn't seen for years. He decides to use some of his new-found wealth to fund a clean-up crusade against the gangster ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Killy | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Cora Witherspoon, Dorothy Moore, Gordon Jones
Votes: 187
19. In Old Cheyenne (1941)
Passed | 58 min | Drama, Western
Roy is a newspaper reporter. He goes to Cheyenne to cover the activities of supposed bad guy Arapahoe Brown, and of course he discovers who the real bad guy is.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Joan Woodbury, J. Farrell MacDonald
Votes: 155
20. Alias the Doctor (1932)
Passed | 61 min | Drama
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. When ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Curtiz, Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Marian Marsh, Norman Foster, Adrienne Dore
Votes: 337
21. The Devil Is Driving (1932)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
There is a garage in downtown New York City on the ground floor of an eight-story building, with a winding ramp, that serves as a cache for stolen automobiles. The second floor is the ... See full summary »
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wynne Gibson, James Gleason, Lois Wilson
Votes: 179
22. Joe and Ethel Turp Call on the President (1939)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy
Brooklyn residents Joe Turp (William Gargan) and his wife, Ethel (Ann Sothern), travel to Washington D. C. to call on the US President (Lewis Stone)to make a pleas on the behalf of their ... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Ann Sothern, Lewis Stone, Walter Brennan, William Gargan
Votes: 84
23. The Circus Queen Murder (1933)
Passed | 63 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Suave, lip-reading DA Thatcher Colt plans to get away from the big city for a while. So he and his secretary, Miss Kelly hop on a train for an Upstate NY town called Gilead. They expect a ... See full summary »
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Donald Cook, Greta Nissen, Ruthelma Stevens
Votes: 335
24. The Carson City Kid (1940)
Passed | 57 min | Drama, Western
Roy is a bandit who is out to get the man who killed his younger brother. He learns as he rides into the town of Sonora that the man is the owner of the local saloon and gambling hall.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Bob Steele, Noah Beery Jr.
Votes: 339
25. Three Sons (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
A poor merchant grows a highly successful department store in Chicago with the purpose of providing for his four children's future. He is misguided in thinking that giving them everything ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Edward Ellis, William Gargan, Kent Taylor, J. Edward Bromberg
Votes: 114
26. They All Come Out (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
A "Crime Doesn't Pay" morality drama about a young man sentenced to a prison term and attempts by the system to rehabilitate jailed criminals.
Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Rita Johnson, Tom Neal, Bernard Nedell, Edward Gargan
Votes: 316
27. The Great Commandment (1939)
Approved | 78 min | Drama, Romance
In Jerusalem young Zealot Joel wants to fight the Roman conquerors and hopes that Jesus will be their Jewish king. But Jesus is crucified, and Joel becomes an early Christian, learning to live by the divine command, ‚Love thy neighbor.'
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: John Beal, Maurice Moscovitch, Albert Dekker, Marjorie Cooley
Votes: 139
28. Colorado (1940)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Trouble in Colorado is tying up Union troops needed back east during the Civil War and Lieut. Burke is sent to investigate. Macklin and his gang are causing the problems and Capt. Mason ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Pauline Moore, Milburn Stone
Votes: 291
29. 70,000 Witnesses (1932)
Passed | 69 min | Mystery, Sport
College football player (Phillips Holmes)is asked to dope a star teammate by his crooked gambler brother(Lew Cody).He refuses, but they player is doped anyway,and collapses and dies. A ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Phillips Holmes, Dorothy Jordan, Charles Ruggles, Johnny Mack Brown
Votes: 82
30. Sheriff of Tombstone (1941)
Approved | 56 min | Drama, Western
The mayor has sent for a gunslinger who, though appearing to clean up the town, is really to be the mayor's means of taking the town over. When Roy and Gabby arrive in Tombstone, Roy is ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Roy Rogers, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Elyse Knox, Addison Richards
Votes: 277
31. Park Avenue Logger (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Millioniare Curran, thinking his son too intellectual, sends him west to learn logging at one of his lumber camps. Unknown to his father, Grant Curan is a professional wrestler and easily ... See full summary »
Director: David Howard | Stars: George O'Brien, Beatrice Roberts, Willard Robertson, Ward Bond
Votes: 100
32. Super-Sleuth (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Mystery
An actor who plays a detective in films soon finds himself out of his depth when he tries to investigate a real crime.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Jack Oakie, Ann Sothern, Eduardo Ciannelli, Alan Bruce
Votes: 393
33. I'll Sell My Life (1941)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
As Freddie and Lugger, employees of Bovhini, are waiting in the parking lot of the Club Sirocco for Ruth Parmelee, they see a woman accost Ruth and then shoot her and speed away in a car. ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen, Stanley Fields, Joan Woodbury
Votes: 60
34. Sh! The Octopus (1937)
Approved | 54 min | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Comedy-mystery finds Detectives Kelly and Dempsey trapped in a deserted lighthouse with a group of strangers who are being terrorized by a killer octopus AND a mysterious crime figure named... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Marcia Ralston, John Eldredge
Votes: 663
35. Fighting Mad (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ann Fenwick is a witness to a bank robbery in the U.S. and the bandits, led by Trigger (Warner Richmond) and Leon (Ted Adams) capture her and when she disappears, a warrant is issued for ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: James Newill, Sally Blane, Benny Rubin, Dave O'Brien
Votes: 86
36. Ellis Island (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
It opens in 1926 when three bank robbers, Theodore Kedrich, Jan Imarski, and Petra Lonelli, stage a daring daylight bank robbery and get away with a million dollars in cash. They are soon ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Donald Cook, Peggy Shannon, Jack La Rue, Joyce Compton
Votes: 80
37. Jungle Menace (1937)
Passed | 308 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In the Asian province of Seemang where the Bay of Bengal meets the jungle, Chandler Elliott (John St. Polis) owns a large and prosperous rubber plantation. His attractive daughter, Dorothy (... See full summary »
Directors: Harry L. Fraser, George Melford | Stars: Frank Buck, Sasha Siemel, Reginald Denny, Esther Ralston
Votes: 46
38. The Test (1935)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Western
A fur trapper catches another trapper trying to steal his furs. He stops the thief, but later on the furs are stolen anyway. Rin Tin Tin Jr. tracks down the thief to try to get the furs back.
Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Grant Withers, Grace Ford, Monte Blue
Votes: 78
39. New Faces of 1937 (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A crooked producer tries to link his backers by producing a flop and disappearing with the money. Patricia, one of the chorus girls, has given her money too, and after the producer ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joe Penner, Milton Berle, Harry Einstein, Harriet Nelson
Votes: 217
40. Good-bye Love (1933)
67 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Wealthy Chester is not Phyllis's first husband. And all pay alimony. After the wedding Chester learns that she has had eyes on a British big game hunter who turns out to be a pretender like Phyllis: Actually he is Chester's butler.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Verree Teasdale, Sidney Blackmer, Phyllis Barry
Votes: 146
41. Hitler: Beast of Berlin (1939)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, War
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Roland Drew, Steffi Duna, Greta Granstedt, Alan Ladd
Votes: 161
42. The House of Secrets (1936)
Passed | 70 min | Horror, Mystery
Two men stumble into an old mansion, and get involved with a crazed scientist, torture chambers and sinister medical experiments.
Director: Roland D. Reed | Stars: Leslie Fenton, Muriel Evans, Noel Madison, Sidney Blackmer
Votes: 526
43. Speakeasy (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
Director: Benjamin Stoloff | Stars: Paul Page, Lola Lane, Henry B. Walthall, Helen Ware
Votes: 83
44. City of Missing Girls (1941)
Passed | 74 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
There's an epidemic of missing girls in the city. The new assistant district attorney has to figure out what's going on before he loses his job, especially with a nosy reporter making his life difficult.
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: H.B. Warner, Astrid Allwyn, John Archer, Sarah Padden
Votes: 308
45. The Secret of Treasure Island (1938)
Approved | 300 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
In the Prologue, pirates hide a treasure on an island off the Mexican coast. And the pirates, the map and the treasure disappear in a volcanic eruption. The legend of the island draws ... See full summary »
Director: Elmer Clifton | Stars: Don Terry, Gwen Gaze, Walter Miller, Grant Withers
Votes: 226
46. The Mysterious Pilot (1937)
Passed | 300 min | Mystery
A 15-episode serial in which our hero, Jim Dorn helps hide Jean McNain from a man she can implicate in a murder.
Director: Spencer Gordon Bennet | Stars: Frank Hawks, Dorothy Sebastian, Esther Ralston, Rex Lease
Votes: 93
47. The Wild Girl (1917)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
A dying stranger abandons a baby girl in a gypsy camp, with a note explaining that on her eighteenth birthday, she is to inherit a Virginia estate. The gypsy chief, aware of the girl's ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Estabrook | Stars: Eva Tanguay, Stuart Holmes, Tom Moore, Dean Raymond
48. The Fallen Star (1929)
Short, Drama
In a rundown boarding house, an impoverished actor recalls his Civil War sketch of bygone days.
Director: Murray Roth | Star: George Rosener