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1. The Life of Riley (1953–1958)
30 min | Comedy
Riley worked in an aircraft plant in California, but viewers usually saw him at home, cheerfully disrupting life with his malapropisms and ill timed intervention into minor problems.
Stars: William Bendix, Marjorie Reynolds, Wesley Morgan, Tom D'Andrea
Votes: 442
2. My Little Margie (1952–1955)
30 min | Comedy
Margie lives with her father Vern and her crazy schemes get him into trouble especially with his boss Mr. Honeywell. She frequently involves Charlie and Mrs. Odetts in her plans. Freddie is her boyfriend while Roberta likes Vern.
Stars: Gale Storm, Charles Farrell, Clarence Kolb, Don Hayden
Votes: 448
3. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,893
4. Racket Squad (1950–1953)
30 min | Crime, Drama
This series dramatizes confidence games which fall under the jurisdiction of Captain John Braddock.
Stars: Reed Hadley, Hugh Beaumont, Keith Richards, Griff Barnett
Votes: 154
5. Crossroads (1955–1957)
30 min | Drama
The anthology series dramatized the lives of clergymen of all faiths and the problems they faced in both their professional and personal lives.
Stars: Ray Teal, Robert Carson, Frank J. Scannell, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 91
6. Easy Living (1937)
Passed | 88 min | Comedy, Romance
When a wealthy banker throws his wife's expensive fur coat off a roof and it lands on the head of a stenographer, everyone assumes she is his mistress and has access to his millions.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Jean Arthur, Edward Arnold, Ray Milland, Luis Alberni
Votes: 4,163
7. Hellzapoppin' (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 3,480
8. Larceny, Inc (1942)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson
Votes: 3,141
9. Phantom Lady (1944)
Passed | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A devoted secretary risks her life to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his selfish wife.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Aurora Miranda
Votes: 5,743
10. A Stranger in Town (1943)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In a small corrupt town, an honest crusading lawyer running for mayor gets unexpected help from a tourist who happens to be a Supreme Court judge.
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Frank Morgan, Richard Carlson, Jean Rogers, Porter Hall
Votes: 1,016
11. Sing and Be Happy (1937)
Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Musical
Rival advertising firms compete for a radio show's pickle manufacturing account.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Tony Martin, Leah Ray, Joan Davis, Helen Westley
Votes: 15
12. Turn Off the Moon (1937)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The manager of a large department store consults the starry heavens when he needs answers to perplexing problems.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Eleanore Whitney, Johnny Downs, Kenny Baker
Votes: 42
13. Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Passed | 135 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
George Gershwin is a driven composer whose need to succeed destroys his relationship with singer Julie Adams and socialite Christine Gilbert.
Director: Irving Rapper | Stars: Robert Alda, Joan Leslie, Alexis Smith, Charles Coburn
Votes: 1,798
14. 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: 5,850 | Gross: $1.63M
15. His Butler's Sister (1943)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Music
A young girl visits New York for two reasons: to see her half-brother, and to try to start a musical career.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Franchot Tone, Pat O'Brien, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 556
16. Charlie Chan at the Olympics (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Mystery
When a strategically important new aerial guidance system is stolen, Charlie traces it to the Berlin Olympics, where he has to battle spies and enemy agents to retrieve it.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Katherine DeMille, Pauline Moore, Allan Lane
Votes: 1,832
17. The Merry Monahans (1944)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The Merry Monahans are a vaudeville family act bouncing from circuit to circuit reconnecting with past friends and loves, creating new friends and romances, and dealing with personal vices.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, Ann Blyth
Votes: 110
18. Honeymoon Lodge (1943)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy
The glamorous and successful play-writing couple Bob and Carol Sterling are at the threshhold of divorce when Carol proposes a 'do-over'. They return to the Sierra resort where they first ... See full summary »
Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: David Bruce, Harriet Nelson, June Vincent, Rod Cameron
Votes: 40
19. Louisiana (1947)
Approved | 85 min | Drama
Fourteen-year-old James Houston Davis, the music-loving son of a poor sharecropper, is determined to get a good education and help improve life in his beloved state of Louisiana. With the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Jimmie Davis, Margaret Lindsay, John Gallaudet, Freddie Stewart
Votes: 27
20. The Country Beyond (1936)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, Romance, Western
A Canadian Northwest Mounted Policeman suspects his girlfriend's father of theft and murder.
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Rochelle Hudson, Paul Kelly, Robert Kent, Alan Hale
Votes: 16
21.
The Life of Riley (1953–1958)
Episode:
Riley, the Animal Lover
(1953)
Comedy
Riley learns that a cart horse he's fond of is to be "retired"so he purchases it. After he brings it home Peg insists Chester find a different place to keep it but he is at a loss as to what to do with the animal.
Director: Abby Berlin | Stars: William Bendix, Marjorie Reynolds, Tom D'Andrea, Lugene Sanders
Votes: 9
22. The Bowery (1933)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
In New York's Bowery during the Gay Nineties, a saloon owner and a rebel share a rivalry.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Wallace Beery, George Raft, Jackie Cooper, Fay Wray
Votes: 612 | Gross: $4.36M
23. Third Finger, Left Hand (1940)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Romance
A single magazine editor pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues, but complications ensue when she meets a potential suitor.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Myrna Loy, Melvyn Douglas, Raymond Walburn, Lee Bowman
Votes: 1,135
24. The Devil Thumbs a Ride (1947)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Law-abiding Jimmy Ferguson soon regrets giving a ride to killer Steve Morgan.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie, Betty Lawford
Votes: 1,028
25. A Wonderful Life (1950)
Approved | 43 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Sponsored by The Protestant Film Commission, this religiously-affiliated tale centers around citizen Henry Wood (played by Oscar winner James Dunn from "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"), who ... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: James Dunn, Allene Roberts, Isabel Withers, Arthur Shields
Votes: 38
26. What a Life (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama
In the first Henry Aldrich film, Henry (Jackie Cooper) is falsely accused of making trouble at school. He must clear himself.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan
Votes: 103
27. Boy Trouble (1939)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Shopkeeper Homer Fitch (Ruggles) hates the changes in his household when his wife adopts two orphan boys but realizes how much he loves the boys when they are struck with scarlet fever.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Mary Boland, Donald O'Connor, Joyce Mathews
Votes: 75
28. Patrick the Great (1944)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Talented youngster Pat Donahue is working in the Berkshires. He learns of a great part in New York City and auditions. But after winning the role he finds out it was originally intended for... See full summary »
Director: Frank Ryan | Stars: Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, Frances Dee, Donald Cook
Votes: 58
29. Mountain Moonlight (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy
Elviry Weaver is overcome with emotion when her husband Abner throws a party to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, but manages to enjoy the festivities with their children, ... See full synopsis »
Director: Nick Grinde | Stars: Leon Weaver, Frank Weaver, June Weaver, Betty Jane Rhodes
Votes: 14
30. The Devil Is a Sissy (1936)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Rowland Brown | Stars: Freddie Bartholomew, Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, Ian Hunter
Votes: 590
31. Texas (1941)
Passed | 93 min | Western
Two young men head west in search of fortune and adventure.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: William Holden, Glenn Ford, Claire Trevor, George Bancroft
Votes: 1,447
32. 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: 418
33. Bedtime Story (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
A playwright attempts to stop his wife from retiring so she can star in his next play.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Fredric March, Loretta Young, Robert Benchley, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 707
34.
Racket Squad (1950–1953)
Episode:
Blessed Expense
(1952)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A struggling service station owner who has recently learned his wife is pregnant is conned into buying cut-rate health insurance from a pair bunko artists.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Reed Hadley, Ross Ford, Donna Martell, Andrew Tombes
Votes: 19
35. The Jackpot (1950)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy
Bill Lawrence wins a jackpot worth $24,000 on a radio quiz program. His happiness, and that of his family, is short-lived after he discovers he'll be compelled to sell the prizes in order to pay an amount of $7,000 income tax on them.
Director: Walter Lang | Stars: James Stewart, Barbara Hale, James Gleason, Fred Clark
Votes: 1,276
36. Hi Diddle Diddle (1943)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Musical
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.
Directors: Andrew L. Stone, Friz Freleng | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Martha Scott, Pola Negri, Dennis O'Keefe
Votes: 690
37. It Ain't Hay (1943)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
The horse of a street vendor is replaced by a racehorse.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Grace McDonald, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 1,032
38. Reveille with Beverly (1943)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Beverly Ross moderates a 5:30 AM radio show with swing music, dedicated to the local servicemen. Two buddies of her brother have a chance to meet her and both fall in love. One of them is a... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Ann Miller, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Freddie Slack and His Orchestra, Ella Mae Morse
Votes: 481
39. Two Sisters from Boston (1946)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A high society Boston girl goes from the Bowery to the opera with the help of her sister.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, June Allyson, Lauritz Melchior, Jimmy Durante
Votes: 694
40. Don't Fence Me In (1945)
Approved | 71 min | Drama, Music, Western
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
Director: John English | Stars: Roy Rogers, Trigger, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Dale Evans
Votes: 268
41. Reckless Age (1944)
Approved | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Linda Wadsworth (Gloria Jean) rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth (Henry Stephenson), and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Gloria Jean, Henry Stephenson, Kathleen Howard, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 24
42. Kansas City Kitty (1944)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Amiable, wisecracking piano teacher Polly becomes involved with some shady music publishers. She also happens to be infatuated with her music-loving dentist Henry, who is not quite as ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Joan Davis, Bob Crosby, Jane Frazee, Erik Rolf
Votes: 52
43. Last of the Duanes (1941)
Approved | 57 min | Action, Drama, Western
In 1870 Texas, a man comes home to find his father murdered. He trails an outlaw until he discovers he's part of a gang. He calls in the Texas Rangers.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: George Montgomery, Lynne Roberts, Eve Arden, Francis Ford
Votes: 38
44.
My Little Margie (1952–1955)
Episode:
Father's Little Helper
(1953)
30 min | Comedy
Director: Hal Yates | Stars: Gale Storm, Charles Farrell, Dian Fauntelle, Gertrude Graner
Votes: 10
45. The Meanest Man in the World (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Comedy
A compassionate lawyer pretends to be heartless in order to boost his clientele, but it jeopardizes his romantic life.
Directors: Sidney Lanfield, Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Jack Benny, Priscilla Lane, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Edmund Gwenn
Votes: 349
46. You Came Along (1945)
Approved | 103 min | Drama, Romance
War hero flier Bob Collins goes on a war bond selling tour with two buddies, and substitute "chaperone" Ivy Hotchkiss. Bob's a cheerful Lothario with several girls in every town on the tour... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Robert Cummings, Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Charles Drake
Votes: 246
47. Caught in the Draft (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken
Votes: 890
48. It's a Great Life (1943)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Family
Dagwood buys a horse when he is supposed to be buying a house.
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake, Larry Simms, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 201
49. Wolf of New York (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
A district attorney tackles the "Wolf of New York" who is the mastermind behind a multitude of murders and robberies plaguing the city.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Rose Hobart, James Stephenson, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 68
50. Hoppy's Holiday (1947)
Approved | 60 min | Western
Hoppy, California and Lucky are on vacation, but not for long. They come across bank robbers (who drive automobiles, something new). Nevertheless, the Bar 20 guys bring the bad guys to justice.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Rand Brooks, Andrew Tombes
Votes: 153