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1. It's a Wise Child (1931)
83 min | Comedy
A young woman pretends to be pregnant to avoid an arranged marriage with an old man. The small-town gossips have a field day trying to guess who the father is.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Sidney Blackmer, James Gleason, Polly Moran
Votes: 79
2. The Paul Winchell Show (1950–1956)
30 min | Comedy, Family
The Paul Winchell Show, or The Paul Winchell and Jerry Mahoney Show, or The Spiedel Show, was a variety program which aired on NBC prime time from 1950 to 1954, starring ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummy, Jerry Mahoney. (1950)
Stars: Jerry Mahoney, Knucklehead Smiff, Paul Winchell, Diane Sinclair
Votes: 75
3. The Ford Theatre Hour (1948–1953)
60 min | Drama
An anthology series based in New York City which attracted a high caliber group of actors, often Broadway stars. Stories were both drama and comedies, some original but others adaptions of films and plays.
Stars: William Brower, Biff McGuire, Ernest Truex, Ruth McDevitt
Votes: 67
4. The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950)
30 min | Drama
This was an anthology series which aired live. It often featured adaptations of one-act stage plays.
Stars: Guy Kibbee, Faye Emerson, John Conte, Vicki Cummings
Votes: 52
5. Dinner at Eight (1933)
Passed | 111 min | Drama
Affluent Millicent and Oliver Jordan throw a dinner for a handful of wealthy and/or well-born acquaintances, each of whom has much to reveal.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Marie Dressler, John Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow
Votes: 9,020 | Gross: $4.58M
6. Mister Peepers (1952–1955)
30 min | Comedy
Mr. Peepers is a shy science teacher at Jefferson Junior High. He is always faced with problems but is never outwitted.
Stars: Wally Cox, Patricia Benoit, Tony Randall, Marion Lorne
Votes: 165
7. Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery
A dangerous amnesiac escapes from an asylum, hides in the opera house, and is suspected of getting revenge on those who tried to murder him 13 years ago.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Warner Oland, Boris Karloff, Keye Luke, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 2,268
8. Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum (1940)
Approved | 63 min | Mystery
An escaped convicted murderer hides out at a New York wax museum where he hopes to get plastic surgery, which will help him revenge himself on Charlie Chan.
Director: Lynn Shores | Stars: Sidney Toler, Victor Sen Yung, C. Henry Gordon, Marc Lawrence
Votes: 1,751
9. Captain January (1936)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A little girl named Star lives with the lighthouse keeper who rescued her when her parents drowned. A truant officer decides she should go to boarding school, but she's rescued by relatives.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Shirley Temple, Guy Kibbee, Slim Summerville, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 1,499
10. Anne of Green Gables (1934)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A romantic teenage girl is adopted by a pair of elderly siblings in turn-of-the-century Canada.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley
Votes: 1,443
11. Nothing Sacred (1937)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Carole Lombard, Fredric March, Charles Winninger, Walter Connolly
Votes: 7,267
12. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1936)
Approved | 102 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A railroad man from the city befriends a mountain girl in a Kentucky family feud.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Henry Fonda, Fred MacMurray, Fred Stone
Votes: 1,366
13. The Wedding Night (1935)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Romance
Because his finances are low and he is seeking background for a new book, author Tony Barratt and his wife Dora return to his country home in Connecticut. While he is finding material for ... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Gary Cooper, Anna Sten, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Vinson
Votes: 1,078
14. Men Without Names (1935)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This story about the U.S. Department of Justice and its agents begins with a daring mail-truck robbery by a ruthless gang that flees to the western U.S. after the robbery. When money from ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madge Evans, David Holt, Lynne Overman
Votes: 62
15. The Accusing Finger (1936)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An attorney is responsible for sending an innocent man to jail for a murder he did not commit. He soon gets a taste of his own medicine when his wife is murdered and no one will believe him when he claims he didn't do it.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Paul Kelly, Marsha Hunt, Kent Taylor, Robert Cummings
Votes: 84
16. Gentle Julia (1936)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A shy newspaperman (Brown) nearly gives up when his girlfriend (Hunt) falls for the new guy in town (Meeker) till Withers sets things right.
Director: John G. Blystone | Stars: Jane Withers, Tom Brown, Marsha Hunt, Jackie Searl
Votes: 36
17. The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
Jenny Wren is found dead after threatening to blackmail some prominent men, and it's up to a detective to find out what happened to Jenny.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise, Pauline Frederick
Votes: 847
18. The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950–1956)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ellery Queen was a mystery writer who assisted his father, a detective with the New York Police Department, in solving murders. Queen's methods were arcane and intellectual rather than ... See full summary »
Stars: Florenz Ames, Lee Bowman, Rex Marshall, Hugh Marlowe
Votes: 65
19. 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
20. Manslaughter (1930)
Passed | 85 min | Romance, Drama
A spoiled young rich girl is sent to prison for accidentally running down a pedestrian. There she learns about a life and people she had never even imagined existed before. Upon her release... See full summary »
Director: George Abbott | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Moorhead
Votes: 264
21.
Mister Peepers (1952–1955)
Episode:
The Velvet Touch
(1952)
Comedy
In Mr. Gurney's absence, Mr. Peepers takes a matter of student discipline to Vice-principal Velvet Clave. When he protests the harshness of the penalty, he finds himself out of a job.
Director: James Sheldon | Stars: Wally Cox, Joseph Foley, Hilda Vaughn, Roland Wood
Votes: 13
22. Confirm or Deny (1941)
74 min | Drama, War
Newsman Mitch and teletype operator Jennifer, whose job is to see he doesn't send inappropriate stuff out of the country, dodge bombs during the blitz of London while falling in love.
Directors: Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang | Stars: Don Ameche, Joan Bennett, Roddy McDowall, John Loder
Votes: 311
23. Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) (1931)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Fleeing her cruel uncle and an arranged marriage Susan Lenox falls in love with a kind stranger but circumstances force her to become a woman of easy virtue.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, Jean Hersholt, John Miljan
Votes: 1,361 | Gross: $0.81M
24. Danger - Love at Work (1937)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Romance
A young lawyer is unable to get the Pembertons to sign a land sale contract until their daughter falls in love with him.
Director: Otto Preminger | Stars: Ann Sothern, Jack Haley, Mary Boland, Edward Everett Horton
Votes: 361
25. Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950–1951)
30 min | Drama
Live anthology series featuring a wide format of stories (western, musical comedy, dramatic, et cetera).
Stars: William Gaxton, Frank Sutton, Ralph Riggs, Dane Clark
Votes: 36
26. Banjo on My Knee (1936)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Believing he has killed a guest, a groom flees on his wedding night.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen
Votes: 674
27. A Tailor Made Man (1931)
81 min | Comedy
The adventures of a trouser presser whose cheerful self-reliance enables him to mix with society people and assume the management of a big store.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Dorothy Jordan, Joseph Cawthorn, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 57
28. The Witness Chair (1936)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Romance
A woman watches as false murder-trial evidence surrounds the man she loves.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Ann Harding, Walter Abel, Douglass Dumbrille, Frances Sage
Votes: 187
29. Maid's Night Out (1938)
Passed | 64 min | Romance, Comedy
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
Director: Ben Holmes | Stars: Joan Fontaine, Allan Lane, Billy Gilbert, Cecil Kellaway
Votes: 467
30. No Marriage Ties (1933)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
Alcoholic reporter Bruce Foster is on the road to ruin when he partners with advertising man "Perk" Perkins to form a successful advertising agency. Foster makes the business a success, but his personal life suffers.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Richard Dix, Elizabeth Allan, Doris Kenyon, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 180
31. Today We Live (1933)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone
Votes: 1,403
32. I Live My Life (1935)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Kay, a bored society girl from New York, takes a trip to Greece, where she meets Terry, an archaeologist. She flirts with him and he falls for her. She heads back to New York and he follows... See full summary »
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Joan Crawford, Brian Aherne, Frank Morgan, Aline MacMahon
Votes: 769
33. No Other Woman (1933)
Passed | 58 min | Drama
A steelworker and his aspiring wife make millions when they become partners in a dyeworks. Unfortunately, success does not bring happiness.
Director: J. Walter Ruben | Stars: Irene Dunne, Charles Bickford, Gwili Andre, Eric Linden
Votes: 476
34. Chasing Yesterday (1935)
Approved | 77 min | Drama, Romance
An archaeologist is reminded of a past romance which sends him on a trip to the country, where he falls for the orphaned daughter of his former sweetheart.
Director: George Nicholls Jr. | Stars: Anne Shirley, O.P. Heggie, Helen Westley, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 134
35. And Sudden Death (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Drama, Romance
An heiress with a penchant for speeding runs afoul of a traffic cop. Romance develops between the two, but it's soon complicated when he believes she is responsible for killing someone by reckless driving.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Randolph Scott, Frances Drake, Tom Brown, Billy Lee
Votes: 71
36. Everybody's Old Man (1936)
Approved | 82 min | Drama
Elderly businessman (Cobb) thinking about aging and death takes time off to help teach a dead friend's children about life and business.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Irvin S. Cobb, Rochelle Hudson, Johnny Downs, Norman Foster
Votes: 16
37. Three Live Ghosts (1929)
87 min | Comedy
Read the 1936 version of this movie
Director: Thornton Freeland | Stars: Beryl Mercer, Hilda Vaughn, Harry Stubbs, Joan Bennett
Votes: 35
38. Straight from the Heart (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama
"Straight from the Heart" is a 1935 American drama film directed by Scott R. Beal and starring Mary Astor, Roger Pryor and Juanita Quigley.
Director: Scott R. Beal | Stars: Mary Astor, Roger Pryor, Juanita Quigley, Carol Coombe
Votes: 15
39. Half Angel (1936)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy
Allison Long is acquitted on charges of poisoning her father, but then her benefactor is poisoned. Reporter Duffy Giles has faith in her innocence.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Frances Dee, Brian Donlevy, Charles Butterworth, Helen Westley
Votes: 31
40.
The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1950)
Episode:
Witness for the Prosecution
(1949)
Drama
Leonard Vole is arrested on suspicion of murdering an elderly acquaintance. He employs an experienced but aging barrister as his defense attorney.
Director: Gordon Duff | Stars: Walter Abel, Anne Ives, Felicia Montealegre, Nicholas Saunders
41.
The Ford Theatre Hour (1948–1953)
Episode:
Kind Lady
(1949)
Drama
Mary Herries is a rich woman with a habit of contributing to those less fortunate than her. On her way home from a concert on Christmas Eve she discovers a poor, would-be artist outside her... See full summary »
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Fay Bainter, Joseph Schildkraut, Morton Stevens, Hilda Vaughn
42.
Nash Airflyte Theatre (1950–1951)
Episode:
The Fiddling Fool
(1951)
Drama
Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: Parker Fennelly, Vinton Hayworth, Nathan Milstein, Hilda Vaughn
43.
The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1950–1956)
Episode:
Prescription for Treason
(1950)
30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director: Walter Hart | Stars: Florenz Ames, Richard Hart, Rex Marshall, Hilda Vaughn
44.
The Paul Winchell Show (1950–1956)
Episode:
Episode #1.24
(1951)
Comedy, Family
Stars: Paul Winchell, Sue Bennett, Jimmy Blaine, Ted Brown
45.
The Paul Winchell Show (1950–1956)
Episode:
Episode #2.1
(1951)
Comedy, Family
Directors: Harold Eisenstein, Larry Lockwood | Stars: Paul Winchell, Ted Brown, Dorothy Claire, Jerry Mahoney