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1. Singin' in the Rain (1952)
G | 103 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his delusionally jealous screen partner are trying to make the difficult transition to talking pictures in 1920s Hollywood.
Directors: Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly | Stars: Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen
Votes: 260,985 | Gross: $8.82M
2. Henry Aldrich's Little Secret (1944)
Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Henry and Dizzy have a baby sitting service and get more than they bargain for when the mother of a 10 month old leaves town to clear her husband of a crime.
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney
Votes: 99
3. 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: 448
4. Captains Courageous (1937)
G | 117 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
A spoiled brat who falls overboard from a steamship in the 1920s gets picked up by a New England fishing boat, where he's made to earn his keep by joining the crew in their work.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas
Votes: 10,935
5.
Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
Episode:
Hit and Run
(1956)
TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dan Mathews must cope with a family's effort to protect an emotionally fragile young woman who fled after striking a pedestrian with her car.
Director: Eddie Davis | Stars: Broderick Crawford, Eleanore Tanin, Troy Melton, Margaret Irving
Votes: 89
6. Libeled Lady (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Comedy, Romance
When a socialite sues a big paper for libel, the editor responsible calls in the help of his ignored fiancée and a former employee to frame her and make the false story seem true.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean Harlow, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Spencer Tracy
Votes: 8,925
7. The Unexpected (1952– )
30 min | Drama
Herbert Marshall hosted this anthology series of fast paced thirty minute dramas. It was also known as "Times Square Playhouse."
Stars: Herbert Marshall, Paul Guilfoyle, David Colmans, Jane Nigh
Votes: 35
8. Naughty-Cal (1932)
10 min | Short, Musical
A pair of borrowed pants are an obstacle to a sailor's romance.
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Lillian Roth, Bobby Watson, Barton MacLane
Votes: 11
9. Highway Patrol (1955–1959)
TV-PG | 30 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Powerful patrol cars, fast motorcycles, and superheterodyne two-way radios combine to fight crime on the rural highways of America's wide open spaces.
Stars: Broderick Crawford, Art Gilmore, William Boyett, Vance Skarstedt
Votes: 1,534
10. 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
11. After the Thin Man (1936)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Private detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora are back home at last and hoping for a quiet New Year when there is a murder. The obvious suspect is his wife, Nora's cousin, Selma.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart, Elissa Landi
Votes: 12,136 | Gross: $4.34M
12. The Big Clock (1948)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A magazine tycoon commits a murder and pins it on an innocent man, who then tries to solve the murder himself.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Maureen O'Sullivan, Charles Laughton, George Macready
Votes: 9,545
13. The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Romance, War
After an all-night send-off party for the troops, a small-town girl with an awkward boyfriend wakes up to find herself married and pregnant, but with no memory of her husband's identity.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton, Diana Lynn, William Demarest
Votes: 7,951
14. Boston Blackie (1951–1953)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Blackie and gal pal Mary, and their dog Whitey, solve lots of Los Angeles crimes before the cops can do it.
Stars: Kent Taylor, Lois Collier, Frank Orth, Bill Catching
Votes: 146
15. 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: 155
16. Don't Be a Sucker (1943)
Approved | 18 min | Short, History, War
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is similarly used in the United States to recruit Nazi sympathizers from the ranks of American racists.
Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Robert Adler, Richard Alexander, Robert Bailey
Votes: 352
17. The Band Wagon (1953)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A pretentiously artistic director is hired for a new Broadway musical and changes it beyond recognition.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Fred Astaire, Cyd Charisse, Oscar Levant, Nanette Fabray
Votes: 12,594
18. Mr. & Mrs. North (1952–1954)
TV-PG | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Jerry and Pamela North live in Greenwich Village in New York City. Jerry is a mystery magazine publisher who thinks he is a good amateur detective. He and his wife investigate various crimes and solve them before the police do.
Stars: Richard Denning, Barbara Britton, Francis De Sales, Lowell Gilmore
Votes: 252
19.
Boston Blackie (1951–1953)
Episode:
Shoot the Works
(1953)
30 min | Crime, Drama
Blackie is considered a material witness after a friend is murdered. The friend was a big winner in a Las Vegas casino and Blackie was the last person to speak to him.
Director: Sobey Martin | Stars: Kent Taylor, Frank Orth, Lois Collier, William Cottrell
Votes: 10
20. A Foreign Affair (1948)
Approved | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi café singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her.
Director: Billy Wilder | Stars: Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund, Millard Mitchell
Votes: 8,563
21.
Racket Squad (1950–1953)
Episode:
Beauty for Hire
(1952)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A scam operation that involves the Lost & Found department of the bus station is investigated by Capt. Braddock and the squad.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Reed Hadley, Karen Sharpe, Dorothy Patrick, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 13
22. The Countess of Monte Cristo (1934)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A light-hearted comedy when a bit player in a musical tries to convince her friends that she is a countess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Fay Wray, Paul Lukas, Reginald Owen, Patsy Kelly
Votes: 35
23. The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954–1959)
30 min | Family, Western
Rusty was orphaned in an Indian raid. He and his dog Rin Tin Tin were adopted by the troops at Fort Apache in Arizona, and helped establish law and order in and around Mesa Grande.
Stars: Lee Aaker, James Brown, Rin Tin Tin II, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 857
24. China Seas (1935)
Passed | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When earthy Dolly Portland is rejected by Captain Gaskell in favor of a socialite, she aids Jamesy McCardle, in league with Malay pirates, in his plot to seize Gaskell's ship.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
Votes: 2,950
25. Hide-Out (1934)
Passed | 81 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Farmers take in an injured racketeer and try to reform him.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 881
26. The Murder Man (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a crooked businessman is fatally shot, a hotshot New York newspaper reporter specializing in murder stories narrows in on the dead man's associate.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Spencer Tracy, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 1,284
27. Syncopation (1929)
Passed | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
This is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner.
Director: Bert Glennon | Stars: Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians, Morton Downey, Barbara Bennett, Ian Hunter
Votes: 94
28. Born to Dance (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
On leave, a sailor falls in love with a young lady aspiring to become a Broadway dancer, but their relationship is jeopardized by an established Broadway star, who is also enamored by him.
Director: Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Eleanor Powell, James Stewart, Virginia Bruce, Una Merkel
Votes: 1,934
29. The Hitler Gang (1944)
101 min | Biography, Drama, History
The film depicts the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement from a small radical political adventurer and cell to the dictatorial regime of Germany in the genre of a gangster film. The ... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Bobby Watson, Roman Bohnen, Martin Kosleck, Victor Varconi
Votes: 171
30. Calling All Doctors (1937)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Charley is a hypochondriac who is driving his family, his friends and his doctor crazy.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Charley Chase, Lucille Lund, John T. Murray, Bobby Watson
Votes: 43
31. 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
32. The Grand Hooter (1937)
Approved | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Charley's wife accuses him of preferring his Hoot Owl Lodge over her.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Charley Chase, Peggy Stratford, Nina Quartero, Lynton Brent
Votes: 38
33.
The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (1954–1959)
Episode:
The Legacy of Sean O'Hara
(1955)
30 min | Family, Western
Some bad guys attempt to swindle Sgt. O'Hara out of a ranch he is about to inherit.
Director: Robert G. Walker | Stars: Lee Aaker, James Brown, Joe Sawyer, Rand Brooks
Votes: 22
34.
Mr. & Mrs. North (1952–1954)
Episode:
The Third Eye
(1953)
Not Rated | 30 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Someone's been secretly photographing Madame Suzi's latest dress designs and leaking them to competing, cheaper dress stores. Pam drags Jerry to Suzi's to see a preview of the latest ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Richard Denning, Barbara Britton, Francis De Sales, Fifi D'Orsay
Votes: 26
35. The Paleface (1948)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Western
Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian
Votes: 4,567
36. 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: 1,038
37. Small Town Girl (1936)
Passed | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
Kay lives in a small rural time and thinks that her life is just too dull and repetitious to bear. One night she meets young, handsome, rich Bob Dakin, who asks her for directions while ... See full summary »
Directors: William A. Wellman, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes, Andy Devine
Votes: 970
38. High Pressure (1932)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy
Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: William Powell, Evelyn Brent, George Sidney, John Wray
Votes: 681
39. This Side of Heaven (1934)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
A family man. (Lionel Barrymore) becomes innocently involved in an embezzlement.
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Fay Bainter, Mae Clarke, Tom Brown
Votes: 297
40. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
Approved | 153 min | Drama, War
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, Lee J. Cobb
Votes: 2,353 | Gross: $1.91M
41. Beyond Glory (1948)
Approved | 82 min | Drama
Thinking he may have caused the death of his commanding officer Captain Daniels in Tunisia, Rocky visits Daniels' widow. She falls for him, he falls for her, she encourages him to go to ... See full summary »
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, Donna Reed, George Macready, George Coulouris
Votes: 296
42. Moonlight and Pretzels (1933)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A song plugger is stranded in a small town. There he meets a girl who later helps him to put on a show on Broadway.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Leo Carrillo, Mary Brian, Roger Pryor, Herbert Rawlinson
Votes: 126
43. Fugitive Lovers (1934)
82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hoping to evade gangster Legs Caffey, chorus girl Letty Morris hops a bus in New York bound for Los Angeles--with Legs close on her heels. Along the way the bus picks up escaped convict ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Robert Montgomery, Madge Evans, Ted Healy, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 229
44. From Bad to Worse (1937)
20 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Charley's honeymoon is upset by a woman and her jealous husband.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Charley Chase, Peggy Stratford, Bud Jamison, Bobby Watson
Votes: 28
45. Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Passed | 109 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Ronny Bowers, a saxophonist in Benny Goodman's band, has won a talent contest and a ten week contract with a film studio. On his first evening he is supposed to go with the studio's star ... See full summary »
Director: Busby Berkeley | Stars: Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 808
46. On the Double (1961)
Approved | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, War
At the time of the invasion of Normandy, an American soldier is asked to impersonate a British general in order to confuse German spies and assassins in London.
Director: Melville Shavelson | Stars: Danny Kaye, Dana Wynter, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Margaret Rutherford
Votes: 881
47. The Adventurous Blonde (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
After rival reporters, jealous of Torchy's success, conspire to fake the murder of an actor in order to embarrass her, he ends up being strangled.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Anne Nagel, Tom Kennedy
Votes: 537
48. Hips, Hips, Hooray! (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical
Two salesmen try to market a flavored lipstick.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd
Votes: 545
49. The High Cost of Loving (1958)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama
When he's not invited to a boardroom luncheon with the company president and his executives, during the company's merger and downsizing phase, purchasing manager Jim Fry fears he is to be laid-off.
Director: José Ferrer | Stars: José Ferrer, Joanne Gilbert, Jim Backus, Gena Rowlands
Votes: 377
50. The Gay Bride (1934)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy
After the adversary of a bootlegger has him killed, he takes up with his widow, a gold-digging chorus girl, but a handsome bodyguard is also determined to win her over.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Carole Lombard, Chester Morris, Zasu Pitts, Leo Carrillo
Votes: 659