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1. Assignment in Brittany (1943)

Approved | 96 min | Drama, Romance, War

A French captain (Jean-Pierre Aumont) poses as a Nazi to pinpoint a U-boat base off the coast of France, while assuming the identity of a look-a-like French citizen.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Jean-Pierre Aumont, Susan Peters, Margaret Wycherly, Signe Hasso

Votes: 288

2. Crossroads (1942)

Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

An amnesiac French diplomat is blackmailed for crimes that he committed before he lost his memory.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 1,698

3. Love Crazy (1941)

Passed | 99 min | Comedy, Romance

A wife suspecting infidelity starts divorce proceedings, so the husband pretends to be insane in order to delay the divorce and clear up the misunderstanding.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Gail Patrick, Jack Carson

Votes: 3,438

4. Honky Tonk (1941)

Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor

Votes: 1,244 | Gross: $6.31M

5. Boom Town (1940)

Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr

Votes: 3,782 | Gross: $9.17M

6. Let Freedom Ring (1939)

Passed | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Romance

While the railroad advances westward, agent Jim Knox chooses expedite ways to obtain the land he needs, aided by his fierce Irish lieutenant Mulligan. Everybody expects homecoming lawyer ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Virginia Bruce, Victor McLaglen, Lionel Barrymore

Votes: 234

7. The Shining Hour (1938)

Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A nightclub dancer marries into high society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Joan Crawford, Margaret Sullavan, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas

Votes: 1,295 | Gross: $0.94M

8. Three Comrades (1938)

Passed | 98 min | Drama, Romance

The close friendship of three German soldiers is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman, who is dying of tuberculosis.

Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young

Votes: 2,078

9. Too Hot to Handle (1938)

Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly

Votes: 1,679

10. Of Human Hearts (1938)

Passed | 103 min | Drama, Western

Ethan Wilkins is a poor and honest man who ministers to the human soul, while his son Jason yearns to be a doctor, helping people in the earthly realm.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi

Votes: 1,358

11. The Ship That Died (1938)

Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short, Drama

In this entry from the John Nesbitt's "Passing Parade" series, the "Mary Celeste" sails from New York on November 7, 1872, with a full crew, including the captain's wife, which was cause ... See full summary »

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: John Nesbitt, Leonard Penn, Rhea Mitchell, Harry Allen

Votes: 227

12. Think It Over (1938)

Approved | 19 min | Short, Crime, Drama

A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Lester Matthews, Charles D. Brown, Don 'Red' Barry, Dwight Frye

Votes: 53

13. Big City (1937)

Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance

To avoid a taxi war, city officials blame a gang bombing on driver Joe Benton's wife Anna and put her on a ship to deport her. The mayor is speaker at a boxers' banquet where Joe pleads for... See full summary »

Directors: Frank Borzage, George B. Seitz | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Luise Rainer, Charley Grapewin, Janet Beecher

Votes: 645

14. My Dear Miss Aldrich (1937)

Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

When the owner of the New York Globe-Leader dies without making a will, the paper is inherited by his only living relative, an "old maid schoolteacher" from Nebraska. Martha Aldrich, along ... See full summary »

Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Edna May Oliver, Maureen O'Sullivan, Walter Pidgeon, Rita Johnson

Votes: 418

15. They Gave Him a Gun (1937)

Passed | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

A World War I veteran who married the girlfriend of his presumed-dead war buddy falls into the racketeering business.

Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Gladys George, Franchot Tone, Edgar Dearing

Votes: 405

16. A Night at the Movies (1937)

Passed | 10 min | Comedy, Short

A man and his wife have a less-than-enjoyable time at the movies.

Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Robert Benchley, King Baggot, Jack Baxley, Sidney Bracey

Votes: 482

17. Bad Guy (1937)

Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama

"Lucky" Walden is a power lineman-turned-criminal. He is due to go to the electric chair, which he helps prison electricians wire correctly, when his sentence is commuted for an act of ... See full summary »

Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Virginia Grey, Edward Norris, Jean Chatburn

Votes: 147

18. Master Will Shakespeare (1936)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Biography

A short biography of William Shakespeare that highlights the various jobs he worked at in the theatre.

Director: Jacques Tourneur | Stars: Carey Wilson, Lionel Belmore, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Charles Coleman

Votes: 183

19. Caryl of the Mountains (1936)

Approved | 68 min | Western

Funds are embezzled and a fur trapper is murdered. Rin Tin Tin to the rescue!

Director: Bernard B. Ray | Stars: Rin Tin Tin Jr., Francis X. Bushman Jr., Lois Wilde, Josef Swickard

Votes: 85

20. Hollywood - The Second Step (1936)

Approved | 11 min | Short, Drama

This short follows the early career of actress Jane Barnes. She starts by doing extra work. After several months she is offered a studio contract (the "first step"). However, her work ... See full summary »

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Jane Barnes, Maureen O'Sullivan, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 76

21. Violets in Spring (1936)

Approved | 21 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

Willie, a janitor at Acme Carpet Sweepers Company, is taking a night course in practical psychology. He believes the boss at Acme, John E. Stevens, runs the company like a machine, and not ... See full summary »

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: George Murphy, Virginia Grey, King Baggot, Ralph Brooks

Votes: 98

22. Hollywood Extra! (1936)

Approved | 11 min | Documentary, Short

The life of female Hollywood extras, typified by Jane Barnes, who's 21, a three-year veteran living in an apartment house with roommates who constantly borrow and return money and stockings... See full summary »

Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Carey Wilson, Jane Barnes, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Edna Callahan

Votes: 34

23. 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: 1,283

24. Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)

Passed | 59 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance

An insurance agent falls for a client's daughter after writing a policy guaranteeing her single status.

Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Warren William, Claire Dodd, Guy Kibbee, William Gargan

Votes: 459

25. I Found Stella Parish (1935)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance

A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, Paul Lukas, Sybil Jason

Votes: 579

26. It's in the Air (1935)

Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Sport

Calvin Churchill, a confidence-man, and his sidekick/stooge, "Clip" McGurk, are being pursued by an Internal Revenue agent, Henry Potke, for their failure to file an income-tax on the ... See full summary »

Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Jack Benny, Ted Healy, Una Merkel, Nat Pendleton

Votes: 100

27. Viva Villa! (1934)

Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western

After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.

Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook

Votes: 1,571 | Gross: $1.11M

28. Chained (1934)

Not Rated | 76 min | Drama, Romance

A mistress of one man has a shipboard romance with another and is torn between both men.

Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Otto Kruger, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 1,114

29. The Girl from Missouri (1934)

Approved | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Chorus girl Eadie is determined to marry a millionaire without sacrificing her virtue.

Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Jean Harlow, Franchot Tone, Lionel Barrymore, Lewis Stone

Votes: 1,367

30. 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

31. Death on the Diamond (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Mystery, Sport

Pop Clark is about to lose his baseball team, unless they can win the pennant so he can pay off debts. He hires ace player Larry Evans to ensure the victory. As well as rival teams, ... See full summary »

Director: Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Robert Young, Madge Evans, Nat Pendleton, Ted Healy

Votes: 338

32. The Spectacle Maker (1934)

Approved | 21 min | Short, Drama, Family

A parable about magic glasses involving on the nature of beauty, truth, good, and evil set in 17th Century Germany with music and Glorious Technicolor.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Francis X. Bushman Jr., Nora Cecil, Harvey Clark, Cora Sue Collins

Votes: 161

33. When Lightning Strikes (1934)

Approved | 55 min | Action, Adventure, Crime

Lightning the German Shepherd dog stars in this wilderness melodrama.

Directors: Burton L. King, Harry Revier | Stars: Lightning, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Terry Walker, J.P. McGowan

Votes: 21

34. The Three Musketeers (1933)

Passed | 210 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Tom Wayne rescues Clancy, Renard and Schmidt in the Arabian desert and they join him in going after El Shaitan, a bad guy who is never seen as he tries to wipe out the Foreign Legion.

Directors: Colbert Clark, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Jack Mulhall, Raymond Hatton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., John Wayne

Votes: 501

35. The Last Frontier (1932)

Passed | 213 min | Drama, Western

A frontier newspaper editor Kirby battles outlaw Tiger Morris who is causing indian uprisings to drive away settlers so that he will can claim a gold deposit as his own. With the help of ... See full summary »

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Dorothy Gulliver, Francis X. Bushman Jr., William Desmond

Votes: 76

36. Human Targets (1932)

56 min | Western

The Dales need money for their sick mother and Bart Travis, having found gold, says he will provide it. Duke Remsden learns of the strike and waylays Buzz Dale as he tries to record Bart's ... See full summary »

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Buzz Barton, Pauline Parker, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Edmund Cobb

Votes: 56

37. Tangled Fortunes (1932)

60 min | Western

A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Buzz Barton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Caryl Lincoln, Edmund Cobb

38. The Royal Bed (1931)

Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy

More interested in playing checkers with the servants than in governing his people, King Eric VIII is dominated by Martha, his queen, a humorless woman who believes in doing her royal duty ... See full summary »

Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Lowell Sherman, Mary Astor, Anthony Bushell, Hugh Trevor

Votes: 263

39. The Galloping Ghost (1931)

Passed | 226 min | Drama

A gambling ring run out of the Mogul Taxi company is intent on fixing college football games. Football star Harold "Red" Grange is a target for the gamblers, whose thugs try to eliminate ... See full summary »

Director: B. Reeves Eason | Stars: Harold 'Red' Grange, Dorothy Gulliver, Walter Miller, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 169

40. Cyclone Kid (1931)

Passed | 60 min | Western

Rancher Harvey Comstock(Lafe McKee), whose cattle are being rustled,is killed by a shot through an open window. Joe Clark(Ted Adams), the killer, heads the rustlers and with inside help ... See full summary »

Director: J.P. McGowan | Stars: Buzz Barton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Caryl Lincoln, Lafe McKee

41. The Sins of the Children (1930)

Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance

A German immigrant to a small American town is a barber with four children. He has saved enough money to invest in a savings-and-loan company with a friend. Unfortunately, one of his sons ... See full summary »

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Louis Mann, Robert Montgomery, Elliott Nugent, Leila Hyams

Votes: 277

42. Way Out West (1930)

Passed | 71 min | Action, Comedy, Music

Wise-guy carnival barker Windy bilks a group of cowboys out of their money, gets caught, and is forced into working off the debt on their ranch. He falls in love with Molly, the pretty ... See full summary »

Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Cliff Edwards

Votes: 738

43. The Girl Said No (1930)

Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Romance

A brash, pushy young man gets a job in a bank and sets his cap for his boss's secretary, but the death of his father makes him reassess his priorities.

Director: Sam Wood | Stars: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Polly Moran, Marie Dressler

Votes: 868

44. They Learned About Women (1930)

Passed | 95 min | Musical, Drama

When Jack and Jerry are not playing professional baseball with the Blue Sox, they are packing them in on the Vaudeville circuit. Jack is engaged to Mary, but a gold digger named Daisy has ... See full summary »

Directors: Jack Conway, Sam Wood | Stars: Gus Van, Joe Schenck, Bessie Love, Mary Doran

Votes: 266

45. Spell of the Circus (1930)

Passed | 240 min | Action

The manager of The Big Circus plots to marry the owner's daughter and gain control of the outfit.

Director: Robert F. Hill | Stars: Francis X. Bushman Jr., Alberta Vaughn, Tom London, Walter Shumway

46. Four Sons (1928)

Passed | 100 min | Drama, War

A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.

Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 920

47. The Scarlet Arrow (1928)

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Director: Ray Taylor | Stars: Francis X. Bushman Jr., Hazel Keener, Edmund Cobb, Al Ferguson

48. Marlie the Killer (1928)

50 min | Action, Drama

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Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Klondike the Dog, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Joseph W. Girard, Blanche Mehaffey

49. The Understanding Heart (1927)

Passed | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

Monica Dale is a fire lookout in love with Forest Ranger Tony Garland. Escaped killer Bob Mason hides out in Monica's observatory and falls in love with her. A fire encircles them and is ... See full summary »

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Joan Crawford, Rockliffe Fellowes, Francis X. Bushman Jr., Carmel Myers

Votes: 191

50. Brown of Harvard (1926)

Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance

Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.

Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Votes: 1,530