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1. Show Boat (1951)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, Family, Musical
The daughter of a riverboat captain falls in love with a charming gambler, but their fairy tale romance is threatened after his luck turns sour.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, Joe E. Brown
Votes: 5,382
2. The Great Caruso (1951)
Approved | 109 min | Biography, Drama, Music
This film traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. Caruso... See full summary »
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Mario Lanza, Ann Blyth, Dorothy Kirsten, Jarmila Novotna
Votes: 1,467
3. The Tall Target (1951)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
A New York City detective, traveling by train between New York and Baltimore, tries to foil an on-board plot to assassinate President-elect Abraham Lincoln before he reaches Baltimore to give a major pre-Inauguration speech in 1861.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou, Marshall Thompson
Votes: 2,339
4. No Questions Asked (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An insurance lawyer unhappy with his rate of company advancement becomes a middleman in deals to recover stolen property from the Mob, thus earning a nice living. But his actions attract police attention and set him up for a double-cross.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Arlene Dahl, George Murphy, Jean Hagen
Votes: 753
5. Excuse My Dust (1951)
G | 82 min | Comedy, Musical
Joe, an inventor in an American small town of 1895 has problems with his new invention, a car driven with a gasoline motor. Everybody is making fun about his "crazy invention", and only his... See full summary »
Directors: Roy Rowland, Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Red Skelton, Sally Forrest, Macdonald Carey, William Demarest
Votes: 404
6. Inside Straight (1951)
Approved | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Rip MacCool has learned early in life that "money talks" and after he arrives in San Francisco, he has no qualms about being ruthless in business, and his first fast-deal bilks Ada Stritch ... See full summary »
Director: Gerald Mayer | Stars: David Brian, Arlene Dahl, Barry Sullivan, Mercedes McCambridge
Votes: 305
7. Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
An Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins
Votes: 210
8. The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance
The real life story of actress Pearl White during her rise to fame in silent serials.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Betty Hutton, John Lund, Billy De Wolfe, William Demarest
Votes: 1,251
9. Song of Love (1947)
Approved | 119 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Paul Henreid, Robert Walker, Henry Daniell
Votes: 1,150
10. Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Edward Ashley
Votes: 1,919
11. Fun on a Weekend (1947)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Peterson Price Porterhouse III and Nancy Crane, both flat broke, meet on a Florida beach and decide to "go for the big money," under the premise that perception will turn into reality.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Priscilla Lane, Tom Conway, Allen Jenkins
Votes: 239
12. That's My Gal (1947)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Two sharpie promoters (Don Barry and Frank Jenks) put on a show they believe is so bad it will not play more than one day and they therefore will not have to pay the long list of investors,... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Don 'Red' Barry, Pinky Lee, Frank Jenks
Votes: 12
13. Duel in the Sun (1946)
Passed | 129 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Beautiful, biracial Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between two brothers, one good and the other bad.
Directors: King Vidor, Otto Brower, William Dieterle, Sidney Franklin, William Cameron Menzies, David O. Selznick, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 9,486 | Gross: $20.41M
14. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Unrated | 116 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance
A man is reunited with his childhood friend and her husband who believes he knows the truth about the death of her rich aunt years earlier.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott, Kirk Douglas
Votes: 11,092
15. Decoy (1946)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A mortally wounded female gangster recounts how she and her gang revived an executed killer from the gas chamber, to try and find out where he buried a fortune in cash.
Director: Jack Bernhard | Stars: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Robert Armstrong, Herbert Rudley
Votes: 2,195
16. Little Giant (1946)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Lou Costello plays a country bumpkin vacuum-cleaner salesman, working for the company run by the crooked Bud Abbott. To try to keep him under his thumb, Abbott convinces Costello that he's ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Brenda Joyce, Jacqueline deWit
Votes: 1,408
17. No Leave, No Love (1946)
Approved | 119 min | Comedy, Musical
The men are coming home from war and Slinky decides his hero buddy Michael should first appear on a radio program. The good-natured and talented sergeant meets radio singer Susan where he finds love in-between songs.
Director: Charles Martin | Stars: Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, Pat Kirkwood, Guy Lombardo
Votes: 192
18. The Missing Lady (1946)
Passed | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A jade statue, "The Missing Lady", is stolen and its owner killed. Lamont Cranston, alias the Shadow, sets out to catch the killer but is blamed for the murders himself as each time he ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Kane Richmond, Barbara Read, George Chandler, James Flavin
Votes: 217
19. The Time, the Place and the Girl (1946)
Approved | 105 min | Musical, Comedy, Romance
The stuffy manager of lovely opera singer Vicki Cassel and her uncle, a classical conductor, is determined to close down the noisy nightclub that's next door to the Cassels' home. The ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Martha Vickers, Jack Carson, Janis Paige
Votes: 353
20. Bringing Up Father (1946)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Comedy
Maggie and her snooty society friends fool Jiggs and his buddies down at Dinty's tavern into not only signing a petition to close the bar, but they also trick them into taking the "temperaance" pledge to forsake all alcohol.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Joe Yule, Renie Riano, Tim Ryan, June Harrison
Votes: 46
21. Wife Wanted (1946)
Approved | 73 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Career-slipping movie star Carole Raymond (Kay Francis) buys in as a real estate partner of Jeff Caldwell (Paul Cavanagh). As it happens, through his secretary Nola Reed (Veda Ann Borg), ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: Kay Francis, Paul Cavanagh, Robert Shayne, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 133
22. Girl on the Spot (1946)
Approved | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Eleven Gilbert & Sullivan numbers are melded within the murder-mystery plot of "Girl on the Spot", with a result that either G&S and/or the plot are always seemingly on stage-wait or in the... See full summary »
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Lois Collier, Jess Barker, George Dolenz, Fuzzy Knight
Votes: 33
23. Sing While You Dance (1946)
Approved | 88 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Susan Kent, hoping to establish herself as a song-plugger, tries to obtain a second song from a young songwriter, Johnny Crane, after his first song becomes a hit. While pursuing her ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ellen Drew, Bob Haymes, Andrew Tombes, Edwin Cooper
Votes: 26
24. Man from Rainbow Valley (1946)
Approved | 56 min | Western
Monte Hale, cowboy creator of the popular comic strip featuring "Outlaw", the wild horse,is as fond of the real horse as his thousands of fans are of the comic strip version. When ... See full summary »
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Monte Hale, Lorna Gray, Jo Ann Marlowe, Ferris Taylor
Votes: 16
25. Rendezvous 24 (1946)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, War
In a remote, mountainous section of Soviet-occupied Germany there is an elaborate post-war Nazi underground dedicated to the achievement of Hitler's dreams of world supremacy. A group of ... See full summary »
Director: James Tinling | Stars: William Gargan, Maria Palmer, Patrick O'Moore, Herman Bing
Votes: 30
26. Lady on a Train (1945)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
In New York, a woman who partially witnesses a killing from a train window seeks the aid of a crime novelist to solve the murder.
Director: Charles David | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce, George Coulouris
Votes: 2,566
27. Where Do We Go from Here? (1945)
Approved | 74 min | Fantasy, Musical
Bill wants to join the Army, but he's 4F so he asks a wizard to help him, but the wizard has slight problems with his history knowlege, so he sends Bill everywhere in history, but not to WWII.
Directors: Gregory Ratoff, George Seaton | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Joan Leslie, June Haver, Gene Sheldon
Votes: 301
28. Shady Lady (1945)
Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
A professional gambler is caught cheating and sent to prison. Eventually paroled, he decides to make a fresh start and takes his niece, an aspiring singer, to Chicago. Once there, however, ... See full summary »
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Charles Coburn, Robert Paige, Ginny Simms, Alan Curtis
Votes: 31
29. Bedside Manner (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy
Macho pilot is treated by a woman doctor. Complications ensue.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: John Carroll, Ruth Hussey, Charles Ruggles, Ann Rutherford
Votes: 238
30. Blonde from Brooklyn (1945)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Music
Returning soldier Dixon Harper meets cute with promising radio singer Susan Parker. Susan is mistaken for a heiress to a southern plantation by blustery colonel Farnsworth and she ignores wise cracking friend Diane to see the ruse through.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Bob Haymes, Lynn Merrick, Thurston Hall, Mary Treen
Votes: 95
31. Swingin' on a Rainbow (1945)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young girl goes to New York to find a band leader who has stolen all the songs she wrote and is passing them off as his own. She soon meets and falls in love with a struggling young songwriter who has his own problems.
Director: William Beaudine | Stars: Jane Frazee, Stanley Brown, Harry Langdon, Minna Gombell
Votes: 16
32. The Princess and the Pirate (1944)
Approved | 94 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A cowardly actor and a runaway princess are voyaging on a ship that is captured by a notorious pirate who recently buried his treasure on a secretly mapped island.
Directors: David Butler, Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Bob Hope, Virginia Mayo, Walter Brennan, Walter Slezak
Votes: 2,421
33. Shine on Harvest Moon (1944)
Passed | 112 min | Biography, Musical, Romance
Biographical movie about the early 20th century Broadway stars Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Irene Manning
Votes: 452
34. Sensations of 1945 (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Music, Romance
Father and son press agents fail to see things eye to eye, in the final screen appearance of comedian W.C. Fields.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Eleanor Powell, Dennis O'Keefe, C. Aubrey Smith, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 185
35. Song of the Open Road (1944)
Passed | 93 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth ... See full summary »
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, Bonita Granville, W.C. Fields
Votes: 165
36. The Falcon Out West (1944)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Detective Falcon and the police travel west to a ranch in Texas to try and solve the mystery of the murder by venom from a rattlesnake, in a New York City nightclub, of a Rich cattle baron.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale, Joan Barclay
Votes: 728
37. Gambler's Choice (1944)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The professional gambler Ross Hadley is the owner of a posh gaming establishment in the heart of New York. Hadley's main antagonist is his childhood friend Mike McGlennon who is determined to stop the gambling activities of Ross.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Chester Morris, Nancy Kelly, Russell Hayden, Lee Patrick
Votes: 187
38. Music in Manhattan (1944)
Approved | 81 min | Musical, Romance
Frankie Foster and Stanley Benson are a pair of small-potatoes performers. Both try to make it to the big-time after winning an amateur talent contest. Though this leads them to a few ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Anne Shirley, Dennis Day, Phillip Terry, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 179
39. 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: 701
40. Lost Angel (1943)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Alpha's been raised along scientific principles, and will make Mike Regan a great human interest story for his paper. But when his interview prompts Alpha to run away from the institute and... See full summary »
Director: Roy Rowland | Stars: Margaret O'Brien, James Craig, Marsha Hunt, Philip Merivale
Votes: 614
41. Mardi Gras (1943)
Approved | 19 min | Short, Music
The first of a series of six two-reel "Musical Parade" shorts produced in Technicolor for the Paramount 1943-44 production season. The series would continue into 1948, and then were ... See full summary »
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Betty Jane Rhodes, Johnny Johnston, Val Setz, Adriana
Votes: 19
42. Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)
Approved | 117 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In Europe at the start of World War II, a woman notices that wherever her husband goes, the Germans seem to follow. Meanwhile, a charming reporter is following them.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Cary Grant, Walter Slezak, Albert Dekker
Votes: 3,265 | Gross: $0.86M
43. I Married an Angel (1942)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
A count who ignores an infatuated secretary thinks he has met his match when an angel from Heaven shows up.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Roy Del Ruth | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Edward Everett Horton, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 570
44. My Sister Eileen (1942)
Passed | 96 min | Comedy
Two sisters move from Ohio to New York with hopes of stardom.
Director: Alexander Hall | Stars: Rosalind Russell, Brian Aherne, Janet Blair, George Tobias
Votes: 1,734
45. Fingers at the Window (1942)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
An unemployed actor in Chicago aims to solve the mystery concerning a string of axe murders, apparently committed by a "lunatic".
Director: Charles Lederer | Stars: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford
Votes: 1,145
46. Grand Central Murder (1942)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Classic whodunit mystery film about a gold-digging variety show actress who has many enemies and is found dead in her private railroad car at Grand Central Station in New York.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker, Virginia Grey
Votes: 1,066
47. Cairo (1942)
Passed | 101 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
Reporter Homer Smith accidentally draws Marcia Warren into his mission to stop Nazis from bombing Allied Convoys with robot-planes.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters, Reginald Owen
Votes: 504
48. Dr. Renault's Secret (1942)
Passed | 58 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Dr. Larry Forbes visits the château of Dr. Robert Renault, uncle of his fiancée Madelon, who is idolized by Renault's assistant, a strange émigré from Java.
Director: Harry Lachman | Stars: J. Carrol Naish, Shepperd Strudwick, Lynne Roberts, George Zucco
Votes: 547
49. My Favorite Spy (1942)
Passed | 86 min | Comedy, Musical
Complications arise for newlywed Kay Kyser and his bride when he gets involved in espionage at the request of the Army.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 337
50. The Wife Takes a Flyer (1942)
Approved | 86 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Franchot Tone, Allyn Joslyn, Cecil Cunningham
Votes: 161