Republic - The Best
by karljhickey14 | created - 09 Feb 2019 | updated - 19 Mar 2022 | PublicNearly added to the poverty row list , but Republic was not quite poverty , not quite a big studio .
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1. Undersea Kingdom (1936)
Approved | 226 min | Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Crash Corrigan, a recent graduate of Annapolis, and Diana, a go-getting reporter, join Professor Norton for a search for the source of a string of earthquakes, Atlantis. They ride Prof. ... See full summary »
Directors: B. Reeves Eason, Joseph Kane | Stars: Ray Corrigan, Lois Wilde, Monte Blue, William Farnum
Votes: 634
2. Ticket to Paradise (1936)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Janes Forbes (Barrie) decides to help amnesiac Jack Doe (Pryor) to find the details of his true identity. She doesn't tell anyone she is leaving, which causes her worried father to hire a ... See full summary »
Director: Aubrey Scotto | Stars: Roger Pryor, Wendy Barrie, Claude Gillingwater, Andrew Tombes
Votes: 130
3. The President's Mystery (1936)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Betty Furness, Sidney Blackmer, Evelyn Brent
Votes: 209
4. The Mandarin Mystery (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
Two murders are committed and a $50,000 Chinese Mandarin stamp is stolen, tossed around and eventually recovered as an aggregation of costly-stamp counterfeiters are uncovered through the mastermind investigation by Ellery Queen.
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Eddie Quillan, Charlotte Henry, Rita La Roy, Wade Boteler
Votes: 458
5. Dick Tracy (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A master criminal called The Spider puts the famous detective's brother under a hypnotic spell and turns him against Dick.
Directors: Alan James, Ray Taylor | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Kay Hughes, Smiley Burnette, Lee Van Atta
Votes: 652
6. Paradise Express (1937)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt, Maude Eburne
Votes: 161
7. Navy Blues (1937)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
When Navy shipmates Russell J. "Rusty" Gibbs, Gerald "Biff" Jones, Chips and Gateleg go on shore leave, lady-killer Rusty is challenged by his friends to take dowdy librarian Doris Kimbell ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Dick Purcell, Mary Brian, Warren Hymer, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 73
8. Jim Hanvey, Detective (1937)
Passed | 71 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Tom Brown, Lucie Kaye, Catherine Doucet
Votes: 170
9. Dangerous Holiday (1937)
58 min | Drama
Ronnie is a child prodigy who enjoys playing the violin, and his relatives and agent want to exploit his talents so as to make more money off of him. Fed up with their intentions, Ronnie decides to take off on his own for a bit.
Director: Nicholas T. Barrows | Stars: Ronald Sinclair, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Hedda Hopper, Jack La Rue
Votes: 61
10. Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Bulldog Drummond goes up against foreign agents trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
Director: Norman Lee | Stars: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory, Claud Allister
Votes: 465
11. Zorro Rides Again (1937)
Approved | 212 min | Family, Western
The California-Yucatan Railroad, being built for the good of Mexico, is under siege by a gang of terrorists hoping to force its sale; no one can prove their connection to profiteer Marsden.... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: John Carroll, Noah Beery, Richard Alexander, Reed Howes
Votes: 337
12. Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939)
Passed | 114 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The masked hero leads a fighting force to fight a villian who plots the conquest of The Republic of Mexico.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Reed Hadley, Sheila Darcy, William Corson, Leander De Cordova
Votes: 464
13. Zorro's Black Whip (1944)
Approved | 211 min | Western
Hammond, a leading citizen who owns the town's stagecoach line, is opposed to Idaho becoming a state, and kills Randolph Meredith, owner of the town's newspaper, for endorsing it. ... See full summary »
Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Stars: George J. Lewis, Linda Stirling, Lucien Littlefield, Francis McDonald
Votes: 280
14. Exiled to Shanghai (1937)
Not Rated | 65 min | Comedy
Two rival newspaper men battle over a beautiful woman while covering an overseas civil war.
Directors: Nick Grinde, Armand Schaefer | Stars: Wallace Ford, June Travis, Dean Jagger, William Bakewell
Votes: 76
15. Lady Behave! (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Sally Eilers, Neil Hamilton, Joseph Schildkraut, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 263
16. The Lone Ranger (1938)
Approved | 264 min | Western
Heroic's of Lone Ranger & Tonto, matter!
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Silver Chief, Chief Thundercloud, Lynne Roberts, Stanley Andrews
Votes: 247
17. Born to Be Wild (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Truck drivers Steve Hackett and Bill Purvis are fired from their jobs with the West Coast Trucking company for not using second-gear going down steep grades. Davis, the company ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Doris Weston, Ward Bond, Robert Emmett Keane
Votes: 110
18. Hollywood Stadium Mystery (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery, Romance, Sport
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
Director: David Howard | Stars: Neil Hamilton, Evelyn Venable, Jimmy Wallington, Barbara Pepper
Votes: 175
19. Prison Nurse (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Film-Noir
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Henry Wilcoxon, Marian Marsh, Bernadene Hayes, Ben Welden
Votes: 97
20. King of the Newsboys (1938)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: Lew Ayres, Helen Mack, Alison Skipworth, Victor Varconi
Votes: 121
21. Romance on the Run (1938)
68 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A man has the knack for finding stolen items. and then returns them to the insurance company. Finds some fake jewels and turns them in. Antics ensue.
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Donald Woods, Patricia Ellis, Grace Bradley, Edward Brophy
Votes: 135
22. Gangs of New York (1938)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama
The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Bickford, Ann Dvorak, Alan Baxter, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 170
23. Dick Tracy Returns (1938)
Approved | 260 min | Drama
Dick Tracy battles spies and saboteurs in his efforts to bring to justice the Stark gang, a criminal family led by the vicious Pa Stark.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Lynne Roberts, Charles Middleton, Jerry Tucker
Votes: 440
24. Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939)
Passed | 302 min | Mystery
A mad doctor named Zanoff uses a drug to bring himself back from the dead after his execution in prison. Dick Tracy sets out to capture Zanoff before he can put his criminal gang back together again.
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Irving Pichel, Ted Pearson, Jennifer Jones
Votes: 363
25. The Mysterious Miss X (1939)
Passed | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Michael Whalen, Lynne Roberts, Chick Chandler, Mabel Todd
Votes: 66
26. The Lone Ranger Rides Again (1939)
Approved | 263 min | Western
Homesteaders are moving into the valley settled many years ago by rancher Craig Dolan. He wants to keep them out by legal means but his nephew Bart brings in outlaws to drive them out. The ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Robert Livingston, Chief Thundercloud, Silver Chief, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 140
27. S.O.S. Tidal Wave (1939)
62 min | Crime, Sci-Fi
In a city election, one of the candidates, Clifford Farrow, has a criminal background and is backed by crime boss Melvin Sutter. Sutter doesn't hesitate to escalate the violence in the face of any resistance.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Ralph Byrd, George Barbier, Kay Sutton, Frank Jenks
Votes: 94
28. Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)
Passed | 269 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesis, Dr. Nayland Smith, and ... See full summary »
Directors: John English, William Witney | Stars: Henry Brandon, William Royle, Robert Kellard, Gloria Franklin
Votes: 334
29. Dark Command (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Romance, War
In Kansas during the Civil War, opposing pro-Union and pro-Confederate camps clash and visiting Texan Bob Seton runs afoul of William Cantrell's Raiders.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, Roy Rogers
Votes: 3,034
30. Gangs of Chicago (1940)
66 min | Crime, Drama
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Ray Middleton
Votes: 100
31. Three Faces West (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Austrian refugees Dr Braun and his daughter Leni join the town's plan to relocate to Oregon. The town leader falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped them escape from the Third Reich.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus | Stars: John Wayne, Sigrid Gurie, Charles Coburn, Spencer Charters
Votes: 965
32. Scatterbrain (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy
Eddie MacIntyre is a press agent, talent scout and right-hand man to J.R.Russell, Producer/Director of Perfection Pictures, is planning a scheme in which he will "plant" his girl friend, ... See full summary »
Director: Gus Meins | Stars: Judy Canova, Alan Mowbray, Ruth Donnelly, Eddie Foy Jr.
Votes: 54
33. Louisiana Hayride (1944)
Approved | 67 min | Action, Comedy, Music
Two con men dupe a country bumpkin into giving them all of her money under the pretense that they'll make her a movie star. She and her family eventually track them in Hollywood, still ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Judy Canova, Ross Hunter, Richard Lane, Lloyd Bridges
Votes: 68
34. True to the Army (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Music
While doing her tightrope act in a local circus, Daisy Hawkins (Judy Canova), sees the owner shot by gangsters. The killers are after her to eliminate the only eyewitness and the police ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Judy Canova, Allan Jones, Ann Miller, Jerry Colonna
Votes: 43
35. Sis Hopkins (1941)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
A young girl from the "sticks" comes to the city to live with her wealthy relatives. At first she is the objection of derision and made fun of because of her unsophisticated nature, but it ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Bob Crosby, Charles Butterworth, Jerry Colonna
Votes: 157
36. Sleepy Lagoon (1943)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Transient workers are pouring into Sleepy Lagoon by the thousands to work in the local defense factories, with no means of finding good clean fun in a town that has been as moribund as its ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Dennis Day, Ruth Donnelly, Joe Sawyer
Votes: 44
37. Oklahoma Annie (1952)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Western
A storekeeper gets involved in cleaning up corruption in her town, and also hopes to attract the attention of the handsome new sheriff.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Judy Canova, John Russell, Grant Withers, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 165
38. Puddin' Head (1941)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Harold l. Montgomery, the scatterbrain vice-president of the United Broadcasing System, is dismayed when he learns that one-foot of the ground on which the station's imposing new structure ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Francis Lederer, Raymond Walburn, Slim Summerville
Votes: 73
39. Sleepytime Gal (1942)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Crime, Music
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by bell captain Chick Patterson, who believes he can not only ... See full summary »
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Judy Canova, Tom Brown, Billy Gilbert, Ruth Terry
Votes: 50
40. Joan of Ozark (1942)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy, War
During World War II, a yodeling hillbilly singer goes undercover to expose a ring of Nazi spies operating in the United States.
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Judy Canova, Joe E. Brown, Eddie Foy Jr., Jerome Cowan
Votes: 56
41. Chatterbox (1943)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy
While shooting a western on location, a Hollywood "cowboy" star--whose offscreen image is exactly the opposite of his onscreen one--is saved from disaster by a gregarious local girl. She ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Joe E. Brown, Judy Canova, Rosemary Lane, John Hubbard
Votes: 48
42. Hit the Hay (1945)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy
Two opera-company promoters persuade a singing farm-girl, Judy Stevens, to pose as an opera singer. This arouses the ire of an easily-aroused opera singer who threatens to expose Judy as a ... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Judy Canova, Ross Hunter, Fortunio Bonanova, Doris Merrick
Votes: 36
43. Singin' in the Corn (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Western
Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost town, she learns that a stipulation in the... See full summary »
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Judy Canova, Allen Jenkins, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Al Bridge
Votes: 26
44. Untamed Heiress (1954)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Western
Walter Martin and Eddie Taylor are a couple of theatrical agents, and they receive a visit from Andrew "Cactus" Clayton, who is looking for Effie Canova, who grub-staked him years ago. He ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Judy Canova, Don 'Red' Barry, George Cleveland, Taylor Holmes
Votes: 37
45. Behind the News (1940)
75 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
It's Jeff Flavin's first day on the job as a cub reporter for the Enquirer. The boss, Archer, places him with lazy reporter Stu Woodrow. Stu detests cubs and treats Jeff badly. Jeff saves a... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Doris Davenport, Frank Albertson, Robert Armstrong
Votes: 90
46. A Man Betrayed (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A small-town attorney comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the crime ring he hopes to expose.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford
Votes: 625
47. Mr. District Attorney (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Rookie Deputy DA P. Cadwallader Jones and hotshot reporter Terry Parker team up to track down an elusive criminal named Hyde.
Director: William Morgan | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Florence Rice, Peter Lorre, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 217
48. The Devil Pays Off (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama, War
Chris Waring (William Wright) is a government investigator trying to gather the necessary evidence to convict a shipping magnate, DeBrock (J.Edward Bromberg), of selling his ships to the ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Osa Massen, William Wright, Margaret Tallichet
Votes: 92
49. Lady for a Night (1942)
Passed | 87 min | Drama
Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Joan Blondell, John Wayne, Philip Merivale, Blanche Yurka
Votes: 627
50. A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
This Republic murder mystery starts with a radio broadcast by Greg Sherman who solves cases on the air that the local police cannot solve. As he names the perpetrator of a recent murder we ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: John Howard, Margaret Lindsay, Roscoe Karns, Mona Barrie
Votes: 162
51. Tahiti Honey (1943)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
The "Eleven Brooklyn Bombshells," a band led by Mickey Monroe (Dennis O'Keefe), are stranded in Tahiti at the time of the fall of France to the Nazis. Suzette "Suzie" Durand (Simone Simon).... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Simone Simon, Dennis O'Keefe, Michael Whalen, Lionel Stander
Votes: 73
52. The Mantrap (1943)
Approved | 57 min | Mystery
Sir Humphrey Quilp, a former chief of Scotland Yard now retired in the New York countryside, is driving in his electric automobile with his friend, Dr. Anatole Duprex, when they arrive at the scene of a terrible car accident.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Henry Stephenson, Lloyd Corrigan, Joseph Allen, Dorothy Lovett
Votes: 71
53. A Scream in the Dark (1943)
Approved | 55 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Newspaper reporter turned detective Mike, along with his partner Eddie Tough (who used to be his photographer on the paper), and Mike's girlfriend Joan go after some business. She's the ... See full summary »
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Robert Lowery, Marie McDonald, Edward Brophy, Elizabeth Russell
Votes: 135
54. Mystery Broadcast (1943)
63 min | Mystery
A radio detective sets out to solve an old murder case, with the help of her sound man and another radio detective. They manage to talk to the people involved in the case, but shortly afterwards the main suspects turn up dead.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Frank Albertson, Ruth Terry, Nils Asther, Wynne Gibson
Votes: 130
55. In Old Oklahoma (1943)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Western
In 1906, on Oklahoma's Indian lands, a cowboy fights for oil lease rights against a greedy oilman while a pretty schoolteacher steals both men's hearts.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George 'Gabby' Hayes
Votes: 1,474
56. Whispering Footsteps (1943)
54 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A bank clerk in a small town returns home from a vacation in Indianapolis, and hears a story on the radio about a girl found murdered there. The description of the killer fits him exactly, ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: John Hubbard, Rita Quigley, Joan Blair, Charles Halton
Votes: 213
57. Casanova in Burlesque (1944)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Romance
A stripper discovers that a professor spends summer teaching Shakespeare and winter as a burlesque comic.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Joe E. Brown, June Havoc, Dale Evans, Marjorie Gateson
Votes: 49
58. The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Approved | 86 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A millionaire's brain is preserved after his death, and telepathically begins to take control of those around him.
Director: George Sherman | Stars: Vera Ralston, Erich von Stroheim, Richard Arlen, Helen Vinson
Votes: 442
59. Man from Frisco (1944)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War
Matt Braddock (a fictional version of real-life Henry Kaiser) is an engineer with revolutionary ideas for shipbuilding. When he tries to set up yards for prefabricating ships on the West ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Michael O'Shea, Anne Shirley, Gene Lockhart, Dan Duryea
Votes: 59
60. Secrets of Scotland Yard (1944)
Passed | 68 min | Mystery, Romance, War
Scotland Yard's Room 40 was instrumental in Allied victory during WW1, but has been compromised in the decades since, a killer in their midst.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Edgar Barrier, Stephanie Bachelor, C. Aubrey Smith, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 86
61. The Girl Who Dared (1944)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A young woman seeking adventure, and several other people have to outwit a mysterious killer on a remote island.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Lorna Gray, Peter Cookson, Grant Withers, Veda Ann Borg
Votes: 211
62. Port of 40 Thieves (1944)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Muriel is the scheming widow of the fabulously-wealthy Hartford Chaney III. Muriel's husband has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, freeing her to marry her playboy paramour ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Stephanie Bachelor, Tom Keene, Lynne Roberts, Olive Blakeney
Votes: 71
63. Strangers in the Night (1944)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A lonely, mentally-unbalanced woman invents a fictitious daughter and has the "daughter" write to a Marine stationed in the South Pacific. When the soldier returns to the States, he goes to... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: William Terry, Virginia Grey, Helene Thimig, Edith Barrett
Votes: 813
64. The Great Flamarion (1945)
Approved | 78 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Part of an entertainment act, a beautiful but unscrupulous female performer manipulates all the men in her life in order to achieve her aims.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Mary Beth Hughes, Dan Duryea, Steve Barclay
Votes: 1,457
65. The Big Show-Off (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Joe Bagley, owner of the Blue Heaven Club, tries to foster a romance between shy pianist Sandy Elliott and band vocalist June Mayfield. Joe tells June that Sandy is really a professional, ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: Arthur Lake, Dale Evans, Lionel Stander, George Meeker
Votes: 107
66. Identity Unknown (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, War
An amnesiac soldier, the only survivor of a group of four unidentified soldiers - victims of a bomb raid - visits each man's address with the hope of restoring his memory and identity.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Bobby Driscoll
Votes: 374
67. The Phantom Speaks (1945)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Crime, Horror
The spirit of an executed murderer enters the body of a physician, and forces him to do its bidding--namely, murder.
Director: John English | Stars: Richard Arlen, Stanley Ridges, Lynne Roberts, Tom Powers
Votes: 216
68. The Vampire's Ghost (1945)
Passed | 59 min | Horror
In a small African port, a tawdry bar is run by a man named Webb Fallon. Fallon is actually a vampire, but he is becoming weary of his "life" of the past few hundred years.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: John Abbott, Charles Gordon, Peggy Stewart, Grant Withers
Votes: 606
69. The Cheaters (1945)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Billie Burke, Eugene Pallette, Ona Munson
Votes: 910
70. Jealousy (1945)
Passed | 71 min | Film-Noir, Mystery
The wife of an alcoholic writer must take a job as a taxi driver to make ends meet. A young man she picks up as a fare befriends her, but after her husband is found murdered, the police suspect she and her new friend committed the murder.
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: John Loder, Karen Morley, Jane Randolph, Nils Asther
Votes: 234
71. The Tiger Woman (1945)
Approved | 57 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
At the Tiger Club nightclub, singer Sharon Winslow asks private detective Jerry Devery to help her prevent the murder of her husband Fred, one of the club's owners. Sharon is afraid that ... See full synopsis »
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Adele Mara, Kane Richmond, Richard Fraser, Peggy Stewart
Votes: 96
72. Woman Who Came Back (1945)
Approved | 68 min | Horror, Mystery
After a bus accident, a woman comes to believe that she's actually a 300-year-old witch.
Director: Walter Colmes | Stars: John Loder, Nancy Kelly, Otto Kruger, Ruth Ford
Votes: 397
73. The Madonna's Secret (1946)
Not Rated | 79 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The sister of a murdered model poses for the same artist to try to catch her killer.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Francis Lederer, Gail Patrick, Ann Rutherford, Edward Ashley
Votes: 284
74. Strange Impersonation (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
A research scientist conducting experiments on a new anesthetic finds herself being blackmailed by a woman she accidentally knocked down with her car; the woman wasn't hurt, but a scheming ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Brenda Marshall, William Gargan, Hillary Brooke, George Chandler
Votes: 815
75. Murder in the Music Hall (1946)
Approved | 84 min | Crime, Music, Mystery
Lovely ice ballerina Lila Leighton meets former ice show producer Carl Lang at his New York City penthouse apartment and refuses his offer to star in his new Music Hall Ice Show. Back at ... See full summary »
Director: John English | Stars: Vera Ralston, William Marshall, Helen Walker, Nancy Kelly
Votes: 154
76. The Catman of Paris (1946)
Approved | 65 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Are mysterious killings in Paris of 1896 the work of man or monster?
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Carl Esmond, Lenore Aubert, Adele Mara, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 367
77. The Glass Alibi (1946)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Joe Eykner (Douglas Fowley), an opportunistic newspaper reporter, persuades wealthy, Santa Monica widow Linda Vale (Maris Wrixon), to marry him. He and his girlfriend, Belle Martin (Anne ... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Paul Kelly, Douglas Fowley, Anne Gwynne, Maris Wrixon
Votes: 126
78. Passkey to Danger (1946)
Approved | 58 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
An advertising campaign accidentally unearths an unsolved crime from a decade ago, throwing the campaign manager and his girlfriend in the middle of a fight that may cost them their lives.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Kane Richmond, Stephanie Bachelor, Adele Mara, Gregory Gaye
Votes: 74
79. Traffic in Crime (1946)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Police Chief Jim Murphy, in a crime-ridden city, deputizes newspaper-reporter Sam Wire, to work as an undercover operative to rid the town of the gangster element. Sam taunts and tricks the... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Kane Richmond, Anne Nagel, Adele Mara, Wade Crosby
Votes: 56
80. Specter of the Rose (1946)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Music
Ballet dancer Andre Sanine (Ivan Kirov) may have murdered his first wife. A detective thinks so, and he's not the only one. Andre is charming, if a little peculiar. Haidi (Viola Essen), a ... See full summary »
Director: Ben Hecht | Stars: Judith Anderson, Michael Chekhov, Ivan Kirov, Viola Essen
Votes: 272
81. The Inner Circle (1946)
Approved | 57 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
A private detective finds himself with a perfect new secretary. But after a notorious gossip columnist turns up murdered, she may prove too good to be true.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Adele Mara, Warren Douglas, William Frawley, Ricardo Cortez
Votes: 553
82. The Last Crooked Mile (1946)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After a bank robbery, the loot disappears and is sought after by an insurance investigator, the police and the surviving robbers.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Ann Savage, Adele Mara, Tom Powers
Votes: 319
83. The Mysterious Mr. Valentine (1946)
Approved | 56 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Janet Spencer (Linda Stirling) has a blow-out and walks into the Armstrong Chemical Company to ask John Armstrong (Tristram Coffin for help, thus arousing the jealousy of his wife Rita (... See full summary »
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: William Henry, Linda Stirling, Virginia Christine, Thomas E. Jackson
Votes: 145
84. Plainsman and the Lady (1946)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance, Western
St. Joseph, Missouri, in 1859, is divided by a railroad track that separates the richer and poorer classes of people. From the richer side comes Ann Arnesen, daughter of Michael Arnesen, ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Bill Elliott, Vera Ralston, Gail Patrick, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 97
85. The Fabulous Suzanne (1946)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
Suzanne, a waitress, comes up with a sure-fire method for winning at the racetrack and, later, when she inherits a fortune from a customer of the restaurant, she use the same system for ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Sekely | Stars: Barbara Britton, Rudy Vallee, Otto Kruger, Richard Denning
Votes: 45
86. The Trespasser (1947)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Denny Butler, the feature editor on the same newspaper, set out to track down a gang of literary forgers who are making a fortune off of selling fake first editions.
Director: George Blair | Stars: Dale Evans, Warren Douglas, Janet Martin, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 63
87. Blackmail (1947)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Film-Noir
A private detective is approached by a wealthy entertainment executive to stop a blackmail scheme against him. Although he hasn't decided to take the job, the blackmailers believe that he already has, and he is marked for murder.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Marshall, Adele Mara, Ricardo Cortez, Grant Withers
Votes: 278
88. The Pretender (1947)
Approved | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Banker Kenneth Holden (Albert Dekker) steals funds from an estate and decides to marry the heiress, Claire Worthington (Catherine Craig), to safeguard his position. He arranges for her ... See full summary »
Director: W. Lee Wilder | Stars: Albert Dekker, Catherine Craig, Charles Drake, Alan Carney
Votes: 382
89. The Flame (1947)
Approved | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A woman falls for the victim of an intended blackmail plot.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford
Votes: 403
90. Madonna of the Desert (1948)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A jeweled Madonna, property of rancher Joe Salinas, attracts two crooks to his ranch, Monica Dell, a smooth operator, and ruthless Nick Julian. Joe believe that the statue has a miraculous ... See full summary »
Director: George Blair | Stars: Lynne Roberts, Don 'Red' Barry, Don Castle, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 108
91. The Inside Story (1948)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A collection agent arrives in a small town with $1000 for a local farmer. Whilst waiting for the farmer to arrive the money is put in a safe at a hotel for safe keeping. However, it is ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Marsha Hunt, William Lundigan, Charles Winninger, Gail Patrick
Votes: 299
92. Old Los Angeles (1948)
Approved | 88 min | Western
Old Los Angeles finds Bill Stockton leaving Missouri to join his brother Larry, and prospect for gold in California. Bill and his pal, Sam Bowie, arrive in the picturesque town of old Los ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Bill Elliott, John Carroll, Catherine McLeod, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 102
93. Train to Alcatraz (1948)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A group of prisoners being transported by train to Alcatraz prison plot an escape.
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Don 'Red' Barry, Janet Martin, William Phipps, Roy Barcroft
Votes: 70
94. Angel in Exile (1948)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
An ex-convict on his way to make his fortune in a gold mine in Arizona has his trip interrupted when the residents of a small Mexican village believe him to be a sacred religious figure.
Directors: Allan Dwan, Philip Ford | Stars: John Carroll, Adele Mara, Thomas Gomez, Barton MacLane
Votes: 121
95. Moonrise (1948)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Danny is despised by his schoolmates because his father was accused of killing another man and sentenced to death.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Dane Clark, Gail Russell, Ethel Barrymore, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 2,968
96. Macbeth (1948)
Passed | 107 min | Drama, History, War
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 7,795
97. The Plunderers (1948)
Passed | 87 min | Western
Cavalry officer John Drum attempts to track down outlaw Whit Lacey, but finds he must join forces with Lacey to fight a Sioux war party.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Ilona Massey, Lorna Gray, Forrest Tucker
Votes: 233
98. Angel on the Amazon (1948)
Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Romance
An expedition exploring the Amazon jungle comes across a jungle goddess who lives among the animals and fears none of them--and apparently has found the secret of eternal youth.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett
Votes: 162
99. Hideout (1949)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Hannah Kelly and Edie Hanson vie for the attentions of the naive attorney George Browning. Browning wises up in a hurry when he takes on a gang of jewel thieves. This gang is headed by ... See full summary »
Director: Philip Ford | Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Lorna Gray, Ray Collins, Sheila Ryan
Votes: 128
100. Hellfire (1949)
Passed | 90 min | Western
A reformed gambler turned preacher partnered with a pretty female fugitive outlaw runs into an old pal who's also a marshal, and they both fall for the same bad gal.
Director: R.G. Springsteen | Stars: Bill Elliott, Marie Windsor, Forrest Tucker, Jim Davis
Votes: 399
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