Universal Horror 1920-1960
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1. The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
Passed | 61 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The ancient Egypt Mummy, Kharis, is transported from his homeland with the high priest Mehemet to wreak vengeance on the family who has defiled the sacred tomb of his beloved Princess Ananka.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Dick Foran, John Hubbard, Elyse Knox
Votes: 3,854
2. The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
Approved | 78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist captures the Creature and turns him into an air-breather, only for him to escape and start killing.
Director: John Sherwood | Stars: Jeff Morrow, Rex Reason, Leigh Snowden, Gregg Palmer
Votes: 4,026
3. The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
Passed | 61 min | Fantasy, Horror
Kharis the mummy is given a sacred potion that grants him eternal life to search for his lost love, Princess Ananka, despite the unending curse that haunts them.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Robert Lowery, Ramsay Ames
Votes: 3,432
4. The Shock (1923)
Passed | 96 min | Drama
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh
Votes: 545
5. The Cat Creeps (1930)
75 min | Horror, Mystery
Disappearances and strange goings-on in a spooky old mansion.
Directors: Rupert Julian, John Willard | Stars: Helen Twelvetrees, Raymond Hackett, Neil Hamilton, Lilyan Tashman
Votes: 95
Lost film.
6. The Cat Creeps (1946)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A black cat is suspected of being possessed by the spirit of a elderly murdered woman.
Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Noah Beery Jr., Lois Collier, Paul Kelly, Frederick Brady
Votes: 359
7. La voluntad del muerto (1930)
Passed | 87 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Strange happenings and disappearances take place in an old dark house.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Antonio Moreno, Lupita Tovar, Andrés de Segurola, Roberto E. Guzmán
Votes: 34
Spanish Language version of The Cat Creeps (1930)
8. Weird Woman (1944)
Passed | 63 min | Horror, Mystery
While on a South Seas trip, a professor falls in love and marries an exotic native woman. What he doesn't know is that she was raised by superstitious natives who believe her to be some ... See full summary »
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Anne Gwynne, Evelyn Ankers, Ralph Morgan
Votes: 1,153
9. Strange Confession (1945)
Passed | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A scientist who is working on a cure for influenza is victimized by his unscrupulous boss, who releases the vaccine before it's ready, resulting in tragedy.
Director: John Hoffman | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Carrol Naish, Milburn Stone
Votes: 737
10. Dead Man's Eyes (1944)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When an artist is blinded, his fiancée's father offers an operation to restore his sight. When the benefactor suddenly dies, the artist becomes a suspect.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Jean Parker, Paul Kelly, Thomas Gomez
Votes: 1,024
11. The Frozen Ghost (1945)
Unrated | 61 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
A stage mentalist involved in a mysterious death and a discredited plastic surgeon are among the assorted characters involved in mysterious goings-on in an eerie wax museum.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Evelyn Ankers, Milburn Stone, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 1,136
12. The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Mystery
A brilliant but impoverished writer, who is a pacifist, goes to work for a publisher and writes anti-war editorials. When he discovers that the publisher has betrayed him and is in league ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Claude Rains, Joan Bennett, Lionel Atwill, Juanita Quigley
Votes: 197
13. Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Approved | 63 min | Film-Noir, Horror, Mystery
A doctor is not sure if he murdered his beautiful but wicked wife, and has his attractive nurse try to find the truth by hypnotizing him.
Director: Reginald Le Borg | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Patricia Morison, J. Carrol Naish, David Bruce
Votes: 1,262
14. Pillow of Death (1945)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
An unfaithful attorney is suspected of murdering his wife.
Director: Wallace Fox | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Brenda Joyce, J. Edward Bromberg, Rosalind Ivan
Votes: 793
15. Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
Approved | 87 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Claude Rains, Douglass Montgomery, Heather Angel, David Manners
Votes: 609
16. The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Thriller
Based on the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, this classic film follows a family feud between two brothers and an ancient curse that haunts them.
Director: Joe May | Stars: George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay, Vincent Price, Dick Foran
Votes: 1,516
17. Supernatural (1933)
Passed | 65 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A serial black widow murderess returns to life in the body of a young woman to exact revenge on a former lover, a phony spiritualist who betrayed her.
Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Carole Lombard, Randolph Scott, Alan Dinehart, Vivienne Osborne
Votes: 933
Paramount film acquired by MCA/Universal in 1958.
18. The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946)
Approved | 59 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young girl goes to work as a live-in caretaker for a spooky old woman. She doesn't know that every night, the woman drains some blood from her to feed her strange plant.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Kirby Grant, Milburn Stone
Votes: 403
After facing Sherlock Holmes, Gale Sondergaard's Spider Woman got spun off into her own movie.
19. The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
When an eccentric family meets in their uncle's remote, decaying mansion on the tenth anniversary of his death for the reading of his will, murder and madness follow.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, John Beal, Douglass Montgomery
Votes: 3,770
Paramount film acquired by MCA/Universal in 1958. Apparently not shown much due to legal issues.
20. Murder by the Clock (1931)
76 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
An elderly woman installs a horn in her crypt in case she's buried alive.
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: William 'Stage' Boyd, Lilyan Tashman, Irving Pichel, Regis Toomey
Votes: 379
Paramount film acquired by MCA/Universal in 1958.
21. Double Door (1934)
75 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In New York in 1910, wealthy spinster Victoria Van Brett controls with an iron hand both the family fortune and the lives of her younger sister Caroline and half brother Rip. When Rip ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Evelyn Venable, Mary Morris, Anne Revere, Kent Taylor
Votes: 349
Paramount film acquired by MCA/Universal in 1958.
22. Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Grim Reaper takes the form of a Prince in an attempt to relate to humans and, along the way, also learns what it is to love.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Fredric March, Evelyn Venable, Guy Standing, Katharine Alexander
Votes: 2,413
Paramount film acquired by MCA/Universal in 1958.
23. Among the Living (1941)
Approved | 67 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A mentally unstable man who has been kept in isolation for years escapes and causes trouble for his identical twin brother.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Albert Dekker, Susan Hayward, Frances Farmer, Harry Carey
Votes: 829
24. The Man in Half Moon Street (1944)
Approved | 92 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
A scientist who has found a way to prolong life (he is 120 years old) finds himself in a dilemma: he has fallen in love, and he has also discovered that if he doesn't get new glands, he will die.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Nils Asther, Helen Walker, Reinhold Schünzel, Paul Cavanagh
Votes: 189
25. The Mad Doctor (1940)
Approved | 90 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Romance
A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Ellen Drew, John Howard, Barbara Jo Allen
Votes: 305
Paramount film acquired by MCA/Universal in 1958.
26. The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Fantasy, History
A psychiatrist stays in a mansion haunted by prankish ghosts from the Revolutionary War.
Director: Charles Barton | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Marjorie Reynolds, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 3,679
27. Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Approved | 77 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Two workmen accidentally launch a space rocket intended for Mars, and find mistakenly landing in New Orleans just the beginning of their misadventures.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Robert Paige, Mari Blanchard
Votes: 3,605
28. Murder in the Blue Room (1944)
61 min | Comedy, Crime, Film-Noir
A party is thrown at a haunted mansion, people start to die, and a man who spent a night in the "blue room" disappears.
Director: Leslie Goodwins | Stars: Anne Gwynne, Donald Cook, John Litel, Grace McDonald
Votes: 395
Secret of the Blue room remade yet again, this time as a musical.
29. Life Returns (1934)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
A doctor who has spent his career working on ways to revive the dead sees his chance to prove his theory by performing his procedures on a recently deceased dog.
Directors: Eugene Frenke, James P. Hogan | Stars: Onslow Stevens, Lois Wilson, Valerie Hobson, Frank Reicher
Votes: 263
30. Curse of the Undead (1959)
Passed | 79 min | Horror, Western
While a malady is claiming the lives of young women in a Western town, a sinister gunslinger-for-hire Drake Robey is really a vampire, and it's up to Preacher Dan to save the town and girlfriend Dolores Carter.
Director: Edward Dein | Stars: Eric Fleming, Michael Pate, Kathleen Crowley, John Hoyt
Votes: 1,399
31. Secret of the Blue Room (1933)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Twenty years after 3 murders occur in a castle's "blue room", three men who each want to marry a beautiful girl decide to spend a night in the room to prove their bravery to her.
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Gloria Stuart, Paul Lukas, Edward Arnold
Votes: 1,169
32. Mystery of Marie Roget (1942)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A detective tries to unravel the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a young actress.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Patric Knowles, Maria Montez, Maria Ouspenskaya, John Litel
Votes: 333
33. Rocket Ship (1938)
72 min | Family, Sci-Fi
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Alexis Zarkov visit the planet Mongo to thwart the evil schemes of Emperor Ming the Merciless, who has set his planet on a collision course with Earth.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Priscilla Lawson
Votes: 626
An edited version of the 1936 Flash Gordon serial, apparently made for release on television.
34. The Phantom Creeps (1949 TV Movie)
Approved | 78 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
Not a feature, but an edited version of the 1939 serial "The Phantom Creeps" which was released to TV in 1949.
Stars: Bela Lugosi, Robert Kent, Dorothy Arnold, Edwin Stanley
Votes: 223
TV adaptation of the 1939 serial.
35. Ghost Catchers (1944)
Approved | 68 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Two zanies get mixed up with a Southern colonel, his beautiful daughters, a nightclub and a haunted mansion.
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Ole Olsen, Chic Johnson, Gloria Jean, Martha O'Driscoll
Votes: 205
36. Deadly Ray from Mars (1966 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 99 min | Sci-Fi
An edited version of the 1938 Universal serial "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" that was released to TV in a syndication package in 1966.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon
Votes: 82
37. Alias Nick Beal (1949)
Approved | 93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Film-Noir
A district attorney rises to political success and the governorship but loses his sense of morality once he starts associating with the shadowy and perhaps diabolical Nick Beal.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Ray Milland, Audrey Totter, Thomas Mitchell, George Macready
Votes: 1,276
Dark Paramount political thriller about corruption that edges on the supernatural.
38. Daughter of the Dragon (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Princess Ling Moy, a young and beautiful Chinese aristocrat lives next door, unbeknownst to her, to Dr. Fu Manchu, a brilliant but twisted genius who is out to rule the world. She is ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Anna May Wong, Warner Oland, Sessue Hayakawa, Bramwell Fletcher
Votes: 788
Paramount Fu Manchu thriller with Warner (Charlie Chan) Oland as Fu Manchu and Anna Mae Wong as his daughter.
39. Henry Aldrich Haunts a House (1943)
Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Henry Aldrich swallows a serum by accident and ends up in a "haunted" house.
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, Charles Smith, John Litel, Olive Blakeney
Votes: 156
Paramount comedy/thriller entry in its "Henry Aldrich" series.
40. Menace (I) (1934)
Passed | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Menace is a very fast-paced dark house murder mystery with a plot centering around three people who are targeted for death because of their alleged guilt in the tragic death of a psychopath's brother.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Gertrude Michael, Paul Cavanagh, Henrietta Crosman, John Lodge
Votes: 78
Paramount "Old Dark House" thriller.
41. The Miracle Man (1932)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leader, John Madison, encounters a faith healer and uses him to scam the gullible public of ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris, Robert Coogan, John Wray
Votes: 210
Paramount remake of the 1919 melodrama that made Lon Chaney a star.
42. Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
Approved | 81 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
After phony stage mentalist Triton mysteriously acquires supernatural powers of precognition, he becomes frightened and abandons his act to live in anonymity.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Gail Russell, John Lund, Virginia Bruce
Votes: 1,746
Paramount fantasy-thriller about a stage mentalist who discovers he really can tell the future.
43. The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
A public relations man for a movie studio uses an early form of television to help solve a murder.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Frances Drake, Reginald Denny, Gail Patrick, George Barbier
Votes: 305
A Paramount murder mystery that takes place on the set of a vampire movie.
44. The Return of Dr. Fu Manchu (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Mystery
The villainous master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu sets out to destroy the people he holds responsible for the death of his family.
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Warner Oland, O.P. Heggie, Jean Arthur, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 313
Paramount Fu Manchu thriller starring Warner Oland. Apparently the legal status of this picture is in doubt. If Universal does own it, it may never have shown it on TV.
45. The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
During the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Warner Oland, Neil Hamilton, Jean Arthur, O.P. Heggie
Votes: 388
Apparently acquired by Universal from Paramount, but may never have been shown for legal reasons.
46. The Scoundrel (1935)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Fantasy
A ruthless, cynical, hated publisher is killed in a plane crash, doomed to be a "restless" spirit for being unloved. A heavenly power gives him a month on Earth to find one person to shed a tear for him before his fate is sealed.
Directors: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Noël Coward, Julie Haydon, Stanley Ridges, Martha Sleeper
Votes: 446
Paramount fantasy acquired by Universal
47. Terror Aboard (1933)
69 min | Crime, Mystery
An ocean liner is found at sea with everyone on board dead. An investigation is begun to find out what happened.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: John Halliday, Charles Ruggles, Shirley Grey, Neil Hamilton
Votes: 136
Pre-Code Paramount mystery-thriller with some gruesome visuals.
48. The Unseen (1945)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Horror
A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 611
Paramount thriller was a follow-up (though not a sequel) to the "Uninvited."
49. White Woman (1933)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Romance
A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Charles Bickford, Kent Taylor
Votes: 376
Paramount jungle melodrama casts Laughton in a role similar to "The Island of Lost Souls."
50. The Witching Hour (1934)
Passed | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, Thorne kills an ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Guy Standing, John Halliday, Judith Allen, Tom Brown
Votes: 119
Paramount thriller with themes of clairvoyance and hypnotism.
51. The Dark Mirror (1946)
Approved | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A man is found murdered, and witnesses are sure about the woman they saw leaving his apartment. However, it becomes apparent that the woman has a twin, and finding out which one is the killer seems impossible.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long
Votes: 5,683
Film Noir thriller directed by Robert Siodmak
52. Dark Streets of Cairo (1940)
Approved | 59 min | Adventure, Mystery
Jewel smugglers in Cairo try to pin their crimes on a kidnapped baron.
Director: László Kardos | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, Ralph Byrd, Eddie Quillan, George Zucco
Votes: 68
Archeological expedition in Egypt runs into a curse: George Zucco in a fez!
53. Destiny (1944)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Bank robbers Cliff Banks and Sam Baker go their separate ways while being chased by the law. Now fleeing alone, Cliff begins to reflect, via flashback, on the various events and unsavory ... See full summary »
Directors: Reginald Le Borg, Julien Duvivier | Stars: Gloria Jean, Alan Curtis, Frank Craven, Grace McDonald
Votes: 200
Criminals menace a blind girl who has connections with the supernatural.
54. Flesh and Fantasy (1943)
Approved | 94 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Charles Boyer, Barbara Stanwyck, Betty Field
Votes: 1,152
Anthology of thrillers with a supernatural edge
55. The Missing Guest (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A newspaper reporter, "Scoop" Hanlon "Paul Kelly", is required to spend time in a haunted house in which two murders are committed, several people faint and most of them drink a lot.
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Paul Kelly, Constance Moore, William Lundigan, Edwin Stanley
Votes: 103
Remake of "Secret of the Blue Room."
56. The Untameable (1923)
65 min | Drama
Dr. Copin hypnotizes Joy Fielding, and she develops a split personality. She changes from an innocent, beautiful young lady into a cruel vamp, to the distress of her boyfriend.
Director: Herbert Blaché | Stars: Gladys Walton, Malcolm McGregor, John St. Polis, Etta Lee
Votes: 32
"A hypnotist causes a woman to suffer from a split personality."
57. Mars Attacks the World (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Romance, Sci-Fi
When a deadly Nitron ray strikes Earth, Flash Gordon and his friends travel to Mars to battle Ming the Merciless and his new ally Queen Azura.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Robert F. Hill | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Jean Rogers, Charles Middleton, Frank Shannon
Votes: 277
Feature edited from the 1938 serial Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938).
58. Curucu, Beast of the Amazon (1956)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Horror
A doctor and an adventurer journey to the Amazon, where they encounter a man in a bizarre bird costume terrorizing the local indigenous population.
Director: Curt Siodmak | Stars: John Bromfield, Beverly Garland, Tom Payne, Harvey Chalk
Votes: 439
Originally double billed with the Mole People.
59. Dinosaurus! (1960)
Unrated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
After undersea explosions near a Caribbean island, prehistoric creatures are unleashed on the population. A boy teams up with a Neanderthal and an irritated dinosaur try to stop the dinosaurs.
Director: Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr. | Stars: Ward Ramsey, Kristina Hanson, Paul Lukather, Alan Roberts
Votes: 1,701
60. Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Approved | 122 min | Biography, Drama
The life and career of vaudevillian and silent-screen horror star Lon Chaney, including his contentious relationship with his neurotic wife and his premature death.
Director: Joseph Pevney | Stars: James Cagney, Dorothy Malone, Jane Greer, Marjorie Rambeau
Votes: 2,964
Universal honors its own original horror star with a biopic. Too bad the make-up is inferior to Chaney's actual work.
61. Secret of the Chateau (1934)
Passed | 66 min | Crime, Mystery, Romance
Inspector Marotte, attending an auction of rare collectible books previously owned by the recently murdered M. Le Duc de Poisse, hopes he can catch his old nemesis Prahec, a murderer and book thief.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Claire Dodd, Alice White, Osgood Perkins, Jack La Rue
Votes: 134
Mystery set in a creepy house
62. Night Life of the Gods (1935)
Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
An eccentric scientist invents a ray that can turn people to stone. Then he invents one that can turn them back. He finds out that his stone-to-flesh ray can bring the museum's statues of Greek deities to life! Hilarity and hi-jinks ensue.
Director: Lowell Sherman | Stars: Alan Mowbray, Florine McKinney, Peggy Shannon, Richard Carle
Votes: 115
Farcical fantasy by the author of Topper and Turnabout.
63. The Great Impersonation (1935)
Approved | 68 min | Drama, Romance
Baron Leopold von Ragastein impersonates his noble lookalike Sir Everard Dominey at the vast Dominey Hall, where strange things are afoot in pre-WW1 England.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Valerie Hobson, Wera Engels, Murray Kinnell
Votes: 93
Thriller with a ghost subplot.
64. The Black Doll (1938)
Approved | 66 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
Dishonest mine owner Nicholas Rood finds a Black Doll on his desk and knows that vengeance is about to overtake him for murdering his former partner. He is knifed as he talks to his ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Donald Woods, Nan Grey, Edgar Kennedy, C. Henry Gordon
Votes: 245
Second in Universal's "Crime Club" anthology series has some supernatural overtones, specifically in a back doll with portends death.
65. The House of Fear (1939)
Approved | 67 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play. The actor's body disappeared shortly after the crime, and his ghost is rumored to be haunting the theater.
Director: Joe May | Stars: William Gargan, Irene Hervey, Dorothy Arnold, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 146
Talkie remake of "The Last Warning;" not related to the 1945 Sherlock Holmes "House of Fear."
66. That's the Spirit (1945)
Approved | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A vaudeville performer returns from the dead to help his wife and daughter, who are being dominated by a greedy banker.
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Peggy Ryan, Jack Oakie, June Vincent, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 78
Supernatural comedy in which a ventriloquist comes down from heaven to aid his family
67. Night in Paradise (1946)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Storyteller Aesop tries to help loony King Croesus and manages to fall in love on the way.
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Merle Oberon, Turhan Bey, Thomas Gomez, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 182
Costumer set in ancient Greece. Gale Sondergaard plays a sorceress.
68. Planet Outlaws (1953)
Approved | 69 min | Action, Family, Sci-Fi
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Votes: 463
Feature edited from the 1939 Buck Rogers serial.
69. Destination Saturn (1966 TV Movie)
Sci-Fi
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Votes: 24
Another feature edited from the 1939 Buck Rogers serial.
70. Buck Rogers (1977)
Not Rated | 90 min | Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
A 20th Century pilot named Buck Rogers and his young friend Buddy Wade awake from 500 years in suspended animation to find that the world has been taken over by the outlaw army of Killer Kane.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Saul A. Goodkind | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Constance Moore, Jackie Moran, Jack Mulhall
Votes: 278
Still another Buck Rogers movie edited from the 1939 serial, this time to cash in on the Star Wars craze.
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