Paramount Pictures (1940s)
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1. Emergency Squad (1940)
Approved | 58 min | Drama
Betty Bryant is an ambitious newspaper reporter in love with Dan Barton, a member of a big-city Emergency Squad who are trained to deal with riots, cave-in, explosions, fires and other ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: William Henry, Louise Campbell, Richard Denning, Robert Paige
Votes: 51
2. Remember the Night (1939)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 7,188 | Gross: $0.17M
3. Santa Fe Marshal (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Western
U.S. Marshal Hopalong Cassidy is called when a town becomes overrun with bad guys. Disguised as a member of a medicine show, Hoppy discovers that the ringleader is none other than sweet li'l ol' Ma Burton.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Marjorie Rambeau, Bernadene Hayes
Votes: 218
4. Parole Fixer (1940)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: William Henry, Virginia Dale, Robert Paige, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 59
5. Knights of the Range (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Action, Music, Romance
Outlaw Frayne is a member of Gamecock's rustlers. When he saves Holly Ripple and Cappy from Heaver's gun, she gives him a job offer and a chance to go straight. Now bringing back Ripple's ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Russell Hayden, Victor Jory, Jean Parker, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 51
6. Seventeen (1940)
Approved | 78 min | Comedy, Drama
Willy Baxter is now 17, which is practically 18, so he prefers "William". William is supposed to be studying for college entrance exams, but a sophisticated Chicago girl arrives in town. ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, Otto Kruger, Ann Shoemaker
Votes: 31
7. Adventure in Diamonds (1940)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Starring George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder, Nigel Bruce, Elizabeth Patterson. Directed by George Fitzmaurice. Print: black/white. Runtime: 76 min. Genre: drama. British army pilot ... See full summary »
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder, Nigel Bruce
Votes: 68
8. The Showdown (1940)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Western
European bad guy Baron Bendor leads some local townsmen in a plot to obtain horses through theft. Hoppy and his sidekicks Lucky and Speedy must find and expose the horse thieves.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Britt Wood, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 196
9. Women Without Names (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A newly married couple is framed for the murder of a police officer. She is sent to prison, while he is sentenced to die in the electric chair. She sets out to prove their innocence.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Judith Barrett, John Miljan
Votes: 45
10. Road to Singapore (1940)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Two playboys try to forget previous romances in Singapore - until they meet a beautiful dancer.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Charles Coburn
Votes: 4,089
11. The Farmer's Daughter (1940)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Broadway producer Nickie North, and his press agent Scoop Trimble, land a backer for a new show, but their "angel" requires that they rehearse the show out-of-town and star Clarice Sheldon,... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Martha Raye, Charles Ruggles, Richard Denning, Gertrude Michael
Votes: 74
12. Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
A mad scientist working in the South American jungle miniaturizes his colleagues when he feels his megalomania is threatened.
Director: Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Albert Dekker, Thomas Coley, Janice Logan, Charles Halton
Votes: 2,890
13. The Light of Western Stars (1940)
Passed | 64 min | Drama, Western
Cowhand Ladd dances with cantina girl Estrella and has a part in shooting Sheriff Tyler.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Victor Jory, Jo Ann Sayers, Russell Hayden, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 203
14. French Without Tears (1940)
86 min | Comedy
The love affairs of three young Englishmen at a language cramming school in the south of France. Diana, the sister of one of the boys, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Ray Milland, Ellen Drew, Janine Darcey, David Tree
Votes: 119
15. Opened by Mistake (1940)
Approved | 67 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Janice Logan, Robert Paige, William Frawley
Votes: 19
16. Typhoon (1940)
Approved | 70 min | Adventure, Romance
Having been marooned on an isolated island as a child, Dea grows to adulthood without human contact, her only companion being the chimp "Koko." Years later, on a South Sea island, Skipper ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 145
17. The Biscuit Eater (1940)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Family
Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Billy Lee, Cordell Hickman, Richard Lane, Lester Matthews
Votes: 243
18. Buck Benny Rides Again (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music
Jack Benny (as himself) tries to make good his fictitious boasts about roughing it in Nevada, in a spoof of Western cliches.
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Ellen Drew, Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, Andy Devine
Votes: 370
19. Hidden Gold (1940)
Passed | 60 min | Western
Hoppy and Lucky confront a gang of outlaws which has been ravaging stagecoaches and gold mines. The final gunfight is at Ed Colby's mine.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Minor Watson, Ruth Rogers
Votes: 225
20. Safari (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Madeleine Carroll, Tullio Carminati, Lynne Overman
Votes: 84
21. The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy
A radio broadcaster, his quaking manservant and an heiress investigate the mystery of a haunted castle in Cuba.
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Richard Carlson, Paul Lukas
Votes: 4,156
22. Queen of the Mob (1940)
Approved | 61 min | Crime, Drama
Mobster Ma Webster rules her clan with an iron hand, taking charge of all their robberies despite the protests of George Frost, the only member of her gang who is not her son. On Christmas ... See full summary »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Blanche Yurka, J. Carrol Naish, Jeanne Cagney
Votes: 94
23. The Way of All Flesh (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Paul Kriza is a cashier of a bank in a small town, the happy husband of Anna, and the father of four children. He is sent to New York to deliver some securities for the bank. There, he is ... See full summary »
Director: Louis King | Stars: Akim Tamiroff, Gladys George, William Henry, Muriel Angelus
Votes: 122
24. Stagecoach War (1940)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy is busy chasing stagecoach bandits who sing as they rob.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Julie Carter, Harvey Stephens
Votes: 199
25. Those Were the Days! (1940)
74 min | Comedy, Romance
A middle-aged couple think back to their college days and courtship.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: William Holden, Bonita Granville, Ezra Stone, Judith Barrett
Votes: 114
26. Untamed (1940)
Approved | 83 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Dr. Bill Crawford, on a hunting trip to Canada, is attacked by a bear and his guide, Joe Easter, saves his life and takes the badly-mauled Crawford to his cabin home, where he lives with ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Ray Milland, Patricia Morison, Akim Tamiroff, William Frawley
Votes: 68
27. Golden Gloves (1940)
Approved | 66 min | Crime, Drama, Sport
Bill Crane, an up and coming honest boxer, runs afoul of Taggerty and his fellow racketeers by fighting fair. They set out to ruin Crane but with the support of his girl Mary and newspaperman Matson the pugilist stands up to the mob.
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Richard Denning, Jeanne Cagney, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Paige
Votes: 66
28. Mystery Sea Raider (1940)
Approved | 73 min | Drama, War
At the outset of World War II, June McCarthy meets Carl Cutler aboard the S.S.Aleria, a British vessel en route to New York from London, where she has been dancing. The ship is sunk in ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dmytryk | Stars: Carole Landis, Henry Wilcoxon, Onslow Stevens, Kathleen Howard
Votes: 75
29. Comin' Round the Mountain (1940)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve relates to a W.P.A. employment advisor the story of how he lost the mayorship of the town of Monotony and became a forgotten man: Jed Blower returned to his ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Bob Burns, Una Merkel, Jerry Colonna, Don Wilson
Votes: 63
30. The Great McGinty (1940)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
Dan McGinty has great success in his chosen field of crooked politics, but he endangers it all in one crazy moment of honesty.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn
Votes: 4,410
31. Rhythm on the River (1940)
92 min | Comedy, Musical
Popular songwriter Oliver Courtney has been getting by for years using one ghost writer for his music and another for his lyrics. When both writers meet at an inn, they fall in love and ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Basil Rathbone, Oscar Levant
Votes: 416
32. I Want a Divorce (1940)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
Comedy about newlyweds wondering if their marriage was a mistake.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Joan Blondell, Dick Powell, Gloria Dickson, Frank Fay
Votes: 99
33. Rangers of Fortune (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Western
Two cowboys come to the aid of a town under the control of a crooked boss.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Albert Dekker, Gilbert Roland, Patricia Morison
Votes: 64
34. Cherokee Strip (1940)
Approved | 86 min | Western
Texans Dave Lovell and Coy Barrett sign a truce to stop the feuding between their families. The Barretts migrate from Texas to Goliath, Oklahoma, a boom town on the border of the Cherokee ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Richard Dix, Florence Rice, William Henry, Victor Jory
Votes: 63
35. The Quarterback (1940)
74 min | Comedy
A comedy featuring Morris in a dual role as a dumb twin and a star football player, and a smart twin studying to become a college professor. They both are smitten with Kay Merrill as well. Of course, gamblers are also involved.
Director: H. Bruce Humberstone | Stars: Wayne Morris, Virginia Dale, Lillian Cornell, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 20
36. North West Mounted Police (1940)
Passed | 126 min | Drama, Romance, Western
In 1885, a Texas Ranger travels to Canada to arrest a trapper who's wanted for murder and who's stirring up the Natives in a rebellion against the Canadian government.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll, Paulette Goddard, Preston Foster
Votes: 1,831
37. Christmas in July (1940)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After the co-workers of an ambitious clerk trick him into thinking he has won $25,000 in a slogan contest, he begins to use the money to fulfill his dreams. What will happen when the ruse is discovered?
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, Alexander Carr
Votes: 4,266
38. Dancing on a Dime (1940)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
From Wikipedia Dancing on a Dime is a 1940 Paramount Pictures movie directed by Joseph Santley about five actors and dancers putting on a show while living in a theatre. It is adapted from ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Grace McDonald, Robert Paige, Virginia Dale, Peter Lind Hayes
Votes: 40
39. Arise, My Love (1940)
Passed | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Dennis O'Keefe, Walter Abel
Votes: 1,037
40. Three Men from Texas (1940)
Approved | 76 min | Western
Hoppy and new sidekick California Carlson head to California to help out Lucky Jenkins.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Morris Ankrum
Votes: 246
41. Second Chorus (1940)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
When perennial college students Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are forced to make it on their own, the competitive pair get jobs with Artie Shaw's band and reunite with ex-manager Ellen Miller.
Director: H.C. Potter | Stars: Fred Astaire, Paulette Goddard, Artie Shaw, Charles Butterworth
Votes: 1,760
42. A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940)
Approved | 62 min | Comedy, Crime, Musical
Newly-elected reform Mayor Jones celebrates his victory over the crooked political machine with a party at Earl Carroll's night club. Steve Kalkus, the defeated racketeer-politician, has ... See full summary »
Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Ken Murray, Rose Hobart, Elvia Allman, Blanche Stewart
Votes: 92
43. Moon Over Burma (1940)
Approved | 76 min | Adventure, Romance
The managers of a teak lumber camp in Burma compete for the affections of a beautiful American entertainer who gets stranded in Rangoon.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Robert Preston, Preston Foster, Doris Nolan
Votes: 90
44. Texas Rangers Ride Again (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Drama, Western
With thousands of cattle being rustled from White Sage ranch the 1930's Texas Rangers are called in. They manage to get one of their agents into the gang by making them think he is the Pecos Kid on the lam.
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Ellen Drew, John Howard, Akim Tamiroff, May Robson
Votes: 230
45. Victory (1940)
Approved | 79 min | Adventure, Drama
A hermit's idyllic life on an island is disturbed by the arrival of a bunch of cutthroats.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Fredric March, Betty Field, Cedric Hardwicke, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 123
46. Love Thy Neighbor (1940)
82 min | Comedy, Musical
Jack Benny is preparing his New Year's Eve radio broadcast but takes time out to take his valet Rochester to meet his girlfriend Josephine arriving on a steamer. Fred Allen and his sister ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Mary Martin, Verree Teasdale
Votes: 165
47. Doomed Caravan (1941)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Western
Stephen Westcott and Ed Martin scheme to put Jane Travers' wagon line out of business. They want to use it take over all the wagon- train traffic going west. Hoppy, California and Lucky must make sure that doesn't happen.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Minna Gombell
Votes: 205
48. Life with Henry (1940)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
Henry Aldrich wants to win a trip to Alaska.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Leila Ernst, Eddie Bracken, Fred Niblo
Votes: 53
49. Virginia (1941)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A New York chorus girl (Madeleine Carroll) comes home to claim her family plantation and must choose between two men (Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden), one rich, one not.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Fred MacMurray, Sterling Hayden, Helen Broderick
Votes: 126
50. 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: 303
51. You're the One (1941)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In this 100% fictional film, in which not a single performer plays "Himself" nor "Herself" but the two lead performers use their own name as a character, a singer named Bonnie Baker (Bonnie... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Bonnie Baker, Orrin Tucker, Albert Dekker, Edward Everett Horton
52. The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Passed | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
After a young woman is coerced into prostitution and her brother framed for murder by an organized crime syndicate, retribution in the form of an ape visits the mobsters.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Ellen Drew, Robert Paige, Paul Lukas, Joseph Calleia
Votes: 752
53. In Old Colorado (1941)
Approved | 66 min | Drama, Western
Joe Weiler has instigated a conflict over water rights between two ranchers. The idea is to have the ranchers do each other in then move in and take over. Hoppy and the good guys won't let this happen.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Margaret Hayes
Votes: 211
54. The Lady Eve (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
A trio of classy card sharks targets a socially awkward brewery heir, until one of them falls in love with him.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 23,375
55. I Wanted Wings (1941)
Approved | 135 min | Drama, War
The personal and professional lives of three men from different walks of life who join the U.S. Army Air Corps are depicted.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Ray Milland, William Holden, Wayne Morris, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 558
56. Las Vegas Nights (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy
A vaudeville act inherits an old, beat-up building and decides to try to turn it into a hip new nightclub.
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Tommy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey & His Orchestra, Constance Moore, Bert Wheeler
Votes: 164
57. The Round Up (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Western
At Janet Allen's wedding to Steve Payson, owner of the Sweetwater Cattle Ranch, Greg Lane, her former fiancé whom she thought dead and Steve's best friend, turns up. Greg disregards the ... See full summary »
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Richard Dix, Patricia Morison, Preston Foster, Don Wilson
Votes: 54
58. Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Passed | 91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Stranded in Africa, Chuck and his pal Fearless have comic versions of jungle adventures, featuring two attractive con-women.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel
Votes: 3,373
59. Border Vigilantes (1941)
Passed | 63 min | Western
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky. and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the town's problems. Hoppy discovers that the bad guys are led by the town boss--and so are the vigilantes.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Frances Gifford
Votes: 177
60. Reaching for the Sun (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Romance
A backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken, Albert Dekker
Votes: 97
61. Pirates on Horseback (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Western
Hoppy, Lucky and California search for a mine owned by Trudy Pendleton after it was taken from her by the swindling gambler Ace Gibson. They find the mine and Hoppy fights Gibson over it.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Eleanor Stewart
Votes: 193
62. Power Dive (1941)
Approved | 68 min | Adventure, Drama
Bradley Farrell, an ace test pilot for McMasters Aviation Corp., breaks his leg when a new airplane crashes because it is too heavy to get off the ground. When Brad's younger brother ... See full synopsis »
Director: James P. Hogan | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Helen Mack, Roger Pryor
Votes: 84
63. The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
A young girl fresh out of reform school who is singing in a burlesque show is offered a scholarship to a famous music camp by the camp's owner. She must overcome the suspicions of the other students in order to prove herself.
Director: Andrew L. Stone | Stars: Allan Jones, Susanna Foster, Margaret Lindsay, Lynne Overman
Votes: 62
64. One Night in Lisbon (1941)
Approved | 97 min | Comedy
A Texas pilot courts a British aristocrat in London amid bombing and in Portugal amid spies.
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll, Patricia Morison, Billie Burke
Votes: 105
65. West Point Widow (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Romance
A young nurse brings up her child by herself after a secret marriage to a cadet, but finally finds happiness with a doctor.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Frances Gifford
Votes: 68
66. Caught in the Draft (1941)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
A movie star who can't stand loud noises accidentally joins the Army.
Director: David Butler | Stars: Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lynne Overman, Eddie Bracken
Votes: 891
67. Forced Landing (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Adventure
On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Richard Arlen, Eva Gabor, J. Carrol Naish, Nils Asther
Votes: 90
68. The Shepherd of the Hills (1941)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A mysterious but pleasant stranger arrives in the Missouri hills and befriends a young backwoods girl, which doesn't sit well with her moonshiner fiancé who has vowed to find and kill his own father.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Betty Field, Harry Carey, Beulah Bondi
Votes: 2,589
69. The Parson of Panamint (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
The mayor of wild and woolly mining town Panamint, is in San Francisco to fetch a preacher for the new church, and happens upon young Philip Pharo, as handy with his fists as with a sermon.... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Charles Ruggles, Ellen Drew, Phillip Terry, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 48
70. Kiss the Boys Goodbye (1941)
Passed | 85 min | Comedy
Broadway director Lloyd Lloyd (Don Ameche) and composer Dick Rayburn (Oscar Levant) search for talent down South and discover singer Cindy Lou Bethany (Mary Martin) who surprises them with her voice and striptease.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant, Virginia Dale
Votes: 70
71. Wide Open Town (1941)
Approved | 79 min | Western
Belle Langtry runs a town being taken over by cattle rustlers. She is also a front for the outlaws, who are led by Steve Fraser. Hoppy gets elected sheriff and cleans up the town with help from the Bar 20 boys.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Russell Hayden, Andy Clyde, Evelyn Brent
Votes: 236
72. World Premiere (1941)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy
A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic.
Directors: Ted Tetzlaff, Otis Garrett | Stars: John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Dale
Votes: 96
73. Aloma of the South Seas (1941)
Approved | 78 min | Drama
A young South Seas native boy is sent to the U.S. for his education, but he returns to his island after his father dies to try to stop a revolution.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, Jon Hall, Lynne Overman, Phillip Reed
Votes: 166
74. Flying Blind (1941)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Drama
A spy steals a secret military device, then hijacks an airliner to get away. The airliner crashes in the wilderness & the survivors are threatened by a raging forest fire.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Nils Asther, Marie Wilson
Votes: 140
75. Riders of the Timberline (1941)
Passed | 59 min | Drama, Western
Some Easterners intend to seize a tract of valuable timber land. Hoppy must try to stop them before they blow up a major dam.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Victor Jory
Votes: 185
76. Stick to Your Guns (1941)
Passed | 63 min | Drama, Western
A former Bar 20 cowhand is now a cattle rancher and having trouble with rustlers. Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang ride in and surround the the bad guys. June Winters joins the posse and serves as the romantic partner for posse co-leader Lucky.
Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Jennifer Holt
Votes: 190
77. Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen
Votes: 2,805
78. Twilight on the Trail (1941)
Passed | 57 min | Western
Hoppy, Lucky and California are chasing cattle rustlers who have been bothering cattle rancher friends of Hoppy. A crooked foreman is the source of the trouble. Johnny and Lucy are the love focus.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Wanda McKay
Votes: 154
79. Buy Me That Town (1941)
Approved | 70 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
With the gang business washed up, Rickey Deane, suave first lieutenant to racketeer Chink Moran, and Louie Lanzer, a has-been fighter with itchy fingers, decide to take a peaceful vacation ... See full summary »
Director: Eugene Forde | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Constance Moore, Albert Dekker, Sheldon Leonard
Votes: 75
80. Nothing But the Truth (1941)
Approved | 90 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
A stockbroker's new partner bets $10,000 that he can only tell the truth for twenty-four hours.
Director: Elliott Nugent | Stars: Bob Hope, Paulette Goddard, Edward Arnold, Leif Erickson
Votes: 989
81. Henry Aldrich for President (1941)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Family
Complications arise when Henry Aldrich runs for Centerville High School Student Body President.
Director: Hugh Bennett | Stars: Jimmy Lydon, June Preisser, Mary Anderson, Charles Smith
Votes: 150
82. New York Town (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Victor Ballard is a poor but happy-go-lucky New York sidewalk photographer who shares a studio apartment with a painter from Poland, Stefan Janowski. After Victor shoots a photo of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Mary Martin, Robert Preston, Akim Tamiroff
Votes: 88
83. Outlaws of the Desert (1941)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Western
Hoppy, Johnny and California go to Arabia to buy some horses. There they get involved with a sheik and a harem and a kidnapping plot.
Director: Howard Bretherton | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Duncan Renaldo
Votes: 168
84. Birth of the Blues (1941)
Passed | 87 min | History, Music, Romance
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which includes a cornet player, Memphis. ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary Martin, Brian Donlevy, Carolyn Lee
Votes: 457
85. Secret of the Wastelands (1941)
Passed | 66 min | Drama, Western
The usual gang of bad guys is out to grab up all the available ranch land. This time their object is land belonging to Chinese. As an aside, Hoppy leads some archaeologists through parts of California.
Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: William Boyd, Andy Clyde, Brad King, Soo Yong
Votes: 185
86. Skylark (1941)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy, Romance
As her fifth wedding anniversary approaches, a woman realizes that she is fed up with always coming in second to her husband's advertising business. Just at the moment when she is trying to... See full summary »
Director: Mark Sandrich | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes
Votes: 626
87. The Night of January 16th (1941)
Passed | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story revolves around three people; Tycoon Bjorn Faulkner, who is being called upon by his board of directors to explain a missing $20,000,000; Kit Lane, his secretary who also has a ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Robert Preston, Ellen Drew, Nils Asther, Clarence Kolb
Votes: 148
88. No Hands on the Clock (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Mystery
The first of three Pine-Thomas productions for Chester Morris finds him as wise-cracking private detective Humphrey Campbell who impresses his boss, Oscar Flack, no end by not only finding ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Chester Morris, Jean Parker, Rose Hobart, Dick Purcell
Votes: 237
89. Glamour Boy (1941)
Approved | 79 min | Comedy, Drama
Marathon Pictures is stuck with Billy Doran, Whiz Quiz radio show star but a flop in Hollywood. Ex-child star Tiny Barlow suggests that the studio remake "Skippy", the film that made him ... See full summary »
Directors: Ralph Murphy, Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Susanna Foster, Walter Abel, Darryl Hickman
Votes: 37
90. Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)
Passed | 78 min | Animation, Comedy, Family
The happy tranquility of Buggsville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Stars: Kenny Gardner, Jack Mercer, Tedd Pierce, Carl Meyer
Votes: 1,405
91. Bahama Passage (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A girl, Carol Delbridge (Madeleine Carroll), whom the audience is quickly informed has been around, and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the Bahamas ... See full summary »
Director: Edward H. Griffith | Stars: Madeleine Carroll, Sterling Hayden, Flora Robson, Leo G. Carroll
Votes: 143
92. 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
93. Louisiana Purchase (1941)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Musical
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Bob Hope, Vera Zorina, Victor Moore, Irène Bordoni
Votes: 531
94. Pacific Blackout (1941)
Passed | 76 min | Mystery
While bombers roar overhead during a practice blackout in a large American West coast city, Robert Draper, is among the prisoners in a police van. The inventor of a new range finder for ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Robert Preston, Martha O'Driscoll, Philip Merivale, Eva Gabor
Votes: 77
95. Fly-By-Night (1942)
74 min | Comedy, Drama, Film-Noir
After being charged with the murder of a scientist, a young doctor must track down a Nazi spy ring to clear his name.
Director: Robert Siodmak | Stars: Nancy Kelly, Richard Carlson, Albert Bassermann, Miles Mander
Votes: 384
96. The Fleet's In (1942)
Passed | 93 min | Musical, Romance
After a shy sailor is kissed by a female starlet as part of a publicity stunt, he becomes known as a stud; his friends then bet that he'll be able to defrost an icy nightclub singer.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Dorothy Lamour, William Holden, Eddie Bracken, Betty Hutton
Votes: 428
97. The Lady Has Plans (1942)
Approved | 77 min | Drama
Dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattooed them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon. This woman plans to take the place of a ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Ray Milland, Paulette Goddard, Roland Young, Albert Dekker
Votes: 221
98. Torpedo Boat (1942)
Passed | 70 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Skimmer Barnes and Tommy Whelan are towing their motorboat with their car when they decide to pursue a limousine so they can talk to its occupant, Jane Townsend. However, they only succeed ... See full synopsis »
Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Richard Arlen, Jean Parker, Mary Carlisle, Phillip Terry
Votes: 24
99. Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Hollywood director John L. Sullivan sets out to experience life as a homeless person in order to gain relevant life experience for his next movie.
Director: Preston Sturges | Stars: Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, Robert Warwick, William Demarest
Votes: 28,514
100. The Remarkable Andrew (1942)
Unrated | 81 min | Comedy, Fantasy
When hyper-efficient small-town accountant Andrew Long finds a $1240 discrepancy in the city budget, his superiors try to explain it away. When he insists on pursuing the matter, he's in ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Brian Donlevy, William Holden, Ellen Drew, Montagu Love
Votes: 195
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