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51. The Green Hornet (1940)
Approved | 258 min | Adventure, Crime, Family
A newspaper publisher and his Korean servant fight crime as vigilantes who pose as a notorious masked gangster and his aide.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Gordon Jones, Wade Boteler, Keye Luke, Anne Nagel
Votes: 717
52. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962)
PG | 101 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
In 1862, the British commission inventor Fergusson to claim uncharted land in West Africa for Britain by flying his giant hot air balloon there.
Director: Irwin Allen | Stars: Red Buttons, Fabian, Barbara Eden, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 1,397
53. Make Haste to Live (1954)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Thriller
After serving 18 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, a mobster is paroled and returns to a New Mexico town to exact his revenge on the woman responsible for his conviction.
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Dorothy McGuire, Stephen McNally, Mary Murphy, Edgar Buchanan
Votes: 348
54. Fort Worth (1951)
Approved | 80 min | Western
Civil War veteran and former newspaperman Ned Britt returns to Fort Worth after the war is over and finds himself fighting an old friend who's grown ambitious.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Randolph Scott, David Brian, Phyllis Thaxter, Helena Carter
Votes: 820
55. Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty
Votes: 883
56. Tension at Table Rock (1956)
Passed | 93 min | Western
A reluctant gunslinger tires of having to defend himself at every cow town he visits, so he adopts an alias and continues his wandering. At an outpost run by a father and young son, he gets... See full summary »
Director: Charles Marquis Warren | Stars: Richard Egan, Dorothy Malone, Cameron Mitchell, Billy Chapin
Votes: 690
57. Everybody's Hobby (1939)
Passed | 54 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The first (and last) in an intended series about 'The Hobby Family', in which every family member was immersed in a hobby-pursuit of some kind: Here, Tom Leslie must choose between losing ... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Irene Rich, Henry O'Neill, Jackie Moran, Aldrich Bowker
Votes: 159
58. The Underworld Story (1950)
Passed | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The story of the fight of a small-town newspaper to free an innocent girl of a murder charge, with the publisher of a metropolitan city newspaper heading, by forced circumstances, the opposing forces.
Director: Cy Endfield | Stars: Dan Duryea, Herbert Marshall, Gale Storm, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 1,331
59. Background to Danger (1943)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A German spy ring plans to publicize a false rumor that Russia, who is fighting Germany, plans to invade neutral Turkey in order to ally them with the Nazis.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre
Votes: 1,590
60. The Missing Corpse (1945)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Mystery
A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car.
Director: Albert Herman | Stars: J. Edward Bromberg, Isabel Randolph, Frank Jenks, Eric Sinclair
Votes: 272
61. The House Across the Street (1949)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A demoted newspaper man tries to regain his position and his dignity by getting the scoop on a local gangster.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Wayne Morris, Janis Paige, Bruce Bennett, Alan Hale
Votes: 403
62. The Tijuana Story (1957)
Approved | 73 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Tijuana, a brave Mexican newspaper editor tries to expose the mob and the local official corruption at his own risk.
Director: László Kardos | Stars: Rodolfo Acosta, James Darren, Robert McQueeney, Jean Willes
Votes: 239
63. Winchell (1998 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.
Director: Paul Mazursky | Stars: Stanley Tucci, Glenne Headly, Paul Giamatti, Christopher Plummer
Votes: 631
64. The Hoodlum Saint (1946)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Music
A former reporter returns home after serving in the Army during World War I and discovers that finding work is more difficult than he expected. Desperate, one day he crashes a wedding ... See full summary »
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, James Gleason
Votes: 770
65. Our Miss Brooks (1956)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
Follows the story of an English teacher that flusters the principal and flirts with a colleague.
Director: Al Lewis | Stars: Eve Arden, Gale Gordon, Don Porter, Robert Rockwell
Votes: 922
66. Park Row (1952)
Approved | 83 min | Drama, Thriller
The Globe is a small, but visionary newspaper started by Phineas Mitchell, an editor recently fired by The Star. The two newspapers become enemies, and the Star's ruthless heiress Charity Hackett decides to eliminate the competition.
Director: Samuel Fuller | Stars: Bela Kovacs, Herbert Heyes, Tina Pine, George O'Hanlon
Votes: 2,021
67. Ben Franklin (2004 TV Movie)
100 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Ben Franklin rose from poverty to become a true Renaissance Man and Founding Father of America. This is the story of the man behind the myth.
Director: Joshua Alper | Stars: Charley Carfrey, Michael Kelberg, Maggie Lakis
Votes: 45
68. Drango (1957)
Approved | 92 min | Western
A participant in Sherman's March becomes governor of a Southern city directly affected by the destruction - and they have yet to learn of his involvement.
Directors: Hall Bartlett, Jules Bricken | Stars: Jeff Chandler, Joanne Dru, Julie London, Donald Crisp
Votes: 393
69. The Clairvoyant (1935)
Passed | 81 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true ...
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Mary Clare, Ben Field
Votes: 1,202
70. Gunsight Ridge (1957)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Stage line agent investigates a series of robberies by taking the job of a deputy sheriff in a border Arizona town.
Director: Francis D. Lyon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Mark Stevens, Joan Weldon, Addison Richards
Votes: 736
71. A Yank at Oxford (1938)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Robert Taylor, Vivien Leigh, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan
Votes: 1,367
72. Desire in the Dust (1960)
Passed | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Lonnie Wilson, the son of a toothless sharecropper, Zuba Wilson, returns to small southern hometown after spending six years on the chain-gang for killing Colonel Ben Marquand's son in an ... See full summary »
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Raymond Burr, Martha Hyer, Joan Bennett, Ken Scott
Votes: 202
73. For the Love of Mary (1948)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A young girl gets a job at the White House as a switchboard operator and gets mixed up in politics.
Director: Frederick De Cordova | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn
Votes: 419
74. One Rainy Afternoon (1936)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actor Philippe Martin and his married date Yvonne plan to neck in a darkened cinema, but he gets the wrong seat and mistakenly kisses lovely Monique, a publisher's daughter. An absurd ... See full summary »
Director: Rowland V. Lee | Stars: Francis Lederer, Ida Lupino, Hugh Herbert, Roland Young
Votes: 314
75. Big Town After Dark (1947)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crusading newspaper reporter battles big-city gambling interests.
Director: William C. Thomas | Stars: Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis, Ann Gillis
Votes: 286
76. After Office Hours (1935)
Approved | 72 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Hard-hitting news editor Jim Branch falls for high-society type Sharon Norwood but can't get to first base as he continually makes use of her knowledge of the rich and famous to try to ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin, Billie Burke
Votes: 1,047
77. The Hearst and Davies Affair (1985 TV Movie)
94 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
Story of the decades-long affair between married newspaper magnate and movie producer William Randolph Hearst and actress and former "Ziegfeld Follies" showgirl Marion Davies.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Robert Mitchum, Virginia Madsen, Fritz Weaver, Doris Belack
Votes: 170
78. Lillian Russell (1940)
Passed | 127 min | Biography, Drama, History
The life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by bandleader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold
Votes: 582
79. The Man Who Lived Again (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Laurience, a brilliant but unstable scientist experimenting with transferring minds, becomes vengeful when his magnate patron withdraws his support.
Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, John Loder, Frank Cellier
Votes: 1,208
80. The Iron Sheriff (1957)
Passed | 73 min | Mystery, Western
When the sheriff's son is placed on trial for murdering a stagecoach driver, the sheriff desperately searches for the real killer - and finds the trail leads back to his boy.
Director: Sidney Salkow | Stars: Sterling Hayden, Constance Ford, John Dehner, Kent Taylor
Votes: 437
81. Come Fill the Cup (1951)
113 min | Crime, Drama
Alcoholic newspaperman Lew Marsh hits bottom, loses his job and is rehabilitated by Charley Dolan. After six years on the wagon he gets his job back and devotes himself to other recovering ... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Raymond Massey, James Gleason
Votes: 546
82. Janie (1944)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Romance, War
Janie is a scatterbrained, high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an Army camp just outside town. Janie and her ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Robert Hutton, Edward Arnold, Ann Harding, Alan Hale
Votes: 491
83. The Green Hornet Strikes Again! (1940)
Approved | 293 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A wealthy publisher uses a disguise and calls himself the Green Hornet to fight crime in his city.
Directors: Ford Beebe, John Rawlins | Stars: Warren Hull, Wade Boteler, Anne Nagel, Keye Luke
Votes: 429
84. Wild Bill Hickok Rides (1942)
Passed | 82 min | Western
In 1870s Montana, Wild Bill Hickok fights against injustices brought upon the settlers by a crooked land-developer aided by a dishonest sheriff and illegal land-grabbers.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Constance Bennett, Bruce Cabot, Warren William, Betty Brewer
Votes: 212
85. The Mystery Man (1935)
Passed | 65 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
When he runs short of money, a newspaper reporter pawns a police revolver he was given after he helped the police solve a case. Later on the gun is used in a murder, and the reporter is suspected of committing the crime.
Director: Ray McCarey | Stars: Robert Armstrong, Maxine Doyle, Henry Kolker, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 280
86. The Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty (2020)
179 min | Documentary, Biography
A dramatic three-part series tells the incredible story of Rupert Murdoch's Empire, interweaving his behind-the-scenes influence on world events with the personal battle for power at the heart of his own family.
Stars: Kate Fleetwood, Piers Morgan, Andrew Neil, Sarah Ellison
Votes: 710
87. The Adventures of Hiram Holliday (1956–1961)
30 min | Comedy
A loose adaptation of the novel "The Adventures of Hiram Holliday" (1939), lacking the political themes of the novel. Hiram Holliday is initially depicted in the series as a newspaper ... See full summary »
Stars: Wally Cox, Ainslie Pryor, Thurston Hall, Stanley Adams
Votes: 75
88. Strictly Dishonorable (1951)
Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
An Italian opera singer (Ezio Pinza) has a marriage of convenience with an innocent fan (Janet Leigh) from Mississippi
Directors: Melvin Frank, Norman Panama | Stars: Ezio Pinza, Janet Leigh, Millard Mitchell, Gale Robbins
Votes: 210
89. Spring Madness (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
In their last semester at Harvard, Sam Thatcher and his roommate, who is nicknamed "The Lippencott", have grand ideas of seeing the remote corners of the world, having booked passage on a ... See full summary »
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Maureen O'Sullivan, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 295
90. The System (1953)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gambler John Merrick (Frank Lovejoy) is the head of a bookie syndicate and the newspaper is crusading against him and the rackets, primarily because Merrick is in love with Felice Stuart (... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Joan Weldon, Robert Arthur, Paul Picerni
Votes: 140
91. A Twist of Faith (1999)
R | 90 min | Drama, Thriller
Vancouver Police Detective Henry Smith is consumed by a desire to solve a religiously-fueled crime, but soon the tables turn and he finds himself a target.
Director: Chris Angel | Stars: Andrew McCarthy, Michael Ironside, Matthew Laurance, Saraphina Joachim
Votes: 425
92. Knickerbocker Holiday (1944)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, History, Musical
It's 1650 in New Amsterdam, and Brom Broeck, a young outspoken newspaper publisher is arrested for printing advanced opinions on the undemocratic rule of Governor "Peg-Leg" Stuyvesant. ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Joe Brown | Stars: Nelson Eddy, Charles Coburn, Constance Dowling, Ernest Cossart
Votes: 201
93. Saveray Wali Gaadi (1986)
135 min | Drama
Ravidas (Sunny Deol) lives in a village in rural India. He is the son of Chediram (Dr. Shreeram Lagoo) who is of highly respected in the village. Ravidas falls in love with Jyoti (Poonam ... See full summary »
Director: Bharathiraja | Stars: Sunny Deol, Poonam Dhillon, Prem Chopra, Bindu Desai
Votes: 112
94. Tell No Tales (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Michael Cassidy is the editor of a failing newspaper. A scoop would be welcome to boost the sales and to avoid closure. To this end, he decides to personally track down a gang of kidnappers.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Melvyn Douglas, Louise Platt, Gene Lockhart, Douglass Dumbrille
Votes: 416
95. Texas Lady (1955)
Approved | 86 min | Western
A strong-headed woman from the East inherits a newspaper in a small Texas town where the local cattle barons, who control the region, want her out of their hair.
Director: Tim Whelan | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Barry Sullivan, Ray Collins, James Bell
Votes: 334
96. The Witness Vanishes (1939)
Approved | 66 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Railroaded to an insane asylum twenty years ago by four men who had taken over his newspaper, Lucius Marplay, publisher of the London Sun, escapes with the sole intent of murdering the men ... See full summary »
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Wendy Barrie, Bruce Lester, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 101
97. The Jury's Secret (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
Bill Sheldon has a grudge against Midland City newspaper publisher Brandon Williams as Sheldon blames the city's recent flood against Williams for using his power and influence to hold up ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Kent Taylor, Fay Wray, Jane Darwell, Nan Grey
Votes: 38
98. The Innocent Sleep (1995)
R | 110 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The young, bright, and decent London tramp Alan Terry (Rupert Graves) accidentally witnesses a mob execution. He gets away, but leaves enough evidence for them to come looking for him ... See full summary »
Director: Scott Michell | Stars: Oliver Cotton, Tony Bluto, Paul Brightwell, Michael Gambon
Votes: 370
99. Fly Away Baby (1937)
Passed | 60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Torchy Blane solves a murder and smuggling case during a round-the-world flight.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Gordon Oliver, Hugh O'Connell
Votes: 481
100. Winning of the West (1953)
Approved | 57 min | Drama, Music, Western
One of a bunch of gangsters trying to push the old protection racket on western ranchers turns out to be Gene's younger brother.
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Gail Davis, Richard Crane
Votes: 116