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101. Career Woman (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A girl accused of killing her father is defended unsuccessfully by a flashy lawyer and successfully by a new, straightforward one.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Claire Trevor, Michael Whalen, Isabel Jewell, Eric Linden
Votes: 100
102.
Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode:
The Machine
(1952)
TV-G | 30 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A machine forewarns a doctor that one of his infant patients will grow up to be a murder.
Stars: Georgann Johnson, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 12
103. Something to Sing About (1937)
Approved | 93 min | Comedy, Musical
A New York bandleader journeys to Hollywood when he is offered a contract with a studio, but he is determined to do things his way and not theirs.
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: James Cagney, Evelyn Daw, William Frawley, Mona Barrie
Votes: 1,025
104. Riding High (1950)
Passed | 112 min | Comedy
A horse trainer who has fallen on hard times looks to his horse, Broadway Bill, to finally win the big race.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Bing Crosby, Coleen Gray, Charles Bickford, Frances Gifford
Votes: 595
105. Cynthia (1947)
Approved | 98 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
Sickly girl finds an outlet in music.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, George Murphy, S.Z. Sakall, Mary Astor
Votes: 696
106. Jeanne Eagels (1957)
Not Rated | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The life of 1920s actress Jeanne Eagels.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Drake
Votes: 847
107. Wedding Present (1936)
Approved | 81 min | Comedy, Romance
When Charlie Mason is promoted from irresponsible reporter to hard-nosed city editor, it costs him his girlfriend, ace reporter Rusty Fleming. After he hears she's engaged to another, he quits and tries to win her back.
Director: Richard Wallace | Stars: Joan Bennett, Cary Grant, George Bancroft, Conrad Nagel
Votes: 735
108. Sweethearts (1938)
Passed | 114 min | Comedy, Musical, Mystery
The team behind a successful Broadway production tries to stop the married stars from transitioning to Hollywood.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Votes: 706
109. Action in Arabia (1944)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for control of Arab sympathies.
Director: Léonide Moguy | Stars: George Sanders, Virginia Bruce, Lenore Aubert, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 609
110. The Lady Wants Mink (1953)
Passed | 92 min | Comedy
For her birthday, Ritchie Connors gives his wife Nora a coat from the store where he works. His workday gloom is made even worse when their friend from next-door shows up that evening in a ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ruth Hussey, Eve Arden, William Demarest
Votes: 137
111. Face to Face (1952)
89 min | Western, Drama
Two stories. In the first, a sea captain has to conceal a man's presence aboard ship from his crew. In the second, a Wild West lawman has to deal with a troublemaker bent on bloodshed before he can concentrate on matrimony.
Directors: John Brahm, Bretaigne Windust | Stars: James Mason, Gene Lockhart, Michael Pate, Albert Sharpe
Votes: 99
112. Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
Approved | 60 min | Comedy
The Mauch Twins return in this fast-paced adventure, the third and final film in the Penrod series, loosely based on the stories by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Billy Mauch, Robert J. Mauch, Dick Purcell, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 178
113. 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
114. You Can't Escape Forever (1942)
Passed | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When Laurie goes to the execution of Varney and faints, she does not know that Varney gets a full pardon minutes before he is to die. She calls in a story about his death and gets ... See full summary »
Director: Jo Graham | Stars: George Brent, Brenda Marshall, Gene Lockhart, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 257
115. Androcles and the Lion (1952)
Approved | 98 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Story of a Christian in ancient Rome who befriends a lion.
Directors: Chester Erskine, Nicholas Ray | Stars: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young, Robert Newton
Votes: 1,076
116. Hoodlum Empire (1952)
Passed | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
After WW2, ex-mobster war hero Joe Gray goes straight, to the dismay of his New York mob boss uncle who's afraid that his nephew will testify against his outfit before a Grand Jury.
Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Brian Donlevy, Claire Trevor, Forrest Tucker, Vera Ralston
Votes: 363
117. Her Husband's Affairs (1947)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
A scientist invents a formula that removes old, thinning hair and replaces it with thick, new hair. Complications ensue.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lucille Ball, Franchot Tone, Edward Everett Horton, Mikhail Rasumny
Votes: 483
118. Geronimo (1939)
Passed | 89 min | Western
The army's effort to capture Apache chief Geronimo, who is leading a band of warriors on a rampage of raiding and murder, is hampered by a feud between two officers--who are father and son.
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Preston Foster, Ellen Drew, Andy Devine, William Henry
Votes: 174
119. Find the Blackmailer (1943)
Passed | 55 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
John Rhodes (Gene Lockhart)hires private detective D. L. Trees (Jerome Cowan)to track down a talking blackbird owned by Fred Molner, who uses the bird as a means of blackmailing Rhodes. ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Jerome Cowan, Faye Emerson, Gene Lockhart, Marjorie Hoshelle
Votes: 328
120. The Garden Murder Case (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
Two people with ties to rich murdered socialite Lowe Hammle die from unusual suicides but Vance suspects hypnosis and foul play.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume, Douglas Walton
Votes: 626
121. Our Leading Citizen (1939)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Romance
Lem Schofield practices law in a formerly small-town that has grown to be an industrialized big city, He bases his ideals on the examples set by Abraham Lincoln and never waivers in them ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Bob Burns, Susan Hayward, Joseph Allen, Elizabeth Patterson
Votes: 68
122. Times Square Playboy (1936)
Passed | 62 min | Comedy, Drama
A stock broker's best man thinks the bride-to-be and her family are just out for the groom's money, so he does everything he can to prevent the wedding.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Warren William, June Travis, Barton MacLane, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 250
123.
Tales of Tomorrow (1951–1953)
Episode:
The Golden Ingot
(1952)
TV-G | 29 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A chemist has been trying time and again to make gold from lead. He has been laughed at and his bills are overdue. Will he ever succeed? Or what would happen if someone were to fake his success?
Stars: Gene Lockhart, Monica Lovett, Theo Goetz, David McKay
Votes: 67
124. The Big Hangover (1950)
Approved | 82 min | Comedy
A law school graduate is hired by a top law firm, but hides from them a secret about a problem he has. He is so allergic to alcohol that one whiff of it and he passes out like a light.
Director: Norman Krasna | Stars: Van Johnson, Elizabeth Taylor, Percy Waram, Fay Holden
Votes: 578
125. We Who Are Young (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization. When the marriage is discovered, Margy (Turner) is ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 373
126. Keeping Company (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
A real estate agent and his wife try to advise their eldest daughter about marriage.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Irene Rich
Votes: 216
127. The Sheik Steps Out (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Musical
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
Director: Irving Pichel | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Lola Lane, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Burke
Votes: 44
128. Come Closer, Folks (1936)
Passed | 61 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fast-talking Pitchman,Jim Keene, working the con-games on the streets, works himself up into an executive position of a large department store, with the aide of his shill, Mae. But the ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: James Dunn, Marian Marsh, Wynne Gibson, George McKay
Votes: 28
129. World for Ransom (1954)
Approved | 82 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of selling him to the highest bidder.
Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: Dan Duryea, Gene Lockhart, Patric Knowles, Reginald Denny
Votes: 633
130. The Desert Song (1943)
Approved | 95 min | Adventure, Musical, War
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Dennis Morgan, Irene Manning, Bruce Cabot, Lynne Overman
Votes: 344
131. Honeymoon (1947)
Approved | 74 min | Comedy
A prospective bride and groom have misadventures in Mexico City.
Director: William Keighley | Stars: Shirley Temple, Franchot Tone, Guy Madison, Lina Romay
Votes: 472
132. Steel Against the Sky (1941)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Rough-hewn Rocky Evans has two great loves--his job building bridges and beautiful Helen Powers, his boss' daughter. But it's Rocky's shiftless brother Chuck who wins Helen's affections. ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Alexis Smith, Lloyd Nolan, Craig Stevens, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 285
133. Rambling 'Round Radio Row #8 (1934)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Music
Gossip columnist Eddie Bruce introduces three musical acts (click the Soundtrack icon for the list), followed by a vaudeville routine.
Stars: Tito Guízar, Shirley Howard, The Men About Town, Alan Reed
Votes: 55
134. Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 1 (1938)
10 min | Documentary, Short
At Lake Arrowhead, Beverly Roberts, Sigrid Gurie, Gene Lockhart and Donald Meek are seen sporting; Ben Alexander, Patricia Ellis, Toby Wing and Franklin Pangborn are seen hunting and Gene ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Staub | Stars: Ben Alexander, Gene Autry, Lucille Ball, John Boles
Votes: 7
135. Sinners in Paradise (1938)
Passed | 65 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A seaplane departs for China. On board are a nurse escaping a loveless marriage to do work with refugees, a woman hoping to surprise her estranged son, a wealthy heiress trying to distance ... See full summary »
Director: James Whale | Stars: Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin
Votes: 544
136. Billy the Kid (1941)
Passed | 94 min | Western
In 1880 New Mexico, during a feud between cattle growers, former childhood friends Billy the Kid and Jim Sherwood end-up working for opposite sides.
Directors: David Miller, Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Brian Donlevy, Ian Hunter, Mary Howard
Votes: 1,070
137. Apache War Smoke (1952)
Passed | 67 min | Western
Apaches surround and attack a remote stage relay station - trapping a stagecoach, passengers, cash box, a local bandit, a drifter and the station staff - in a search for a killer of their tribesmen.
Director: Harold F. Kress | Stars: Gilbert Roland, Glenda Farrell, Robert Horton, Barbara Ruick
Votes: 263
138. Confidentially Connie (1953)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Family
Texas cattleman Opie Bedloe (Louis Calhern) comes to Maine to visit his son Joe (Van Johnson), a college poetry instructor, and his wife Connie (Janet Leigh) in the hopes of persuading Joe ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Louis Calhern, Walter Slezak
Votes: 406
139. By Your Leave (1934)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy
In the midst of a mid-life crisis, Henry Smith convinces his wife, Ellen, that they should take separate one-week vacations, with no questions asked. He tries to sow some wild oats with a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Corrigan | Stars: Frank Morgan, Genevieve Tobin, Neil Hamilton, Marian Nixon
Votes: 197
140. Paul Revere, Jr. (1933)
21 min | Short, Comedy, Musical
After a birthday drink, Paul Revere Watson steals a policeman's horse and dreams of himself in Colonial times as the original Revere.
Director: Roy Mack | Stars: Gus Shy, Janet Reade, Bert Frohman, Bobby Watson
Votes: 29
141. We, the People (1948–1952)
30 min | Talk-Show
The host interviewed entertainers, politicians and average Americans to discuss important events in their lives.
Stars: The Oscar Bradley Orchestra, Lee Vines, Dan Seymour, Dwight Weist
Votes: 20
142. The Sickle or the Cross (1949)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, War
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The Reds imprison him and send in his place a... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Strayer | Stars: Kent Taylor, Gloria Holden, Gene Lockhart, David Bruce
Votes: 27
143.
Family Theatre (1949–1958)
Episode:
Hill Number One: A Story of Faith and Inspiration
(1951)
56 min | Drama
A respectful interpretation of what might have happened among Jesus's followers in the three days after the Crucifixion. The story is told in the modern context of an US Army company stationed in Korea during the Korean War.
Director: Arthur Pierson | Stars: Patrick Peyton, Gordon Oliver, Todd Karns, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 110
144. The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
Passed | 103 min | Drama, History
President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Joan Crawford, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Franchot Tone
Votes: 1,376 | Gross: $1.46M
145. Bridal Suite (1939)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
An American playboy dumps his greedy fiancee and ends up marrying a woman from the Alps.
Director: Wilhelm Thiele | Stars: Annabella, Robert Young, Walter Connolly, Reginald Owen
Votes: 252
146. Down Among the Sheltering Palms (1952)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: William Lundigan, Jane Greer, Mitzi Gaynor, David Wayne
Votes: 161
147. Mama Steps Out (1937)
Approved | 65 min | Comedy, Romance
This madcap comedy depicts a rich housewife dragging her family to France to absorb culture.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Guy Kibbee, Alice Brady, Betty Furness, Dennis Morgan
Votes: 149
148. Brides Are Like That (1936)
Passed | 67 min | Comedy, Romance
Fred, the wealthy owner of apple groves, has sent his nephew to college, but the only job that his nephew has after graduating is the job of not working. Bill is a dreamer, a talker and a ... See full summary »
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Ross Alexander, Anita Louise, Joseph Cawthorn, Kathleen Lockhart
Votes: 144
149. Storm Over the Andes (1935)
Approved | 82 min | Drama, War
A war between Bolivia and Paraguay is the setting for the stories of flyers involved with both sides in the conflict.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Jack Holt, Antonio Moreno, Mona Barrie, Gene Lockhart
Votes: 30
150. Meet Me on Broadway (1946)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Believing that he can produce better Broadway shows without the hindrance of his producer, Eddie Dolan quits the musical he is directing, taking his starring actress and sweetheart, Ann ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Marjorie Reynolds, Frederick Brady, Jinx Falkenburg, Spring Byington
Votes: 100