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1. The Omaha Trail (1942)
Passed | 62 min | Romance, Western
Vane hires Candel to haul his locomotive by freight wagon to Omaha. Ross knows that the railroad will mean the end of his freighting business and plans to make sure the locomotive does not ... See full summary »
Directors: Edward Buzzell, Edward L. Cahn | Stars: James Craig, Pamela Blake, Dean Jagger, Edward Ellis
Votes: 115
2. A Man Betrayed (1941)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A small-town attorney comes to the city to investigate the murder of a friend and falls in love with the daughter of the head of the crime ring he hopes to expose.
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: John Wayne, Frances Dee, Edward Ellis, Wallace Ford
Votes: 604
3. 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: 281
4. Man of Conquest (1939)
Passed | 105 min | History, War, Western
The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
Director: George Nichols Jr. | Stars: Richard Dix, Gail Patrick, Joan Fontaine, Edward Ellis
Votes: 180
5. Career (1939)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
Merchant Stephen Cruthers is a pillar of strength in his small Iowa town. He empathizes with his son Ray when the boy is torn between pursuing a medical career or marrying Sylvia, banker ... See full summary »
Director: Leigh Jason | Stars: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Samuel S. Hinds, Janet Beecher
Votes: 21
6. Three Sons (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Drama
A poor merchant grows a highly successful department store in Chicago with the purpose of providing for his four children's future. He is misguided in thinking that giving them everything ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Hively | Stars: Edward Ellis, William Gargan, Kent Taylor, J. Edward Bromberg
Votes: 108
7. Main Street Lawyer (1939)
Approved | 72 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Flossie, girl friend of gangster Tony Marco, is released from the state penitentiary. With Marco and Ballou, his lawyer, she goes to Corinthia to deliver a letter to "Link" Boggs, from her ... See full summary »
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Edward Ellis, Anita Louise, Robert Baldwin, Harold Huber
8. Little Miss Broadway (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Family, Musical
An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show-business people. The hotel's owner doesn't like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: Shirley Temple, George Murphy, Jimmy Durante, Phyllis Brooks
Votes: 937
9. A Man to Remember (1938)
Approved | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Doctor John Abbott is a single parent who settles in the town of Westport, with his son Dick, trying to eke out a living for them. He also inherits, by way of his doorstep, an unwanted baby... See full summary »
Director: Garson Kanin | Stars: Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis, Lee Bowman, William Henry
Votes: 465
10. Maid of Salem (1937)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
Young lovers fall afoul of repressive society as Salem elders get caught up in the witch hunts and trials of 17th-century Massachusetts. One family in particular uses the hysteria to its ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Claudette Colbert, Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard
Votes: 427
11. Midnight Madonna (1937)
56 min | Drama, Romance
A habitual gambler comes to the aid of a desperate woman after her daughter inherits a fortune and is underhandedly taken by her estranged father.
Director: James Flood | Stars: Warren William, Mady Correll, Kitty Clancy, Edward Ellis
12. The Man in Blue (1937)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A police officer who kills a thief during the commission of a robbery takes on the responsibility of raising the man's son.
Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Robert Wilcox, Edward Ellis, Nan Grey, Richard Carle
Votes: 16
13. Let Them Live (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Drama
A young man goes up against a crooked town boss.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: John Howard, Nan Grey, Edward Ellis, Judith Barrett
14. Fury (1936)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 13,443
15. Winterset (1936)
Approved | 77 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Immigrant radical Bartolomeo Romagna is falsely condemned and executed for a payroll robbery. Years later, his son Mio sets out to find the truth of the crime and to bring to account the gangster Trock Estrella.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine
Votes: 482
16. The Texas Rangers (1936)
Passed | 98 min | Drama, Western
Two down-on-their-luck former outlaws volunteer to be Texas Rangers and find themselves assigned to bring in an old friend, now a notorious outlaw.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Fred MacMurray, Jack Oakie, Jean Parker, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 818
17. Chatterbox (1936)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Stagestruck Jenny is elated when she is cast in her mother's most famous role. She is unaware of the new production being staged as a parody of the dated play and interprets the role seriously. And nobody finds the courage to tell her.
Director: George Nichols Jr. | Stars: Anne Shirley, Phillips Holmes, Edward Ellis, Erik Rhodes
Votes: 355
18. The Lady Consents (1936)
Approved | 76 min | Drama, Romance
Civilized wife (Anne Talbot) doesn't protest when husband (Dr. Talbot) runs off with uncivilized professional golfer pretending to be civilized (Gerry). Is he sorry!
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: Ann Harding, Herbert Marshall, Margaret Lindsay, Walter Abel
Votes: 130
19. The Return of Peter Grimm (1935)
Approved | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Directors: George Nichols Jr., Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Helen Mack, Edward Ellis, Donald Meek
Votes: 290
20. Wanderer of the Wasteland (1935)
Passed | 62 min | Western
Adam Larey becomes a fugitive from justice when he escapes after being blamed for a crime he did not commit. He wanders into the desert wastelands and joins an outlaw gang who prey on gold ... See full summary »
Director: Otho Lovering | Stars: Dean Jagger, Gail Patrick, Edward Ellis, Monte Blue
Votes: 33
21. Village Tale (1935)
Approved | 80 min | Drama, Romance
The insidious typical talk of a small town makes a young man and the married woman with whom he is in love very unhappy.
Director: John Cromwell | Stars: Randolph Scott, Kay Johnson, Arthur Hohl, Robert Barrat
Votes: 80
22. Transient Lady (1935)
Passed | 69 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A senator's brother turns up murdered, and the senator tries to pin the blame on a man he knows is innocent.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Gene Raymond, Henry Hull, Frances Drake, June Clayworth
Votes: 33
23. The Thin Man (1934)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Former detective Nick Charles and his wealthy wife Nora investigate a murder case, mostly for the fun of it.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 31,872
24. The 9th Guest (1934)
Passed | 65 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Eight people are invited to dinner in a fashionable penthouse apartment. After they are wined and dined, a voice on the radio informs them that they will be murdered unless they manage to outwit the ninth guest: Death.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Donald Cook, Genevieve Tobin, Hardie Albright, Edward Ellis
Votes: 641
25. Hi, Nellie (1934)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Ned Sparks, Robert Barrat
Votes: 585
26. The President Vanishes (1934)
Approved | 80 min | Drama
Like the anonymous novel (generally credited to Rex Stout) upon which it is based, the photoplay tells how a peace-loving President prevents his country from being stampeded into a European war.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Edward Arnold, Arthur Byron, Paul Kelly, Peggy Conklin
Votes: 141
27. The Last Gentleman (1934)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: George Arliss, Edna May Oliver, Janet Beecher, Charlotte Henry
Votes: 99
28. Affairs of a Gentleman (1934)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
When a novelist is murdered, suspicion falls on all the women he had affairs with--and then wrote about in his books.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Paul Lukas, Leila Hyams, Patricia Ellis, Phillip Reed
Votes: 44
29. The Trumpet Blows (1934)
72 min | Drama
In Mexico, a former bandit settles down and picks out a beautiful young dancer to be his wife. His younger brother also comes home after having spent years in the U.S., and falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: Stephen Roberts | Stars: George Raft, Adolphe Menjou, Frances Drake, Sidney Toler
Votes: 58
30. After Tonight (1933)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, War
While romancing a beautiful Russian countess, a captain in the Austrian intelligence service is assigned to capture "K-14", a clever spy who has so far managed to remain undetected. What ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Constance Bennett, Gilbert Roland, Edward Ellis, Sam Godfrey
Votes: 416
31. Girl Missing (1933)
Passed | 69 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Two sassy gold-diggers stranded in Palm Beach become involved in the case of a fellow chorine who goes missing on her wedding night.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Glenda Farrell, Ben Lyon, Mary Brian, Lyle Talbot
Votes: 492
32. From Headquarters (1933)
TV-G | 64 min | Mystery, Drama
When a Broadway playboy is found dead, it's up to detective Jim Stevens to pick the murderer out of several likely candidates.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: George Brent, Margaret Lindsay, Eugene Pallette, Robert Barrat
Votes: 354
33. Strictly Personal (1933)
71 min | Drama
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Dorothy Jordan, Eddie Quillan, Edward Ellis
Votes: 66
34. I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a Southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Paul Muni, Glenda Farrell, Helen Vinson, Noel Francis
Votes: 14,172 | Gross: $1.42M
35. Frontier of the Stars (1921)
60 min | Crime, Drama
East Side gangster Buck Leslie attempts to stop a fight between chemist Gregory and a tough and is pursued by detective Phil Hoyt to a tenement roof where he takes refuge. On the roof he ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Maigne | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Faire Binney, Alphonse Ethier, Edward Ellis
36. Out Yonder (1919)
65 min | Drama
Flotsam, the daughter of lighthouse keeper Amos Bart, uses her experience maneuvering in the perilous New England reefs to save Mrs. Elmer, who is vacationing with her son Edward and ... See full summary »
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Olive Thomas, Huntley Gordon, Marie Coverdale, Louise Prussing
Votes: 114
37. The Law That Failed (1917)
Drama
Story deals with Rodin, a prospector who has struck it rich after years of toiling. He comes upon the cabin of Estrella in a delirium brought on by starvation. This woman's husband has ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Edward Ellis, Alma Hanlon, John K. Roberts, Florence Short
38. The Great Bradley Mystery (1917)
Mystery
Two business partners, Bradley and Collier, are in love with Mary. Bradley gives Collier to understand that he is engaged to her, and it is this only that prevents Collier declaring his ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Ridgely | Stars: Alma Hanlon, Edward Ellis, Edward Earle, Bigelow Cooper