The Best Movies of 1929

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List of the best movies of 1929, with movie trailers when available. These top movies of 1929 are listed by popularity, so the movies with the most votes are at the top. This list consists of all different movie genres, but each film was released in 1929. You can filter this list of films that came out in 1929 for various bits of information, such as who directed the movie and what genre it is. Think the best 1929 movie isn't as high as it should be? Vote up your favorite so it will rise to the top.

Movies on this list include The Cocoanuts and A Farewell to Arms.

This list answers the questions, "What are the best movies from 1929?" and "What are the most popular movies of 1929?"

1929 was a great year for movies, since a lot of classic films were released in 1929. This is a crowd sourced list that has been voted on by many people, so these top films of 1929 aren't just one persons opinion.
Most divisive: Double Whoopee
Over 90 Ranker voters have come together to rank this list of The Best Movies of 1929
  • The Karnival Kid
    1
    Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
    19 votes
    Mickey's selling hot dogs at the fair and heckling rival barker Kat Nipp; later, he serenades "shimmy dancer" Minnie with the help of two rowdy cat pals.
  • Bouncing Babies
    2
    Jackie Cooper, Jean Darling, Harry Spear
    21 votes
    Bouncing Babies is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 92nd Our Gang short to be released.
  • The Hoose-Gow
    3
    Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
    20 votes
    The Hoose-Gow is a 1929 short film starring Laurel and Hardy, directed by James Parrott and produced by Hal Roach.
  • Boxing Gloves
    4
    Jackie Cooper, Jean Darling, Norman Chaney
    20 votes
    Boxing Gloves is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert A. McGowan under the pseudonym "Anthony Mack". Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on September 9, 1929, it was the 90th Our Gang short to be released.
  • Lazy Days
    5
    Jean Darling, Norman Chaney, Harry Spear
    17 votes
    Lazy Days is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 89th Our Gang short to be released.
  • Perfect Day
    6
    Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy
    22 votes
    Perfect Day is a 1929 short comedy film starring Laurel and Hardy.
  • Moan and Groan, Inc.
    7
    Jackie Cooper, Edgar Kennedy, Norman Chaney
    23 votes
    Moan and Groan, Inc. is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 94th Our Gang short to be released.
  • Small Talk
    8
    Jean Darling, Harry Spear, Allen Hoskins
    23 votes
    Small Talk is a 1929 Our Gang short comedy film directed by Robert F. McGowan. Produced by Hal Roach and released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, it was the 86th entry in the Our Gang series to be released, and the first to be made with sound.
  • Bacon Grabbers
    9
    Jean Harlow, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
    24 votes
    Bacon Grabbers is a 1929 silent comedy short starring Laurel and Hardy.
  • On with the Show
    10
    Betty Compson, Sally O'Neil, Arthur Lake
    24 votes
    Jerry (Sam Hardy) is at the end of his rope. His Broadway-bound musical is suffering from numerous setbacks during trial performances in New Jersey. Jerry must deal with temperamental leading lady Nita (Betty Compson), smug comic Joe Beaton (Joe E. Brown), starstruck chorus girl Kitty (Sally O'Neil) and a dwindling supply of funds. During a performance, Nita storms off the stage to protest her poor compensation, and Kitty must take her place. Can Jerry's production be saved?
  • The Black Watch
    11
    John Wayne, Myrna Loy, Randolph Scott
    15 votes
    The Black Watch is a 1929 American adventure epic film directed by John Ford and starring Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, and David Torrence. Written by James Kevin McGuinness based on the novel King of the Khyber Rifles by Talbot Mundy, the film is about a captain in the British Army's Black Watch regiment assigned to a secret mission in India just as his company is called to France at the outbreak of war. His covert assignment results in his being considered a coward by his fellows, a suspicion confirmed when he becomes involved in a drunken brawl in India that results in the death of another officer. The film features an uncredited 21-year-old John Wayne working as an extra; he also worked in the arts and costume department for the film.
  • Mickey owns and performs at his own theatre, going in drag as a harem girl, in a derby as a Hasidic Jew, and finally in a wig as a fancy pianist.
  • The Saturday Night Kid
    13
    Jean Harlow, Jean Arthur, Clara Bow
    17 votes
    The Saturday Night Kid is an early talking romantic comedy film about two sisters and the man they both want. It stars Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall, and in her first credited role, Jean Harlow. The film was based on the play Love 'Em and Leave 'Em by George Abbott and John V. A. Weaver. This movie still survives.
  • The Cocoanuts
    14
    Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
    24 votes
    In an effort to keep his business, Hotel de Cocoanuts, from bankruptcy, owner Hammer (Groucho Marx) flatters and cajoles the wealthy Mrs. Potter (Margaret Dumont), his only paying guest. While Mrs. Potter's daughter, Polly (Mary Eaton), has romantic designs on the hotel clerk, Bob (Oscar Shaw), two other guests compete with Hammer for Mrs. Potter's attentions. Meanwhile, brothers Harpo (Harpo Marx) and Chico (Chico Marx) take advantage of Hammer's inattention to wreak havoc around the hotel.
  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes
    15

    The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    Phillips Holmes, Clive Brook, H. Reeves-Smith
    4 votes
    The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1929 American mystery film directed by Basil Dean and starring Clive Brook, H. Reeves-Smith and Betty Lawford. The film shares its title with the third volume of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A copy is held at the Library of Congress.
  • Mickey's Mix-Up
    16

    Mickey's Mix-Up

    Mickey Rooney, Kendall McComas, Delia Bogard
    4 votes
    Mickey's Mix-Up is a 1929 short film in Larry Darmour's Mickey McGuire series starring a young Mickey Rooney. Directed by Albert Herman, the two-reel short was released to theaters on October 13, 1929 by RKO.
  • Tiger Rose
    17
    Lupe Vélez, Monte Blue, H.B. Warner
    4 votes
    Tiger Rose is a 1929 early sound adventure film produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was directed by George Fitzmaurice and is based on a 1917 play, Tiger Rose, by Willard Mack. This film is a remake of a 1923 Warner Brothers silent that starred Lenore Ulric who also starred on Broadway in Mack's play. Among the cast members in this film are Monte Blue, Lupe Velez and Rin Tin Tin. This film is preserved in the Library of Congress collection and Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • St. Louis Blues
    18

    St. Louis Blues

    Bessie Smith
    4 votes
    St. Louis Blues is a 1929 American two-reel short film starring Bessie Smith. The early sound film features Smith in an African-American speakeasy of the prohibition era singing the W. C. Handy standard, "St. Louis Blues". Directed by Dudley Murphy, it is the only known film of Bessie Smith, and the soundtrack is her only recording not controlled by Columbia Records. Bessie Smith had a hit on the song in 1925 and Handy himself asked Bessie Smith to appear in the movie. Handy co-authored the film and was the musical director. The film was a dramatization of the song, a woman left alone by her roving man. It features a band that included James P. Johnson on piano, Thomas Morris and Joe Smith on cornet, as well as the Hall Johnson Choir with some thrilling harmonies at the end. The film has an all African-American cast. Bessie Smith co-stars with the dancer and actor Jimmy Mordecai as the boyfriend and Isabel Washington Powell as the other woman. It was filmed in June 1929 in Astoria, Queens. The film is about 16 minutes long.
  • Port Whines
    19

    Port Whines

    4 votes
    Port Whines is an animated short film by the Columbia Pictures Corporation. It is also the 136th Krazy Kat cartoon.
  • Ratskin
    20

    Ratskin

    4 votes
    Ratskin is a 1929 animated cartoon released by Columbia Pictures starring Krazy Kat. It is the first cartoon to be released by Columbia Pictures and the first Krazy Kat cartoon released with sound.
  • Gentlemen of the Press
    21

    Gentlemen of the Press

    Walter Huston, Kay Francis
    4 votes
    Gentlemen of the Press is a 1929 all-talking film starring Walter Huston in his first feature film role and Kay Francis in her first film role. The film still survives. This film's copyright has expired and is now in the public domain. It survives in a copy sold to MCA for television distribution. The film is based on Ward Morehouse's 1928 Broadway play Gentlemen of the Press.
  • Salute
    22
    John Wayne, Helen Chandler, George O'Brien
    16 votes
    Salute is a motion picture directed by John Ford, starring George O’Brien, Helen Chandler, William Janney, Stepin Fetchit, and Frank Albertson about the football rivalry of the Army–Navy Game, and of two brothers, played by O'Brien and Janney, one of West Point, the other of Annapolis. John Wayne had an uncredited role in the film, as one of three midshipmen who perform a mild hazing. The film was partly filmed on location at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.
  • Thunderbolt
    23
    Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall
    16 votes
    Thunderbolt is a 1929 proto-noir film which tells the story of a criminal, facing execution, who wants to kill the man in the next cell for being in love with his girlfriend. It stars George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Tully Marshall and Eugenie Besserer. The movie was adapted by Herman J. Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Mankiewicz and Josef von Sternberg from the story by Charles Furthman and Jules Furthman. It was directed by Sternberg. Bancroft was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
  • High Voltage
    24
    William Boyd, Owen Moore, Carol Lombard
    17 votes
    A blizzard forces a busload of passengers to seek refuge in an abandoned church. The group includes Billie (Carole Lombard), a young woman being taken to prison, and her police escort, Detective Dan Egan (Owen Moore). But they're not alone. The mysterious and edgy Bill (William Boyd) is already there and sitting on a supply of food that he's determined to control. Billie and Bill, who have bonded, plan an escape, but in doing so they'll be endangering the lives of the others.
  • Sunny Side Up
    25
    Janet Gaynor, Jackie Cooper, El Brendel
    20 votes
    Sunny Side Up is a Fox Movietone movie musical starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, with original songs, story, and dialogue by B. G. DeSylva, Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. The romantic comedy/musical premiered on October 3, 1929 at the Gaiety Theatre in New York City. The film was directed by David Butler, had Multicolor sequences, and a running time of 121 minutes.
  • The Time, the Place and the Girl
    26
    Grant Withers, James Kirkwood, Sr.
    18 votes
    The Time, the Place and the Girl is a 1929 American black-and-white musical film. The original concept was developed by the creative staff as a musical comedy which opened on Broadway in 1907. It bears no affiliation with the 1946 musical film of the same name This film is now considered lost.
  • The Barn Dance
    27
    Walt Disney, Marcellite Garner
    17 votes
    Mickey wants to take Minnie to a dance, but Pete's flashy car beats Mickey's horse-drawn wagon as her transportation of choice. At the dance, Mickey uses some balloons to make himself light on his feet - the perfect dancing partner - but this doesn't keep Minnie at his side for long, either.
  • The Lost Zeppelin
    28
    Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Valli, Ervin Nyiregyházi
    16 votes
    The Lost Zeppelin is a 1929 adventure film written by Frances Hyland, Charles Kenyon and Jack Natteford and directed by Edward Sloman.
  • Double Whoopee
    29
    Jean Harlow, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
    23 votes
    Double Whoopee is a 1929 Hal Roach Studios silent short comedy starring Laurel and Hardy. It was shot during February 1929 and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on May 18 of that year.
  • Unaccustomed As We Are
    30
    Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Thelma Todd
    23 votes
    Unaccustomed As We Are is the first sound comedy short film starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy released on May 4, 1929.
  • The Virginian
    31
    Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Randolph Scott
    21 votes
    The Virginian is a 1929 Western film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, and Richard Arlen. The film was based on the 1902 novel The Virginian by Owen Wister and adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle. The Virginian is about a good-natured cowboy who romances the new schoolmarm and has a crisis of conscience when he learns his best friend is involved in cattle rustling. The film is well known for Cooper's line, "If you wanna call me that—smile," in response to a cuss by the antagonist.
  • The Million Dollar Collar
    32

    The Million Dollar Collar

    Tom Dugan, Philo McCullough, Rin Tin Tin
    5 votes
    The Million Dollar Collar is a 1929 crime film written by Robert Lord and James A. Starr and directed by D. Ross Lederman.
  • Untamed
    33
    Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence
    5 votes
    Untamed is a 1929 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama/comedy/romance motion picture starring Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery. Others in the cast include Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gwen Lee, and Lloyd Ingraham. Directed by Jack Conway, the script was adapted by Sylvia Thalberg and Frank Butler, with dialogue by Willard Mack, from a story by Charles E. Scoggins. Made during MGM's transition from silent to sound movies, Untamed was Crawford's first talkie. It was the first role as a leading man for Montgomery, who made several silents before this film.
  • The Kiss
    34
    Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf
    5 votes
    Irene (Greta Garbo) is stuck in a passionless marriage with her husband, Charles Guarry (Anders Randolf). She strays and falls for lawyer André Dubail (Conrad Nagel), but their secret relationship doesn't last. Irene then starts hanging around love-struck 18-year-old Pierre (Lew Ayres). Pierre kisses Irene farewell as he departs for school, but Charles walks in on the innocent embrace, leading to a scuffle. Charles is killed, Irene takes the blame and a murder trial full of twists ensues.
  • The Hole in the Wall
    35
    Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, David Newell
    5 votes
    The Hole in the Wall is a 1929 film directed by Robert Florey, and starring Claudette Colbert and Edward G. Robinson. This film marks the first appearance of Edward G. Robinson as a gangster.
  • Alibi
    36
    Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch
    16 votes
    Shortly after mobster Chick Williams (Chester Morris) rejoins his gang once released from jail, a policeman is murdered during a warehouse robbery. Chick becomes a main suspect in the case. Determined to bring down the suspected cop killer, Detective Sergeant Tommy Glennon (Pat O'Malley) and Danny McGann (Regis Toomey) resort to heavy-handed tactics to prove that Williams committed the crime even though Chick has a fairly solid alibi: attending the theater with a policeman's daughter.
  • Man with a Movie Camera is an experimental 1929 silent documentary film, with no story and no actors, by Soviet director Dziga Vertov, edited by his wife Elizaveta Svilova. Vertov's feature film, produced by the film studio VUFKU, presents urban life in the Soviet cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Moscow and Odessa. From dawn to dusk Soviet citizens are shown at work and at play, and interacting with the machinery of modern life. To the extent that it can be said to have "characters," they are the cameramen of the title, the film editor, and the modern Soviet Union they discover and present in the film. This film is famous for the range of cinematic techniques Vertov invents, deploys or develops, such as double exposure, fast motion, slow motion, freeze frames, jump cuts, split screens, Dutch angles, extreme close-ups, tracking shots, footage played backwards, stop motion animations and a self-reflexive style.
  • The Godless Girl
    38
    Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene
    9 votes
    When militant atheist Judy (Lina Basquette) organizes a society for non-believers at her high school, devout Christian Bob (George Duryea) leads an attack against them. In the ensuing fray, one of the atheists is killed, and both Judy and Bob are sent to a reform school dominated by a sadistic guard (Noah Beery). The two fall for each other and escape to the countryside, where Judy finds her faith in God. They're soon recaptured, but their love helps them endure the harsh conditions.
  • Queen of the Night Clubs
    39
    George Raft, Lila Lee, John Miljan
    5 votes
    Queen of the Night Clubs is a sound musical-drama film produced and directed by Bryan Foy, distributed by Warner Brothers, and starring legendary nightclub hostess Texas Guinan. The picture, which featured appearancess by Eddie Foy, Jr., Lila Lee, and George Raft, is now considered a lost film.
  • Hot for Paris
    40
    Victor McLaglen, El Brendel, Polly Moran
    5 votes
    Hot for Paris is a 1929 American black-and-white romantic adventure musical film. This film is believed to be lost. The film is also known as Fifì dimmi di sì in Italy and Un marido afortunado in Spain. The film length is 1710.84 m in the silent version and 2002.54 m in the sound version.
  • The Painted Angel
    41

    The Painted Angel

    Edmund Lowe, Billie Dove, George G. Macfarlane
    5 votes
    'The Painted Angel' is a 1929 black and white American film. The storyline is based on a story by Fannie Hurst, "Give the Little Girl a Hand" The film is known as La favorita di Broadway in Italy. The tagline was: Do you want to know the Truth about NIGHT CLUB HOSTESSES? This film is believed lost. The UCLA Film and Television Archives only hold seven of the original eight sound discs for the film: Vitaphone production reels #3629-3635 and 3643. In a separately filmed trailer, Billie Dove talks to the audience about the picture. In September 1928, Warner Bros. Pictures purchased a majority interest in First National Pictures and from that point on, all "First National" productions were actually made under Warner Bros. control, even though the two companies continued to retain separate identities until the mid-1930s, after which time "A Warner Bros.-First National Picture" was often used. The film reel was 1972 m in length.
  • The King of the Kongo
    42
    Boris Karloff, Richard Tucker, Jacqueline Logan
    5 votes
    The King of the Kongo is a Mascot film serial, and was the first serial to have sound, although only partial sound rather than the later "All-Talking" productions with complete sound.
  • The Phantom of the North
    43

    The Phantom of the North

    Edith Roberts
    5 votes
    The Phantom of the North is a 1929 American drama film directed by Harry S. Webb for the independent Biltmore Productions and featuring Boris Karloff. The film is considered to be lost.
  • The Hollywood Revue of 1929
    44
    John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Stan Laurel
    24 votes
    The top performers of the 1920s strut their stuff in this star-studded variety show. Actress Joan Crawford displays her singing talents with "Got a Feeling for You." Comedy duo Laurel and Hardy bring on the laughs with their magic act, and Conrad Nagel turns on the romance by singing "You Were Meant For Me." In the revue's second act, silent star Buster Keaton performs an under-the-sea dance, and Norma Shearer and John Gilbert hilariously lampoon "Romeo and Juliet."
  • Blackmail
    45
    Anny Ondra, John Longden, Donald Calthrop
    18 votes
    During a date, Alice White (Anny Ondra) has a fight with her boyfriend, Scotland Yard Officer Frank Webber (John Longden), and decides to leave with an artist named Mr. Crewe (Cyril Ritchard). Whey they get to the artist's flat, Mr. Crewe attempts to force himself on Alice, and she kills him to defend herself. Frank investigates the case and, after realizing Alice is the culprit, seeks to help her. However, a thief (Donald Calthrop) with blackmail on his mind complicates matters.
  • The Sidewalks of New York are two cartoon short films made by animation pioneers Max Fleischer and Dave Fleischer, both films using the 1894 song "The Sidewalks of New York". Both films feature the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" gimmick, and are also known under the title "East Side, West Side", the informal title of the original song. The Fleischer brothers, Lee DeForest, Hugo Riesenfeld, and Edwin Miles Fadiman formed Red Seal Pictures to release the Song Car-Tunes series, which started in May 1924 with the release of Oh Mabel. The first film, released in 1925, was made for the Song Car-Tunes series and was filmed in the DeForest Phonofilm sound-on-film process. The Song Car-Tunes series eventually totaled 36 films, of which 19 were made in sound using Phonofilm. The film was re-released by the Fleischers on 5 February 1929 through Paramount Pictures with a new soundtrack recorded in RCA Photophone. This second film was the first entry in the Fleischers' new series Screen Songs.
  • The Love Parade
    47
    Jean Harlow, Jeanette MacDonald, Maurice Chevalier
    14 votes
    The Love Parade is a 1929 musical comedy film about the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania and her consort, Count Alfred Renard. Despite his love for Louise and his promise to be an obedient husband, Count Alfred finds his role as a figurehead unbearable. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch from a screenplay by Guy Bolton and Ernest Vajda, adapted from the French play Le Prince Consort, written by Jules Chancel and Leon Xanrof; which had previously been adapted for Broadway in 1905 by William Boosey and Cosmo Gordon Lennox. The Love Parade is notable for being both the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald and the first "talkie" film made by Ernst Lubitsch. It was also released in a French-language version called Parade d'amour. Chevalier had thought that he would never be capable of acting as a Royal courtier, and had to be persuaded by Lubitsch. This huge box-office hit appeared just after the Wall Street crash, and did much to save the fortunes of Paramount.
  • Gold Diggers of Broadway
    48
    George Raft, Nick Lucas, Winnie Lightner
    23 votes
    Gold Diggers of Broadway is a 1929 Warner Bros. comedy/musical film which is historically important as the second two-strip Technicolor all-talking feature length movie. Gold Diggers of Broadway was also the third movie released by Warner Bros. to be in color; the first was a black-and-white, part-color musical, The Desert Song. Gold Diggers of Broadway became a box office sensation, making Winnie Lightner a worldwide star and boosting guitarist crooner Nick Lucas to further fame as he sang two songs that became 20th-century standards: "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" and "Painting the Clouds with Sunshine." Based on the 1919 play The Gold Diggers – which was also turned into a silent film of the same name in 1923, now lost – Gold Diggers of Broadway utilized Technicolor, showgirls and sound as its main selling points. It earned a domestic gross of $3.5 million, extending to over $5 million worldwide. The original production cost was approximately $500,000. It was chosen as one of the ten best films of 1929 by Film Daily.
  • The Desert Song
    49
    Myrna Loy, John Boles, Louise Fazenda
    21 votes
    The Desert Song is a 1929 American operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Carlotta King and Myrna Loy. It was photographed partly in two-color Technicolor, the first film released by Warner Bros. to be in color. Although some of the songs from the show have been omitted, the film is otherwise virtually a duplicate of the stage production and extremely faithful to it. It was based on the hit musical play by Sigmund Romberg and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein and Otto Harbach, respectively. The stage musical opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on November 30, 1926 and ran for a very successful 465 performances. Based on the success of this film, Warner Bros. quickly cast John Boles in an all color musical feature called Song of the West which was completed by June of 1929 but had its release delayed until March of 1930.
  • Say It with Songs
    50
    Al Jolson, Marian Nixon, Kenneth Thomson
    16 votes
    Say It With Songs is a 1929 All-Talking musical drama motion picture which was released by Warner Bros.. The film starred Al Jolson and was a follow-up to his previous film, The Singing Fool.
  • Their Own Desire
    51
    Norma Shearer, Belle Bennett, Lewis Stone
    19 votes
    When pretty young Lally Marlett (Norma Shearer) discovers that her father, Henry (Lewis Stone), is leaving her mother, Harriet (Belle Bennett), for another woman, she effectively disowns him. Later, Lally falls for the dashing John Douglas Cheever (Robert Montgomery), but is dismayed to find out that he's the son of Beth Cheever (Helene Millard), her father's intended second wife. Can Lally reconcile with her father and continue her relationship with John?
  • The Broadway Melody
    52
    Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King
    23 votes
    Vaudeville sisters "Hank" (Bessie Love) and Queenie Mahoney (Anita Page) take their act to the Broadway stage in New York when Eddie (Charles King), a professional song-and-dance man appearing in a new show, invites his girlfriend Hank to join him. Soon after, Eddie transfers his affections to Queenie, who attempts to do right by her sister by dating another man -- high society member Jock Warriner (Kenneth Thompson). The showbiz melodrama is quickly overshadowed by the romantic subplot.
  • Rio Rita
    53
    Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler
    22 votes
    In a small border town, Texas Ranger Jim Stewart (John Boles) aims to catch the notorious local bandit known as "Kinkajou" by disguising himself as a Mexican. Once in Mexico, he falls for local girl Rita (Bebe Daniels), whose brother, Roberto (Don Alvarado), could be the criminal Jim is looking for. Meanwhile, Russian aristocrat and casino kingpin Ravinoff (Georges Renavent) attempts to seduce Rita, but she sticks with Jim, even after discovering his deception.
  • Pandora's Box
    54
    Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
    18 votes
    In this acclaimed German silent film, Lulu (Louise Brooks) is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön (Fritz Kortner), his musical producer son Alwa (Franz Lederer), circus performer Rodrigo Quast (Krafft-Raschig) and Lulu's seedy old friend, Schigolch (Carl Goetz). When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
  • In Old Arizona
    55
    Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess
    19 votes
    In this early Western, notorious bandit the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter) is so feared that he rarely has to fire his gun to rob a stagecoach. His ravishing girlfriend, Tonia (Dorothy Burgess), often accuses him of being unfaithful, but he assures her that he loves only her, and even composes a song in her name. When Cavalry Sgt. Mickey Dunn (Edmund Lowe) arrives with a mission to capture or kill the Mexican Robin Hood, Cisco matches wits with him and discovers an unexpected betrayal.
  • Sally
    56
    Marilyn Miller, Alexander Gray
    19 votes
    Sally is the third all talking all-color feature movie ever made. It was photographed in the Technicolor process. Sally was also the sixth feature movie to contain color that had been released by Warner Brothers, the first five were The Desert Song, On with the Show, Gold Diggers of Broadway, Paris, and The Show of Shows.. Although exhibited in a few select theatres in December of 1929, Sally only went into general release on January 12, 1930. It was based on the Broadway stage hit, Sally, produced by Florenz Ziegfeld, and retains three of the stage production's Jerome Kern songs, the rest of the music newly written for the film by Al Dubin and Joe Burke. Marilyn Miller, who had played the leading part in the Broadway production, was hired by the Warner Brothers at an extravagant sum to star in the filmed version. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction by Jack Okey in 1930.
  • Come Across
    57

    Come Across

    4 votes
  • Hot Stuff
    58

    Hot Stuff

    4 votes
    Hot Stuff is a 1929 film directed by Mervyn LeRoy.
  • They Had to See Paris
    59

    They Had to See Paris

    Will Rogers, Edgar Kennedy, Irene Rich
    4 votes
    They Had to See Paris is a 1929 film directed by Frank Borzage.
  • The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
    60

    The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

    Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward
    4 votes
    The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna is a 1929 drama film written by Fritz Rotter and Hans Székely and directed by Hanns Schwarz.