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1. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)

Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Director: Albert Lewin | Stars: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury

Votes: 14,481

2. House of Dracula (1945)

Approved | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

The Wolf Man and Count Dracula beg Dr. Edelman to cure them of their killing instincts but Dracula schemes to seduce the doctor's nurse.

Director: Erle C. Kenton | Stars: Onslow Stevens, John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Martha O'Driscoll

Votes: 6,179

3. Terror by Night (1946)

Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir

When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Alan Mowbray, Dennis Hoey

Votes: 6,950

4. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama

An American anthology series, with a new episode and different actors and actresses each week. Hosted by Ronald Reagan, the series was sponsored by General Electric's Department of Public Relations.

Stars: Ronald Reagan, Don Herbert, Nancy Reagan, Lee Marvin

Votes: 434

5. The Paleface (1948)

Approved | 91 min | Comedy, Family, Western

Calamity Jane is dispatched to find out who's smuggling rifles to the Indians, and winds up married to a hapless correspondence-school dentist as part of her cover.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Robert Armstrong, Iris Adrian

Votes: 4,570

6. Isle of the Dead (1945)

Not Rated | 71 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

On a Greek island during the 1912 war, several people are trapped by quarantine for the plague. If that isn't enough worry, one of the people, a superstitious old peasant woman, suspects ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ellen Drew, Marc Cramer, Katherine Emery

Votes: 5,273

7. Topper (1953–1955)

30 min | Fantasy, Comedy

A somewhat grumpy and uptight banker, Cosmo Topper, and the ghosts which only he could see or hear, George and Marion Kerby. The Kerbys would often try to get Cosmo to loosen up and enjoy life, but more often they would complicate it.

Stars: Anne Jeffreys, Robert Sterling, Leo G. Carroll, Buck

Votes: 573

8. Forever Amber (1947)

Approved | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In seventeenth-century England, Amber St. Clair aims to raise herself from country girl to nobility, and succeeds, but loses her true love in the process.

Directors: Otto Preminger, John M. Stahl | Stars: Linda Darnell, Cornel Wilde, Richard Greene, George Sanders

Votes: 1,699 | Gross: $16.00M

9. The Scarlet Claw (1944)

Approved | 74 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller

When a gentlewoman is found dead with her throat torn out, the villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.

Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Gerald Hamer, Paul Cavanagh

Votes: 5,859

10. Night and Day (1946)

Approved | 128 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

A fictionalized biopic of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Ginny Simms

Votes: 3,214

11. Son of Sinbad (1955)

PG | 91 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Legendary pirate and adventurer Sinbad is in single-minded pursuit of two things: beautiful women and a substance called Greek Fire--an early version of gunpowder.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: Dale Robertson, Vincent Price, Sally Forrest, Lili St. Cyr

Votes: 663 | Gross: $1.00M

12. The Ghost Ship (1943)

Passed | 69 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Third Officer Tom Merriam accuses Captain Will Stone of being a homicidal maniac, but no one believes him.

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Richard Dix, Russell Wade, Edith Barrett, Ben Bard

Votes: 3,795

13. Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere (1951)

Approved | 287 min | Adventure, Sci-Fi

Space hero Captain Video battles the evil Vultura on the planet Atoma.

Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet, Wallace Grissell | Stars: Judd Holdren, Larry Stewart, George Eldredge, Gene Roth

Votes: 145

14. The Lodger (1944)

Passed | 84 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

Director: John Brahm | Stars: Laird Cregar, Merle Oberon, George Sanders, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 4,114

15. U-Boat 29 (1939)

77 min | Thriller, War

A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.

Director: Michael Powell | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw, Marius Goring

Votes: 2,466

16. Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)

Approved | 115 min | Biography, Drama, Musical

Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.

Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Esther Williams, Victor Mature, Walter Pidgeon, David Brian

Votes: 1,797

17. Bedlam (1946)

Approved | 79 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Nell Bowen, the protégé of Lord Mortimer, wants to help change the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). Though she tries to reform Bedlam, the cruel Master Sims ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Boris Karloff, Anna Lee, Billy House, Richard Fraser

Votes: 4,381

18. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)

Passed | 127 min | Comedy, Musical

Two producers are putting together a wartime charity show with an all-star cast, but the egotism of radio personality Eddie Cantor disrupts their plans.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart, Bette Davis

Votes: 2,139

19. A Scandal in Paris (1946)

Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

Born in a French prison in 1775, François Eugène Vidocq becomes a professional thief and is later appointed chief of Parisian police.

Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff

Votes: 1,209

20. None But the Lonely Heart (1944)

Passed | 113 min | Drama, Romance

When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet.

Director: Clifford Odets | Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald, June Duprez

Votes: 2,835

21. Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952)

Approved | 99 min | Adventure, Romance

Honest Edward Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes

Votes: 1,704

22. Botany Bay (1952)

Approved | 93 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

In 1787, American medical student Hugh Tallant and British convicts are sent from London to New South Wales on a ship commanded by the evil Captain Gilbert.

Director: John Farrow | Stars: Alan Ladd, James Mason, Patricia Medina, Cedric Hardwicke

Votes: 580

23. Boston Blackie (1951–1953)

30 min | Crime, Drama

Blackie and gal pal Mary, and their dog Whitey, solve lots of Los Angeles crimes before the cops can do it.

Stars: Kent Taylor, Lois Collier, Frank Orth, Bill Catching

Votes: 146

24. Dick Tracy (1950–1952)

30 min | Crime, Drama

Intrepid detective Dick Tracy tangles with a bizarre rogue's gallery of villains. But as always our stoic officer of the law, virtuous to a fault, proves himself up to the task of putting the criminals behind bars.

Stars: Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, William Woodson, Dick Elliott

Votes: 157

25. Moonfleet (1955)

Approved | 87 min | Adventure, Drama

A young orphan is sent to the village of Moonfleet in Dorset, England to stay with his mother's former lover, who has the facade of a gentleman but leads a gang of swashbuckling bootleggers; the duo go on a treasure hunt.

Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood, Viveca Lindfors

Votes: 3,992

26. Rembrandt (1936)

Not Rated | 85 min | Biography, Drama

The respected painter takes to drink and faces down scandal after his wife dies.

Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Charles Laughton, Gertrude Lawrence, Elsa Lanchester, Edward Chapman

Votes: 1,994

27. The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944)

Unrated | 78 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery

An eccentric scientist helps a fugitive from the law become invisible, unwittingly giving him the power to exact revenge on his former friends.

Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Jon Hall, Evelyn Ankers, Alan Curtis, Leon Errol

Votes: 2,753 | Gross: $1.67M

28. Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

Director: John Rawlins | Stars: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne, Edward Ashley

Votes: 1,921

29. Cavalcade of America (1952–1957)

Not Rated | 60 min | Drama

"Cavalcade of America" documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds.

Stars: James Seay, Robert Foulk, Richard Gaines, Raymond Greenleaf

Votes: 98

30. Casanova's Big Night (1954)

Approved | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy

A meek tailor thinks his wooing will be helped if he assumes the identity of the famous Casanova...who's deeply in debt.

Director: Norman Z. McLeod | Stars: Bob Hope, Joan Fontaine, Audrey Dalton, Basil Rathbone

Votes: 1,148 | Gross: $7.63M

31. The High Command (1937)

Not Rated | 84 min | Crime, Drama, War

A general of the old school, who believes strongly in his own honour and sense of duty, must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier, during the Irish War for Independence in 1921.

Director: Thorold Dickinson | Stars: Lionel Atwill, Lucie Mannheim, Steven Geray, James Mason

Votes: 197

32. South Riding (1938)

Approved | 85 min | Drama, Romance

Winifred Holtby realised that local government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda, but the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, ... See full summary »

Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Edna Best, Ralph Richardson, Edmund Gwenn, Ann Todd

Votes: 184

33. Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)

Approved | 62 min | Action, Crime, Family

Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Lyle Latell, Paula Corday

Votes: 1,438

34. Torture Ship (1939)

Approved | 57 min | Horror, Sci-Fi

A mad scientist performs experiments on "the criminal mind" on captured criminals on board his private ship.

Director: Victor Halperin | Stars: Lyle Talbot, Irving Pichel, Julie Bishop, Sheila Bromley

Votes: 473

35. Your Favorite Story (1953–1955)

30 min | Comedy, Drama

TV comedy anthology series

Stars: Adolphe Menjou, John Hamilton, Dan White, Gertrude Michael

Votes: 31

36. Just Before Dawn (1946)

Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway (Warner Baxter) is summoned to take attend a diabetic, and gives an injection of insulin taken ... See full summary »

Director: William Castle | Stars: Warner Baxter, Adele Roberts, Martin Kosleck, Mona Barrie

Votes: 312

37. TV Reader's Digest (1955–1956)

30 min | Drama

Family-oriented stories from the pages of "Reader's Digest" were dramatized on film.

Stars: Hugh Reilly, Gene Raymond, Richard Reeves, Helen Mowery

Votes: 60

38. Master Minds (1949)

Approved | 64 min | Comedy, Family, Horror

Candy on a toothache turns Sach into a prognosticator, which attracts the attention of an exploitative Slip and a personality-switching doctor hoping to create an obedient super race.

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Alan Napier

Votes: 415

39. Rogue's March (1953)

Passed | 84 min | Adventure, Drama, War

Unjustly drummed out of his regiment, a Victorian Englishman (Peter Lawford) restores his honor in India.

Director: Allan Davis | Stars: Peter Lawford, Richard Greene, Janice Rule, Leo G. Carroll

Votes: 169

40. Everything Is Thunder (1936)

76 min | Crime, Drama, Romance

During the first world war a Canadian officer escapes from a prison camp and reaches Berlin where he and a streetwalker plan to reach Holland.

Director: Milton Rosmer | Stars: Constance Bennett, Douglass Montgomery, Oscar Homolka, Roy Emerton

Votes: 111

41. Life of St. Paul Series (1949)

Approved | 360 min | Biography, Drama, History

The life of Apostle Paul from the New Testament. This extremely rare and hard to find film chronicles Saul of Taurus as he becomes born again as Paul the Apostle.

Director: John T. Coyle | Stars: Nelson Leigh, Iris Adrian, Jerry Austin, Scotty Beckett

Votes: 14

42. Strangers on a Honeymoon (1936)

66 min | Comedy, Drama

Instead of accepting a well-to-do suitor, an orphan marries a tramp as a bet, but he turns out to be an English peer on the run for a murder he did not commit.

Director: Albert de Courville | Stars: Constance Cummings, Hugh Sinclair, Noah Beery, Beatrix Lehmann

Votes: 11

43. Headin' for God's Country (1943)

Passed | 78 min | Drama

On 16 Sep 1941, stranger Michael Banyan treks from the Alaskan interior into the small town of Sunivak, Alaska, and is treated with suspicion by the locals. General store owner Hilary ... See full synopsis »

Director: William Morgan | Stars: William Lundigan, Virginia Dale, Harry Davenport, Harry Shannon

Votes: 23

44. Thumbs Up (1943)

Approved | 67 min | Musical

A young American girl sings in an American style night club in London. She's about to quit when she hears about a West End show to be made up of talent culled from war factory workers. She ... See full summary »

Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Brenda Joyce, Richard Fraser, Elsa Lanchester, Arthur Margetson

Votes: 77

45. Diamond Frontier (1940)

Approved | 73 min | Adventure, Crime, Romance

Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.

Director: Harold D. Schuster | Stars: Victor McLaglen, John Loder, Anne Nagel, Cecil Kellaway

Votes: 33

46. The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden (1937 TV Movie)

25 min | Comedy

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Stars: Joan Miller, Guy Glover, Margaret Brereton, Skelton Knaggs

47. Cavalcade of America (1952–1957)
Episode: The Gingerbread Man (1953)

Not Rated | 30 min | Drama

A comedy-drama about an elderly German baker who persuades 123 Hessian soldiers to desert the British Army during the American Revolution.

Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Edit Angold, Tony Christian, Richard Gaines, John Hamilton

48. Dick Tracy (1950–1952)
Episode: B.O. Plenty's Folly

Crime, Drama

Tracy's friend B.O. Plenty sets out to buy a birthday gift for his wife Gravel Gertie while Dick Tracy works to solve a series of art museum robberies.

Director: Nate Watt | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, Si Jenks, Almira Sessions

49. Dick Tracy (1950–1952)
Episode: The Ghost of Gravel Gertie

Crime, Drama

Gravel Gertie is duped into helping a phony spiritualist.

Director: Nate Watt | Stars: Ralph Byrd, Joe Devlin, Almira Sessions, Si Jenks

50. General Electric Theater (1953–1962)
Episode: To Lift a Feather (1954)

TV-G | 30 min | Drama

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Director: Robert Stevenson | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Jonathan Hale, Ruth Hussey, Tor Johnson