284 films of JOHN HAMILTON (1887 - 1958)
by milam_ogden | created - 15 Jan 2016 | updated - 16 Jan 2016 | PublicGod smiled on this date in 1887 when John was born in Shippenburg, PA. He got his start in broadway and made his film debut in 1930.
He is a major character actor was appeared in 284 films over a period of 28 years. That is an average of 10 movies per year.
Major movie genres: drama (162), romance (84), comedy (77), crime (76) and westerns (44).
During the 40s, Hamilton appeared in 166 movies, 58% of his total.
IMDb summary: mean - 6.2, median - 6.2, and mode - 6.1 (21 films)
Best known for his role as Perry White, editor of the Daily Planet, in the Superman television series. It ran for six years (1952 - 1958) = 102 episodes. He also appeared in 26 other television series.
Perry died at the age of 71 in October of 1958 from a heart attack.
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1. Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)
Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Western
Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin
Votes: 76
2. Heads Up (1930)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Jack Mason meets Mary Trumbull at a Coast Guard Academy graduation ball and falls in love with her. However, the girl's mother considers wealthy Rex Cutting a more appropriate choice for ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Helen Kane, Margaret Breen, Victor Moore
Votes: 73
4. Keep 'Em Rolling (1934)
Passed | 69 min | Drama, Romance, War
Sergeant Benny Walsh, a U.S. Army artilleryman, and his horse, Rodney, share a kindred spirit that is sympathetic to each other's needs. After years of service to his country, Sergeant ... See full summary »
Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Walter Huston, Frances Dee, Minna Gombell, Frank Conroy
Votes: 136
5. Stand Up and Cheer! (1934)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
A little girl's (Shirley Temple) toe-tapping musical numbers uplift the nation during the Depression in this charming classic that includes Temple's rendition of "Baby Take a Bow.
Director: Hamilton MacFadden | Stars: Warner Baxter, Madge Evans, James Dunn, Sylvia Froos
Votes: 577
6. Parole! (1936)
Passed | 67 min | Action, Crime, Drama
In a state penitentiary on New Year's Eve, gangster "Okay" Percy Smith knifes fellow inmate Zingo Browning, killing him. The next day, convicted lawyers Russell Whalen and Marty Crawford ... See full synopsis »
Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Henry Hunter, Ann Shepherd, Alan Dinehart, Alan Baxter
Votes: 40
7. The Final Hour (1936)
Approved | 57 min | Drama
An alcoholic attorney becomes embroiled in blackmail and murder when he continues to aid a falsely-accused client.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Ralph Bellamy, Marguerite Churchill, John Gallaudet, George McKay
Votes: 17
8. Two-Fisted Gentleman (1936)
Approved | 64 min | Drama, Romance
Mickey (James Dunn), is a prizefighter whose bright career hits the skids when he comes under the guidance of Ginger (June Clayworth), a female fight promoter, when he becomes involved with... See full summary »
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: James Dunn, June Clayworth, George McKay, Thurston Hall
Votes: 9
9. Craig's Wife (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Drama
A domineering woman marries a wealthy man for his money, and then uses her position to further her own ambitions for money and power.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Rosalind Russell, John Boles, Billie Burke, Jane Darwell
Votes: 1,013
10. Two in a Crowd (1936)
Approved | 85 min | Comedy, Romance
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, Henry Armetta, Alison Skipworth
Votes: 93
11. Adventure in Manhattan (1936)
Passed | 73 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A reporter meets an actress whose producer is a presumed-dead thief, and stakes his reputation on predicting the next crime.
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Reginald Owen, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 840
12. Legion of Terror (1936)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Postal inspectors Frank Marshall and Slim Hewitt infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan-like vigilante group which has mailed a bomb to a senator. When the legion kills Nancy Foster's brother, she helps Frank and Slim in their investigation.
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Marguerite Churchill, Crawford Weaver, Ward Bond
Votes: 62
13. Love Letters of a Star (1936)
Approved | 66 min | Mystery
A half-demented blackmailer named Sigurd Repellen confronts Jenny Aldrich with a stack of intimate fan letters she wrote to stage star Meredith Landers. Initially Jenny submits to ... See full summary »
Directors: Milton Carruth, Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Henry Hunter, Polly Rowles, C. Henry Gordon, Walter Coy
Votes: 12
14. Three Smart Girls (1936)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
Three sisters scheme to reunite their divorced parents before their wealthy father marries a conniving gold digger.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Charles Winninger, Alice Brady, Ray Milland
Votes: 1,528 | Gross: $3.00M
15. Lady from Nowhere (1936)
Approved | 60 min | Crime, Drama
A manicurist witnesses a gangland murder. Realizing there was a witness to their crime, the killer tries to track her down and silence her.
Director: Gordon Wiles | Stars: Mary Astor, Charles Quigley, Thurston Hall, Victor Kilian
Votes: 11
16. A Man Betrayed (1936)
Passed | 58 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Honest stock salesman Frank Powell attempts to verify the authenticity of his merchandise and his employer commits suicide. Dishonest partners in the company employ gangsters to make the ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Edward J. Nugent, Kay Hughes, Lloyd Hughes, John Wray
Votes: 117
17. Breezing Home (1937)
Approved | 64 min | Crime, Drama, Music
Bookmakers try to fix a horse race.
Director: Milton Carruth | Stars: Binnie Barnes, William Gargan, Wendy Barrie, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 19
18. Two Wise Maids (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Drama
On the day schoolteacher Agatha Stanton, who is called "Old Lady Ironsides" by her pupils, expects to be selected as the new principal of her school, she and her roommate, fellow teacher ... See full summary »
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Alison Skipworth, Polly Moran, Irene Manning, Donald Cook
Votes: 30
19. Her Husband Lies (1937)
Passed | 74 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Her Husband Lies is a 1937 American drama film directed by Edward Ludwig and written by Wallace Smith and Eve Greene. The film stars Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown, ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Ludwig | Stars: Gail Patrick, Ricardo Cortez, Akim Tamiroff, Tom Brown
Votes: 40
20. Seventh Heaven (1937)
Approved | 102 min | Drama, Romance
A Parisian sewer worker longs for a rise in status and a beautiful wife. He rescues a girl from the police, lives with her in a barren flat on the seventh floor, then marches away to war.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Simone Simon, James Stewart, Jean Hersholt, Gregory Ratoff
Votes: 1,051
21. I Promise to Pay (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Eddie Lang (Chester Morris), a decent family man making $27.50 a week, borrows fifty-dollars from Richard Farra (Leo Carrillo) in order to take his wife, Mary (Helen Mack) and two small ... See full summary »
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Chester Morris, Leo Carrillo, Helen Mack, Thomas Mitchell
Votes: 187
22. Criminals of the Air (1937)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Rosalind Keith, Charles Quigley, Rita Hayworth, John Gallaudet
Votes: 94
23. This Is My Affair (1937)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Drama, History
Navy Lt. Richard Perry becomes an undercover man out to discover the leaders of a group of well connected men who pull off bank robberies during the McKinley administration (early 20th century).
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Robert Taylor, Barbara Stanwyck, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy
Votes: 685
24. Fifty Roads to Town (1937)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy
A man hides out in the country to avoid testifying in his friends' divorce. A girl who he thinks is a process server thinks he's a gangster. So do the sheriff and his men.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Don Ameche, Ann Sothern, Slim Summerville, Jane Darwell
Votes: 84
25. Married Before Breakfast (1937)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy
After a leading razor company pays inventor Tom Wakefield a quarter of a million dollars not to publicize a hair-removing shaving cream that makes razors obsolete, he makes plans to take ... See full summary »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Robert Young, Florence Rice, June Clayworth, Barnett Parker
Votes: 251
26. It Could Happen to You (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
(1937, Republic) Alan Baxter, Andrea Leads, Owen Davis, Astrid Allwyn. Captivating story of two brothers, one good, one bad. The good one becomes a lawyer while the bad one resorts to crime and ultimately.
Director: Phil Rosen | Stars: Alan Baxter, Andrea Leeds, Owen Davis Jr., Astrid Allwyn
Votes: 50
27. She Had to Eat (1937)
Approved | 74 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Arizona gas station owner (Haley) faces comic adventures after he is kidnapped by gangsters who have mistaken him for an escaped killer.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Jack Haley, Rochelle Hudson, Arthur Treacher, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 38
28. The Singing Marine (1937)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Music, Mystery
Bob Brent (Dick Powell) recruit from Arkansas is a marine who is shy, reserved and modest. Despite these handicaps, he is a big help to his corps buddies. On moonlit nights and sun-kissed ... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Dick Powell, Doris Weston, Lee Dixon, Hugh Herbert
Votes: 300
29. Bad Guy (1937)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama
"Lucky" Walden is a power lineman-turned-criminal. He is due to go to the electric chair, which he helps prison electricians wire correctly, when his sentence is commuted for an act of ... See full summary »
Director: Edward L. Cahn | Stars: Bruce Cabot, Virginia Grey, Edward Norris, Jean Chatburn
Votes: 147
30. On Such a Night (1937)
Approved | 71 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In Louisiana, gangster Ice Richmond blackmails Nicky Last, who has been trying to go straight, to take the rap for a murder charge by threatening to hurt Nicky's famous actress wife, Gail ... See full summary »
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Grant Richards, Karen Morley, Roscoe Karns, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 18
31. The Man Who Cried Wolf (1937)
Approved | 68 min | Crime, Drama
An actor continually confesses to murders he didn't commit, figuring that the police won't believe him when he confesses to a murder that he actually does intend to commit.
Director: Lewis R. Foster | Stars: Lewis Stone, Barbara Read, Tom Brown, Forrester Harvey
Votes: 70
32. That Certain Woman (1937)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, Romance
Mary Donnell, a young legal secretary with a past, elopes with a client's son, but his father has the marriage annulled without knowing she's pregnant.
Director: Edmund Goulding | Stars: Bette Davis, Henry Fonda, Anita Louise, Ian Hunter
Votes: 1,674
33. One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The daughter of a struggling musician forms a symphony orchestra made up of his unemployed friends and through persistence, charm and a few misunderstandings, is able to get Leopold ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Adolphe Menjou, Alice Brady, Leopold Stokowski
Votes: 1,238 | Gross: $2.27M
34. Dangerously Yours (1937)
Approved | 62 min | Crime, Drama
Several jewel thieves sail from Europe to New York hoping to steal a famous gem that is being carried aboard a luxury liner. Double-crosses and a budding romance complicate matters considerably
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Cesar Romero, Phyllis Brooks, Jane Darwell, Alan Dinehart
Votes: 99
35. Night Club Scandal (1937)
Approved | 70 min | Romance, Thriller
When Dr. Ernest Tindal's wife is murdered, evidence mounts to convict her lover, Frank Marian. But Frank knows he didn't do it.....
Director: Ralph Murphy | Stars: John Barrymore, Lynne Overman, Charles Bickford, Louise Campbell
Votes: 173
36. Missing Witnesses (1937)
Passed | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
The daring of the racketeers all working for one organization in an East Coast city, leads the Governor to create a new undercover law agency formed to combat the gangsters, and to find ... See full summary »
Director: William Clemens | Stars: John Litel, Dick Purcell, Virginia Dale, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 132
37. Murder Is News (1937)
Approved | 55 min | Mystery
A radio reporter does a story on the infidelity and divorce of a wealthy and powerful businessman. The man invites the reporter to his mansion for a chat, but when he gets there, he finds ... See full summary »
Director: Leon Barsha | Stars: John Gallaudet, Iris Meredith, George McKay, Doris Lloyd
Votes: 111
38. Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Mystery
When the #1 heavyweight contender is mysteriously poisoned during a bout, Moto knows that identifying the gambler who placed large bets against him is the key to solving the murder.
Director: James Tinling | Stars: Peter Lorre, Keye Luke, Dick Baldwin, Lynn Bari
Votes: 813
39. Over the Wall (1938)
Passed | 67 min | Drama, Romance
Jerry Davis is a street tough and troublemaker who winds up in Sing Sing framed for murder. There he discovers he has a great singing voice, and with the help of prison chaplain Father Connor, Jerry begins to rehabilitate himself.
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Dick Foran, June Travis, John Litel, Dick Purcell
Votes: 148
40. Doctor Rhythm (1938)
Approved | 80 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Dr. Bill Remsen pretends to be a policeman, and ends up being assigned to guard Judy Marlowe. Amazingly, he falls in love with her.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Bing Crosby, Mary Carlisle, Beatrice Lillie, Andy Devine
Votes: 100
41. Hunted Men (1938)
Approved | 65 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Joe Albany kills James Flowers when he discovers he is embezzling from the club they own.
Director: Louis King | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Mary Carlisle, Lynne Overman, J. Carrol Naish
Votes: 58
42. You Can't Take It with You (1938)
Passed | 126 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold
Votes: 27,904 | Gross: $4.66M
43. Boys Town (1938)
Passed | 96 min | Biography, Drama, Family
When a death row prisoner tells him he wouldn't have led a life of crime if only he had had one friend as a child, Father Edward Flanagan decides to start a home for young boys.
Director: Norman Taurog | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull, Leslie Fenton
Votes: 6,351
44. Personal Secretary (1938)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy, Romance
Two rival newspaper columnists battle over whether or not a woman murdered her playboy husband.
Director: Otis Garrett | Stars: William Gargan, Joy Hodges, Andy Devine, Ruth Donnelly
Votes: 20
45. Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Passed | 107 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Two rival newsreel photographers join forces to find an aviatrix's missing brother, who has disappeared in the Amazon rainforest.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Walter Pidgeon, Walter Connolly
Votes: 1,678
46. Mr. Wong, Detective (1938)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
When a chemical manufacturer is killed after asking detective James Wong to help him, Wong investigates this and two subsequent murders. He uncovers an international spy ring hoping to ... See full summary »
Director: William Nigh | Stars: Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, Maxine Jennings, Evelyn Brent
Votes: 1,223
47. Girls on Probation (1938)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer's heart.
Director: William C. McGann | Stars: Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill, Sheila Bromley
Votes: 447
48. I Stand Accused (1938)
63 min | Drama
Fred, a young lawyer fresh out of school, climbs quickly to success as the mouthpiece for a gangland mob. His friend Paul, however, reaches equally quick success - in the district ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Robert Cummings, Helen Mack, Lyle Talbot, Thomas Beck
Votes: 18
49. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,198
50. Devil's Island (1938)
Approved | 62 min | Drama, Thriller
Unjustly condemned to Devil's Island and condemned to death, Dr. Gaudet's life is spared when his surgical skills save the life of the commandant's daughter.
Director: William Clemens | Stars: Boris Karloff, Nedda Harrigan, James Stephenson, Adia Kuznetzoff
Votes: 627
51. My Son Is a Criminal (1939)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Crime, Drama
"Big Tim" Halloran retires as Police Chief, and hopes his son, Tim, will join the police force. But the son opts for racketeering and, running a garage for Velvikak Taxicabs. He uses his ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Alan Baxter, Julie Bishop, Gordon Oliver, Willard Robertson
Votes: 23
52. Secret Service of the Air (1939)
Approved | 61 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Brass Bancroft and his sidekick Gabby Watters are recruited onto the secret service and go undercover to crack a ruthless gang that smuggles illegal aliens.
Director: Noel M. Smith | Stars: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Ila Rhodes, James Stephenson
Votes: 265
53. The Spirit of Culver (1939)
Approved | 89 min | Drama
Tom Allen, the son of a decorated war hero who is feared to have died in battle, wins a scholarship to the Culver military academy. His arrogance and unwillingness to comply with the ... See full summary »
Director: Joseph Santley | Stars: Jackie Cooper, Freddie Bartholomew, Andy Devine, Henry Hull
Votes: 36
54. Inside Story (1939)
Passed | 60 min | Drama
Three days before Christmas, newspaper reporter Barney Callahan regrets the drinking bout he went on the night before to celebrate his promotion to columnist. As Barney is lamenting not ... See full synopsis »
Director: Ricardo Cortez | Stars: Michael Whalen, Jean Rogers, Chick Chandler, Douglas Fowley
55. Three Smart Girls Grow Up (1939)
Unrated | 90 min | Comedy, Musical
Three sisters believe life is going to be easy now that their parents are back together, but then one sister falls in love with another's fiancé and the youngest plays matchmaker.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Winninger, Nan Grey, Helen Parrish
Votes: 429
56. First Offenders (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Drama
A crusading and reform-minded District Attorney gives up his position in order to open establish a farm that give juvenile delinquents and first-offenders a place to straighten out their ... See full summary »
Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Walter Abel, Beverly Roberts, Iris Meredith, Johnny Downs
57. Blind Alley (1939)
Passed | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Gangster Hal Wilson takes psychiatrist Dr. Shelby hostage. While captive, the doctor analyzes Wilson as though he were a patient.
Director: Charles Vidor | Stars: Chester Morris, Ralph Bellamy, Ann Dvorak, Joan Perry
Votes: 816
58. Forged Passport (1939)
Approved | 63 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
Dan Frazier is a U.S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Auer | Stars: Paul Kelly, June Lang, Lyle Talbot, Billy Gilbert
Votes: 30
59. Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, War
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-war espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Director: Anatole Litvak | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, George Sanders, Francis Lederer, Paul Lukas
Votes: 2,136
60. Rose of Washington Square (1939)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A singer becomes a star in the Ziegfeld Follies, but her marriage to a con man has a bad effect on her career.
Director: Gregory Ratoff | Stars: Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Al Jolson, William Frawley
Votes: 666
61. It Could Happen to You (1939)
70 min | Comedy, Mystery
Ad man (Erwin) is jailed when it is believed he murdered a beautiful girl. His wife (Stuart) sets out to solve the crime.
Director: Alfred L. Werker | Stars: Stuart Erwin, Gloria Stuart, Raymond Walburn, Douglas Fowley
Votes: 60
62. Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Passed | 78 min | Drama
Wealthy socialite Elizabeth Flagg is courted by persistent Michael McLain, despite her protests that she is a married woman. McLain is just charming enough to attract Elizabeth into a ... See full summary »
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Virginia Bruce, Walter Pidgeon, Lee Bowman, Ann Dvorak
Votes: 314
63. The Forgotten Woman (1939)
67 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A beautiful woman is forced to help gangsters in a robbery, and is arrested as an accessory.
Director: Harold Young | Stars: Sigrid Gurie, William Lundigan, Eve Arden, Donald Briggs
Votes: 15
64. Waterfront (1939)
Passed | 59 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Jim Dolen, head a a dock-worker's union, can't resist a good fight until Ann Stacey makes him promise to give up fighting to marry her. But when his brother Dan Dolen is killed by Mart ... See full summary »
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Gloria Dickson, Dennis Morgan, Marie Wilson, Larry Williams
Votes: 165
65. They Shall Have Music (1939)
Passed | 102 min | Drama, Family, Music
A boy runs away from home and ends up at a music school for poor children. When the school suffers hard times, he enlists the aid of violinist Heifetz to save the day.
Director: Archie Mayo | Stars: Jascha Heifetz, Joel McCrea, Andrea Leeds, Gene Reynolds
Votes: 499
66. I Stole a Million (1939)
Approved | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A grizzled cabbie is scammed out of his life savings by a fake finance company. He tries to no avail to get police assistance.
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Dick Foran, Henry Armetta
Votes: 125
67. Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
Approved | 86 min | Drama, Romance
A young man just released from a reformatory moves to a new neighborhood with his sister, intending to start a new life, but he gets mixed up with the local mob boss and corrupt politicians... See full summary »
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Billy Halop, Bernard Punsly, Leo Gorcey
Votes: 572
68. Full Confession (1939)
Passed | 78 min | Crime, Drama
A Catholic priest by the name of Father Loma must convince a man to step forward to save an innocent man from being sent to the electric chair.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Sally Eilers, Joseph Calleia, Barry Fitzgerald
Votes: 230
69. Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Passed | 88 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, resulting... See full summary »
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: John Garfield, Priscilla Lane, Alan Hale, Frank McHugh
Votes: 960
70. Espionage Agent (1939)
Approved | 83 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to root out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn, George Bancroft
Votes: 467
71. Smashing the Money Ring (1939)
Passed | 57 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
T-Man Brass Bancroft goes undercover in a prison which has a secret counterfeit operation set up in the print shop.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Margot Stevenson, Eddie Foy Jr., Joe Downing
Votes: 269
72. The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Passed | 106 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Priscilla Lane, Gladys George
Votes: 15,513
73. On Dress Parade (1939)
Passed | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The Dead End Kids are sent to military school.
Directors: William Clemens, Noel M. Smith | Stars: Billy Halop, Bobby Jordan, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell
Votes: 358 | Gross: $0.10M
74. Call a Messenger (1939)
Approved | 65 min | Crime, Drama
A tough street kid attempts to rob a post office and is caught. In order to avoid reform school, he takes a job as a messenger with the post office. He finds that he likes it, and when his ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Lubin | Stars: Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Robert Armstrong, Mary Carlisle
Votes: 48
75. Swanee River (1939)
Approved | 84 min | Biography, Drama, Musical
More fictional than factual biography of Stephen Foster. Songwriter from Pittsburgh falls in love with the South, marries a Southern gal (Leeds), then is accused of sympathizing when the Civil War breaks out.
Director: Sidney Lanfield | Stars: Don Ameche, Andrea Leeds, Al Jolson, Felix Bressart
Votes: 226 | Gross: $0.29M
76. Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love! (1940)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Johnny Sandham (Tom Brown), a traveling salesman for a department store, agrees, under duress after his truck forced her roadster of the road, to take "Kelly" Archer (Peggy Moran), a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Lamont | Stars: Tom Brown, Peggy Moran, Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek
Votes: 31
77. Brother Rat and a Baby (1940)
Passed | 87 min | Comedy
Three comrades graduate from Viriginia Military Institute. Bing has a chance to return to VMI as a football coach.
Director: Ray Enright | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Wayne Morris, Jane Bryan, Eddie Albert
Votes: 355 | Gross: $0.12M
78. Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
Approved | 103 min | Biography, Drama
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Director: William Dieterle | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Ruth Gordon, Otto Kruger, Donald Crisp
Votes: 1,825
79. 3 Cheers for the Irish (1940)
Approved | 99 min | Comedy, Romance
Peter Casey has been with the New York City police department for 25 years. He's totally surprised when he's asked to retire on his 25th anniversary with the force. He's even more ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Grey
Votes: 313
80. Johnny Apollo (1940)
Approved | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
The son of a jailed Wall Street broker turns to crime to pay for his father's release.
Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: Tyrone Power, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 1,502
81. Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940)
Approved | 195 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Flash Gordon, Dale Arden and Dr. Zarkov return to the planet Mongo for an antidote to the Purple Death, which wreaking destruction on Earth. However, Ming the Merciless has other plans for them.
Directors: Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Carol Hughes, Charles Middleton, Anne Gwynne
Votes: 1,498
82. Tear Gas Squad (1940)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Music
Nightclub singer becomes police cadet to impress blond female from police family, ends up with her current dating partner as his cadet trainer.
Director: Terry O. Morse | Stars: Dennis Morgan, John Payne, Gloria Dickson, George Reeves
Votes: 323
83. Murder in the Air (1940)
Approved | 55 min | Drama, Thriller
The corpse of a hobo with a $50,000 money belt helps Brass and Gabby crack a cell of fifth columnists bent on sabotage.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Ronald Reagan, John Litel, Lya Lys, James Stephenson
Votes: 336
84. The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
Passed | 76 min | Drama
Assistant District Attorney Stephen Forbes, an impressive orator with a long list of convictions, resigns when an innocent boy is convicted and the real murderer confesses too late. He ... See full summary »
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess
Votes: 293
85. They Drive by Night (1940)
Approved | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
When one of two truck-driving brothers loses an arm, they both join a transport company where the other is falsely charged as an accessory in the murder of the owner.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: George Raft, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
Votes: 8,818
a very good film noir classic
86. The Golden Fleecing (1940)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
After unwittingly selling a life insurance policy to a gangster who receives death threats, a naïve insurance salesman must keep him alive to avoid paying-up the benefits.
Director: Leslie Fenton | Stars: Lew Ayres, Rita Johnson, Lloyd Nolan, Virginia Grey
Votes: 242
87. Boom Town (1940)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr
Votes: 3,780 | Gross: $9.17M
88. Fugitive from a Prison Camp (1940)
Approved | 59 min | Drama
Bill Harding's love for Ann Baldwin causes him to become involved with a gang of criminals when he tries to convince Ann's brother Ted to quit the gang. Arrested as an accomplice of the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Marian Marsh, Robert Barrat, Phillip Terry
89. Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Now-widowed Tugboat Annie, tugboat queen of the Northwest, struggles to save her job against the competition of rival Captain Bullwinkle.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Marjorie Rambeau, Alan Hale, Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan
Votes: 266
90. Lady with Red Hair (1940)
Approved | 78 min | Biography, Drama
A messy divorce leaves Mrs. Leslie Carter shunned by Chicago society for being an adulteress and forbidden from having custody of her son. She's determined to return to her hometown in a ... See full summary »
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, Claude Rains, Richard Ainley, Laura Hope Crews
Votes: 416
91. The Great Plane Robbery (1940)
61 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
When heavily-insured gangster Frankie Toller is released from prison, Mike Henderson is assigned by the insurance company to make sure Toller's policy expires before he does. This, concise.
Director: Lewis D. Collins | Stars: Jack Holt, Stanley Fields, Vickie Lester, Noel Madison
Votes: 31
92. Flight Command (1940)
Passed | 116 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A rookie flyer, Ens. Alan Drake, joins the famous Hellcats Squadron right out of flight school in Pensacola. He doesn't make a great first impression when he is forced to ditch his airplane... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon, Paul Kelly
Votes: 865
93. Flight from Destiny (1941)
Approved | 75 min | Drama, Film-Noir
An elderly professor suffering from an aortic aneurysm confronts the problem of what to do knowing that he only has a few months to live.
Director: Vincent Sherman | Stars: Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Jeffrey Lynn, James Stephenson
Votes: 324
94. Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
Dedicated Midwestern teacher Ella Bishop is distressed when her fiancé runs off with her vixenish cousin Amy. After Amy dies in childbirth, Ella is left to care for Amy's daughter Hope.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Martha Scott, William Gargan, Edmund Gwenn, Sterling Holloway
Votes: 824
95. Meet John Doe (1941)
Passed | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Arnold, Walter Brennan
Votes: 14,899
96. Strange Alibi (1941)
Passed | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
In a pre-arranged set-up, a cop strikes his police-chief, is fired and infiltrates the mob but when the police-chief is murdered, the ex-cop is unable to prove his innocence and is left-out in the cold, on the wrong side of the law.
Director: D. Ross Lederman | Stars: Arthur Kennedy, Joan Perry, Jonathan Hale, John Ridgely
Votes: 146
97. World Premiere (1941)
Approved | 71 min | Comedy
A producer devises an elaborate gala premiere for his latest anti-Nazi propaganda epic.
Directors: Ted Tetzlaff, Otis Garrett | Stars: John Barrymore, Frances Farmer, Eugene Pallette, Virginia Dale
Votes: 96
98. Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
Passed | 116 min | Drama, Romance
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Charles Boyer, Olivia de Havilland, Paulette Goddard, Victor Francen
Votes: 2,805
99. Nine Lives Are Not Enough (1941)
Approved | 63 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An investigative crime reporter helps the cops solve the case of a missing tycoon who's later found dead in a cheap boarding house.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Ronald Reagan, Joan Perry, James Gleason, Howard Da Silva
Votes: 370
100. It Started with Eve (1941)
Passed | 90 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
In order to please his dying father, a man convinces a hat-check girl to impersonate his fiancée, but complications arise when the father's health suddenly improves.
Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton, Robert Cummings, Guy Kibbee
Votes: 1,833
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