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87
7.9
/172830/
77
/2868/
77
/1804/
3.9
/135929/
99
/111/
91
/2982/
97
/16/
cc age 12+

The Maltese Falcon (1941)
A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a beautiful liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette.
poster
Kanopy
86
7.9
/147571/
76
/2555/
77
/1798/
4.1
/156832/
98
/60/
92
/1908/
88
/15/
cc age 14+

Strangers on a Train (1951)
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
poster
Kanopy
84
8.0
/66572/
79
/1675/
79
/1114/
4.2
/115947/
91
/53/
91
/1789/
75
/15/
cc age 13+

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
poster
81
7.6
/17840/
74
/300/
70
/222/
3.5
/12773/
91
/32/
83
/487/
89
/10/
cc age 8+

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
A film of the life of the renowned musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singer George M. Cohan.
poster
YouTube TV
76
72
7.2
/9986/
74
/228/
65
/120/
3.6
/5135/
92
/12/
73
/110/
86
/9/

They Were Expendable (1945)
After a demonstration of new PT boats, navy brass are still unconvinced of their viability in combat, leaving Lt. "Rusty" Ryan frustrated. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, however, Ryan and his buddy Lt. Brickley are told they can finally take their squadron into battle. The PT boats quickly prove their worth, successfully shooting down Japanese planes, relaying messages between islands, and picking off a multitude of enemy ships.
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70
7.1
/29371/
69
/616/
69
/523/
3.5
/24637/
81
/31/
71
/463/
64
/8/

Saboteur (1942)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.
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66
56
6.3
/3266/
63
/83/
60
/56/
3.1
/2871/
100
/6/
51
/46/

Black Friday (1940)
University professor George Kingsley is struck by gangsters while crossing the street, leaving him with brain damage and one of the gangsters, Cannon, paralyzed. Kingsley's friend Dr. Sovac attends to both men, and when Cannon offers him a reward for aiding his recovery, Kovac transplants part of Cannon's brain into the dying Kingsley's skull, creating a dual personality.
poster
67
46
6.8
/2447/
72
/51/
63
/52/
3.5
/2195/
64
/22/

Sleep, My Love (1948)
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
58
40
6.7
/2585/
66
/33/
62
/33/
3.3
/2942/
31
/68/

Out of the Fog (1941)
A Brooklyn pier racketeer bullies boat-owners into paying protection money but two fed-up fishermen decide to eliminate the gangster themselves rather than complain to the police.
poster
65
35
6.8
/2347/
72
/33/
59
/26/
3.3
/536/
62
/182/

Trouble Along the Way (1953)
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
poster
59
31
6.4
/1737/
66
/20/
64
/24/
3.1
/999/
42
/73/

King of the Underworld (1939)
Physician Carole Nelson, suspected of having ties to notorious gangster Joe Gurney, must prove her innocence or the Medical Board will revoke her license. When Gurney seeks her out for treatment after being shot, it could be the break Nelson needs. Now she has a chance to use her medical know-how to outwit Gurney and his goons and reestablish her professional reputation.
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JustWatchTV
56
30
6.5
/1395/
62
/29/
62
/32/
3.5
/1038/
26
/121/

Slightly Scarlet (1956)
Kleptomaniac Dorothy Lyons is paroled from prison into the custody of her sister June, secretary to "reform" politician Frank Jansen. Ben Grace, associate of crime boss Sol "Solly" Caspar, sees this as a way to smear Jansen's campaign. Seductive Dorothy will do anything to get what she wants, which includes having a good time with Ben-- whom June is now in love with.
poster
The Roku Channel
65
27
6.2
/880/
64
/16/
56
/15/
3.2
/302/
80
/769/

The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze (1963)
Phileas Fogg III, great grandson of the original Phileas Fogg, accepts a bet to duplicate his great grandfather's famous trip around the world in response to a challenge made by Randolph Stuart III, the descendant of the original Fogg's nemesis. Unbeknownst to anyone, However, "Stuart" is the infamous con man Vicker Cavendish who made the bet in order to cover up his robbing the bank of England by framing Fogg for the crime. This makes for a dangerous journey for Fogg and his servants (the stooges) and Amelia Carter, whom they rescue from thugs during a train ride. Can they make it back to England in time ?
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57
26
6.1
/938/
60
/20/
56
/20/
55
/43/

Bombardier (1943)
A documentary/drama about the training of bombardiers during WWII. Major Chick Davis proves to the U.S. Army the superiority of high altitude precision bombing, and establishes a school for bombardiers. Training is followed in semi-documentary style, with personal dramas in subplots. The climax is a spectacular sequence.
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Kanopy
56
25
6.6
/1630/
64
/33/
55
/31/
3.3
/798/
32
/11/

Appointment with Danger (1950)
Al Goddard, a detective who works for the United States Postal Inspection Service, is assigned to arrest two criminals who've allegedly murdered a U.S. postal detective.
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61
23
6.3
/1087/
61
/22/
57
/30/
3.2
/586/

Highway Dragnet (1954)
An ex-Marine, on the lam from a murder charge, hitches a ride with a glamour-magazine photographer, who is travelling cross-country with her principal model. Tensions rise when the women realize the man with them may be a killer.
poster
JustWatchTV
54
23
6.5
/1306/
62
/26/
57
/18/
3.3
/876/
23
/87/

Women's Prison (1955)
A crusading psychiatrist battles a sadistic female warden to improve conditions at a women's prison.
poster
69
22
6.7
/1449/
71
/25/
63
/20/
3.3
/729/
80
/5/

The Big Shot (1942)
Duke Berne, former big shot but now a three-time loser, fears returning to crime because a fourth conviction will mean a life sentence. Finally, haunted by his past and goaded by his cohorts, he joins in planning an armoured car robbery.
poster
58
22
6.3
/856/
58
/12/
56
/28/
3.3
/408/
50
/22/

Baby Face Nelson (1957)
Famed Depression-era gangster “Baby Face Nelson” robs and kills while accompanied by his beautiful moll.
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HBO Max Amazon Channel
57
21
6.5
/1353/
64
/25/
50
/16/
3.4
/677/
38
/21/

The Gangster (1947)
Based on the novel Low Company. One of the most peculiar film noirs of the 1940s stars Barry Sullivan as a small-time hood who suffers a mental breakdown as his big plans begin to crumble. Beautiful Belita is his singer girlfriend who only fuels his paranoia.
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33
21
3.4
/1919/
49
/38/
34
/36/
2.1
/1127/
40
/5/
4
/36/

Lost Continent (1951)
When an experimental atomic rocket crashes somewhere off-radar, its three developing scientists are joined by three Air Force men in tracking it down to a small Pacific island, where it apparently has landed on the plateau of the island's steep-walled, taboo mountain...
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Kanopy
68
19
7.2
/889/
64
/22/
68
/16/
3.4
/459/

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer (1943)
The third film of Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight" propaganda film series, dealing with the Nazi conquest of Western Europe in 1940.
poster
The Roku Channel
56
19
6.0
/799/
56
/8/
53
/16/
3.1
/205/
50
/720/

The Outlaws Is Coming (1965)
Rance Roden plans to kill off all the buffalo and thus cause the Indians to riot. After they destroy the US Cavalry, Rance and his gang will take over the West. Meanwhile, a Boston magazine gets wind of the buffalo slaughter and sends editor Kenneth Cabot and his associates to Casper, Wyoming to investigate.
poster
61
17
6.3
/305/
65
/5/
69
/7/
50
/146/

Hers to Hold (1943)
Deanna Durbin is all grown up in Hers to Hold, the unofficial sequel to her "Three Smart Girls" films of the 1930s. Durbin plays Penelope Craig, the starry-eyed daughter of wealthy Judson and Dorothy Craig (Charles Winninger, Nella Walker). Developing a crush on much-older playboy Bill Morley (Joseph Cotton), Penelope stops at nothing to land the elusive Morley as her husband. Highlights include Durbin's renditions of "Begin the Beguine" and the "Seguidilla" from Carmen, and a captivating sequence that includes highlights from Durbin's earlier films, presented as home movies!
poster
fuboTV
47
16
6.1
/831/
65
/9/
58
/13/
3.2
/280/
20
/5/
27
/6/
38
/4/

Turnabout (1940)
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue who grants their wish and they wind up living each other's life.
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67
16
6.7
/657/
70
/3/
61
/6/
73
/19/

The Great Man Votes (1939)
In 1923, Gregory Vance, a widower with two children, is a former scholar who has turned from book to bottle. He works, slightly, as a night-watchman, and his children, who know him for what he is and what he isn't, are his only admirers. Then, it is discovered that he is the only registered voter in a key precinct and the politicians, from both parties, arrive in droves bearing inducements. What he does about this situation, and the relatives who want to take his children away from him make up the story.
poster
59
15
5.6
/159/
51
/8/
54
/5/
3.2
/464/
70
/23/

High Tension (1936)
Brawling cable layer Steve Reardon doesn't want to marry girlfriend Edith but he also doesn't want her to date other men.
poster
58
15
6.3
/846/
63
/22/
58
/18/
3.2
/538/
45
/3/

The Power of the Whistler (1945)
A woman uses a deck of cards to predict death within 24 hours for a stranger sitting at a bar, then tries to help him remember who he is based on items in his pockets.
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YouTube TV
51
10
5.7
/698/
65
/5/
40
/5/
3.0
/232/
25
/220/

Affectionately Yours (1941)
A married reporter's assignments carry him all over the world, which gives him ample opportunity to put the moves on the local females.
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61
10
6.0
/480/
63
/6/
57
/13/
3.2
/277/

The Royal Family of Broadway (1930)
Julie Cavendish comes from a family of great Broadway actors. Her mother Fanny staunchly continues acting. Her boisterous brother Tony is fleeing a breach of promise suit in Hollywood. Her daughter Gwen must decide between going on stage, or settling down in a conventional marriage. Julie is just thinking that it would be nice to retire and get married, when who should turn up but her old beau, Gilmore Marshall, the platinum magnate from South America.
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57
9
6.3
/478/
70
/6/
70
/7/
29
/18/

Next Time I Marry (1938)
Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.
poster
?
5.7
/16/

Wife to Spare (1947)
Andy tries to fix a dilemma between a gold digging blonde and his brother-in-law who's smitten with her. This causes problems for Andy's wife.
poster
?
5.9
/29/
60
/1/

Honeymoon Ahead (1945)
When the prison choir loses its leader, the boys try to get him back in.
poster
?
5.3
/22/
50
/1/

Stop, Look and Love (1939)
Daughter has trouble holding onto boyfriends because of her critical mother until understanding father comes to her aid.
poster
?
7.0
/40/
60
/1/

I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby (1940)
In I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby, Broderick Crawford plays a sentimental gangster who abducts songwriter Johnny Downs and forces him to write a love ballad. It is Crawford's hope that the song will reach out and touch his long-lost childhood sweetheart. I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby was based on James Edward Grant's short story Trouble in B Flat; echoes of the basic premise later resurfaced in the 1957 "A" picture The Girl Can't Help It.
poster
?
5.2
/20/
10
/1/

Army Bound (1952)
Race car driver Frank Cermak is in love with Jane Harris. Jane and her parents watch Frank win a tight race from Bill Peters, an army lieutenant on leave. Peters tries to foul Frank, and Frank beats him in a fist fight after the race. Frank is drafted into the army and (against staggering and overwhelming odds) finds Lt. Peters to be his commanding officer.
poster
?
5.2
/35/
10
/1/
60
/1/

Navy Bound (1951)
A sailor who is a champion boxer in the Navy is forced to leave the service because his family's business, a tuna fishing operation, is in financial trouble. He becomes a prizefighter and one day signs up for a winner-take-all boxing match, which could make him a lot of money but could also result in the end of his boxing career.
poster
?
6.6
/22/
10
/1/

Behind Southern Lines (1952)
Two episodes of the TV series "Wild Bill Hickok" edited together and released as a feature.
poster
?
5.3
/41/
30
/2/

Spies and Guys (1953)
Joe Besser is sent on a spying mission with a beautiful female officer. Things, as usual when Joe is involved, don't go well and they are captured and about to be executed. The girl drops her cape to reveal she is scantily clad (the high point), the enemy is confused and she and Joe escape.
poster
?
6.7
/20/

Slippy McGee (1948)
A safecracker breaks his leg and reforms with a good girl and a priest.
poster
48
?
6.2
/125/
30
/2/
55
/2/

The Big Tip Off (1955)
A newspaper man uses a mobster's tips to get the scoop on gangster activities.
poster
?
6.3
/96/
60
/2/

Free For All (1949)
The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
poster
62
?
6.3
/331/
65
/2/
58
/3/

Married Bachelor (1941)
A man's marriage suffers when he pretends to be a bachelor while promoting "his" best-selling book about married life (actually written by an eccentric professor) in order to pay off a debt to a gangster.
poster
?
6.2
/80/
60
/2/

The Arkansas Traveler (1938)
The Arkansas Traveler, an itinerant printer, returns to a small town to help save The Daily Record, a newspaper started by Mr. Allen, an old friend who is now deceased.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
59
?
6.4
/198/
60
/8/
55
/2/

Gasoline Alley (1951)
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.
poster
?
5.6
/81/
10
/1/
55
/2/

Security Risk (1954)
An FBI agent on vacation in the mountains begins to suspect that a Communist spy ring may be operating in the area.
poster
56
?
5.7
/493/
60
/2/
57
/3/

My Life with Caroline (1941)
A man thinks his high-spirited wife is cheating on him.
poster
39
?
5.6
/128/
10
/1/
52
/5/

Las Vegas Shakedown (1955)
A teacher writing a book about gambling meets a hotel/casino owner threatened by a gangster.


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