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Return to Treasure Island

Return to Treasure Island

Return to Treasure Island
IMDb: 4.4
75

There’s something to be said for finishing what you’ve started. That’s why the gentile Captain Long John Silver is heading back to Treasure Island to see if he can unearth…

Genre: Adventure
Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know

Dangerous to Know
IMDb: 6.5
70

Racketeer Steve Recka, art patron and political power-maker, rules his town and Madame Lan Ying, his beautiful friend and hostess (read:mistress), with an iron hand. He meets Margaret Van Kase,…

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Bulldog Drummond Escapes

Bulldog Drummond Escapes
IMDb: 6
67

Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her…

Arizona

Arizona

Arizona
IMDb: 6.8
125

Phoebe Titus is a tough, swaggering pioneer woman, but her ways become decidedly more feminine when she falls for California bound Peter Muncie. But Peter won’t be distracted from his…

Genre: Western
Souls at Sea

Souls at Sea

Souls at Sea
IMDb: 6.8
92

Michael ‘Nuggin’ Taylor and Powdah save lives during a sea tragedy in this story about the slave trade on the high seas during 1842.

Genre: Adventure
You Gotta Stay Happy

You Gotta Stay Happy

You Gotta Stay Happy
IMDb: 6.8
100

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin…

Genre: Comedy, Romance
True Confession

True Confession

True Confession
IMDb: 6.7
85

Helen and Ken are a pretty strange couple. She is a pathological liar, and he is a scrupulously honest, and therefore unsuccessful lawyer. Helen starts a new job, and when…

Genre: Comedy
The Plainsman

The Plainsman

The Plainsman
IMDb: 6.9
113

Wild Bill Hickok (Gary Cooper), Calamity Jane (Jean Arthur) and Buffalo Bill (James Ellison) go up against Indians and a gunrunner.

Pony Express

Pony Express

Pony Express
IMDb: 5.9
101

Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill Hickok join forces to establish a mail route that can get mail from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, in ten days. Along the way…

Genre: Action, Western
Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole

Ace in the Hole
IMDb: 8.1
111

A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career, but the situation quickly…

Genre: Drama
His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
IMDb: 7.9
92

Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she’s engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can’t let…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says

Murder, He Says
IMDb: 7.1
91

Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing. Visiting the hillbilly family of Mamie…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes

The Desperadoes
IMDb: 6.5
87

Popular mailcoach driver Uncle Willie is in fact in league with the town’s crooked banker. They plan to have the bank robbed after emptying it, and when Willie’s choice for…

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity

Double Indemnity
IMDb: 8.3
107

A rich woman and a calculating insurance agent plot to kill her unsuspecting husband after he signs a double indemnity policy. Against a backdrop of distinctly Californian settings, the partners…

Sullivan’s Travels

Sullivan’s Travels

Sullivan’s Travels
IMDb: 7.9
91

Successful movie director John L. Sullivan, convinced he won’t be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey,…

Going My Way

Going My Way

Going My Way
IMDb: 7.1
126

Youthful Father Chuck O’Malley led a colorful life of sports, song, and romance before joining the Roman Catholic clergy. After being appointed to a run-down New York parish, O’Malley’s worldly…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Dark Command

Dark Command

Dark Command
IMDb: 6.8
94

When transplanted Texan Bob Seton arrives in Lawrence, Kansas he finds much to like about the place, especially Mary McCloud, daughter of the local banker. Politics is in the air…

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest
IMDb: 7.6
82

Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a…

The Thin Man

The Thin Man

The Thin Man
IMDb: 8
91

A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
That Wonderful Urge

That Wonderful Urge

That Wonderful Urge
IMDb: 6.6
82

When an heiress finds out that the friendly young man she’s met at Sun Valley is really an investigative reporter, she ruins his career by falsely claiming they’re married.

Genre: Romance
Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady
IMDb: 6
74

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Chicken Every Sunday

Chicken Every Sunday

Chicken Every Sunday
IMDb: 6.4
94

A woman takes in boarders to support her husband’s harebrained financial schemes.

Genre: Comedy
Singapore

Singapore

Singapore
IMDb: 6.4
79

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during…

The Great Moment

The Great Moment

The Great Moment
IMDb: 6.3
83

The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust

Intruder in the Dust
IMDb: 7.6
87

Rural Mississippi in the 1940s: Lucas Beauchamp, a local black man with a reputation of not kowtowing to whites, is found standing over the body of a dead white man,…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Case of the Lucky Legs
IMDb: 6.5
77

A con man who stages phony “lucky legs” beauty contests and leaves town with the money is found with a surgical knife in his heart by Mason.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow

Make Way for Tomorrow
IMDb: 8.2
92

At a family reunion, the Cooper clan find that their parents’ home is being foreclosed. “Temporarily,” Ma moves in with son George’s family, Pa with daughter Cora. But the parents…

Genre: Drama
The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn
IMDb: 6.6
98

China, 1930s, during the ravaging civil war. General Pen entrusts O’Hara, an intrepid American adventurer, with the mission of providing a large sum of money to Mr. Wu with the…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street

Miracle on 34th Street
IMDb: 7.9
96

Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy’s following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so…

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun

Blood on the Sun
IMDb: 6.1
93

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 1945 Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by…

Genre: Action, Drama, War
Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams

Carbine Williams
IMDb: 7
92

David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across

The Princess Comes Across
IMDb: 6.8
76

A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate…

The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur

The Story of Louis Pasteur
IMDb: 7.3
86

A true story about Louis Pasteur, who revolutionized medicine by proving that much disease is caused by microbes, that sanitation is paramount and that at least some diseases can be…

Genre: Drama, History
The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend

The Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
IMDb: 6.1
77

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be…