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51. A Girl in Every Port (1928)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Maria Alba
Votes: 820
52. Trent's Last Case (1929)
66 min | Mystery
Who killed the vicious millionaire Sigsbee Manderson? Not that pretty wife of his, surely? Philip Trent investigates.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Donald Crisp, Raymond Griffith, Marceline Day, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 76
53. Tiger Shark (1932)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
A tuna fisherman marries a woman who doesn't love him.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Richard Arlen, Zita Johann, Leila Bennett
Votes: 1,097
54. The Dressmaker from Paris (1925)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An American soldier falls in love with a French maiden, but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long-lost lover.
Director: Paul Bern | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Ernest Torrence, Allan Forrest, Mildred Harris
Votes: 25 | Gross: $0.18M
55. Cinema (1964–1975)
30 min | Documentary
Weekly film magazine, featuring film reviews, interviews with celebrities and historical lookbacks.
Stars: Michael Scott, Michael Parkinson, Brian Trueman, Clive James
Votes: 121
56. The Heritage of the Desert (1924)
60 min | Romance, Western
Pioneer rancher August Naab finds Easterner Jack Hare in the desert and takes him home, where Naab's Spanish-Indian ward Mescal cares for and falls in love with Jack though she is betrothed... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Bebe Daniels, Ernest Torrence, Noah Beery, Lloyd Hughes
Votes: 18
57. In Again, Out Again (II) (1917)
50 min | Comedy
In New Jersey lives Teddy Rutherford, a vigorous exponent of preparedness. Before the populace realize it, the community becomes a hive of munition manufacturers. Teddy falls in love with ... See full summary »
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Arline Pretty, Walter Walker, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 26
58. Viva Villa! (1934)
Passed | 115 min | Biography, Western
After enacting revenge on the overseer who murdered his father, Pancho Villa becomes a bandit, earning the respect of the poor by brutally attacking the wealthy.
Directors: Jack Conway, Howard Hawks, William A. Wellman | Stars: Wallace Beery, Fay Wray, Leo Carrillo, Donald Cook
Votes: 1,571 | Gross: $1.11M
59. The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
An ex-sailor turned boxer finds romance and gets a shot at the heavyweight title.
Directors: W.S. Van Dyke, Howard Hawks | Stars: Myrna Loy, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Jack Dempsey
Votes: 1,071
60. The Road to Yesterday (1925)
107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
A married couple discovers that their strained relationship is the result of unhappiness in their past lives.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Joseph Schildkraut, Jetta Goudal, Vera Reynolds, William Boyd
Votes: 182 | Gross: $0.52M
61. Paid to Love (1927)
Passed | 76 min | Comedy, Romance
An American banker goes to a small Balkan country looking to invest his bank's money and shore up the country's weak economy in order to maximize the return on their investment. Towards ... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, William Powell
Votes: 171
62. The Crowd Roars (1932)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Sport
Race car driver becomes overprotective of his brother when he decides to become a racer as well.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Cagney, Joan Blondell, Ann Dvorak, Eric Linden
Votes: 1,476 | Gross: $1.14M
63. Fig Leaves (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
In the modern day (1920s) story, Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Phyllis Haver, George Beranger
Votes: 310
64. The Cradle Snatchers (1927)
Passed | 59 min | Comedy
Three unhappy middle-aged homemakers teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged lads during the Jazz Age. From a 1925 hit stage play by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Louise Fazenda, Ethel Wales, J. Farrell MacDonald, Franklin Pangborn
Votes: 98
65. North of 36 (1924)
80 min | Western
A young woman inherits her father's large Texas ranch and plans to begin a cattle drive to Abilene, Kansas, 1000 miles away. The crooked State Treasurer plans to attack the cattle drive and... See full summary »
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Jack Holt, Ernest Torrence, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery
Votes: 32 | Gross: $0.23M
66. Hedda Hopper's Hollywood No. 3 (1942)
Approved | 10 min | Documentary, Short
Hedda reports on a dog training school and a Hemingway hunting trip.
Director: Herbert Moulton | Stars: Hedda Hopper, Anna Boettiger, Ronald Colman, Gary Cooper
Votes: 11
67. Neues aus der Welt des Films (1965–1975)
30 min | News
Stars: Martin Büttner, Harald Reinl, Lilli Palmer, Peter Fonda
Votes: 10
68. A Little Princess (1917)
62 min | Drama
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Pickford, Norman Kerry, Katherine Griffith, Anne Schaefer
Votes: 723
69. Fazil (1928)
88 min | Drama, Romance
An Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: Charles Farrell, Greta Nissen, John Boles, Mae Busch
Votes: 234
70. Femme Fatales (2011–2012)
TV-MA | 30 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
'Femme Fatales' was an anthology series which was hosted by the enigmatic Lilith. Each story was a lovely, contemporary crime thriller in the tradition of classic films and beloved TV shows.
Stars: Tanit Phoenix, Catherine Annette, Ellie Cornell, Christine Donlon
Votes: 1,691
71. Today We Live (1933)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWI, two officers, one a pilot and the other in the navy, compete for the same beautiful young woman.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Joan Crawford, Gary Cooper, Robert Young, Franchot Tone
Votes: 1,403
72. La foule hurle (1932)
81 min | Drama
Simultaneously shot French language version of The Crowd Roars: A race car driver vies with his younger brother, who he'd hoped to keep away from the track, both in competition and for a girl who hangs out with the men. Tragedy results.
Directors: John Daumery, Howard Hawks | Stars: Jean Gabin, Hélène Perdrière, Francine Mussey, Hélène Frederick
Votes: 59
73. Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
Approved | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Joe is the three-time Indy champion who still races to put young Eddie through college. Joe wants a better life for Eddie, and he explodes when he finds out that Eddie quit school for a ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Ann Sheridan, Pat O'Brien, John Payne, Gale Page
Votes: 254
74. The Light of Western Stars (1925)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Western
Cowhand Gene Stewart (Jack Holt) spends much of his time as a drunk and disorderly "two-gun rowdy", sinking to the depths among the Mexican riffraff (sleeping off a drinking spree in a pig ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Jack Holt, Billie Dove, Noah Beery, Alma Bennett
Votes: 14
75. Red Line 7000 (1965)
Approved | 110 min | Action, Drama, Sport
The story of three racing drivers and three women, who constantly have to worry for the lives of their boyfriends. Jim Loomis and Mike Marsh drive for Pat Cassarian. Jim expects his fiancée... See full summary »
Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: James Caan, Laura Devon, Gail Hire, Charlene Holt
Votes: 1,150
76. Open All Night (1924)
64 min | Comedy
A couple's marriage is going stale. She wants a take-charge kind of guy, someone who'll show her who the boss is. He's not that type, and in fact believes that women don't really respect ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Bern | Stars: Viola Dana, Jetta Goudal, Adolphe Menjou, Raymond Griffith
Votes: 132
77. The Dawn of a Tomorrow (1924)
60 min | Crime, Drama
Expecting to die soon or to go insane, Sir Oliver Holt disappears into the London slums intending to commit suicide; but he is dissuaded by Glad, a cheerful girl whose sweetheart (a burglar... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Jacqueline Logan, David Torrence, Raymond Griffith, Roland Bottomley
Votes: 16
78. The Outlaw (1943)
G | 116 min | Drama, Western
Western legends Pat Garrett, Doc Holliday and Billy the Kid are played against each other over the law and the attentions of vivacious country vixen Rio McDonald.
Directors: Howard Hughes, Howard Hawks | Stars: Jack Buetel, Thomas Mitchell, Jane Russell, Walter Huston
Votes: 4,989
79. Lord Jim (1925)
70 min | Drama
Because he deserted his ship and passengers during a collision at sea, a ship's mate loses his certification. Unable to find work at sea, he takes a job at a trading post, and eventually ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Percy Marmont, Shirley Mason, Noah Beery, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 51
80. Quicksands (1923)
70 min | Crime, Drama
Stationed at the Mexican border, a young lieutenant whose job is to capture a ring of narcotics smugglers, spies his sweetheart, the daughter of a U. S. Customs official, in a cantina ... See full summary »
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Helene Chadwick, Richard Dix, Alan Hale, Noah Beery
Votes: 21
81. Code of the West (1925)
70 min | Western
Young and head-strong New York flapper Georgie May Stockwell,, visits the Thurman ranch and vamps every man on the place, including Cal Thurman, who falls hard for the pert easterner. ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Owen Moore, Constance Bennett, Mabel Ballin, Charles Ogle
Votes: 19
82. Go and Get It (1920)
70 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the transplanted brain of a human.
Directors: Marshall Neilan, Henry Roberts Symonds | Stars: Pat O'Malley, Wesley Barry, Agnes Ayres, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 45
83. Adventure (1925)
70 min | Adventure, Drama
David Sheldon owns a plantation in the Solomon Islands. Many of his field hands die of blackwater fever, and then he becomes sick himself. Joan Lackland, a female soldier of fortune, ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Tom Moore, Pauline Starke, Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 46
84. The Devil's Cargo (1925)
80 min | Drama
Arriving in Sacramento during the Gold Rush of 1849, John Joyce becomes the editor of a newspaper that crusades stridently for the reformation of the manners and morals of Sacramento's ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Wallace Beery, Pauline Starke, Claire Adams, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 38
85. Empty Hands (1924)
70 min | Drama, Romance
Shocked by his daughter's flirtatious behavior at a party in his home, Robert Endicott takes her on a trip to the Canadian Northwest. While fishing, she is unwittingly drawn into the rapids... See full summary »
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Jack Holt, Norma Shearer, Charles Clary, Hazel Keener
Votes: 32
86.
Hollywood Greats (1977– )
Episode:
Gary Cooper
(1977)
40 min | Documentary, History
A profile of Gary Cooper, one of the stars of Hollywood's golden age.
Director: Margaret Sharp | Stars: Barry Norman, Gary Cooper, Maria Cooper Janis, Delmer Daves
Votes: 112
87.
Hollywood Greats (1977– )
Episode:
Clark Gable
(1977)
Documentary, History
A profile of Clark Gable, one of the stars of Hollywood's golden age.
Stars: Barry Norman, Clark Gable, Frank Capra, Virginia Grey
Votes: 113
88. One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (2024 Podcast Series)
Talk-Show
Before his death, director Peter Bogdanovich made the podcast "One Handshake Away" featuring conversations with contemporaries on classic Hollywood icons.
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro, Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson
89. Tiger Love (1924)
60 min | Drama, Romance
The Wildcat, a Robin Hood of the Spanish hills and son of an aristocrat, falls in love with Marcheta, who is pledged to marry Don Ramón to save the family fortune. On her wedding day The ... See full summary »
Director: George Melford | Stars: Antonio Moreno, Estelle Taylor, G. Raymond Nye, Manuel Caméré
90. 20th Century Fox Promotional Film (1936)
Not Rated | 15 min | Documentary, Short
Jimmy Fiddler takes viewers on a tour of the newly formed Fox Studios, showing all departments, writers, producers, technicians, and actors at work.
Stars: Astrid Allwyn, Warner Baxter, Irving Berlin, Lou Breslow
91. Honesty - The Best Policy (1926)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
An author's wife threatens to send him out to work unless he sells a story. Finding a publisher who will accept only true stories, the author proceeds to unravel his own past: As a ... See full summary »
Directors: Chester Bennett, Albert Ray | Stars: Rockliffe Fellowes, Pauline Starke, Johnnie Walker, Grace Darmond
92. Howard Hawks on the Front Page and His Girl Friday (2017)
Documentary, Short
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Howard Hawks
93. Bob Hampton of Placer (1921)
80 min | Drama
The adventures of Bob Hampton out West bring him into association with General George Custer, who has plans for a raiding party on the Sioux camp near the Little Bighorn River.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: James Kirkwood, Wesley Barry, Marjorie Daw, Pat O'Malley
94. Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977 TV Movie)
41 min | Documentary
Director: Christa Maerker | Stars: John Wayne, Christa Maerker, Peter Bogdanovich, Howard Hawks
95. Le Cinéma selon Luc Moullet (Carnet Filmé: 29 janvier 1979) (1979)
61 min | Documentary
Director: Gérard Courant | Stars: Luc Moullet, Gérard Courant
97.
One Handshake Away: Peter Bogdanovich and the Icons of Cinema (2024)
Episode 5: Greta Gerwig & Howard Hawks
(2024 Podcast Episode)
Talk-Show
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich, Guillermo del Toro, Greta Gerwig, Howard Hawks
98.
Neues aus der Welt des Films (1965–1975)
Episode:
Episode dated 2 April 1971
(1971)
News
Stars: Martin Büttner, Howard Hawks, Jack Nicholson