Esther Howard Movie Rankings
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3.1434
Low budget director Edgar G. Ulmer cemented his reputation with this downbeat film noir masterpiece. It has since inspired countless filmmakers. ... more about Detour
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3.0090
Director Edward Dmytryk put himself on the map with this impressionistic adaptation of Raymond Chandler's detective novel FAREWELL, MY LOVELY. ... more about Murder
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2.9730
Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train bound for Los Angeles. ... more about My Favorite Blonde
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2.9208
Gerry and Tom Jeffers are finding married life hard. Tom is an inventor/ architect and there is little money for them to live on. ... more about Palm Beach Story
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2.9119
Sullivan is a successful, spoiled, and naive director of fluff films, with a heart-o-gold, who decides he wants to make a film about the troubles of the downtrodden poor. ... more about Sullivan's Travels
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2.8528
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. ... more about Hail the Conquering Hero
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2.6597
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. ... more about Great McGinty
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2.6474
In Reno a man kills a girl he likes and her boyfriend out of jealousy; it may not be the first time. A woman whose divorce has just come through finds the bodies but decides not to become involved. ... more about Born to Kill
10
2.5113
Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. ... more about Velvet Touch
Not Available on DVD
11
2.2739
Young boxer Jim Hunt, resting at a New Mexico "health ranch," meets and falls for Peggy Harmon, former nightclub table singer...who needs $600 more for her sickly son to stay in the place. ... more about Winner Take All
Not Available on DVD
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2.1643
Flamarion, expert marksman, is entertaining people in a show which features Connie, beautiful woman and her husband Al. Flamarion and Connie fall in love and decide to get rid of the alcoholic husband. ... more about Great Flamarion
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2.0821
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 in the way. ... more about Beautiful Blonde from Bashful Bend
Not Available on DVD
14
1.9725
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. ... more about Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
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0.0001
Dr. Charles Greyson is a famous and wealthy former surgeon. His nephews have taken him to court to challenge his competency, due to his recent inexplicable gifts of large amounts of cash to the church, and, apparently, to some nefarious scam artists. ... more about All That I Have
Not Available on DVD
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Mary Hale (a singer) and Jimmy Seymour (pianist/composer), are a show biz couple working in The Big Apple in small night clubs hoping to hit it big. One night, Larry Bryant (a Broadway producer) spots Mary and is taken with her beauty and golden voice. ... more about Broadway Serenade
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Small town America: the Cohens own a movie theater; the Kellys own a diner. Kitty Kelly and Maurice Cohen are young lovers; Maurice sends Kitty's picture to a movie studio, and they accept her and make her a star. ... more about Cohens and Kellys in Hollywood
Not Available on DVD
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A wealthy woman's secretary, fearing that she will be blamed if her employer's jewelry is stolen, hires the Falcon as guardian. The Falcon is blamed when the jewels are stolen and murders ensue. ... more about Falcon's Alibi
Not Available on DVD
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Zeb Smith is a gambler with a larcenous streak, but when an itinerant preacher takes a bullet meant for him, Zeb vows to fulfill the preacher's mission of building a church. ... more about Hellfire
Not Available on DVD
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On their Wedding day, Kathleen and Standish McNeil are followed home by Kid Athens, (a wanted murderer), and Policeman Martin French (sent to get Kathleen as a witness). ... more about Ladies of the Big House
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. ... more about Lady from Cheyenne
Not Available on DVD
26
0.0001
When Joan Boothe accompanies husband-reporter David to Las Vegas, she begins gambling to pass the time while he is doing a story. ... more about Lady Gambles
Not Available on DVD
27
0.0001
Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. ... more about Letter for Evie
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
M'liss Smith, the wildcat daughter of Washoe Smith, lives a lively life in the small town founded by her father, a broken miner. However she is tamed under the influence of a handsome schoolteacher, Stephen Thorne. ... more about M'Liss
Not Available on DVD
30
0.0001
Frederich March plays nere-do-well Jerry Corbett, who finally meets and marries the right girl, Joan Prentiss, played by Sylvia Sydney. ... more about Merrily We Go to Hell
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Dinny and his cowhand friends rescue Laura from a runaway stagecoach after it is robbed by outlaw Pancho Dominguez and his gang. Dinny is attracted to Laura, who isn't interested in him at all. ... more about Ride
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Broadway press agent Nap Sisler (Ken Murray) sees a chance to make a national hit with a new dance, "The Baltimore Bubble", created by Greenvale filling-station attendant Johnny Bennett (Johnny Downs). Nap promotes dance instructor Professor L. ... more about Swing
Not Available on DVD
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The third of four Columbia shorts starring Joe DeRita, made across a period of 15 months from late 1946 to early-1948, has newlyweds Eddie (Joe DeRita) and Betty (Christine McIntyre) barely moved into their new house before Betty's mother (Esther ... more about Wedlock Deadlock
Not Available on DVD
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1.5913
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