Ian Wolfe Movie Rankings
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The film recounts a particularly eventful period in the life of notorious American communist John Reed (Beatty), who journeyed to Russia to witness the Bolshevik Revolution firsthand. Before that, he met the already wed Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton) in Portland in 1915. ... more about Reds
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3.2048
Classic Hitchcock. It is 1939 and Johnny Jones, a naive police reporter, is sent by his even more naive boss to cover a "crime" story that's unfolding in Europe: the potential outbreak of a second world war. ... more about Foreign Correspondent
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3.0971
Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. ... more about On Dangerous Ground
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3.0076
In this Walt Disney classic, which earned 14-year-old British actress Hayley Mills a special Honorary Academy Award for best Juvenile Performance, the imaginative, optimistic, and inquisitive... ... more about Pollyanna
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2.9850
Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. ... more about Julius Caesar
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2.8693
The Blandings live in New York in a tiny apartment. They decide to move to the country and find that buying and building and living in their own home is simpler said than done. ... more about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
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2.8674
In the 30s three prisoners flee from a state prison farm in Mississippi. ... more about They Live by Night
Not Available on DVD
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2.8670
THX 1138' is a chilling look at a 25th-century totalitarian state where mankind is stripped of any individuality. People are numbered drones, and a government-enforced program of sedating drugs controls the populace. ... more about THX 1138
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2.8307
Pete Garvey, foreign correspondent, has been running an impromptu adoption agency for war orphans in Paris, when an ultimatum from his erstwhile fiancée Emmadel Jones draws him back to Boston, complete with two adopted orphans to melt her heart. ... more about Here Comes the Groom
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2.8035
Nell Bowen, the spirited protege of rich Lord Mortimer, becomes interested in the conditions of notorious St. Mary's of Bethlehem Asylum (Bedlam). ... more about Bedlam
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2.6226
All Tess Trueheart wants is to settle down to a quiet life with her boyfriend, detective Dick Tracy. ... more about Dick Tracy
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2.6111
When sabotage destroys part of an aircraft plant, plant worker Barry Kane is falsely blamed for the crime. Determined to clear his name, he sets out to track down the man he believes to be the actual saboteur, the mysterious Mr. Fry. ... more about Saboteur
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2.6026
Two inept press agents are ordered to the island of St. Sebastian to get a zombie for an opening night publicity stunt of a nightclub. They find a likely source in Dr. Paul Renault, who has spent much time studying (and experimenting) on the subject. ... more about Zombies on Broadway
Not Available on DVD
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2.5806
The true story of General Billy Mitchell, a pioneering crusader for the Army's fledgling air corp. ... more about Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
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2.4604
A romanticized version of the life and times of the legendary escape artist , Harry Houdini. Chronicles his early beginnings in show business as a dime museum performer, to his ultimate (and inaccurate) death on stage in the Chinese Water Torture Cell. ... more about Houdini
Not Available on DVD
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2.4282
Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning. ... more about Barretts of Wimpole Street
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2.4169
During the Spanish Civil War, a republican courier travels to England to try and buy coal. He meets with an amount of local hostility, while his life is at risk from those on the fascist side. Support comes from an unlikely if attractive quarter. ... more about Confidential Agent
Not Available on DVD
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2.4117
A Greek artisan is commissioned to cast the cup of Christ in silver and sculpt around its rim the faces of the disciples and Jesus himself. He travels to Jerusalem and eventually to Rome to complete the task. ... more about Silver Chalice
Not Available on DVD
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2.3944
An eager scientist (John Carradine) tests his new formula for invisibility on an escaped fugitive (Jon Hall). When the formula works the criminal runs off to terrorize a family he believes cheated him out of a fortune years earlier. ... more about Invisible Man's Revenge
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2.3652
When a pearl with a sinister reputation for causing misfortune to its owners is stolen from a museum by a master criminal because of Sherlock Holmes' show-boating, he is naturally obliged to find it. ... more about Pearl of Death
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2.3386
Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet, to put himself under the protection of a certain Jeremy Fox. ... more about Moonfleet
Not Available on DVD
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2.3159
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate. ... more about Dressed to Kill
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2.2929
Having lost his heavyweight championship match, boxer Ernie Driscoll now drives a taxi for a living and earns the scorn of his nagging wife, Pauline, who blames him for her lack of social status. ... more about 99 River Street
Not Available on DVD
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2.2602
In British colonial America, Captain Swanson's adherence to the rules results in Trader Callendar's selling to the Indians under cover of a government permit. Jim Smith won't sit still for that. ... more about Allegheny Uprising
Not Available on DVD
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2.2586
A village in Canada has an old legend about a phantom that years ago killed three villagers. ... more about Scarlet Claw
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2.2373
Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his cantankerous old grandfather become inseparable friends. But Gramps is concerned for his grandson's future and wary of a scheming relative who seeks Pud's custody. ... more about On Borrowed Time
Not Available on DVD
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2.2199
Tony Warrin has it all: a popular pianist who plays any style, he has money, great clothes, a penthouse overlooking Central Park, a rich blond fiancée, a loyal brunette secretary secretly in love with him, and a date at Carnegie Hall. ... more about Sincerely Yours
Not Available on DVD
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2.1337
Professor Challenger leads team of scientists and adventurers to a remote plateau deep within the Amazonian jungle to investigate reports that dinosaurs still live there. ... more about Lost World
Not Available on DVD
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2.1090
Dr. Harry Wolper is a character. First he steals Boris, a new student assistant by promising him a co-ed's phone number. ... more about Creator
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2.1057
A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he is the legendary Colonel Desmond. ... more about Copper Canyon
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2.0964
A Polish rabbi wanders through the Old West on his way to lead a synagogue in San Francisco. On the way he is nearly burnt at the stake by Indians and almost killed by outlaws. ... more about Frisco Kid
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2.0912
Not Available on DVD
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2.0774
Colonel Ryder, the publisher of a magazine, dies while on vacation. Tony, his swinging nephew, inherits the magazine and takes over. Presently, the magazine is planning to expand and to do so they need some capital. ... more about All in a Night's Work
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2.0748
As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. ... more about Terminal Man
Not Available on DVD
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2.0638
Outlaw Wes McQueen is sprung from jail to help pull one last railroad job. He doesn't like his new partners - except dance-hall girl Colorado - and anyway fancies Julie Ann newly arrived from the east to set up home with her father. Maybe time to get out. ... more about Colorado Territory
Not Available on DVD
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2.0136
During WW II, one of the hits of the London stage is a play about a murderer who strangles his victims. ... more about Brighton Strangler
Not Available on DVD
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2.0090
Nick and Ellen's second honeymoon in Switzerland is interrupted when he is called back to Paris on business. But it turns out to be funny-business when he discovers his ex-mistress Linda sent him the telegram. ... more about Earthbound
Not Available on DVD
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2.0045
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marries the girl, confesses one night he didn't write the letters and ends up with a knife in his back. ... more about Love Letters
Not Available on DVD
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1.9825
Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress. Clinton gets fired and Ruth rejects the advances of Fred Whitmarsh. Her father gives her his seaman's spyglass to sell as she heads for New York City. ... more about Actress
Not Available on DVD
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1.9642
Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the Metropolitan Opera's patrons. ... more about Great Caruso
Not Available on DVD
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1.9634
Elizabeth and John say good-bye as John leaves to go to war. When the war ends, Elizabeth receives a telegram that her husband has been killed in action. She finds comfort in Harry and they marry. ... more about Tomorrow Is Forever
Not Available on DVD
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1.8346
This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a the Sheldon R. Wienberg military academy. The life of dicipline asks a lot of the four geeks. ... more about Up the Academy
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1.8173
Society lawyer Christopher Durant agrees to defend his friend Phil Siddall when Siddall is arrested for the murder of an ex-girlfriend. ... more about Society Lawyer
Not Available on DVD
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1.7684
Simon Cordier, a sculptor possessed by an evil spirit, hires a model to pose for him then learns thereafter that she has been brutally murdered. ... more about Diary of a Madman
Not Available on DVD
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1.7442
"Wicked" Lily Bishop joins a wagon train to California, led by Michael Fabian and Johnnny Trumbo, but news of the Gold Rush scatters the train. ... more about California
Not Available on DVD
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1.6894
English dancehall actress Julia Packett hasn't seen her daughter since Susan was a few months old, having given her up to be raised by her respectable and wealthy father William (whom Julia never divorced. ... more about Julia Misbehaves
Not Available on DVD
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1.6446
Lady Mary's father is innocently accused of treason and is executed. It is the king's evil chancellor, the duke of Brompton, who has found a way of getting rich by accusing his enemies of treason, having them killed and then expropriating their fortune. ... more about King's Thief
Not Available on DVD
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1.6208
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1.5201
The early 1900's with its Mann-Act (disallowing women to be transported across State lines for immoral reasons) brings a married man to devise a scheme for taking his upper-class girlfriend away with him... he simply has her marry his unmarried buddy. ... more about Fortune
Not Available on DVD
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1.5068
A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled and brain damaged in an auto wreck. ... more about Raven
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1.5018
When a quiet group of pensioners learn that their homes are to be torn down to make way for a block of flats, they decide to take action. ... more about Homebodies
Not Available on DVD
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1.4653
Ben, Larry, Alan, and Steve are about to graduate from college. ... more about Seniors
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1.2005
When his friend injures a little girl in a small southern town while driving drunk, country singer Paul agrees to state in court he had been driving. But his lawyer betrays him, and he ends up in a prison farm, sentenced to 5 years. ... more about Mean Dog Blues
Not Available on DVD
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1.0438
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. ... more about Jinxed!
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0.8748
Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. ... more about Checking Out
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0.0001
A Boston judge bored with his life leaves his family and heads off for adventure. He gets a job as a short-order cook at a roadside diner and soon finds romance with the pretty owner. He also gets involved in helping her adopt an orphan. ... more about Judge Steps Out
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. ... more about 1
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The Commandant is making life rough for the colonials in Spanish California. While trying to help, Zorro is charged with the murder of the new Governor, but in the end he triumphs over the evil Commandant. ... more about Bold Caballero
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Two industrialists disappear from an airplane while the plane is in the air. Also missing is $100,000. The Falcon investigates and discovers a plot against the government. ... more about Falcon in Danger
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
The Falcon rescues Louisa Braganza from kidnappers who want her father's secret formula for making diamonds. Her father's murder is pinned on the Falcon and, when he and she flee to Florida, another murder seems to confirm his guilt. ... more about Falcon's Adventure
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
The scrap of the Shakespeare manuscript is priceless. Nick Torrent owns it and is selling it. But then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. ... more about Fast and Loose
Not Available on DVD
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Set during the first World War in neutral, but pro-German, Holland, Lewis Allison (Brian Aherne), an interned British officer, is paroled to the castle of Baron Von Leyden (Jean Hersholt) and finds living there, but now married to German officer Rupert ... more about Fountain
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Gaby is a ballet dancer in 1944 London who happens to bump into a corporal Greg while rushing to catch the bus. Greg is mesmerized by Gaby and goes to the ballet to see her on stage, but Gaby is French and wants nothing to do with Greg. ... more about Gaby
Not Available on DVD
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A woman sets out to prove that a writer's ideas about "savages" are wrong. ... more about Her Primitive Man
Not Available on DVD
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Jan Stewart, a new teacher at The Oaks, a boys' boarding school, becomes instructor and mother-figure to a class of twelve. She must overcome the disapproval of Joe Hargrave, head of the lower school, who has misgivings about Jan's inexperience. ... more about Her Twelve Men
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the French, and convinces King Charles II to sponsor an expedition of conquest. ... more about Hudson's Bay
Not Available on DVD
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Joe heads for South America to fight the Latin champ. Shipboard, he helps federal agents fight counterfeiters. He also spars with love interest Anne Howe. ... more about Joe Palooka in the Counterpunch
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With a storm approaching, Hoppy and his pals take refuge in a church in an abandoned town, When Riker and his men arrive to tear the church down, Hoppy kicks them out. Riker then has the church surrounded and those inside find themselves prisoners. ... more about Marauders
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Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pursuit by the relentless policeman Javert, a pursuit that consumes both men's lives for many years. ... more about Miserables
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0.0001
An unusual but affectionate story of a man's longing for his ideal of peace and serenity. A postman and part-time poet is inspired by the Greek legend of the two elderly guards at Jupiter's temple who are transformed into beautiful trees. ... more about Mr. Sycamore
Not Available on DVD
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"Mystery of the River Boat" (the correct title shown on the film and all of the posters, lobby cards, pressbook and the other original paper from this film, despite the title shown on the video cover) while ending each chapter with a cliffhanger is more ... more about Mystery of the River Boat
Not Available on DVD
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Orphaned Tommy Ryan(Tommy Ryan)is informed that the money from his father's estate has run out, and he will have to leave the Holbrook Military Academy. ... more about Orphans of the Street
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Alison Kirbe of London, receives a telegram from Texas, that she has inherited a livestock ranch. It is plastered throughout the London newspapers that Alison has become a rich heiress, and is sailing to the United Slates alone to claim her inheritance. ... more about Please Believe Me
Not Available on DVD
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Always the diplomat, Alex Hazen is slow to take sides in Europe of the 1920s and 1930s. Cassie Bowwman wants him to be more decisive and leaves him in Rome just as Mussolini is coming to power. ... more about Searching Wind
Not Available on DVD
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Kay Murdock (Lynn Bari) strolls into the Dixie Bar in Shanghai on November 1, 1941 and asks the bartender for a letter addressed to Captain Larsen, and is referred to Roy Bonnell (Preston Foster), the manager of this combination bar and gambling house. ... more about Secret Agent of Japan
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