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Humphrey Bogart
Birthdate: December 25, 1899
Death date: January 14, 1957

Humphrey Bogart

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1930s
3.8685
33
total ranking of 3.8685
1940s
3.2885
25
total ranking of 3.2885
1950s
3.0561
15
total ranking of 3.0561
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Humphrey Bogart is ranked overall as 3.1236 of of 4 stars3.1236

Humphrey Bogart Movie Rankings

1
Humphrey Bogart starring in Casablanca
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.9536 out of 4 stars for Casablanca3.9536
Expatriate and nightclub owner Rick Blaine is faced with the decision to help an old girlfriend's resistance-fighter husband escape the Nazis at the beginning of WWII. ...more about Casablanca
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
2
Humphrey Bogart starring in Maltese Falcon
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.5377 out of 4 stars for Maltese Falcon3.5377
Sam Spade is a partner in a private-eye firm who finds himself hounded by police when his partner is killed whilst tailing a man. ...more about Maltese Falcon
3
Humphrey Bogart starring in Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.4197 out of 4 stars for Treasure of the Sierra Madre3.4197
Three men set to the hills for lost treasure. They agree to split the gold three ways, but as they work they become distrustful of each other and grow increasingly paranoid they begin turn on each other. ...more about Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4
Big Sleep, The (1946)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.3104 out of 4 stars for Big Sleep3.3104
Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) is a private eye that is hired by the dying General Sternwood, a rich and prominent man, to watch his young troubled daughter the girl that has fallen in with the wrong crowd. ...more about Big Sleep
5
African Queen, The (1951)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.1952 out of 4 stars for African Queen3.1952
At the start of WWI, Charlie Allnut is using his old steamer, The African Queen, to ferry supplies to villages in East Africa. When the Rev. Samual Sayer dies, Charlie agrees to take Sayer's sister, Rose, back to civilization. ...more about African Queen
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
  • Not Available on DVD
6
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.1551 out of 4 stars for Angels with Dirty Faces3.1551
Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connolly were tough kids who grew up together in the toughest part of New York --- Hell's Kitchen. Early on, Rocky gets sent to reform school, where he learns how to be a first class criminal. ...more about Angels with Dirty Faces
7
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.1222 out of 4 stars for To Have and Have Not3.1222
Harry Morgan and his alcoholic sidekick, Eddie, are based on the island of Martinique and crew a boat available for hire. ...more about To Have and Have Not
8
Key Largo (1948)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.1077 out of 4 stars for Key Largo3.1077
A man visits his old friend's hotel and finds a gangster running things. As a hurricane approaches, the two end up confronting each other. ...more about Key Largo
9
Petrified Forest, The (1936)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 3.0903 out of 4 stars for Petrified Forest3.0903
Alan Squier, a failed, world-weary British writer, hikes into an isolated, weather-beaten desert café in Arizona owned by Jason Marple. ...more about Petrified Forest
10
Dark Victory (1939)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.9481 out of 4 stars for Dark Victory2.9481
Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor will come back and eventually kill her. ...more about Dark Victory
11
Dead End (1937)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.9192 out of 4 stars for Dead End2.9192
Gangster Baby Face Martin goes back to the East Side street where he grew up to see his mother, who denounces him as a murderer, and his childhood girlfriend who is now a streetwalker. ...more about Dead End
12
Caine Mutiny, The (1954)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.9088 out of 4 stars for Caine Mutiny2.9088
A group of officers get a new captain during WW II. The new captain is different and they begin to suspect his sanity. ...more about Caine Mutiny
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
13
Beat the Devil (1953)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8985 out of 4 stars for Beat the Devil2.8985
A quartet of international crooks -- Peterson, O'Hara, Ross and Ravello -- is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. ...more about Beat the Devil
14
Desperate Hours, The (1955)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8902 out of 4 stars for Desperate Hours2.8902
Dan Hilliard is a comfortable upper-middle-class executive with a wife and two children and a pleasant suburban home. His world seems quite in order, quite predictable. ...more about Desperate Hours
15
In a Lonely Place (1950)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8807 out of 4 stars for In a Lonely Place2.8807
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. ...more about In a Lonely Place
16
Sabrina (1954)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8661 out of 4 stars for Sabrina2.8661
Linus and Davis Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work -- busily running the family corporate empire, he has no time for a wife and family. ...more about Sabrina
17
They Drive by Night (1940)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8575 out of 4 stars for They Drive by Night2.8575
Brothers Paul and Joe Fabrini run a trucking business in California mainly shipping fruit from farms to the markets in Los Angeles. They struggle to make ends meet in the face of corrupt businessmen and intense competition. ...more about They Drive by Night
18
Dark Passage (1947)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8498 out of 4 stars for Dark Passage2.8498
Bogart plays a man convicted of murdering his wife who escapes from prison in order to prove his innocence. Bogart finds that his features are too well known, and is forced to seek some illicit backroom plastic surgery. ...more about Dark Passage
19
Harder They Fall, The (1956)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.8028 out of 4 stars for Harder They Fall2.8028
Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protege, an unknown Argentinian named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, he possesses a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. ...more about Harder They Fall
20
Swing Your Lady (1938)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.7487 out of 4 stars for Swing Your Lady2.7487
Promoter Ed Hatch comes to the Ozarks with his slow-witted wrestler Joe Skopapoulos whom he pits against a hillbilly Amazon blacksmith, Sadie Horn. Joe falls in love with her and won't fight. At least not until Sadie's beau Noah shows up. ...more about Swing Your Lady
  • Not Available on DVD
21
Barefoot Contessa, The (1954)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.7404 out of 4 stars for Barefoot Contessa2.7404
Has-been director Harry Dawes gets a new lease on his career when independently wealthy Kirk Edwards hires him to write and direct a film. They go to Madrid to find Maria Vargas, a dancer who will star in the film. ...more about Barefoot Contessa
22
Marked Woman (1937)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.7295 out of 4 stars for Marked Woman2.7295
Mary Dwight works as a hostess at the Club Intime run by ruthless gangster Johnny Vanning. When one of her "clients" is murdered prosecutor David Graham questions Mary but she won't cooperate and Vanning is acquitted. ...more about Marked Woman
23
Knock on Any Door (1949)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.7049 out of 4 stars for Knock on Any Door2.7049
Andrew Morton is an attorney who made it out of the slums. Nick Romano is his client, a young man with a long string of crimes behind him. ...more about Knock on Any Door
  • Not Available on DVD
24
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.6834 out of 4 stars for Dead Reckoning2.6834
Rip Murdock and Johnny Darke are en route to Washington when Johnny disappears and then turns up dead. Rip learns that Johnny had been accused of murder and sets out to find out what he can. ...more about Dead Reckoning
25
Across the Pacific (1942)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.6468 out of 4 stars for Across the Pacific2.6468
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-marshaled out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. ...more about Across the Pacific
26
High Sierra (1941)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.6049 out of 4 stars for High Sierra2.6049
Roy 'Mad Dog' Earle is broken out of prison by an old associate who wants him to help with an upcoming robbery. ...more about High Sierra
27
Crime School (1938)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.5752 out of 4 stars for Crime School2.5752
Deputy Commissioner of Correction Mark Braden finds a reform school in terrible condition and assumes control himself. He wins the boy's cooperation by being fair and falls in love with gang leader Frankie's sister Sue. ...more about Crime School
  • Not Available on DVD
28
Bullets or Ballots (1936)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.5433 out of 4 stars for Bullets or Ballots2.5433
After Police Captain Dan McLaren becomes police commissioner former detective Johnny Blake knocks him down convincing rackets boss Al Kruger that Blake is sincere in his effort to join the mob. "Buggs" Fenner thinks Blake is a police agent. ...more about Bullets or Ballots
29
Virginia City (1940)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.5417 out of 4 stars for Virginia City2.5417
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. Once there he finds that the former commander of his prison Vance Irby is planning to send $5 million in gold to save the Confederacy. ...more about Virginia City
  • Not Available on DVD
30
Tokyo Joe (1949)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.5350 out of 4 stars for Tokyo Joe2.5350
Joe Barrett returns to Tokyo after World War II where he once owned a bar, Tokyo Joe's, and deserted his wife Trina. They have a seven-year-old daughter. ...more about Tokyo Joe
31
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.5332 out of 4 stars for Action in the North Atlantic2.5332
Lieutenant Joe Rossi is 1st Officer on a Liberty Ship in a great convoy bound from Halifax to Murmansk. After German subs crushed the convoy his ship loses the convoy and is heading alone to Murmansk. ...more about Action in the North Atlantic
32
Stand-In (1937)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.5083 out of 4 stars for Stand-In2.5083
Atterbury Dodd is an efficiency expert who believes everything can be reduced to mathematics. He is sent to Hollywood to see whether Colossal Pictures is a good investment. He soon learns that movie production doesn't fit his formulaic mindset. ...more about Stand-In
33
China Clipper (1936)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.4930 out of 4 stars for China Clipper2.4930
Inspired by Lindbergh's flight, Dave Logan sets out with a Washington-Philadelphia airline but suffers financial problems. With flying ace Hap Stuart he tries clipper ships on the Caribbean, then aims for the trans-Pacific route. ...more about China Clipper
  • Not Available on DVD
34
Brother Orchid (1940)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.4869 out of 4 stars for Brother Orchid2.4869
Gang boss Little John Sarto returns from Europe where he was looking for "class" to find his old mob taken over by Jack Burns. When he puts together a rival gang he gets wounded and seeks refuge in a monastery. ...more about Brother Orchid
  • Not Available on DVD
35
Sahara (1943/I)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.4504 out of 4 stars for Sahara2.4504
Sergeant Joe Gunn and his tank crew pick up five British soldiers, a Frenchman and a Sudanese man with an Italian prisoner crossing the Libyan Desert to rejoin their command after the fall of Tobruk. They and the Germans are greatly in need of water. ...more about Sahara
36
Black Legion (1937)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.4382 out of 4 stars for Black Legion2.4382
Frank Taylor joins the "pro-American" Black Legion when he loses his chance at foremanship to a foreign-born man. The organization is a sort of Ku Klux Klan in the industrial sphere. ...more about Black Legion
  • Not Available on DVD
37
Roaring Twenties, The (1939)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.4200 out of 4 stars for Roaring Twenties2.4200
After the WWI Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. ...more about Roaring Twenties
38
It All Came True (1940)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.3652 out of 4 stars for It All Came True2.3652
Nightclub entertainer Sarah Ryan and songwriter Tommy Taylor move in to the boardinghouse run by their mothers Maggie and Norah. Tommy brings along Mr. Grasselli, a "nervous wreck" who keeps to himself.. Sarah recognizes him as the gangster Chips Maguire. ...more about It All Came True
  • Not Available on DVD
39
Two Mrs. Carrolls, The (1947)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.3591 out of 4 stars for Two Mrs. Carrolls2.3591
Struggling artist Gerry Carroll meets Sally whilst on holiday in the country. A romance develops but he doesn't tell her he's already married. ...more about Two Mrs. Carrolls
  • Not Available on DVD
40
San Quentin (1937)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.3469 out of 4 stars for San Quentin2.3469
Ex-Army officer Jameson takes a job a prison guard at San Quentin. Joe, the brother of his new girlfriend May, is sentenced to the prison for robbery. ...more about San Quentin
41
Men Are Such Fools (1938)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.3241 out of 4 stars for Men Are Such Fools2.3241
Linda Lawrence rises from secretary to account executive in an advertising agency. She falls in love with ex-football star Jimmy Hall and marries him. ...more about Men Are Such Fools
  • Not Available on DVD
42
Three on a Match (1932)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.3104 out of 4 stars for Three on a Match2.3104
After being apart for years three women, friends at school, meet and bring each other up to date on their lives. Mary has been in reform school and is an entertainer. Vivian is married to an attorney and has a son she idolizes. Ruth works as a secretary. ...more about Three on a Match
43
Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, The (1938)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.2465 out of 4 stars for Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse2.2465
Dr. Clitterhouse is fascinated with the working of the criminal mind. ...more about Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  • Not Available on DVD
44
Conflict (1945)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.1095 out of 4 stars for Conflict2.1095
Richard Mason is slightly injured in a car accident but pretends greater hurt so that he cannot accompany his wife Kathryn on a trip to the mountains. He does, however, kill her on a lonely mountain road. ...more about Conflict
  • Not Available on DVD
45
All Through the Night (1942)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.1072 out of 4 stars for All Through the Night2.1072
Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton leaving the bakery. When her boss Marty's partner Joe is murdered, Leda and her accompanist Pepi disappear. ...more about All Through the Night
46
Kid Galahad (1937)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.0958 out of 4 stars for Kid Galahad2.0958
When a bellhop knocks out fighter Chuck McGraw, promoter Nick Donati realizes he's a potential champ. "Kid Galahad" justifies Nick's confidence, but Nick's mistress Fluff falls for him; in turn, the Kid falls for Nick's young sister. ...more about Kid Galahad
  • Not Available on DVD
47
Enforcer, The (1951)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.0328 out of 4 stars for Enforcer2.0328
After years of pursuit, Assistant D.A. Martin Ferguson has a good case against Murder, Inc. boss Albert Mendoza. Mendoza is in jail and his lieutenant Joseph Rico is going to testify. ...more about Enforcer
48
Oklahoma Kid, The (1939)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 2.0319 out of 4 stars for Oklahoma Kid2.0319
McCord's gang robs the stage carrying money to pay Indians for their land, and the notorious outlaw "The Oklahoma Kid" Jim Kincaid takes the money from McCord. ...more about Oklahoma Kid
  • Not Available on DVD
49
Two Against the World (1936)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 1.8173 out of 4 stars for Two Against the World1.8173
Martha Carstairs was charged with murder twenty years earlier. Now, as her daughter Edith is about to be married to Malcolm Sims Jr. ...more about Two Against the World
  • Not Available on DVD
50
Invisible Stripes (1939)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 1.7990 out of 4 stars for Invisible Stripes1.7990
Cliff and Chuck leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. ...more about Invisible Stripes
  • Not Available on DVD
51
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 1.7488 out of 4 stars for Thank Your Lucky Stars1.7488
Two producers are putting together a Calvacade of Stars for a wartime charity show. Along with a list of well-knowns they promote the work of an unknown singer and songwriter. ...more about Thank Your Lucky Stars
  • Not Available on DVD
52
Midnight (1934)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 1.3698 out of 4 stars for Midnight1.3698
Jury foreman Edward Weldon's questioning leads to the death sentence for Ethel Saxon. His daughter Stella claims to have killed her lover, the gangster Gar Boni, just as Saxon was to sit in the electric chair. ...more about Midnight
53
Return of Doctor X, The (1939)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 1.2785 out of 4 stars for Return of Doctor X1.2785
New York newspaper reporter Walter Barnett finds himself out of a job after he claims to have found actress Angela Merrova dead in her apartment - only the next day she showed up alive and threatened to sue the paper. ...more about Return of Doctor X
54
Battle Circus (1953)
Humphrey Bogart scores a combined 1.2040 out of 4 stars for Battle Circus1.2040
Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. There she meets and is roughly romanced by Major Jed Webbe, one of the unit's surgeons. ...more about Battle Circus
  • Not Available on DVD
55
Bad Sister, The (1931)
No Reviews Available
Marianne falls in love with con man Valentine who uses their relation to get her father's endorsement on a money-raising scheme. He runs off with the money and Marianne, later dumping her. Her sister Laura loves Dr. ...more about Bad Sister
  • Not Available on DVD
56
Big Shot, The (1942)
No Reviews Available
Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. ...more about Big Shot
  • Not Available on DVD
57
Body and Soul (1931)
No Reviews Available
Andress, Watson and Johnson are with a Royal Air Force squadron in France. When Watson is killed in combat, Andrews tries to return the letters Watson received from a girl called "Pom-Pom. ...more about Body and Soul
  • Not Available on DVD
58
Chain Lightning (1950)
No Reviews Available
Matt Brennan runs into Jo Holloway, the Red Cross girl he romanced in Europe when he was a flyer in World War II, when he is offered a job by jet manufacturer Leland Willis as a test pilot. Carl Troxell, wants to sell an escape cockpit to the Air Force. ...more about Chain Lightning
  • Not Available on DVD
59
Deadline - U.S.A. (1952)
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Ed Hutcheson, tough editor of the New York 'Day', finds that the late owner's heirs are selling the crusading paper to a strictly commercial rival. At first he sees impending unemployment as an opportunity to win back his estranged wife Nora. ...more about Deadline - U.S.A.
  • Not Available on DVD
60
Devil with Women, A (1930)
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Soldier of fortune Maxton is stranded in a Central American country. He and Tom, the nephew of the country's richest man, try to end Morloff's banditry but just barely escape a firing squad. They become rivals for Rosita. ...more about Devil with Women
  • Not Available on DVD
61
Great O'Malley, The (1937)
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Officer O'Malley arrests John Phillips for a traffic violation and costs him a chance at a good job. Phillips has a wife and crippled child, so he commits robbery and O'Malley sends him to prison. After this O'Malley becomes closer to Phillips' family. ...more about Great O'Malley
  • Not Available on DVD
62
Holy Terror, A (1931)
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Eastern millionaire's son Bard finds his father murdered and flies west to see rancher Drew who may know something about it. En route he crashes his plane into Jerry's bathroom; she falls in love with him which makes her suitor Steve jealous. ...more about Holy Terror
  • Not Available on DVD
63
Isle of Fury (1936)
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In the South Seas, Val Stevens and Lucille Gordon are getting married when a ship goes down offshore. Val rescues Captain Deever and passenger Eric Blacke. Later Eric saves Val from an octopus. ...more about Isle of Fury
  • Not Available on DVD
64
King of the Underworld (1939)
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Niles and Carol Niles are married doctors who save one of ganglord Gurney's men. Gurney exploits them, then kills Niles leaving Carol to take the fall. He next kidnaps writer Bill Forrest to write his biography. ...more about King of the Underworld
  • Not Available on DVD
65
Left Hand of God, The (1955)
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A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. ...more about Left Hand of God
  • Not Available on DVD
66
Love Affair (1932)
No Reviews Available
Heiress Carol Owen learns to fly from aeronautical engineer Jim Leonard who begins neglecting his work as their affair progresses. ...more about Love Affair
  • Not Available on DVD
67
Passage to Marseille (1944)
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As French bomber crews prepare an air raid from a base in England, we learn the story of Matrac, a French journalist who opposed the Munich Pact. Framed for murder and sent to Devil's Island, he and four others escape. ...more about Passage to Marseille
68
Racket Busters (1938)
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Manhattan gangster Pete Martin enters the trucking business in an effort to control the produce market. When he catches popular trucker Danny Jordan robbing the gang's office to provide for his pregnant wife Nora, Martin forces Jordan to join him. ...more about Racket Busters
  • Not Available on DVD
69
Sirocco (1951)
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In 1925 Damascus Harry Smith runs guns to the rebels under Emir Hassan. The French arrest him along with others and force him to sell weapons to them. He develops an interest in French intelligence officer Feroud's mistress Violette. ...more about Sirocco
70
Up the River (1930)
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Two prisoners, Saint Louis and Dannemora Dan, escape during a theatrical production in order to go to the aid of Steve, a former prisoner whose past is about to be exposed by the man who framed Judy unless Steve agrees to help him commit another crime. ...more about Up the River
  • Not Available on DVD
71
Wagons Roll at Night, The (1941)
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A lion escapes Nick Coster's carnival and is captured by grocery clerk Matt Varney whom Nick brings into the show and eventually makes chief lion tamer. ...more about Wagons Roll at Night
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72
We're No Angels (1955)
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Three convicts escape from Devil's Island and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. ...more about We're No Angels
73
You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939)
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Johnnie learns crime from petty thug Frank Wilson. When Wilson kills a pawnbroker with a gun stolen from Johnnie's sister Madge's fiance Fred Burke, Fred goes to Sing Sing's death house. ...more about You Can't Get Away with Murder
  • Not Available on DVD