Melville Cooper Movie Rankings
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3.1356
A shy millionaire, homeward bound after two years collecting snakes in the Brazilian jungle, encounters a gold-digger aboard an ocean liner. ... more about Lady Eve
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3.0177
When Phileas Fogg is challenged to prove his contention that a man can go around the world in 80 days, he bets his entire fortune and leaves with a new butler on a world tour. This Victorian adventure has a kicker, the bank of England has been robbed. ... more about Around the World in Eighty Days
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2.9931
Proud father Stanley Banks remembers the day his daughter, Kay, got married. Starting when she announces her engagement through to the wedding itself, we learn of all the surprises and disasters along the way. ... more about Father of the Bride
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2.9030
Gladys Glover has just lost her modelling job when she meets filmmaker Pete Sheppard shooting a documentary in Central Park. For Pete it's love at first sight, but Gladys has her mind on other things -- like making a name for herself. ... more about It Should Happen to You
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2.6209
Sonja plays a skating instructor at a Swiss hotel who falls in love with a guest, who is a secret, real life prince. ... more about Thin Ice
Not Available on DVD
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2.6026
Eve Appleton (Kay Francis), wife of small-town garage owner Bill Appleton (John Litel), has theatrical ambitions. Bill gets into an argument with a visiting actor over her, kills him accidently and is sent to prison. ... more about Comet Over Broadway
Not Available on DVD
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2.5707
Young hopefuls trying to stage a Broadway show on a shoestring are sustained with food by expert shoplifter Harpo. ... more about Love Happy
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2.5346
Documentary-style prologue follows training of O.S.S. agents for WWII work behind enemy lines. ... more about 13 Rue Madeleine
9
2.4894
Uncle Rollo finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love, Lark, he does not want to be disturbed in his last days. ... more about Enchantment
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2.4885
Not Available on DVD
11
2.3599
Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane (Joseph Cotton) invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to power rockets, and to show it's potential he plans to send a rocket to the moon. ... more about From the Earth to the Moon
Not Available on DVD
12
2.3579
In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen go up in bullet-riddled "crates" and the casualty rate is appalling, but Brand can't make the "brass hats" at headquarters see reason. ... more about Dawn Patrol
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2.3469
On a walking tour of English cathedrals, Donald Meadows meets Hester Granthem in church. Hearing he is from that hot-bed of crime, Chicago, Hester asks Donald to help her in a robbery she has planned. ... more about Bishop Misbehaves
Not Available on DVD
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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
15
2.2921
Ousted from their homeland by the Bolshevik revolution, a royal Russian couple find themselves impoverished and living in Paris. ... more about Tovarich
Not Available on DVD
16
2.2739
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Kelton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. ... more about Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Not Available on DVD
17
2.1825
Robert will do anything to get the big account that has eluded him. His public relations business makes public angels of rich scoundrels. Jean needs someone to save the paper and she wants Robert. ... more about Four's a Crowd
Not Available on DVD
18
2.1369
Leslie Howard plays Sir Percy Blakeney, an 18th century English aristocrat who leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre's Reign of Terror. ... more about Scarlet Pimpernel
19
2.1369
When Clive Randolph finally returns "home" from Gold Coast colony, younger brother John balks at following the family Colonial Service tradition. ... more about Sun Never Sets
Not Available on DVD
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2.0593
A veteran of World War I marries and settles happily into a tidy, humble life until an accident brings back memories of a former life of wealth and privilege while blocking all recollection of his existence since the war. ... more about Random Harvest
23
1.9695
French farce comes to the New World in 1840 as Claire Ledoux convinces the middle-aged banker who is her fiance that she is two different women -- a deception made necessary by the arrival of a man acquainted with the swath she cut across Europe. ... more about Flame of New Orleans
24
1.9642
The council of elders of outer space is deliberating on a very important subject: Must mankind be allowed to survive, or is it so esentially evil that it must be destroyed? A devil and an angel act as prosecutor and defense for the human race, and the ... more about Story of Mankind
Not Available on DVD
25
1.8264
When Charlie attends a police convention in New York he learns of sabotage slowing down production in aircraft plants. He, of course, enters the case. ... more about Murder Over New York
Not Available on DVD
26
1.7533
Out on patrol in the war-time desert a Canadian corporal reminisces about the woman he has left behind in London and ponders whether she will fall for the charms of his rival in love. ... more about Immortal Sergeant
27
1.7359
Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. ... more about Bundle of Joy
Not Available on DVD
28
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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Jackie Walsh (Barbara Hale), divorced from Vernon Walsh (Robert Young), faints just before her marriage to Herbert Fletcher (Robert Hutton) and learns she is pregnant, and ex-husband Vernon is the father-to-be. ... more about And Baby Makes Three
Not Available on DVD
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Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. ... more about Dramatic School
Not Available on DVD
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John Quinn is the ruthless manager of the night club Garden of the Moon. ... more about Garden of the Moon
Not Available on DVD
36
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When the representative of the Paris International Dance Exposition arrives in New York to invite the Academy Ballet of America to compete for monetary prizes, the taxi driver mistakenly brings him to the Club Ballé, a nightclub on the brink of declaring ... more about Gold Diggers in Paris
Not Available on DVD
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President Andrew Jackson's friendship with an innkeeper's daughter spells trouble for them both. ... more about Gorgeous Hussy
Not Available on DVD
38
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When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards (Olivia De Havilland) tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis (Dick Powell), he makes her work out her bill by making beds. ... more about Hard to Get
Not Available on DVD
39
0.0001
A young female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris. She is caught red-handed on her first attempt at stealing by an upper class man. ... more about Heartbeat
40
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One of the many films made at Republic with a year attached to the "Hit Parade" title, which came from the "Hit Parade" radio program sponsored by Lucky Strike cigarettes. ... more about Hit Parade of 1943
Not Available on DVD
41
0.0001
From Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press. ... more about Holy Matrimony
Not Available on DVD
42
0.0001
Sweeney Bliss (Bob Burns), champion mule raiser in Missouri, takes his prize mule Samson to London, where the British government is trying to decide whether to buy mules or tractors for its colonial troops. ... more about I'm from Missouri
Not Available on DVD
43
0.0001
Millicent Hopkins (Teresa Wright), while touring with a dancing troupe in 1892, meets Clive Loring (Ray Milland) who is campaigning in the English Midlands for Parliament. ... more about Imperfect Lady
Not Available on DVD
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Donald Elwood meets after the war his former USO partner, Kitty McNeil, who is now a rich widow with a little child. She tries to evade her paternal grandmother, who wants her to live in a way according to the customs of her dead husband's class. ... more about Let's Dance
Not Available on DVD
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Kathy lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas, a celebrated actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age and feeling trapped with her father in her small world, Kathy is delighted to meet fellow tenant Robert. ... more about Life Begins at Eight-Thirty
Not Available on DVD
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Shortly after the end of World War II, British Colonel Michael 'Hooky' Nicobar is assigned to a unit in the British Zone of Vienna. ... more about Red Danube
Not Available on DVD
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51
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Inspector Cork pursues a bank robber who serves in the army and receives facial injuries. After plastic surgery he shows up as a bank president planning an enormous robbery. ... more about Scotland Yard
Not Available on DVD
52
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Aristocratic Prudence Cathaway shocks her family by enlisting in the WAFs. After enlisting, a fellow WAF sets her up on a blind date with handsome, but moody Clive Briggs. ... more about This Above All
Not Available on DVD
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It's been a year since Bill Cardew was declared dead by drowning, and his widow Vicky is now married to his old friend and business partner, Henry Lowndes. ... more about Too Many Husbands
Not Available on DVD
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Mike Reese, yellow journalist and antihero, prints a story that leads to a gang killing, and is blacklisted from the city papers under suspicion of ties with racketeer Carl Durham. ... more about Underworld Story
Not Available on DVD
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On a ski trip, rich, idle Peter Kirk pursues and falls (literally) for Helen Hunt, M.D. After a courtship of hypochondria, she agrees to marry him on the condition that she continue to practice medicine. ... more about You Belong to Me
Not Available on DVD
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