Michael Curtiz Movie Rankings
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3.9536
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
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3.6588
Sir Robin of Locksley, defender of downtrodden Saxons, runs afoul of Norman authority and is forced to turn outlaw. ... more about Adventures of Robin Hood
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3.3892
A musical portrait of composer/singer/dancer George M. Cohan. From his early days as a child-star in his family's vaudeville show up to the time of his comeback at which he received a medal from the president for his special contributions to the US, this is the life- story of George M. ... more about Yankee Doodle Dandy
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3.2836
This classic Christmas movie takes place at the end of WW II where two performing Officers, Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and Phil Davis (Danny Kaye), return from war and team up with to performing sisters Betty Haynes (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen). ... more about White Christmas
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3.2152
A young Irish doctor is exiled as a slave to Barbados where he captures a Spanish galleon and becomes the most feared pirate of the Caribbean. ... more about Captain Blood
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3.1661
A woman's ambitions for her daughter change her life. ... more about Mildred Pierce
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3.1206
Two friends who grew up together in the slums of New York City take divergent paths as adults: one becomess a priest, the other a gangster. ... more about Angels with Dirty Faces
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3.0333
The adventures of a piratical sea fighter, Geoffrey Thorpe, commander of a British sailing ship that preys on Spanish commerce in the late 16th century. Also focuses on internal politics within the court of Elizabeth I who secretly condones Thorpe's buccaneering activities. ... more about Sea Hawk
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2.9740
In late nineteenth century New York a Wall Street broker likes to think his house runs his way, but finds himself constantly bemused at how much of what happens is down to his wife. ... more about Life with Father
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2.8344
Danny Fisher, young delinquent, flunks out of high school. He quits his job as a busboy in a nightclub, and one night he gets the chance to perform. ... more about King Creole
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2.7319
In London, sculptor Ivan Igor struggles in vain to prevent his partner Worth from burning his wax museum...and his 'children.' Years later, Igor starts a new museum in New York, but his maimed hands confine him to directing lesser artists. ... more about Mystery of the Wax Museum
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2.7296
Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. ... more about Dodge City
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2.6976
A monster lurks as New York newspaperman Lee Taylor investigates one of the "Moon Killer" murders, in which the victims are strangled, cannibalized and surgically incised under the light of the full moon. The trail leads to the cliffside mansion of Dr. ... more about Doctor X
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2.6665
Nicole Picot is working as a model in a Paris dress salon when she is picked by Stefan Orloff to help him convince a wealthy investor that he is well connected. She is to wear an expensive dress and dine with them because she has "class. ... more about Stolen Holiday
Not Available on DVD
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2.6576
Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. ... more about Young Man with a Horn
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2.6270
After giving the District Attorney another stinging defeat, Perry plans to take a vacation in China. That is, he was, until Rhoda, his old flame, meets him at a restaurant. ... more about Case of the Curious Bride
Not Available on DVD
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2.6171
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. ... more about Egyptian
Not Available on DVD
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2.5844
Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely. ... more about Kennel Murder Case
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2.5592
Humphrey van Weyden, a writer, and fugitives Ruth Webster and George Leach have been given refuge aboard the sealer "Ghost," captained by the cruel Wolf Larsen. ... more about Sea Wolf
Not Available on DVD
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2.5545
Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of renegade arms merchants and thieves known as Comancheros. ... more about Comancheros
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2.5417
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
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2.5410
Major Vickers is an officer at the 27th Lancers in India 1856. When the regiment is on maneuver, the barracks are attacked by Surat Khan and his soldiers who massacre British women and children. ... more about Charge of the Light Brigade
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2.5341
Michael Curtiz directs a Western that is almost of epic proportions, and screenwriters Warren Duff and Robert Buckner greatly assist in bringing about a snazzy script that is based on Clements Ripley's story. ... more about Gold Is Where You Find It
Not Available on DVD
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2.5030
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned down the family home--a Confederate veteran finds himself facing a 30-day jail sentence when he's ... more about Proud Rebel
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2.4656
A gang of racketeers frames down-on-his-luck John Elman for murder. After a trial finds him guilty, evidence is brought forth proving his innocence, but it is too late and he is executed anyway. ... more about Walking Dead
Not Available on DVD
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2.4611
The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s. ... more about Night and Day
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2.4565
British officer (William Powell) is assigned to duty in Ireland and gets embroiled in Anglo-Irish battles and old girl friend (Edna Best) who is now married to an Irishman (Colin Clive). ... more about Key
Not Available on DVD
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2.4565
Russian refugee Tanya Borisoff is suddenly abandoned penniless in Rangoon, Burma, by her lover, Tony Evans, who accepted a gunrunning deal from Nick, the owner of an amoral nightclub. ... more about Mandalay
Not Available on DVD
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2.3994
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. ... more about Four Daughters
Not Available on DVD
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2.3926
A new flight surgeon and a Navy pilot overcome personal differences to work on solving the problem of Altitude Sickness which causes blackouts at high altitude. ... more about Dive Bomber
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2.3652
Brian McLean is a ruthless bush-pilot in Canada. He offers some other pilots an opportunity of earning a lot of money, but he marries the girl-friend of one of them. ... more about Captains of the Clouds
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2.2556
Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. ... more about My Dream Is Yours
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2.2465
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with a young woman the puppeteer is also in love with. ... more about Mad Genius
Not Available on DVD
38
2.2373
Unscrupulous investigator of lost heirs Jimmy Corrigan loses his love Joan Martin to apparently upright competitor James Wallingham. He counters by adding a veneer of respectability to his own operation. Meanwhile he exposes Wallingham for a fraud. ... more about Jimmy the Gent
Not Available on DVD
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2.2351
After a short split prologue showing riches as the root of evil in ancient and modern times, the film settles into 1914 France, where the Orient Express is about to be wrecked when a bridge washes out. ... more about Noah's Ark
Not Available on DVD
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2.2252
The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and battles against John Brown in the days leading up to the outbreak of the American Civil War. ... more about Santa Fe Trail
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2.1971
Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability. ... more about Trouble Along the Way
Not Available on DVD
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2.1560
Ray Henderson joins Buddy De Sylva and Lew Brown to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. They soon have several hits on Broadway but De Sylva's personal ambition leads to friction as the other two increasingly feel left out of things. ... more about Best Things in Life Are Free
Not Available on DVD
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2.1186
Carnival dancer Lane Bellamy finds herself stranded in a southern town ruled by corrupt political boss Titus Semple. Lane becomes romantically involved with sheriff Fielding Carlisle, a weakling whose career is being driven by Titus. ... more about Flamingo Road
Not Available on DVD
44
2.1049
Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance. While working in the general store he learns that the owner has been cheating his tenants. ... more about Cabin in the Cotton
Not Available on DVD
45
2.0958
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
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2.0821
Alison is owner and successful manager of an automobile factory. She also has a good relation to her employees - especially the male ones, which she is known to invite to her bed for some time and then dump quickly. ... more about Female
Not Available on DVD
47
2.0775
Tom Connors is sentenced to Sing Sing believing his influential friends will soon have him out on parole. A trouble maker, he gets ninety days in solitary and no parole. ... more about 20
Not Available on DVD
48
2.0524
A girl has been murdered. A woman (Joan Caulfield) cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Claude Rains is Joan's uncle and nosts a radio murder mystery show called the "Unsuspected". That is the crux of this good murder-mystery. ... more about Unsuspected
Not Available on DVD
49
1.8546
Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. ... more about Breaking Point
Not Available on DVD
50
1.8036
Socialite Elvira Kent suspects her husband of fooling around with other women. When he announces he can't join her on their scheduled ocean voyage, she hires a nightclub singer, Georgia Garrett, to pose as her on the cruise. ... more about Romance on the High Seas
51
1.7787
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. ... more about Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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1.1377
True story of Native American Jim Thorpe, who rose from an Oklahoma reservation to become a collegiate, Olympic, and professional star. ... more about Jim Thorpe -- All-American
Not Available on DVD
54
1.0419
John Hamilton leaves a comfortable New York job to take up as an artist in a quiet Connecticut town. His dipso wife hates the life and falsely makes him out to be selfish, unsuccessful, and, worst, someone who hits her. ... more about Man in the Net
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Karl is the workaholic adopted son while Stephan is the lazy one. They both go to Munich to study medicine and Karl is at the top of the class while Stephan is barely passing. ... more about Alias the Doctor
Not Available on DVD
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Tom Brewster, handy with a rope but not a gun, rides into town and mails his lawyer's exam. When his lack of ability with a gun is exposed, the town boss Turlock offers him the job of Sheriff but he refuses. ... more about Boy from Oklahoma
Not Available on DVD
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Once, magnate Major Singleton ran the Royles out of the Kingsmont tobacco country for daring to make lowly cigarettes. Now in 1894, Brant Royle, last of his name, is back. ... more about Bright Leaf
Not Available on DVD
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Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. ... more about Daughters Courageous
Not Available on DVD
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Winter, 1943. The German army has halted the American advance in the mountains of Italy; back-and-forth combat decimates Joe Peterson's platoon. ... more about Force of Arms
Not Available on DVD
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In this sequel to Four Daughters, Adam Lemp and his daughters have gone on with life after the death of Mickey Borden. Ann, Mickey's widow, falls in love with Felix Dietz, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child. ... more about Four Wives
Not Available on DVD
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Reporter Curt Devlin loves sob sister Ellen Garfield but believes women are "bum newspapermen". When she learns the identity of a murdered arsonist, he calls it luck. ... more about Front Page Woman
Not Available on DVD
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A marshal nicknamed "The Hangman" because of his track record in hunting down and capturing wanted criminals traces a robbery suspect to a small town. ... more about Hangman
Not Available on DVD
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The 1920's and 30's career of singer Helen Morgan is followed from her early days singing outdoors in a carnival, through her speak-easy and chorus-girl days, to her stardom on Broadway in Ziegfeld's "Show Boat". ... more about Helen Morgan Story
Not Available on DVD
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0.0001
Janie is a scatter-brained and high spirited teenage girl living in the small town of Hortonville. World War II causes the establishment of an army camp just outside town. ... more about Janie
Not Available on DVD
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Anne Brooks is being blackmailed by her old dancing partner Maurice. They married when she was young but broke up after which he said he was getting a quickie divorce. ... more about Keyhole
Not Available on DVD
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Jennifer Smith heads a "Consumer Reports"-type company and her reputation for honesty is her greatest asset. While out boating one day she encounters a secret prototype submarine piloted by Bill Craig. ... more about Lady Takes a Sailor
Not Available on DVD
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It is the fifth anniversary of the death of Adolphe Noblet who died in a train wreck. His servant and friends still worship him but don't care much for his wife Sylvaine's second husband Gustave with whom she has recently had a child. ... more about Matrimonial Bed
Not Available on DVD
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Mission to Moscow was made at the behest of F.D.R. in order to garner more support for the Soviet Union during WWII. It was from the book by Joseph E. Davies, former U.S. Ambassador To Russia. ... more about Mission to Moscow
Not Available on DVD
85
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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
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In the 1920s, enterprising Louise Randall is determined to succeed in a man's world. She enrolls at business college but her plans for a career change when she falls in love with handsome Rodney Crane. ... more about Roughly Speaking
Not Available on DVD
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Set during the American Revolution, this colorful 2 reel short tells the story of Haym Salomon, American patriot and financier of the American Revolution. ... more about Sons of Liberty
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In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. ... more about This Is the Army
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In 1461, French nobles fearing King Louis XI may seize their lands, join forces with the rebellious Duke of Burgundy to overthrow the king. ... more about Vagabond King
Not Available on DVD
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