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| 1 |  | Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The (1948) |  3.4197 42 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western |
$14.74
| Three men set to the hills for lost treasure. They agree to split the gold three ways, but as they ...more about Treasure of the Sierra Madre starring Humphrey Bogart and Walter Huston |
| 2 |  | Red River (1948) | 3.3925 12 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Western |
$4.86
| Tom Dunson builds a cattle empire with his adopted son Matthew Garth. Together they begin a massive ...more about Red River starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift |
| 3 |  | Jungle Book (1942) |  2.9222 6 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Fantasy |
$2.95
| Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. ...more about Jungle Book starring Sabu (I) and Joseph Calleia |
| 4 |  | Batman and Robin (1949) | 2.9165 8 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$12.20
| Antisocial Prof. Hammil's Remote Control device, which enables the user to take over any motor ...more about Batman and Robin starring Robert Lowery and Johnny Duncan |
| 5 |  | Mark of Zorro, The (1940) |  2.7414 14 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Western |
$9.27
| Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a ...more about Mark of Zorro starring Tyrone Power and Linda Darnell |
| 6 |  | Air Force (1943) | 2.7359 8 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, History, War | N/A | The Mary Ann, a B-17 Flying Fortress, takes off from California for Hawaii on a routine training ...more about Air Force starring John Ridgely and Gig Young |
| 7 |  | Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) | 2.7252 17 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$7.99
| Marine sergeant John Stryker seems a martinet and a bully as he trains young Marines for combat in ...more about Sands of Iwo Jima starring John Wayne and John Agar |
| 8 |  | Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) | 2.6771 14 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi |
$9.10
| A mysterious plague, the Purple Death, ravages the earth. Dr. Zarkov, investigating in his ...more about Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe starring Buster Crabbe and Beatrice Roberts |
| 9 |  | Wake of the Red Witch (1948) | 2.6460 5 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$7.15
| Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique ...more about Wake of the Red Witch starring John Wayne and Gail Russell |
| 10 |  | Three Musketeers, The (1948) | 2.6081 8 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$12.71
| The hectic adventures of D'Artagnan, a young provincial noble who just comes to Paris to enter the ...more about Three Musketeers starring Lana Turner and Gene Kelly |
| 11 |  | Captain Kidd (1945) | 2.5874 8 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama |
$4.99
| In this unhistorical account, Capt. William Kidd is already a clever, ruthless pirate when, in ...more about Captain Kidd starring Charles Laughton and Randolph Scott |
| 12 |  | Blood on the Sun (1945) | 2.5844 16 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Thriller, Romance |
$5.84
| Nick Condon is a newspaper reporter working in Tokyo who refuses to toe the Japanese line on the ...more about Blood on the Sun starring James Cagney and Sylvia Sidney |
| 13 |  | Guadalcanal Diary (1943) | 2.5802 14 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$10.59
| Concentrating on the personal lives of those involved, a war correspondent takes us through the ...more about Guadalcanal Diary starring Preston Foster and Lionel Stander |
| 14 |  | Between Two Worlds (1944) | 2.5630 6 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery | N/A | Several people are killed in a London air raid. They each awake aboard a strange ship which will ...more about Between Two Worlds starring John Garfield and Paul Henreid |
| 15 |  | Against the Wind (1948) | 2.5615 4 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War | N/A | Philip Elliot, refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs ...more about Against the Wind starring Robert Beatty and Simone Signoret |
| 16 |  | Battleground (1949) | 2.5579 13 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War |
$6.13
| We follow a band of American soldiers as they engage the Germans in a snowy, foggy winter near ...more about Battleground starring Van Johnson and John Hodiak |
| 17 |  | Virginia City (1940) | 2.5417 5 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, History, Western, Romance | N/A | Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from Confederate Prison and is set to Virginia City in Nevada. ...more about Virginia City starring Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins |
| 18 |  | To the Shores of Tripoli (1942) | 2.5296 4 reviews | NA | Action, Drama |
$9.99
| Sergeant Dixie Smith has more raw recruits to turn into Marines, if he can. Among them is cocky ...more about To the Shores of Tripoli starring John Payne and Maureen O'Hara |
| 19 |  | Reap the Wild Wind (1942) | 2.4793 4 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama |
$5.95
| Clipper ships taking the shortest route between the Mississippi and the Atlantic often end up on ...more about Reap the Wild Wind starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward |
| 20 |  | Flying Tigers (1942) | 2.4748 5 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$4.02
| Jim Gordon commands a unit of the famed Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group which fought ...more about Flying Tigers starring John Wayne and John Carroll |
| 21 |  | Fighting Seabees, The (1944) | 2.4687 7 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance |
$9.99
| Construction workers in World War II in the Pacific are needed to build military sites, but the ...more about Fighting Seabees starring John Wayne and Susan Hayward |
| 22 |  | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) | 2.4565 1 reviews | NA | Action, Thriller, Crime, Mystery |
$1.99
| A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as ...more about Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome starring Boris Karloff and Ralph Byrd |
| 23 |  | King of the Royal Mounted (1940) | 2.4291 2 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure |
$19.03
| Canadian Tom Merritt (Stanley Andrews) has discovered a substance, Compound X, that will cure ...more about King of the Royal Mounted starring Allan Lane and Robert Strange |
| 24 |  | North West Mounted Police (1940) | 2.4078 3 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Western | N/A | Texas Ranger Dusty Rivers ("Isn't that a contradiction in terms?", another character asks him) ...more about North West Mounted Police starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll |
| 25 | | Christopher Columbus (1949) | 2.3347 6 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Biography | N/A | ...more about Christopher Columbus starring Florence Eldridge and Francis L. Sullivan |
| 26 |  | Phantom, The (1943) | 2.2678 3 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure |
$13.29
| ...more about Phantom starring Tom Tyler and Jeanne Bates |
| 27 |  | Master Key, The (1945) | 2.2678 3 reviews | NA | Action, Drama |
$19.03
| Universal's 64th of 69 sound-era serials (between "Jungle Queen" with Ruth Roman and their 2nd ...more about Master Key starring Milburn Stone and Jan Wiley |
| 28 |  | Walk in the Sun, A (1945) |  2.2373 5 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, War |
$5.16
| In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to ...more about Walk in the Sun starring Dana Andrews and Richard Conte |
| 29 |  | Santa Fe Trail (1940) | 2.2252 3 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Drama, Western, Biography, Romance |
$5.99
| The story of Jeb Stewart, his romance with Kit Carson Holliday, friendship with George Custer and ...more about Santa Fe Trail starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland |
| 30 | | Arabian Nights (1942) | 2.2099 4 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure |
$5.60
| Dancer Sherazade was told by the stars that she will become wife of the kalif in Bagdad. She tells ...more about Arabian Nights starring Sabu (I) and Jon Hall |
| 31 |  | Superman (1941) | 2.1856 5 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Family, Animation, Short |
$4.03
| When Lois is kidnapped by a mad scientist, she is given a demonstration of his energy cannon as he ...more about Superman |
| 32 |  | Captain Midnight (1942) | 2.1643 2 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure |
$13.29
| ...more about Captain Midnight starring Dorothy Short and James Craven |
| 33 | | Crimson Ghost, The (1946) | 2.1232 2 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Thriller, Sci-Fi, Crime, Mystery | N/A | ...more about Crimson Ghost starring Charles Quigley and Linda Stirling |
| 34 |  | Batman, The (1943) | 2.1095 5 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Crime |
$5.99
| In his first screen appearance, the Caped Crusader of Gotham City (belying the lethargic facade of ...more about Batman starring Douglas Croft |
| 35 |  | Above Suspicion (1943) | 2.1095 3 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | N/A | Oxford Professor Richard Myles and new bride Frances are off on a European honeymoon. It isn't your ...more about Above Suspicion starring Joan Crawford and Conrad Veidt |
| 36 |  | All Through the Night (1942) | 2.1072 6 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Comedy |
$39.98
| Broadway gambler Gloves Donahue wants to find who killed the baker of his favorite cheesecake. He ...more about All Through the Night starring Humphrey Bogart and Conrad Veidt |
| 37 | | Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. (1941) | 2.0821 1 reviews | NA | Action | N/A | ...more about Dick Tracy vs. Crime Inc. starring Ralph Byrd and Michael Owen |
| 38 | | First of the Few, The (1942) | 2.0821 1 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Biography | N/A | By the late 1920's aircraft designer R.J. Mitchell feels he has achieved all he wants with his ...more about First of the Few starring Leslie Howard and Rosamund John |
| 39 |  | North Star, The (1943) | 2.0547 3 reviews | Not Rated | Action, Adventure, Drama, War | N/A | In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year is just ending in June 1941. Five young friends ...more about North Star starring Anne Baxter and Dana Andrews |
| 40 | | Don Winslow of the Navy (1942) | 2.0364 1 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure | N/A | US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of the islands near Pearl Harbor. He discovers that ...more about Don Winslow of the Navy starring Don Terry and John Litel |
| 41 |  | Spoilers, The (1942) | 2.0319 3 reviews | NA | Action, Western |
$5.66
| In Nome, Alaska, miner Roy Glennister and his partner Dextry, financed by saloon entertainer Cherry ...more about Spoilers starring Marlene Dietrich and Randolph Scott |
| 42 |  | Scott of the Antarctic (1948) | 2.0227 5 reviews | PG | Action, Adventure, Drama |
$5.72
| The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to ...more about Scott of the Antarctic starring Diana Churchill and Harold Warrender |
| 43 | | Masked Marvel, The (1943) | 1.9908 1 reviews | NA | Action | N/A | ...more about Masked Marvel starring William Forrest and Louise Currie |
| 44 |  | Purple Heart, The (1944) | 1.9756 6 reviews | NA | Action, Drama |
$9.99
| This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. ...more about Purple Heart starring Dana Andrews and Richard Conte |
| 45 |  | Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) | 1.9725 3 reviews | NA | Action, Crime, Mystery |
$3.98
| Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con ...more about Dick Tracy vs. Cueball starring Morgan Conway and Anne Jeffreys |
| 46 | | Purple Monster Strikes, The (1945) | 1.9542 1 reviews | NA | Action, Sci-Fi | N/A | A Martian spacecraft crash-lands near the observatory of Cyrus Layton, designer of Earth's first ...more about Purple Monster Strikes starring Dennis Moore and Linda Stirling |
| 47 |  | Tomorrow We Live (1942) | 1.9269 1 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Horror, Crime |
$6.69
| Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a ...more about Tomorrow We Live starring Ricardo Cortez and Jean Parker |
| 48 | | Japoteurs (1942) | 1.9086 1 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Sci-Fi, Animation, Short |
$15.52
| American industry builds a gigantic new bomber and Lois Lane stows away on the test flight; little ...more about Japoteurs |
| 49 | | Shadow, The (1940) | 1.8995 2 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, Crime | N/A | Columbia's 9th serial, slotted between "Overland With Kit Carson" and "Terry and the Pirates", was ...more about Shadow starring Victor Jory and Veda Ann Borg |
| 50 | | Men with Steel Faces (1940) | 1.8903 1 reviews | NA | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Western | N/A | ...more about Men with Steel Faces starring Gene Autry and Frankie Darro |
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