Andrew Tombes

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• Movie5.9

  MusicComedy

  After breaking up with her fiancé, a gym teacher returns to work at a women's college, but a legal loophole allows him to enroll as one of her students.

  Bathing Beauty

  1944 · 33 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  Two Virginians are heading for a new life in Texas when they witness a stagecoach being held up. They decide to rob the robbers and make off with the loot. To escape a posse, they split up and don't see each other again for a long time. When they do meet up again, they find themselves on different sides of the law. This leads to the increasing estrangement of the two men, who once thought of themselves as brothers.

  Texas

  1941 · 25 votes

• Movie7.3

  DramaComedy

  As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement.

  Meet John Doe

  1941 · 289 votes

• Movie7.2

  MusicComedy

  Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.

  Hellzapoppin'

  1941 · 112 votes

• Movie7.2

  ComedyRomance

  J.B. Ball, a rich financier, gets fed up with his free-spending family. He takes his wife's just-bought (very expensive) sable coat and throws it out the window, it lands on poor hard-working girl Mary Smith. But it isn't so easy to just give away something so valuable, as he soon learns.

  Easy Living

  1937 · 71 votes

• Movie6.5

  ComedyFantasy

  Hat check man Louis Blore is in love with nightclub star May Daly. May, however, is in love with a poor dancer but wants to marry for money. When Louis wins the Irish Sweepstakes, he asks May to marry him and she accepts even though she doesn't love him. Soon after, Louis has an accident and gets knocked on the head, where he dreams that he's King Louis XV pursuing the infamous Madame Du Barry.

  Du Barry Was a Lady

  1943 · 18 votes

• Movie6.0

  ComedyRomance

  Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.

  Swing Fever

  1943 · 4 votes

• Movie6.9

  ComedyMusic

  Two carefree castaways on a desert shore find an Arabian Nights city, where they compete for the luscious Princess Shalmar.

  Road to Morocco

  1942 · 84 votes

• Movie7.0

  MysteryThriller

  A devoted secretary embarks on a dangerous mission to try to find the elusive woman who may prove her boss didn't murder his wife.

  Phantom Lady

  1944 · 138 votes

• Movie5.3

  RomanceWestern

  Johnny Hart is on the run from the law after killing one of the men who shot his partner. He passes through a town and stops at a saloon owned by singer Lorena Dumont. The two seem a good, albeit tempestuous match, although Johnny has no plans to marry -- Lorena has other ideas and a shotgun wedding ensues.

  Frontier Gal

  1945 · 6 votes

• Movie4.0

  DramaMusic

  The life and career of famed American composer Stephen Foster.

  I Dream of Jeanie

  1952 · 8 votes

• Movie6.8

  MysteryCrime

  Get ready for a Gold Medal murder mystery! This "tense, thrilling mystery" ('California Congress of Parents and Teachers') pits Charlie Chan against international spies who are using the Berlin Olympic games as the perfect cover...for cold-blooded murder!

  Charlie Chan at the Olympics

  1937 · 26 votes

• Movie6.7

  ComedyRomance

  A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.

  The Wild Man of Borneo

  1941 · 3 votes

• Movie4.6

  Comedy

  Two strippers on the run hide out in a college fraternity. Director Nunnally Johnson's 1955 musical comedy stars Betty Grable, Sheree North, Robert Cummings, Charles Coburn, Tommy Noonan, Orson Bean, Fred Clark, Alice Pearce, Rhys Williams, Willard Waterman, Leslie Parrish and Jesslyn Fax.

  How to Be Very, Very Popular

  1955 · 8 votes

• Movie6.6

  MusicRomance

  Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

  Rhapsody in Blue

  1945 · 18 votes

• Movie6.3

  CrimeRomance

  In the small town of Crownport local attorney Bill Adams is trying to break up the ring of corrupt town officials by running for mayor. The cards seemed stacked against him when he gets help from a visiting hunter who, unknown to Adams and the rest of the town, is actually vacationing supreme court justice John Josephus Grant.

  A Stranger in Town

  1943 · 16 votes

• Movie6.5

  Comedy

  Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find a look-a-like and take it. They do not realize that the nag is "Tea Biscuit," a champion racehorse.

  It Ain't Hay

  1943 · 16 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  Bill Lawrence wins a bevy of prizes from a radio program, but ends up having to sell them in order to pay the taxes incurred.

  The Jackpot

  1950 · 21 votes

• Movie6.3

  ActionWestern

  After some gun play with a posse, the James Gang head for Quinto in a section of land which is not a part of America. Anyone there is beyond the law so the town is populated with outlaws. Next to arrive is Sheriff Rowley, following his brother whom the Gang have brought in injured. Rowley has no authority and gets on well enough with the James boys but is soon involved in other local goings-on, including a move to vote for annexation with Oklahoma which would allow the law well and truly in.

  Badman's Territory

  1946 · 13 votes

• Movie5.4

  ComedyDrama

  The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?

  Christmas Eve

  1947 · 15 votes

• Movie7.0

  ComedyDrama

  A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.

  The Devil Is a Sissy

  1936 · 12 votes

• Movie5.4

  ComedyDrama

  "In the Gay Nineties New York had grown up into bustles and balloon Sleeves ... but The Bowery had grown younger, louder and more rowdy until it was known as the 'Livest Mile on the face of the globe' ... the cradle of men who were later to be famous.

  The Bowery

  1933 · 11 votes

• Movie6.8

  ComedyRomance

  Manicurists Sally, Irene and Mary hope to be Broadway entertainers. When Mary inherits an old ferry boat, they turn it into a successful supper club.

  Sally, Irene and Mary

  1938 · 4 votes

• Movie7.1

  ComedyCrime

  Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...

  Larceny, Inc.

  1942 · 37 votes