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Movies: Best "poverty row film" Movies


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Detour(1945)

NR
| 1h 7min | Drama, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 143 votes)

The life of Al Roberts, a pianist in a New York nightclub, turns into a nightmare when he decides to hitchhike to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend.

Superman and the Mole-Men(1951)

2.7/5 (with 25 votes)

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.

The Man from Planet X(1951)

2.9/5 (with 29 votes)

While watching for a planet that may collide with earth, scientists stationed in Scotland are approached by a visitor from outer space.

Invisible Ghost(1941)

NR
| 1h 4min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 18 votes)

The town's leading citizen is a man victim of homicidal impulses beyond his control. He is being controlled by his wife who had left him for another man. She was involved in a car accident that has left her brain damaged and is kept in the basement, in secret, by Kessler's gardener.

The Killer Shrews(1959)

NR
| 1h 9min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.2/5 (with 34 votes)

Trapped on a remote island by a hurricane, a group discover a doctor has been experimenting on creating half sized humans. Unfortunately, his experiments have also created giant shrews, who when they have run out of small animals to eat, turn on the humans....

Directed by Ray Kellogg - With James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis, Baruch Lumet

Dracula vs. Frankenstein(1971)

PG
| 1h 31min | Horror, Science Fiction
2.4/5 (with 19 votes)

Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.

Journey to the Seventh Planet(1962)

2.4/5 (with 19 votes)

A space expedition to Uranus is menaced by a giant brain that can make illusions come true.

Crime, Inc.(1945)

1h 15min | Drama, Thriller
2.1/5 (with 2 votes)

A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.

Directed by Lew Landers - With Leo Carrillo

Man From Headquarters(1942)

NR
| 1h 4min | Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

A police reporter solves a murder case in Chicago, then moves on to St. Louis-but not voluntarily, since he has been kidnapped by the minions of the Windy City gang leader against whom he is scheduled to testify.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough

Search for Beauty(1934)

NR
| 1h 18min | Comedy, Crime
3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Three con artists dupe two Olympians into serving as editors of a new health and beauty magazine which is only a front for salacious stories and pictures.

Oliver Twist(1933)

1h 20min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 7 votes)

An orphan boy in 1830s London is abused in a workhouse, then falls into the clutches of a gang of thieves.

The Wyoming Wildcat(1925)

NR
| 50min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love

Cowboy Phil Stone gets a job as foreman on a ranch owned by pretty young Isabel Hastings. He discovers that ruthless rancher Jeff Kopp has a claim on Isabel's ranch, and that if she dies unmarried before she turns 21, Kopp will get her ranch. When Isabel turns down a marriage proposal by Kopp's son Rudy, Kopp decides to kill her and get the ranch for himself, and hires a notorious killer, "Cyclops", to do the deed.

Directed by Robert De Lacey
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White Pongo(1945)

1h 11min | Adventure, Horror
2.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Suspecting that a safari guide is a wanted killer, undercover policeman Geoffrey Bishop (Richard Fraser) joins a safari led by the suspect for a scientist that hopes to find and prove that a fabled white gorilla is a missing link.

Directed by Sam Newfield

The Cruel Tower(1956)

1h 19min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of a bunch of hard-drinking steeplejacks.

Directed by Lew Landers

The Man Who Walked Alone(1945)

NR
| 1h 10min | Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A war hero returns home following a medical discharge and ends up entangled with a young woman speeding away from her wedding day in her fiance's car. Seeing the soldier, she gives him a ride and explains her predicament. Things get sticky when the cops capture them and accuse the soldier of desertion.

Young and Wild(1958)

1h 9min | Action, Drama, Thriller

Three juvenile-delinquents launch a reign of terror upon those who witnessed a deadly auto accident in this exploitation drama.

Directed by William Witney - With Gene Evans

Trailing North(1933)

1h | Western
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

As Powers is dying he tells Lee to look for a man with a girl named Mitzi. Heading north by dog sled as Curly the Kid, he finds her and her friend Lucky. But Flash is another friend and Lee is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.

Directed by John P. McCarthy

Danger Zone(1951)

2.2/5 (with 3 votes)

A San Francisco man is paid to bid on a saxophone and escort a woman to a yacht party.

Directed by William Berke

Ranger's Code(1933)

59min | Western

When his Ranger father is shot down and seriously wounded by rustlers, young Bob Baxter is given a Ranger's badge and a delivery to town of the rustlers.

Directed by Robert N. Bradbury

Slander House(1938)

NR
| 1h 5min | Drama, Romance / Love, Comedy
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Owner of salon catering to fat society dames must deal with a dull fiance, a romantic stranger, the jealous blond who loves him, and the lecherous husband of a client.

Directed by Charles Lamont

The Oklahoma Cyclone(1930)

NR
| 1h 6min | Action, Western
2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A cowboy looking for his missing father, poses as an outlaw and joins the gang he thinks is responsible.

Directed by John P. McCarthy

The Cobra Strikes(1948)

NR
| 1h 2min | Mystery, Crime

A newspaper reporter investigates the near-fatal shooting of a medical scientist.

Directed by Charles Reisner

Swifty(1935)

NR
| 58min | Western

Swifty is framed for the murder of Alec MeNiel by the Lawyer Cheevers and the stepson Price. Then they incite the locals to form a lynch mob, but Swifty has an unexpected ally in the Sheriff who knows Price was after his stepfather's land.

Directed by Alan James

Crashing Through Danger(1938)

NR
| 1h 1min | Drama

Three electrical linemen work through the hazardous conditions of the Depression Era. Sparks fly, and things become truly dangerous, when Ann comes between this band of brothers. Things get worse, after they move in together, following the death of her father, their supervisor, "Pop" Foster, from an industrial accident.

Directed by Sam Newfield

The Law Rides Again(1943)

NR
| 58min | Western
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

When a band of American Indians breaks a treaty with the federal government, U.S. Marshals Ken Maynard and Hoot Gibson hit the trail with captured outlaw Duke Dillon (Jack La Rue) to find out what sparked the uprising. They discover clues that point to corrupt Indian agent John Hampton (Kenneth Harlan), but meanwhile, the bandit Dillon pulls a fast one on the marshals, and soon everybody's getting ready for a showdown.

Under Texas Skies(1930)

57min | Western
2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Three cowboys try to stop a crook from defrauding an orphan girl out of her money.

Directed by J. P. McGowan

Hotel Continental(1932)

Scheduled for demolition, Hotel Continental has seen 50 years of romance, intrigue, and tragedy. The last night attracts many nostalgic patrons, including a gangster planning to grab the loot that he hid there many years ago.

Girl from Rio(1939)

NR
| 1h 2min | Crime
0.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A newsman helps a Brazilian singer get her brother out of trouble in New York.

Directed by Lambert Hillyer

Prisoner of Japan(1942)

1h 4min | War
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An American astronomer living on a Pacific island attempts to thwart the Japanese during WWII.

Directed by Arthur Ripley

Freckles Comes Home(1942)

NR
| 1h 3min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Freckles Winslow comes home from college and the sheriff accuses him of murder, gangsters put him on the spot, and his girl friend, Jane, falls in love with a confidence man.

Directed by Jean Yarbrough
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