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Top Classic Period Piece Movies

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RankTitleCastBuy
1 . By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Leon Ames, Rosemary DeCamp score
2 . Ivanhoe (1952)Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders score
3 . The Merry Widow (1934)Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Edward Everett Horton, Una Merkel score
4 . The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)Michael Redgrave, Richard Wattis, Edith Evans, Joan Greenwood score
5 . Quo Vadis (1951)Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn, Peter Ustinov score
6 . Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)Claude Rains, Vivien Leigh, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson score
7 . Belle of the Yukon (1944)Randolph Scott, Dinah Shore, Charles Winninger, Robert Armstrong score
8 . The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)Gary Cooper, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier, Binnie Barnes score
9 . The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed, Angela Lansbury score
10 . Becky Sharp (1935)Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke score
11 . The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965)Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews score
12 . Queen Christina (1933)Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Ian Keith, Lewis Stone score
13 . Becket (1964)Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Paolo Stoppa score
14 . Mary of Scotland (1936)Katharine Hepburn, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, John Carradine score
15 . Barabbas (1961)Anthony Quinn, Arthur Kennedy, Katy Jurado, Harry Andrews score
16 . The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)Max von Sydow, Carroll Baker, Ina Balin, Victor Buono score
17 . That Hamilton Woman (1941)Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Sara Allgood, Gladys Cooper score
18 . The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)Richard Wattis, Laurence Olivier, Harold Goodwin, Gladys Henson score
19 . The Glenn Miller Story (1954)James Stewart, June Allyson, Harry Morgan, Charles Drake score
20 . Moulin Rouge (1952)Jos? Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Mary Clare, Jill Bennett score
21 . House by the River (1950)Louis Hayward, Lee Bowman, Jane Wyatt, Ann Shoemaker score
22 . The Great Waltz (1938)Luise Rainer, Miliza Korjus, Hugh Herbert, Lionel Atwill score
23 . Madeleine (1950)Ann Todd, Leslie Banks, Jean Cadell, Ivor Barnard score
24 . The Joker Is Wild (1957)Frank Sinatra, Mitzi Gaynor, Jeanne Crain, Eddie Albert score
25 . What Price Glory (1952)James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest score
26 . The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)Tyrone Power, Kim Novak, James Whitmore, Shepperd Strudwick score
27 . Under Capricorn (1949)Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Denis O'Dea, Harcourt Williams score
28 . The Masque of the Red Death (1964)Vincent Price, Bill Owen score
29 . This Happy Breed (1944)Robert Newton, Amy Veness, Stanley Holloway, John Mills score
30 . The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason score
31 . Pete Kelly's Blues (1955)Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O'Brien, Peggy Lee score
32 . The Young Lions (1958)Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange score
33 . Fanny (1961)Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Charles Boyer, Horst Buchholz score
34 . The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders (1965)Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, Leo McKern score
35 . Lillian Russell (1940)Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Henry Fonda, Edward Arnold score
36 . The Last Days of Pompeii (1935)Preston Foster, Alan Hale Sr., Basil Rathbone, Louis Calhern score
37 . Three Violent People (1956)Charlton Heston, Anne Baxter, Gilbert Roland, Tom Tryon score
38 . Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)James Mason, Ava Gardner, John Laurie score
39 . Christopher Columbus (1949)Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Francis L. Sullivan, Linden Travers score
40 . Town Without Pity (1961)Kirk Douglas, E.G. Marshall, Robert Blake, Richard Jaeckel score
41 . Bride of Vengeance (1949)Paulette Goddard, John Lund, Macdonald Carey, Albert Dekker score
42 . Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow (1963)George Cole, Michael Hordern, Mark Dignam score
43 . The Tomb of Ligeia (1965)Vincent Price, Richard Vernon, Ronald Adam score
44 . Omar Khayyam (1957)Cornel Wilde, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, John Derek score
45 . The Virgin Queen (1955)Bette Davis, Richard Todd, Joan Collins, Herbert Marshall score
46 . The Taming of the Shrew (1967)Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern score
47 . The Scarlet Empress (1934)Marlene Dietrich, Sam Jaffe, Louise Dresser, C. Aubrey Smith score
48 . Von Ryan's Express (1965)Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Brad Dexter, Adolfo Celi score
49 . Exodus (1960)Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson, Peter Lawford score
50 . The Hunters (1958)Robert Mitchum, Robert Wagner, Richard Egan, Lee Philips score
51 . Far from the Madding Crowd (1967)Julie Christie, Terence Stamp, Peter Finch, Alan Bates score
52 . A Scandal in Paris (1946)George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Carole Landis, Akim Tamiroff score
53 . Houdini (1953)Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, Torin Thatcher, Ian Wolfe score
54 . The Elephant Man (1980)Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud score
55 . David and Bathsheba (1951)Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Raymond Massey, James Robertson Justice score
56 . The Godfather Part II (1974)Robert Duvall, Troy Donahue, James Caan, Phil Feldman score
57 . The Yankee Clipper (1927)William Boyd, Elinor Fair, John Miljan, Walter Long score
58 . The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)Charlton Heston, Elsa Martinelli, Harry Guardino, Brian Donlevy score
59 . Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969)George Kennedy, James Whitmore, Monte Markham, Reni Santoni score
60 . America, America (1963)John Marley, Robert H. Harris score
61 . Sangaree (1953)Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Francis L. Sullivan, Lester Matthews score
62 . Inside Daisy Clover (1965)Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon score
63 . Gaily, Gaily (1969)Beau Bridges, Melina Mercouri, Brian Keith, George Kennedy score
64 . Hurry Sundown (1967)Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Diahann Carroll score
65 . Magic Fire (1956)Yvonne De Carlo, Valentina Cortese, Peter Cushing score
66 . We Live Again (1934)Anna Sten, Fredric March, C. Aubrey Smith, Sam Jaffe score

This chart uses a weighted rating based on the average rating per film and the number of votes per film.