Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "medicine-show"

1. Rio Lobo (1970)

G | 114 min | Drama, War, Western

After the Civil War, Cord McNally searches for the two traitors whose treachery caused the defeat of McNally's unit and the loss of a close friend.

Director: Howard Hawks | Stars: John Wayne, Jorge Rivero, Jennifer O'Neill, Jack Elam

Votes: 13,675 | Gross: $9.27M

2. Pete's Dragon (1977)

G | 128 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An orphan boy and his magical dragon come to town with his abusive adoptive parents in pursuit.

Directors: Don Chaffey, Don Bluth | Stars: Sean Marshall, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Mickey Rooney

Votes: 26,535 | Gross: $40.10M

3. Little Big Man (1970)

PG-13 | 139 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Native Americans and fighting with General Custer.

Director: Arthur Penn | Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George, Martin Balsam

Votes: 37,916 | Gross: $31.56M

4. The Cheyenne Social Club (1970)

GP | 103 min | Western

An aging cowboy finds to his embarrassment that the successful business he has inherited from his brother is actually a house of prostitution.

Director: Gene Kelly | Stars: James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Shirley Jones, Sue Ane Langdon

Votes: 5,081 | Gross: $0.11M

5. Wagon Master (1950)

Approved | 86 min | Drama, Western

Two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train to the San Juan Valley and encounter cutthroats, Indians, geography, and moral challenges on the journey.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Ben Johnson, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey Jr., Ward Bond

Votes: 5,533

6. The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)

Approved | 87 min | Western

Near the ending days of the Civil War, a group of Confederacy spies traveling under guises of musicians are tasked to steal a shipment of gold. Anything goes wrong, one spy (Roy Orbison) has a bullet-shooting guitar handy - just in case.

Director: Michael D. Moore | Stars: Roy Orbison, Sammy Jackson, Maggie Pierce, Joan Freeman

Votes: 474

7. Dangerous When Wet (1953)

Approved | 95 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

With her promoter-trainer and family in tow, Katie Higgins swims her way from the Arkansas Ozarks to foggy London and the English Channel. - SimonJack

Directors: Charles Walters, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna | Stars: Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas, Jack Carson, Charlotte Greenwood

Votes: 1,147

8. The Inspector General (1949)

Approved | 102 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance

A town's corrupt officials think a fool is actually an investigator in disguise.

Director: Henry Koster | Stars: Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester

Votes: 3,565

9. Silent Tongue (1993)

PG-13 | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Western

Mad with grief after the death of his Kiowa wife, Talbot awaits death under a tree with her body beside him. She begins to haunt him because he won't burn her. His father, who bought him the wife, thinks her sister might reason with him.

Director: Sam Shepard | Stars: Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix, Dermot Mulroney

Votes: 1,310 | Gross: $0.06M

10. The Kid Brother (1927)

Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family

A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.

Directors: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone, J.A. Howe | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis

Votes: 4,826 | Gross: $1.55M

11. Bright Leaf (1950)

Approved | 110 min | Drama, Romance

In 1894, Brant Royle shocks the aristocratic tobacco growers of Kingsmont by planning to mass-produce cigarettes.

Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Gary Cooper, Lauren Bacall, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson

Votes: 1,439

12. Zenobia (1939)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A visiting circus man calls on a Southern country doctor to cure his sick elephant; afterwards, the grateful beast becomes so attached to the doctor that it starts to follow him everywhere.

Director: Gordon Douglas | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Harry Langdon, Billie Burke, Alice Brady

Votes: 685

13. The Old Fashioned Way (1934)

Passed | 71 min | Comedy

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Director: William Beaudine | Stars: W.C. Fields, Joe Morrison, Baby LeRoy, Judith Allen

Votes: 1,136

14. The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1952)

Approved | 82 min | Adventure, Drama, Western

In California, a boy and his adoptive father find an outlaw's hidden treasure but the news leaks out, sending unscrupulous characters after the gold.

Director: Ted Tetzlaff | Stars: William Powell, Julie Adams, Charles Drake, Rosemary DeCamp

Votes: 241

15. Operator 13 (1934)

Passed | 85 min | Drama, History, Musical

Union spy Gail Loveless impersonates a black maid in the early days of the Civil War, but complications arise when she falls in love with a Confederate officer.

Director: Richard Boleslawski | Stars: Marion Davies, Gary Cooper, Jean Parker, Katharine Alexander

Votes: 1,504

16. Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Betty, Bimbo, and Koko sell a concoction in their medicine show which has odd side effects.

Directors: Dave Fleischer, Willard Bowsky | Stars: William Costello, Mae Questel

Votes: 401

17. The Medicine Man (1930)

Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Romance

The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.

Director: Scott Pembroke | Stars: Jack Benny, Betty Bronson, George E. Stone, Tom Dugan

Votes: 279

18. Willa: An American Snow White (1998 TV Movie)

88 min | Family

Willa places the ancient "Snow White" story in a realistic America setting about 1915. The jealous queen is Regina Worthington, an aging beauty whose stage career has soured. Snow White is ... See full summary »

Director: Tom Davenport | Stars: Jonny Elkes, Mark Jaster, Floyd King, John Neville-Andrews

Votes: 28

19. Phony Express (1943)

Approved | 17 min | Comedy, Western, Short

Set in the old west, the stooges are three tramps wanted for vagrancy. After ruining a medicine peddlers show, they arrive in Peaceful Gulch where a picture has been printed declaring them ... See full summary »

Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Shirley Patterson

Votes: 443

20. American Murder Song (2016– )

Crime, Horror, Music

In 1816, two Blood Travelers play a game of chance and bring to life a gallery of American killers.

Stars: Saar Hendelman, Terrance Zdunich, Chibi, Toledo Diamond

Votes: 49

21. Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch (1976)

86 min | Comedy, Western

The "Rattler" is secretly the head of an outlaw band have been terrorizing the residents of Peaceful Valley with a crime wave of rustling, killing and robbing. The Federal Government has ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Patterson | Stars: Rex Allen, Gene Autry, Don 'Red' Barry, Robert Blake

Votes: 43

22. Sweethearts on Parade (1953)

Approved | 90 min | Drama, Music, Romance

Cam Ellerby (Ray Middleton) brings his traveling medicine show to town and it spells glamor and excitement to young Sylvia Townsend (Eileen Christy). Her mother, Kathleen (Lucille Norman), ... See full summary »

Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Ray Middleton, Lucille Norman, Eileen Christy, Bill Shirley

Votes: 53

23. Beyond the Pecos (1945)

Approved | 58 min | Drama, Music, Western

Oil is discovered on the ranch lands causing the dormant Remington-Randall feud to break out again. Lew Remington returns home to find himself embroiled in the struggle. The Randall faction... See full summary »

Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Rod Cameron, Eddie Dew, Fuzzy Knight, Jennifer Holt

Votes: 23

24. Dixie Jamboree (1944)

Approved | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Music

A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.

Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Frances Langford, Guy Kibbee, Eddie Quillan, Charles Butterworth

Votes: 113

25. The Duke Is Tops (1938)

Approved | 73 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

A theatrical producer puts aside his own success to boost the career of a talented singer.

Directors: William L. Nolte, Ralph Cooper | Stars: Ralph Cooper, Lena Horne, Laurence Criner, Monte Hawley

Votes: 429

26. My Gal Loves Music (1944)

Approved | 60 min | Comedy, Music

A sister act finds itself stranded and broke, and teams up with a medicine man who is promoting a child talent contest.

Director: Edward C. Lilley | Stars: Bob Crosby, Grace McDonald, Alan Mowbray, Betty Kean

Votes: 25

27. This Is the Life (1935)

Approved | 63 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical

After obtaining her from an orphanage a couple exploit entertainer Withers till she runs away and later becomes a professional.

Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Jane Withers, John McGuire, Sally Blane, Sidney Toler

Votes: 60

28. Buckshot John (1915)

50 min | Western

A sheriff and his posse shoot it out with a gang of robbers headed by Bad Jake Kennedy. The surviving robber, Buckshot John, won't tell where the gang's loot is hidden and gets 30 years in ... See full summary »

Director: Hobart Bosworth | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Courtenay Foote, Carl von Schiller, Helen Wolcott

29. Dangerous Nan McGrew (1930)

Passed | 73 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

Dangerous Nan McGrew is the sharp-shooting expert of a traveling medicine show that is stranded in the Canadian northwest at the snowbound hunting lodge of wealthy Mrs. Benson. Nan is ... See full summary »

Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Helen Kane, Victor Moore, James Hall, Stuart Erwin

Votes: 76

30. Alice's Medicine Show (1927)

7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

Alice and Julius are in a traveling medicine show, and part of their job is to sell patent medicine to audiences.

Director: Walt Disney | Star: Lois Hardwick

Votes: 25

31. Swing the Western Way (1947)

Passed | 66 min | Comedy, Music, Western

Well-meaning, easy-going promoter Jasper Jim Bandy, who is constantly talking himself into James, and Cornelia Catheride, poor cousin of the Boston Catheridges, have been carrying on a ... See full summary »

Director: Derwin Abrahams | Stars: Jack Leonard, Mary Dugan, Thurston Hall, Regina Wallace

32. The Ballyhoo Buster (1928)

Passed | 50 min | Drama, Western

Bob Warner sells some cattle to two men who later drug him and rob him of the sale money. He takes a job with a medicine show as a barker, offering a reward to any spectator to last three ... See full summary »

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Jay Wilsey, Peggy Shaw, Nancy Nash, Al Hart

Votes: 13

33. Roaming (1931)

Passed | 10 min | Short, Music

A medicine show singer finds her love.

Director: Casey Robinson | Star: Ethel Merman

Votes: 15

34. Bad Medicine (1936)

Approved | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Music

Gene Austin, accompanied by two musicians, are part of a traveling medicine show using a trailer pulled by an automobile. They convert the trailer into a stage covered by an awning, and ... See full summary »

Director: Jean Yarbrough | Stars: Gene Austin, James C. Morton

35. Johnny-on-the-Spot (1919)

Approved | 50 min | Comedy

Aspiring author Johnny Rutledge, whose philosophy for business and love is embodied in his book entitled, "Taking it Easy, or Everything Comes to Him Who Waits," is evicted after he gives ... See full summary »

Director: Harry L. Franklin | Stars: Hale Hamilton, Louise Lovely, Philo McCullough, Ruth Orlamond

36. The Ballad of Snake Oil Sam (2014)

13 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy

An alchemist and snake oil salesman driven by ambition embarks on a mystical journey in pursuit of redemption.

Director: Arlene Bogna | Stars: Zane Byrdy, Gladys Nyoth, Gabriel Voss, Cristina Balmores

Votes: 9

37. Marshals in Disguise (1954)

Approved | 54 min | Action, Comedy, Western

Another of the series of "movies" created by stitching two episodes of the "Wild Bill Hickok" TV series together, U. S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok (Guy Madison) and his deputy Jingles P. ... See full summary »

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Guy Madison, Andy Devine, Anthony Sydes, Guy Beach

Votes: 15

38. The Adventures of Champion (1955–1956)
Episode: The Medicine Man Mystery (1955)

26 min | Western

Sandy investigates Ricky's wild tale of a medicine show operator who he saw stuff a small boy into a box. The Norths learn that Doc Terwilliger, the show's owner, is a ventriloquist who ... See full summary »

Director: George Archainbaud | Stars: Champion, Barry Curtis, Jim Bannon, Blaze

Votes: 24

39. Cimarron City (1958–1960)
Episode: Medicine Man (1958)

Approved | 60 min | Western

A bounty hunter tracks down a doctor who, falsely accused of malpractice, has changed his name and sought refuge in Cimarron City.

Director: Richard Bartlett | Stars: George Montgomery, Audrey Totter, John Smith, Gary Merrill

Votes: 28

40. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: Deadline at Austin (1961)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

The mayor of Austin once insulted Governor Lambert. Now the governor seeks revenge by threatening the town's railroad.

Director: James Sheldon | Stars: David Janssen, Jan Harrison, Harry Shannon, Stephen Chase

Votes: 27

41. Death Valley Days (1952–1970)
Episode: The Saga of Dr. Davis (1967)

TV-PG | 25 min | Western

Dr. William Davis is asked by his current partner Jenny to replace her with young Tad in his magic act. Everything is fine until they need to perform for some rengade Indians.

Director: Harmon Jones | Stars: Joby Baker, Judi Meredith, Mark Anthony, Robert Taylor

Votes: 29

42. The Gene Autry Show (1950–1955)
Episode: Gold Dust Charlie (1950)

30 min | Western

When an old prospector is shot after making a rich gold strike, Gene files the claim on his behalf and is promptly accused of murder by the town sheriff.

Director: Frank McDonald | Stars: Gene Autry, Champion, Pat Buttram, Sheila Ryan

Votes: 24

43. The Goodies (1970–1982)
Episode: Hospital for Hire (1973)

Comedy

The boys become doctors to improve the health service with a travelling hospital and a miracle drug.

Director: Jim Franklin | Stars: Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 35

44. Judge Roy Bean (1955– )
Episode: Bad Medicine (1956)

30 min | Western

Judge Bean suspects that Doc Malone's Medicine Show may be harboring a notorious killer.

Director: Reg Browne | Stars: Edgar Buchanan, Jack Buetel, Jackie Loughery, Lash La Rue

Votes: 10

45. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Wild Boy (Part One) (1982)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Walnut Grove residents try to rescue a boy who's unable to speak after they see him on display at a carnival show.

Director: Victor French | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Dean Butler, Katherine MacGregor, Richard Bull

Votes: 264

46. Little House on the Prairie (1974–1983)
Episode: The Wild Boy (Part Two) (1982)

TV-PG | 50 min | Drama, Family, Romance

Dr. McQueen learns of young Matthew's whereabouts and seeks custody of him so he can use him for his personal gain.

Director: Victor French | Stars: Melissa Gilbert, Dean Butler, Katherine MacGregor, Richard Bull

Votes: 251

47. The Simpsons (1989– )
Episode: Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy (1994)

TV-14 | 30 min | Animation, Comedy

Homer and Abe hit the road to sell Abe's miraculous aphrodisiac.

Director: Wesley Archer | Stars: Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith

Votes: 3,017

48. The Dinah Shore Chevy Show (1956–1963)
Episode: Episode #4.22 (1960)

Music

After a Mardi Gras number, a performing pigeon is replaced by Carl Reiner, Conners joins Dinah in a send up of silent cowboy films, Goodman does a medley of his hits, Dinah tries to play ... See full summary »

Stars: Chuck Connors, Liane Daydé, Benny Goodman, Carl Reiner

49. The New 3 Stooges (1965)
Episode: Phony Express

TV-G | Animation, Comedy, Family

The stooges are deputized to protect a town from an outlaw gang that is terrorizing the town and preparing to rob the bank. Fortunatly Curly is part blood hound and when the outlaw escape the Stooges track them to their hideout.

Stars: Joe DeRita, Larry Fine, Moe Howard, Hal Smith