47 Victor Fleming Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

The beautiful but irritable Scarlett O'Hara attempts to convince Ashley Wilkes that she is a better choice than the cousin he is planning to marry, but instead draws the attention of Rhett Butler. Ravaged by the Civil War and an unrequited love, she engages in one doomed relationship to another to sustain herself while nurturing her pride.

During the 1920s, a spoilt young man onboard an ocean liner falls into the sea by accident due to a prank. Luckily, he is picked up by a fishing boat. Now, he has no option but to adapt to the ways of the fishermen, if he wants to survive.  

Dorothy Gale, a simple farm girl finds herself in the magical land of Oz after a tornado hits Kansas. To return home, she must seek the help of the Wizard of Oz who stays in the Emerald city. On her way, she befriends a scarecrow, a Tin Man and a fainthearted Lion.

Wang and his wife O-Lan are farmers in China, who seem to be doing quite well. However, their lives get complicated when a famine occurs, forcing them to leave their land and live in the town.

Red Dust is a romantic drama film which tells the story of Carson, owner of a rubber plantation. He finds himself attracted to a woman named Barbara, who is married to one of his employees. He becomes so infatuated that he even abandons his informal relationship with Vantine, a prostitute, in order to pursue Barbara.

Lola Burns is a movie star, who decides to rebel against EJ Hanlon, her studio publicist, as he feeds the press with provocative stories regarding her. She wants to have the image of a proper lady, instead of being viewed as a sex symbol. She is also unaware of the fact that Hanlon is secretly in love with her.

When a young, rich and famous divorce laywer comes to town, a beautiful woman named Alverna, finds herself attracted to him, despite being married.  

Daniel Boone Brown, a young and superstitious New Yorker, is almost driven to suicide by a demented psychiatrist. But then a series of baffling misfortunes stemming from inauspicious objects like broken mirrors and black cats begin to take place, leading to a rendezvous and subsequent love affair with Lucette Bancroft, a Greenwich Village artist. 

A ranch foreman hires his old friend for a job, but the two eventually become competing suitors. After the foreman succeeds, his friend joins a local gang of cattle thieves, after which the foreman is forced to have his friend lynched. But later saddled with guilt, he swears to kill the leader of the gang as well. 

Dr. Jekyll believes that every individual has a good side and an evil side, and to explore his evil side, he creates a potion that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, his dark and evil side, which kills Ivy, a woman who had expressed interest in Jekyll, and Sir Charles, the father of Jekyll’s fiancée.

Jim Lane is a test pilot, who lives a very dangerous life. During one of his flights, he is forced to make an emergency landing on a farmer’s field in Kansas. The farm belongs to the Barton family, and he meets and falls for their daughter Ann Barton. They impulsively decide to get married and to live in New York. However, Ann is upset by the fact that Jim always puts his work before her. She also begins to fear that she will become a widow, due to the dangerous nature of his work. 

The pampered daughter of a plantation owner, Hula, rescues a man from drowning, who had come to oversee the construction of a dam on her father’s property. She falls for him, but the problem is that he is already married. However, Hula is persistent, and therefore, he promises to get a divorce from his wife.

Johann ‘Schani’ Strauss II, son of the great composer, initially struggles to find success as a composer until gaining the attention of opera singers Carla Donner and Fritz Schiller. Success means he can marry Poldi Vogelhuber, the love of his life but his closeness to Donner tests his marriage and reputation. 

Musical on-stage star, Mona Leslie. marries Bob Harrison Jr., the president of S.A.M.L. or the Society for the Admiration of Mona Leslie, and gets embroiled in scandal after Bob’s suicide. Mona’s friend Ned Riley who is in love with her stands by her through everything. 

Based on the 1931 novel by Upton Sinclair, the film depicts how families are ruined by alcoholism.  Beginning with the Chilcotes of Louisiana, which loses most of its wealth to alcohol, the story moves northwards to portray the fate of the Tarletons, meanwhile joining the two families by love and a determination to fight the evil.   

Jotham Klore is a leading canal boater on the Erie Canal. His cook, Molly, who is also his girlfriend likes to work on the canal and sail with him. However, things take an interesting turn, when Molly starts falling for Dan, an aspiring farmer.

They Dare Not Love is a romantic war drama film which tells the story of a prince, who is forced to flee Austria, and settle in London, after the Nazis take over his country. After encountering a beautiful Austrian émigré, he begins to regret his decision of leaving. He strikes a deal with the Nazis to return in exchange for a few Austrian prisoners, but he is not sure if they could be trusted.

Harry Patterson, a merchant marine falls in love with librarian, Emily Sears, and marries her after watching her in a bar fight. However, domestic life doesn’t sit well with Harry and he decides to return to the sea. Things change when Harry returns to find out that Emily is pregnant and about to go into labor. 

The White Sister is a romantic drama film, which revolves around Angela, daughter of an Italian prince who falls for a soldier named Giovanni. However, Giovanni leaves for war and doesn’t return for a long time. Thinking that he has been killed in battle, Angela decides to become a nun.

Renegades is an action adventure film which tells the story of four soldiers serving in the French Foreign Legion. After fighting off a band of marauding Arabs, they soon find themselves being honored by the French Minister of War.