88 Fred MacMurray Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

In this film adaptation of James M. Cain.1935 novel, a manipulative Phyllis Dietrichson convinces an insurance agent Walter Neff to murder her husband in order to claim his accidental insurance policy. The plan is successful but trouble begins when Neff’s boss Barton Keyes decides to get to the bottom of the matter and investigates the case himself.

Timid insurance worker C.C. Baxter attempts to rise up the corporate ladder by lending his apartment to company executives to use for their extramarital affairs. However, he is torn from the inside when he realizes that the personnel director, who recently granted his promotion, brought to his apartment the elevator girl he is attracted to.

During WWII, veteran Cmdr. Queeg takes charge of the destroyer-minesweeper USS Caine, but soon the crew feels unsure about his leadership. When Queeg is unable to command the ship during a typhoon, his first officer relieves him of duty and takes charge, for which he later faces court-martial for mutiny. The authorities have to decide whether it was mutiny or safeguarding the ship.

The Absent Minded Professor is a science fiction film which revolves around a professor who creates a special flying rubber which can defy gravity, which he uses for his adventures. However, when a corrupt businessman learns about this invention, he wants to have it for himself.    

Lee Stevens, an executive, travels to Washington DC with his secretary Jane Rogers in order to secure a government contract. However, Jane is unsatisfied with their hotel accommodations, and cancels the reservations. Problems arise when they are unable to find a single hotel in the entire city with rooms available.

After endangering blue-collar worker Jim Ryan, while photographing a tunnel project, photographer, Katherine Grant, saves him but also photographs him during a fistfight. The pictures lead to Ryan getting fired and Katherine hires him as her assistant out of guilt. As the two start falling in love, their differences threaten to crush the blossoming romance. 

Stenographer Marilyn David falls for Charles, unaware that he is British aristocrat Charles Gray. Her close friend, reporter Peter Dawes who loves her, is disappointed. When Charles returns home, Peter assumes that he has hurt Marilyn, and publishes a story citing her as ‘No Girl’ who rejected nobility. Marilyn becomes a celebrity, which draws Charles back to her, placing her in quandary.

Hands Across the Table is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of Regi Allen, who wants a rich husband, as she was brought up in poverty. She meets Allen Macklyn, a guest at her hotel, who is attracted to her. Despite the fact that he is wealthy, Regi does not view him as a potential husband.

A struggling painter takes up a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. He soon realizes that his job involves more than just mailing letters. While working hard to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they start finding themselves in love with each other.

Eddie York and Chuck Gibson are two former soldiers who are looking forward to their new lives as mink farmers. As they are leaving New York City, Eddie is mistaken for a wealthy playboy named Francis Pemberton, by a thug. Since Francis owes a significant sum of money to a man named Jim Arnold, the thug decides to bring Eddie back to him. This leads Eddie’s life into jeopardy.

Glifford Motors owner, Ernest Glifford, invites three people so that he can evaluate them and their wives and pick his next general manager. Bill and Katie Baxter are a loving couple, while Elizabeth and Sidney Burns have a strained marriage. The third candidate is Jerry Talbot, whose ambitious and unrefined wife Carol might cause problems for him. 

Don Stuart is a forest ranger who is in pursuit of a forest arsonist. Meanwhile, he also develops a romance with a socialite.

After being cleared of a crime, Charles Gillette, a gangster decides to seek vengeance against the people of Mountain City, who were responsible for him being put behind bars. He buys a newspaper ‘The Sentinel’, and tries to hire a star reporter named Ralph Houston as the editor. However, when Ralph refuses, he hires a woman named Vina Swain, Ralph’s lover, to dig up dirt on his enemies. Things get complicated when she makes errors, which lead to a suicide.

Alice Adams is a romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of a woman named Alice, belonging to a working class family living in a small town. However, she aspires to be among the upper class. She soon gains the attention of a man named Arthur Russell, but she hides her true social standing from him. Meanwhile, her mother pressurizes Mr Adams to invest in a business venture, hoping that they can truly become part of the upper class.

Engineer Jack Hale finds himself in the middle of a long-going feud between the two Kentucky clans of the Falins and the Tollivers. He saves the life of Dave Tolliver but Dave becomes jealous when his cousin, June, falls for Hale. Hale and June might finally be able to bring the families together. 

During the 1940s, a wandering cowboy comes across a runaway horse and takes him back to his ranch. Eventually, they become very close. But when he fires one of the ranch hands, he decides to steal the horse in retaliation.

Hollywood press agent Bill Dunnigan arrives in the home town of actress Olga Treskovna with her body to honor her last request of being buried there. But he meets with hostility and lacks the funds. Desperate to honor her wishes, he convinces the churches to ring the bells for three days and prays for a miracle. 

A teenage boy named Wilby Daniels is transformed into a shaggy Old English Sheepdog due to the power of an enchanted ring.

Wanda Nash is masquerading as Princess Olga from Sweden on board the ocean liner the Mammoth. She runs into King Mantell, a band leader with a criminal record. Robert M. Darcy starts blackmailing them but soon ends up dead. Now both of them must find the real killer before they are pinned for the murder. 

Face of a Fugitive is a 1959 Western drama film which tells the story of a robber in custody, who becomes wanted for murder, after his younger brother, in order to help him escape, has to kill the deputy sheriff. 

A musical made during WWII to entertain troops, raise funds and boost morale. Silent Era-Star, Billy Webster is now a gateman at Paramount studios. However, his Navy serviceman son, Johnny, thinks he is a studio executive. As Johnny is arriving with his shipmates, to preserve his illusion, Billy takes help of studio switchboard-operator, Polly, to put up a show with Hollywood’s mega-stars.

Pat Falconer, his neighbor Scott and their friend Peggy share an interest in aviation. Eventually, this obsession with airplanes leads Falconer to the Air Force, and Scott becomes an aeronautics engineer. However, they both develop feelings for Peggy, which tests their friendship.  

After being presumed dead, a World War II soldier’s last words for his dog are misinterpreted as a declaration of love for his co-worker. When he eventually returns home alive, things get hilarious due to this misunderstanding.

When chased by the law, three robbers, Jim, Wahoo and Sam, get separated. Later, Jim and Wahoo join Texas Rangers when they meet Sam and decide to use inside information to work with Sam. But as they rescue an orphan boy from Indian attack and thwart another major attack, Jim has second thoughts. Will he join Sam or lead an honest life?

This Western drama film tells us the story of two smart marketing executives who hire a cowboy to impersonate a fading star for public appearances. However, things get quite messy when the real star shows up as well. 

An American pearl smuggler’s bride-to-be goes missing when the church, in which she was waiting to marry him, is bombed by the Japanese during the WWII. Unable to find her anywhere, he finally leaves Singapore; but when he returns 5 years later, everybody believes he is here to seek the pearls he has left. In the meantime, he sees his bride-to-be. 

Father Was a Fullback is a comedy film, which tells the story of a football coach, George Cooper, who struggles to deal with the problems in his family as well as his professional life. .

Suddenly It’s Spring is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of Peter, who wants a divorce from his wife. However, his wife Mary is still in love with him, and doesn’t want to part.

Maid of Salem revolves around the story of a young girl in Salem, Massachusetts, who is having an affair with an adventurer. A witch hunt is going on, and the girl is sentenced as well. However, her lover comes to her rescue.  

Sing, You Sinners is a musical romantic comedy drama film which tells the story of Joe, David and Mike, three brothers, who have never been appreciative of their singing skills. Their lives take a turn when their family is forced into poverty.

The Bride Comes Home is a romantic comedy film which revolves around a penniless socialite, who is hired by two young men, who are planning to start a magazine. Over time, they find themselves more interested in her than their publishing venture.

Based on the popular 1927 Broadway play, Burlesque, this romantic comedy-drama is about a singer stranded in Panama, who moves in with an ex-soldier and his roommate. She and the former eventually fall in love, but their romance is threatened by work and the arrival of an old flame. 

A botany professor Grant gets married to a young woman Katie, who has three children from her previous marriage. However, they are forced to bring the kids with them on their honeymoon, as Jo, Katie’s sister who had promised to take care of the kids, suffers an accident.  However, this turns their life upside down.

Eddie Campbell and his gang of outlaws kill a bank teller during a robbery and later Eddie kills the town marshall. Ex-lawman Ben Cutler apprehends Eddie and gets him sentenced to hang. But Ben meets opposition from the townspeople after Eddie manipulates their emotions and from his own daughter Laurie who is in love with Eddie. 

A promising young boxer Cole falls for Eleanor, a businessman's daughter. A decade after their marriage, their relationship begins to crack due to Cole's aspiration.

The adventure drama follows Lt. William Clark and Captain Meriwether Lewis as they try to explore and document the untamed American frontier with the blessings of President Thomas Jefferson, following the Louisiana Purchase. As both men and nature create adversities, they are guided by Shoshone woman Sacagawea. 

Elizabeth Madden wishes for motherhood, but has no husband. However, she finds an abandoned baby, after which her desire appears to be fulfilled. However, she has no clue on raising it. Eventually, she finds a divorced pediatrician to help her in raising the child. 

When bandits storm a small town, a peace loving store owner manages to take up a gun and fire at their leader, ultimately causing his death. Although initially the townspeople hail him as a hero they soon start boycotting him, fearing reprisal by the group.  Left with only the support of wife and one friend, he must now learn to deal with the bandits on his own.  

A Millionaire for Christy is a 1951 comedy film, which tells the story of a gold-digging legal secretary named Christy, who is residing in San Francisco. She is not doing too well financially, and this is why she wants to find a millionaire to marry. 

 Committed to his job, a workaholic hardware store owner has little bonding with his family. Although his frugal ways has saved them from poverty during the Depression, they are all dissatisfied.  Then one day, an angel appears before him to tell him that his time is up. The revelation sets him thinking and he decides to sell his store.  

Two undercover agents are sent to Mexico in order to infiltrate a drug smuggling racket that the US agencies are finding impossible to stop because of their meticulous operation procedures. But unaware of each other’s identity, one is kidnapped by the other. What happens after that? 

Fair Wind to Java is an action adventure drama film which tells the story of Captain Boll, a tough merchant seaman in the 19th century, who is on the search for a treasure on a remote island in the Dutch East Indies.

Flight for Freedom is a fictionalized account of the disappearance of a pioneer aviatrix. She sacrifices her life to make way for the US Navy to fly over the Pacific in 1937 to search for some Japanese installations on the nearby islands.

Stuck in a loveless marriage, British aristocrat, Lord Esketh, and his wife, Lady Edwina, arrive in Ranchipur, India to purchase some horses. When Esketh announces his intention to divorce her on returning to England, Edwina tries to seduce physician Dr. Rama Safti. Eventually the two fall in true love, but fate has other plans for them. 

Bill Morgan wants to join the military during World War II to impress the beautiful Lucilla Powell. However, he is rated as unfit for the army.  He soon finds a magic lamp, from which a genie emerges. The genie grants him his wish of serving in the Army, but gets the era wrong. Bill therefore finds himself at a different time in history.

On Our Merry Way is a slapstick comedy film revolving around Oliver, who has lied to wife about being a reporter in a newspaper, though he is actually a clerk there. 

Bon Voyage is a French mystery drama film, which takes us to Paris during the time of the Second World War. The film revolves around an actress, a writer and a government worker, who make an attempt to escape as the Nazis storm into the city. 

Wes Anderson gets tangled up with a lynch mob who accidentally hang the wrong man. His brother too gets involved in Wes' bid to seek revenge, turning his former sweetheart against him. 

Never a Dull Moment is a heist comedy crime film, which revolves around a TV actor, who is mistaken for a notorious hitman. He is forced to continue to pretend to be the hitman to foil the plans of a gangster.    

When United States elects its first woman president, things become little awkward for everybody. The First Gentleman, mostly referred as President’s Husband, occasionally as the First Lady, is expected take up her role. Meanwhile, the new president becomes too busy for her husband and children; yet manages to smell perfume on his shirt.  

While following a rumor of war out in the West, a reporter from New York finds himself taken prisoner by Indians.

The Swarm is a horror thriller film which tells the story of Brad Crane, a scientist who teams up with General Slater in order to stop a huge swarm of bees, that are spreading terror over American cities and killing countless people.