The film tells the story of a sensitive and complex relationship between a mother and her ailing son. Like in Hans Christian Anderson's fairy tale "The Loveliest Rose in the World" where a prince must search for a rose to save his mother, who is dying in bed, "Tied Hands" sees a reversal of roles as a desperate mother goes out to find marijuana, to ease her son's pain. In her, turbulent journey in the streets of Tel-Aviv, old truths from her past come back to life and threaten to break down a wall of denials behind which, she's been hiding all her life.
Victor Christopher (Uncredited)
Joe acaba de llegar de la guerra donde ha sido condecorado. Cuando parece que ya ha dejado atrás todos las miserias del ser humano, descubre horrorizado que las desgracias también le esperan en casa. Un mafioso se ha quedado con su club y ha matado a su socio.
Tom Delaney
Steve Kenet, un veterano piloto de guerra, es ingresado en un psiquiátrico después de haber confesado el asesinato de su esposa. La doctora Ann Lorrison es la encargada de esclarecer el oscuro caso.
Detective
A 14-year-old boy lies about his age and enlists in the United State Marine Corps without his family's consent or knowledge. He is sent into battle in the Pacific war-zone, decorated, and spotted in a newsreel by his family. The family asks the War Department to discharge him and send him home.
Mr. Woods (uncredited)
Hale y Jimmy Seymour son una pareja que trabaja en en pequeños clubes nocturnos con la esperanza de tener éxito. Una noche, Larry Bryant (un productor de Broadway) ve a Mary y se enamora de su belleza y su voz. Larry Bryant le pide que haga una audición para el Sr. Collier y que Jimmy la acompañe. Después de escuchar a Mary, Collier quiere que Mary esté en su show. Jimmy anima a una Mary reacia a seguir el camino sin él.
Potatoes
A Chinese-American surgeon faces a moral dilemma after operating on the mob boss in charge of vice and protection rackets in her city's Chinatown.
Piano Player (uncredited)
La banda de McCord (Bogart) roba el dinero que lleva la diligencia para pagar a los indios por la compra de sus tierras, pero el proscrito Jim Kincaid (Cagney), alias "el chico de Oklahoma", roba a su vez a McCord el dinero. Más tarde, McCord se hace con el control de los salones de juego en la nueva ciudad. Cuando el padre de Kincaid decide presentarse a la elecciones para la alcaldía de la nueva ciudad, McCord incita a multitud para lincharlo, ya que sabe que si gana su negocio se vendría abajo.
Brogan
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Musician
Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.
Taxi Driver
Society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome tramp who shows up at her doorstep and ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of Geraldine.
Jackpot
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
Husky Stone
Comical exploits of two Navy pals, at sea and on shore.
Eddie Baxter
A poor family receives unwanted houseguests when they're visited by gangsters looking for a place to hide out.
John White
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
Robert Cooper
Un anciano matrimonio reúne a sus dos hijos para comunicarles que están arruinados y los van a desahuciar en un plazo muy breve. Sus vidas tomarán un nuevo rumbo.
Roger
In this musical set in swingin' Manhattan, an heiress plans a ballet in the famous Moonbeam ballroom located atop a 100-story skyscraper. Unfortunately, the attending audience is quite bored until someone starts the place swinging. Musical numbers include: "Blame It on the Rhumba," "Where Are You?" "Jamboree," "Top of the Town," "I Feel That Foolish Feeling Coming On," "There's No Two Ways About It," "Fireman Save My Child"
Warbler
A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer.
Bright Boy Schultz
John Thompson is kidnapped by mobsters after quitting his job. Then he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death for murders they committed. A suspicious detective thinks he is innocent and works to save his life.
Whitey
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
Henchman Joe
After serving 25 years in prison for robbery, Dean Payton returns to his home town to see his daughter, Sally, who is unaware he is her father. He befriends Cal Yates, the now semi-retired assistant sheriff who originally caught him, and Chuck Wilson, a young rancher who has eyes for Sally. Wanted criminal Al Goss holds up the local bank and makes his getaway, taking Sally hostage. Showing he still has what it takes, Payton, along with Yates and Wilson, take off into the hills on horseback to try to track Goss down. - Written by Doug Sederberg
Dutch
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
Spike
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Dopey Williams
Cuando la flota atraca en el puerto de San Francisco, Bake Baker sólo piensa en recuperar a su antigua novia y pareja de baile, Sherry Martin. Mientras tanto, su amigo Bilge Smith mantendrá un romance con Connie, la hermana de Sherrie. Pero las cosas no discurrirán apaciblemente: Bake tiene la costumbre de hacerle perder sus trabajos a Sherrie, y Bilge no parece preparado para sentar la cabeza.
Miles Bjornstam
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Story
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her!
Mr. Bland
A writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. However, peace and quiet are the last things he gets, as there are some very strange goings-on at the establishment.
McCrory
An eccentric heir must marry a widow in order to collect the millions left to him in his aunt's will, so a suicidal neighbor agrees to marry the man's young fiancée before offing himself.
Bat Gilligan
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
Chan Bell
Three cowboys buy a ranch but have to fight off gunmen to keep it.
Circus Clown
The ghost of a recently deceased family patriarch tries to help his surviving relatives, in part by preventing a marriage that he knows will go wrong.
Tyler
An amateur handicapper must help his future son-in-law recoup the money he lost while playing the ponies.
Henchman Frank McClosky
Clay Tallant comes to Silver City, Arizona in the 1880s and encounters wide-spread lawlessness and disorder, unscrupulous politicians, outlaws galore and brow-beaten citizens. He accepts the position of town marshal and, with his brother and a reformed outlaw , Tex Randolph, who comes over to his side, sets out to bring law-and-order where none exists. He also wins the hand of the singer appearing at the Opera House.
Gabby
Las insidiosas habladurías típicas de un pueblo pequeño hacen muy desgraciados a un joven y a la mujer casada de la que está enamorado.
Song Promoter at Music Publisher (uncredited)
El profesor Thalma presenta, en su casa, al prestigioso director de orquesta Franz Roberti (Charles Boyer) y a su alumna Constance Dane (Katharine Hepburn), la cual impresionará luego, con su belleza y su talento como compositora al notable director. Después de estar felizmente casados, comenzarán los problemas cuando, a la vida de Franz, regresa una atractiva amiga de los viejos tiempos.
Photographer (uncredited)
Mary wants to marry a gangster because that is where the money is. Unfortunately, the life expectancy and finances of a gangster are unstable.
Hook
Larry O'Roark is a boxer who's insanely posssesive and jealous of his fiancee, Jo. the sight of her and her employer, Mr. Lambert, at ringside during his big fight distracts Larry and he is knocked out. He then promises never to be jealous again and marries Jo. When she realizes that they're broke she asks Lambert for a job (she had quit on marrying Larry.) One thing leads to another and Larry, enraged with jealousy, end up killing Lambert. He then wanders off in a daze, and Jo takes the rap for the murder. Larry descends from his amnesiac fog just in time to interrupt the announcement of the jury's verdict in Jo's trial. then it's off to the chair for Larry. Or is it?
'Brainwave' Flynn
A London taxicab driver cashes in on a big sweepstakes ticket and becomes the prey of a confidence-gang that sells him a nag of a cavalry horse on the claim that it is a brother to a current Derby winner.
Evans
Reporter Dan Collins tries to expose a crooked gambling ring, but is waylaid by Geraldine Sloane, a feisty young heiress who feels Collins has insulted her. To get revenge , she disguises herself and gets a job at Collins' paper, where she manages to throw his crusade against the gamblers into disarray.
Himself
Comic cowboy piano player Ray Mayer and blonde singer Edith Evans perform "Henry's Made a Lady out of Lizzie," "It All Belongs to Me," "Sleep, Little One, Sleep" and "Side by Side."
Himself - Pianist and Singer
The scene is a parlor out West, with Ray Mayer sitting at the piano in is cowboy duds - hat, scarf, and chaps. He plays a little barrel-house music and then introduces Edith Evans, who enters wearing fur. She sings - her voice a light-opera soprano - while Mayer plays.