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Una recopilación de los momentos más divertidos de las comedias MGM.
Mr. Gorman
Una jovencita hace cambiar a todo un pueblo gracias a su alegría. Aunque se quedó huérfana a los doce años, Pollyanna siempre tiene ganas de sonreír, incluso a su severa tía, a la que acabará ablandando con su contagiosa alegría.
archive footage
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Will Rogers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Keystone Cops.
Sam, a hobo (uncredited)
Un astrónomo aficionado, John Putnam, y su prometida Eilen Fields contemplan las estrellas en el desierto cuando una nave espacial atraviesa el cielo y choca contra el suelo. Justo antes de que un corrimiento de tierras entierre la nave, una misteriosa criatura emerge y desaparece en la oscuridad. Por supuesto, cuando Putnam cuenta la historia al sheriff, nadie le cree, pero pronto empiezan a suceder cosas extrañas.
Estamos en Carolina del Norte. Ruby es una chica joven, guapa y pobre que está enamorada en secreto de Tackman, quien se va a casar con una rica heredera. Por despecho, se casa con Gentry, el hombre más rico del condado, lo cual no estará muy bien visto por la conservadora sociedad; además, cuando Gentry muera, Ruby será acusada de su muerte.
Man at Gym (uncredited)
A New Orleans boxer backs out of a bout and leaves his girlfriend for Korea.
Henry Mahoney
Steve is a Government Agent looking for the gang that stole the U.S. Mail. He goes undercover...
Colonel Middler
At the close of the Civil War, a band of Southern guerillas disguised themselves as Union soldiers, the better to perform acts of sabotage in Utah. Autry plays a cavalry scout who goes after guerilla leader McQuarrie (Jim Davis).
Pop Willard
Charles Starrett plays lawman Steve Forsythe in Ridin' the Outlaw Trail. Somewhere along the line, of course, Steve is obliged to don the mask of The Durango Kid, mysterious righter of wrongs. The "wrongs" in this instance include the theft of $20,000 in gold, and the "kidnapping" of a blacksmith's forge! Jim Bannon, who only a few months earlier had played the heroic Red Ryder, provides the villainy in this fast-paced "Durango Kid" entry
Deputy in Hall (uncredited)
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Detective (uncredited)
A Joyce Willecombe le inspiran desconfianza dos hombres que viajan con ella en el tren; llama entonces a Calhoun (Holden), el jefe de policía de la Estación Unión. Aunque éste, al principio, se muestra escéptico, todo parece indicar que los sospechosos están implicados en un caso de secuestro, razón por la cual Calhoun pide ayuda al inspector de policía Donnelly, pero los secuestradores son muy escurridizos.
Randolph Dike
Charles Starrett, aka "The Durango Kid", is back in Raiders of Tomahawk Creek. Starrett plays Steve Blake, a novice Indian agent, sent out to investigate a series of mysterious murders.
Mr. Jones
"Remake" en color del film "Nobleza obliga", que Leo McCarey rodó con Charles Laughton quince años antes. Fue el segundo de los cuatro films que Bob Hope interpretó junto a Lucille Ball, y el tercero de los seis en los que fue dirigido por George Marshall (sin contar sus cameos en dos películas más).
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
Biff Jones is a driver/salesman for the Good Humor ice-cream company. He hopes to marry his girl Margie, who works as a secretary for Stuart Nagel, an insurance investigator. Margie won't marry Biff, though, because she is the sole support of her kid brother, Johnny. Biff gets involved with Bonnie, a young woman he tries to rescue from gangsters. But Biff's attempts to help her only get him accused of murder. When the police refuse to believe his story, it's up to Biff and Johnny to prove Biff's innocence and solve the crime.
Police Lt. Ed Mitchell (uncredited)
Un padre deja a su hija en manos de Sorrowful Jones mientras acude a las apuestas de caballos. Cuando regresa, se entera de que el cuidado de la niña interfiere con su estilo de vida. Sorrowful, por su parte, debe escapar de unos gangsters.
Jailer (uncredited)
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Hercules Jones
Sterling's physique doesn't impress his girlfriend's father, who is a bodybuilder. She decides to pump him up in order to get her father's approval.
Policeman
El espítiru navideño parece dominarlo todo, pero no tiene cabida en el hogar del obispo Henry Brougham. En su lucha por recaudar fondos para construir una nueva catedral, el joven clérigo ha desatendido de tal manera a su afectuosa esposa Julia, que ahora lo único que puede salvar su matrimonio es un milagro. Pero el poderoso ángel envíado desde el cielo no se conformará con darle a Henry una lección inmortal de romanticismo
Desk Sergeant (uncredited)
El rey de un lejano país resulta gravemente herido después de un intento de asesinato. Su único heredero es un tímido profesional de la radio, que vive en Nueva York. Después de viajar a regañadientes a su país natal, se convierte en objetivo de la misma organización terrorista que atacó al rey.
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)
Una empresa dedicada a los sondeos de opinión busca con ahínco su “milagro estadístico”: una pequeña ciudad cuya opinión refleje la del resto del país. Cuando las cosas se ponen feas y la empresa parece estar abocada a la bancarrota, se publican los resultados de una encuesta realizada a miles de personas en todo el país. Lo asombroso es que esos resultados coinciden con los del sondeo realizado por la empresa en el pequeño pueblo de Grandview.
Policeman with Injured Susan
Un oficial de policía, Joe Warne, investiga el asesinato de un compositor, Keith Vincent. Las pruebas evidentes conducen a creer que se trata de un suicidio y la policía cierra el caso. Joe, por el contrario, no cree la versión oficial y decide continuar la investigación por su cuenta interrogando a las diez mujeres que ocuparon la vida de Vincent, ya que todas ellas tenían motivos para matarle.
Motorcycle Cop (Uncredited)
A showgirl working for an inventor battles crooks, who want to steal his ideas.
Policeman (uncredited)
Christopher Cross es un simple cajero infelizmente casado, pero tiene un raro talento para la pintura. En cierta ocasión, conoce a una aventurera de la que se enamora y le hace creer que es un pintor de éxito. La chica y su novio, un individuo sin escrúpulos, aprovechan la ocasión para explotar al pobre hombre, que llegará incluso a cometer un desfalco en su empresa para que ella siga creyendo que es un artista de éxito.
Official Policeman (uncredited)
Duke y Chester son dos actores de tercera fila que huyendo de un apuro se embarcan rumbo a Alaska. En el mismo barco viajan dos asesinos, Sperry y McGurk, que tienen en su poder un mapa con la ubicación concreta de una mina que esconde gran cantidad de oro. La casualidad hace que el mapa vaya a parar a manos de los dos actores que aprovechan la ocasión para abandonar el barco adoptando la identidad de los asesinos.
Chief of Police
Wildcat Kelly has been dead and buried for years. Or has he? Dale is a reporter for an Eastern magazine who comes West to find out the true story of Kelly, of whom Gabby seems to have mysterious knowledge.
Al - First Studio Cop
A pesar de que en el título aparece la palabra Hollywood, esta comedia no gira en torno al mundo del cine, sino al de la música. Abbott y Costello vuelven a interpretar a dos perdedores que sueñan con convertirse en importantes agentes musicales. Quieren cumplir su sueño, así que empiezan con pequeños clientes con carreras alejadas del estrellato. Por el momento son unos don nadie, habrá que ver si la pareja de cómicos consigue convertirlos en los reyes de la música.
Police Desk Sergeant (Uncredited)
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.
Motorcycle Cop
Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.
Casey
In this romantic comedy, three man-hungry sisters consult a fortune-teller to help them with their romantic futures.
Bank Guard (uncredited)
A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man's old partner, who is now in prison because of a conflict with him over the money in that account.
Motorcycle Officer (Uncredited)
Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train station, but the man vanishes when he has Bill stop so he can use a pay phone. At the dinner, Bill and Jack are seated with Brenner's daughter, Freda, and, to Bill's surprise, another man is introduced as Baumler -- who dies moments later.
Policeman in Taxi Garage (uncredited)
Eddie Harrington y Albert Mansfield son dos fontaneros que reciben una llamada para reparar una fuga de agua en el cuarto de baño privado del hogar del señor Van Cleve, un rico hombre de negocios. La fuga casualmente se ha producido durante el baile de disfraces que su esposa ha organizado en la mansión. Mientras están tratando de reparar la fuga, rompen una cañería y se produce la inundación de la sala...
Claude Burns
An architect (Chick Chandler) studies the doors of six shops and an apartment house to solve a gem theft/double murder.
Sergeant
A Walter y a Vivian les cuesta conservar la servidumbre. Walter contrata a un detective privado y a su prometida para que trabajen con él, con la excusa de que espías nazis la han tomado con él, por ser fabricante de municiones. Cuando aparezcan los verdaderos espías, empezarán los líos de verdad...
Man (uncredited)
La película narra las múltiples aventuras de cuatro hermanas, las Angel sisters, todas ellas cantantes y bailarinas, que, en un principio, no quieren actuar juntas.
Policeman at White House (uncredited)
La princesa María, que visita de incógnito Nueva York, decide volar hasta San Francisco. Sin embargo, después de aterrizar el avión, una serie de enredos la llevan a pasar la noche en casa del piloto, que está convencido de que es una simple criada. (FILMAFFINITY)
Radio Policeman (Uncredited)
Street-smart Maisie from Brooklyn lands a job at an airplane assembly plant during WWII and falls in love with handsome pilot "Breezy" McLaughlin. Breezy, however, falling in love with and getting engaged to Maisie's conniving roommate Iris, doesn't realize she's using him and it's up to Maisie to convince him.
Sullivan
A Broadway producer's Girl Friday must make sure that her recent marriage is kept secret. If it gets out, she will lose her job. Unfortunately, her new hubby is tired of hiding the truth and creates all kinds of problems when he decides to spill the beans.
C.P.O. Ben Cobb
Don Winslow (titular hero of the serial "Don Winslow of the Navy") is reassigned to the United States Coast Guard, to guard the coast against saboteurs and sneak attacks.
Policeman at Hospital (Uncredited)
La ambiciosa Helen Chernen (Ida Lupino) empuja a su joven hermana Katherine (Joan Leslie) a casarse con el frustrado artista de variedades Albert Runkel (Jack Carson) y, de esta forma, las dos mujeres pueden abandonar la sucia ciudad donde viven. El socio de Runkel, Paul Collins (Dennis Morgan), sin embargo, intuye el plan de Helen. Helen continúa conduciendo la carrera de su hermana y finalmente Katherine se convierte en una estrella de Broadway, mientras que las actuaciones de Runkel y Collins se tambalean. Pronto el éxito se le sube a la cabeza a Katherine y se convierte en una chica de vida fiestera. El tiempo pasa y Helen y Katherine se tropiezan con Paul, ahora el líder de una exitosa banda. Katherine y Paul se enamoran. Las dos hermanas tienen finalmente un enfrentamiento en el estreno del último espectáculo de Katherine, cuando ésta descubre que Helen también está enamorada de Paul.
Marshal (uncredited)
The brother of a notorious outlaw is put in a charge of a stagecoach line way station in dangerous Apache territory. A stagecoach arrives at the station with a valuable box of cargo, and the outlaw brother soon shows up, though denying that he's planning to take the cargo box. Soon, however, rampaging Apaches attack the station, and the station manager, his brother and a disparate group of passengers and employees must fight them off.
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Members of a well-to-do small community become worried when it is revealed that one of their maids is writing a telling exposé.
Police Sergeant in Bumped Car
Justo antes de embarcarse en su luna de miel, el soldado Kay Kyser recibe la orden de presentarse en el cuartel general para una peligrosa misión: actuar como espía en un club nocturno donde parece ser se ha localizado a un grupo de nazis. Su esposa Terry no parece conformarse con la soledad, así que parte en busca de su nuevo marido. Esto, unido a la torpeza de Kyser y la intervención de una rubia agente secreta dará lugar a todo tipo de situaciones cómicas.
Policeman
A poor girl falls for a wealthy young man. He invites her to his gala birthday party, but she doesn't have the right kind of dress to wear, so her family and friends band together to raise money to get her the proper dress.
Joe
A greedy woman betrays her jewel thief husband to the police, for the reward. Her husband's friend, a detective, adopts the couple's child and raises her as his own. Eighteen years later the husband, still in prison, finds out that his ex-wife is now blackmailing their daughter. He vows to break out and put a stop to her once and for all.
Joe - Policeman
Karen Bentley, una agente especial inglesa, tiene que formar equipo con el estrambótico Larry Haines, para frustrar los planes de unos espías alemanes.
Detective
Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation to Dan Hopkins, the man she married and lost.
State Trooper
The nosy antics of a honeymooner puts an unwed couple in the same room.
Irondome (uncredited)
Unos gángters quieren hacer que un grupo de gente abandone una casa donde ellos se han escondido. Para ello intentarán asustarles hasta conseguir que se marchen.
Recruiting Sergeant
Una estrella de cine trama un plan para evitar el servicio militar: casarse con la hija de un coronel del ejército, pero las cosas no salen como había planeado y acaba terminando en el frente de guerra.
Policeman (uncredited)
Steve is a shy quiet man who is an executive for a shipping firm. He meets Dot at the Opera where she had his seats and the next day she shows up as his temporary secretary. Then Coffee Cup comes to town to see Dot, his gal. When Steven is with Cecilia, everything is boring. When he is with Dot and Coffee Cup, everything is exciting and he falls for Dot. But Coffee is getting out of the Navy in a few days and he plans to marry Dot.
Motorcycle Policeman (Uncredited)
Maisie es contratada como criada de una familia de ricos excéntricos.
Bill - Train Engineer (uncredited)
Los hermanos Marx se dirigen al Oeste a hacer fortuna. Allí adquieren una propiedad de una mina sin valor pero cuyo terreno es muy codiciado por una compañía de ferrocarriles... Otra divertidísima comedia de los hermanos Marx con inolvidables gags entre los que destaca la delirante escena inicial del timo mutuo en la estación.
Mike Fink (uncredited)
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.
Cop with Black Eye (uncredited)
¡Romance AL RITMO DE LA RUMBA ... en este musical mágico de la alegría! La notable película de Abbott y Costello por ser la primera. El equipo juegan un papel de menor importancia, pero robar el cuadro con cinco rutinas clásicas, incluyendo una versión abreviada de "¿Quién es primero?"
Doc - Knute's Friend at Kansas City Airport (uncredited)
The story of legendary Notre Dame football player and coach Knute Rockne.
Sweeny (uncredited)
Gaylord escribe una obra de teatro que triunfa en Broadway. Todo le va a las mil maravillas porque además consigue casarse con la chica a la que ama y que es quien ha protagonizado la historia. El éxito sobre los escenarios se sucede con nuevas obras pero las cosas cambian cuando decide olvidarse de las comedias e intentar escribir una buena tragedia. El nuevo reto
Capt. Evans
With the army after him and his partner deserting, Reb decides that a change of scenery would be nice so he heads for Wyoming with Dave.
Policeman Giving Ticket
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Sheriff
Tod Jackson es un joven abogado que llega a Kansas para visitar a sus amigos los Dalton. Una vez allí, averigua que la familia tiene graves problemas, pues una poderosa compañía está utilizando todo tipo de tretas para arrebatarles sus tierras. La situación llega a tal punto que consiguen convertir en proscritos a todos los miembros de la familia.
Desk Sergeant
Ginger Rogers y Ronald Colman comparten un premio de un sorteo y se van de falsa luna de miel, con resultados perfectamente predecibles.
1st Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Cuando se casa, un hombre contraviene la política de su empresa.
Ed Sweeney
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Policeman
A couple can't make ends meet. He is an airplane mechanic and makes extra money testing planes. When the baby arrives things get better.
Chief Master-of-Arms
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Cop
Set against the backdrop of WWI Europe, a man and woman of different classes are brought together by their love of Lippizan horses.
Police Officer
Radio star Jack Benny, intending to stay in New York for the summer, is forced by the needling of rival Fred Allen to prove his boasts about roughing it on his (fictitious) Nevada ranch. Meanwhile, singer Joan Cameron, whom Jack's fallen for and offended, is maneuvered by her sisters to the same Nevada town. Jack's losing battle to prove his manhood to Joan means broad slapstick burlesque of Western cliches.
Policeman
Mediante flashback, un Edison de 82 años narra su vida desde su llegada a Nueva York con 22 años, cuando ya empezó a hacer sus pinitos en el mundo de la invención.
Motorcycle Cop
Una autora de libros feministas y un profesor de medicina bastante retrógrado, encuentran que les beneficia mutuamente simular que están casados.
Higgins
A teenager falls hard for an irresponsible playboy.
Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
Policeman
Family film, based on a Booth Tarkington tale, about a young boy who takes extreme measures to keep the stray dog he befriends.
Policeman (uncredited)
Johnny Brett y King Shaw son dos ambiciosos bailarines que buscan la fama en Broadway, y que trabajan como empleados en el café de una sala de espectáculos. Uno de ellos es elegido para el papel principal de un gran musical, pero se confunden de nombres y escogen al compañero. Desde entonces son rivales en la carrera hacia el éxito...
Harbor Patrol Sgt. Denny
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Police Sergeant (uncredited)
A pregnant prison inmate shares her problems with the patients in a maternity ward.
Second Railroad Cop (uncredited)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter leads to a fight between them, leading to the older man's death due to a weak heart. Joe and Mabel go on the run as he thinks no-one would believe a nobody like him.
Petty Officer (uncredited)
A tugboat captain serves under his rival as a U-boat chaser in World War I.
Jim Simmons
Torchy Blane and Steve McBride try to nab a gangster by tracking his moll.
Father goes to an American Legion convention in Hollywood and the family goes along, visiting a studio a causing havoc on the set.
Motorcycle Officer Corrigan
The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.
Actor as 'Captain Flagg' (uncredited)
El cliente de un detective es acusado de asesinato. El tipo acabará siendo condenado a la pena capital, y el detective a un año de prisión por ocultarle. Pero cuando le trasladan a la cárcel logra fugarse. Tratará de averiguar la verdad, aunque para ello tenga que actuar como un peligroso facineroso, reteniendo a una poetisa consigo. En realidad está más que claro que no es nada peligroso, pero por suerte para él la policía no demuestra demasiada pericia a la hora de capturarle.
Lieutenant (uncredited)
En Nueva York durante los años 20, una cantante lucha por apartar a su novio de los problemas...
Officer McGuire (uncredited)
Dagwood inadvertently gets cornered in to resigning. When his wife Blondie tries to ask Dagwoods boss Mr. Dithers for his job back, he ends up hiring her instead. This doesn't sit too well with Dagwood. Blondie's sister comes to visit, and Dagwood is put in a compromising situation with another woman.
Second Bartender (uncredited)
An ace reporter with a girlfriend nails a numbers racketeer for murders.
Mounted Policeman
Johnny Mason, un joven abogado recién casado, trabaja para el estricto juez Doolittle, del que es imposible conseguir una subida de sueldo. Para colmo, Johnny tiene que interrumpir su luna de miel por orden de su jefe, que está furioso con él porque deseaba casarlo con su hija Eunice.
Jailer
Movie star Brooks Mason tries to avoid his fans and spend some weeks on vacation. When Hawaiian plantage-owner George Smith is mistaken by Mason's fans for Mason and brought to Mason's home. They decide to change their identities for a few weeks. But George Smith is mobbed by Mason's fans again on a personal appearance tour in New York, Mason falls in love to dancer Dorothy March, who also is on her way to Hawaii. Problems for Mason arise due to the fact that Smith is engaged with Cecilia Grayson, and her wealthy father believes, that Smith has double-crossed him. Mason isn't able to establish a connection with Smith in New York due to his agent's orders.
Motorcycle Cop Going to Accident
Young Women go through Nursing School together, each with there own motivation for being there. They learn more than how to be a Nurse.
First Policeman (uncredited)
Una médico está bajo el punto de mira de la policía tras la muerte de su marido, un médico que conseguía dinero fácil atendiendo a criminales sin denunciarlos. Tendrá que probar su inocencia o perderá su licencia para ejercer la medicina.
Police Detective (uncredited)
Una médico está bajo el punto de mira de la policía tras la muerte de su marido, un médico que conseguía dinero fácil atendiendo a criminales sin denunciarlos. Tendrá que probar su inocencia o perderá su licencia para ejercer la medicina.
Policeman at Hotel (uncredited)
Blondie and Dagwood are about to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary but this happy occasion is marred when the bumbling Dagwood gets himself involved in a scheme that is promising financial ruin for the Bumstead family.
Policeman
Un estudiante de Harvard corteja a una compañera de otra universidad cercana.
Eddie (uncredited)
Cuando la mimada y rica heredera Maggie Richards intenta poner gasolina en un camping dirigido por Bill Davis, éste la obliga a pagar la deuda haciendo las camas. Con ánimo vengativo, ella finge perdonarle y le envía a su padre para que financie un plan de Bill. Lo que ocurre a continuación no formaba parte de su plan original...
Motorcycle Policeman (uncredited)
Con la ayuda de un amigo (Freddie Bartholomew), una chica (Judy Garland) hace todo lo posible para evitar que su madre viuda se case con una persona que no le conviene.
Bus Conductor (uncredited)
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Bill - Plainclothes Policeman (uncredited)
Alice Sycamore, la única persona con un poco de cordura en una familia llena de lunáticos, se enamora de su jefe, Tony Kirby, que pertenece a una familia muy rica y muy cursi. La diferencia entre el estilo de vida y la mentalidad de ambas familias se agudizan cuando los padres de él van a cenar a casa de ella, y la cena termina con la llegada de la policía y la detención de todos los presentes, acusados de anarquistas.
Policeman at End
A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.
Smoky Joslin
A federal agent goes undercover in order to capture a gang that's been smuggling munitions and horses near the Texas border.
Policeman
Nace el amor entre un hombre y una mujer cuando ambos piensan que el otro es rico.
Policeman giving ticket (uncredited)
David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn't want to leave NYC and her job
Detective 'Pinch' Reardon (uncredited)
Charlotte, más conocida como Charlie, es una actriz de teatro cuya última obra ha sido un fracaso. No le ayuda mucho la columna semanal de Peter, amigo de la infancia que estuvo enamorada de ella (y todavía lo está), donde resaltaba los aspectos negativos de su trabajo. En tal tesitura, Peter, conmovido por la muerte del tipo que limpiaba las ventanas de su estudio, que deja dos huérfanos, lanza una campaña apoyando su adopción. El agente de Charlie se entera, y decide que la adopción será una magnífica promoción para la carrera de su actriz.
Motor Cop (uncredited)
Jerry y Lucy Warriner están a punto de divorciarse y luchan por la custodia de su perro, Mr. Smith. Antes de que el divorcio se haga oficial, Jerry decide volver con Lucy, pero se entera de que ella va a casarse con un hombre que se ha hecho rico gracias al petróleo. Jerry contraataca anunciando su compromiso con la aristocrática Molly Lamont.
Joe Stevens
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
Tom Reilley
Taxista en una empresa de Independientes, Joe Benton (Spencer Tracy), está felizmente casado con la linda Anna (Luise Rainer).... pero, su felicidad se ve repentinamente amenazada, cuando ciertos "todopoderosos" pretenden expulsarla del país para acallar un asesinato. Por suerte, Joe y Anna, cuentan con un montón de verdaderos amigos.
Police Sergeant
A madcap inventor tries to market a razor-less shaving cream.
Sgt. Meadowlark
Jimmy Davis se convierte en un héroe matando alemanes durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, pero resulta gravemente herido. Durante su estancia en el hospital se enamora de Rose, una enfermera que a su vez está enamorada de Fred, compañero de Jimmy. Fred es capturado pero ambos piensan que está muerto al no volver del campo de batalla, así que comienzan planes de boda. Cuando Fred aparece no se opone al matrimonio de ellos a pesar de quedar destrozado emocionalmente. Finalizada la guerra, Fred se encuentra con Jimmy y descubre que es un mafioso
Officer Murray
A federal agent goes to work for a taxi company believing it to be a front for a gang of counterfeiters.
Motorcycle Officer
La labor del periodista Steven Leyton es husmear en las vidas privadas, y a su modo de ver, frívolas y ociosas, de los ricos. Un día, Tony Gateson, una rica heredera hija del financiero Gateson y uno de sus personajes favoritos, decide pagarle con la misma moneda al anunciar su próximo compromiso con el joven. A partir de ese momento, cada detalle de la vida de Leyton será también de interés público.
State Trooper Firing Machine Gun (uncredited)
Un delincuente de poca monta (Henry Fonda), condenado ya tres veces, es acusado de un asesinato que no ha cometido. Aunque consigue escapar de la cárcel, la fatalidad le impide seguir el camino recto, a pesar de contar con el apoyo de una mujer que le ama.
Policeman
Hank Medhill, artificial silk manufacturer, has returned to the U.S. from Japan to learn that his former girlfriend, Eleanor Breen is about to marry. Hank convinces Eleanor to leave the groom-to-be and marry him. Shortly after the marriage, they discover that they have nothing in common. They separate. Hank decides to pick any name from the phone book and date them. That date results in a wild and frightful night for Hank, thanks to Eleanor's clever plan.
Ship's Purser (uncredited)
Nikki Martin (Lily Pons), a beautiful French opera star, stows away on an ocean liner in hopes of escaping her jealous fiancee. Once aboard, she joins an American swing band and falls in love with its leader, who, after hearing her sing, eventually comes to reciprocate her feelings.
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.
Motorcycle Officer
The Jones family goes to a convention traveling in a trailer. The oldest daughter gets involved with a convict, the oldest son has a love affair, and the youngest son gets into photography.
Policeman (uncredited)
A shy office worker becomes a hero when a fortune teller calls him another Napoleon.
Smugglers' Pilot
Frances Farmer's second film is a typical B-programmer from the Paramount lot of 1936--up and coming stars (John Howard, Robert Cummings, Grant Withers, Farmer) in a concerning the Coast Guard and smugglers. The chief points of interest are the truly exceptional aerial sequences and Farmer's early performance.
Leon Errol trying to report a stolen car.
House Detective
Another hotel-room mix-up with the suspicious wife, Grace King (Josephine Whittell), checking up on her husband, Ford King (Ford Sterling),who is trying to sell his jewelry line to a lady buyer, Frances Brown (Kitty McHugh). The house detective (Edgar Dearing) gets involved and the room-service waiter, (Billy Dooley), constantly gets himself and his tray knocked over.
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Jim Buchanan es un ejecutivo de capa caída cuya novia no le ama; pero un día conoce en un parque a Joan, una cocinera desempleada que está buscando un cocinero. Ambos deciden hacerse pasar por marido y mujer para un trabajo que requiere una pareja.
Kelly
Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick "Billy") to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from the drought
Precint 5 Policeman
The wealthy Van Dyke family are constantly in the media for outrageous behavior, much to the frustration of the patriarch, Dan Van Dyke. His self-centered wife has a fondness for foreign imports, including "pet projects" like dancers and such and his spoiled children Tony and Carol have constant run-ins with the law. When Dan himself ends up in the clink for five years for tax evasion, he becomes bunk-mates with ex-bootlegger Joe "Spots" Ricardi. Ricardi lectures him on being such a push-over for an out-of-control family, so a dying Dan makes Ricardi his estate trustee once he is released from prison. Ricardi is then thrust into high society and must do everything he once nagged Dan to do.
An RKO comedy short featuring Betty Grable who gets secretly married while her family is trying to fix her up with someone wealthy.
Police Officer Barney Riley
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks up with Jean, a dancer in the show, and the two become a successful dance act. However, when an ex-inmate buddy of Ray's robs the tour bus, Ray is suspected of wrongdoing by Jack and the others in the group. After a gang of thugs hijacks the tour bus, Ray tries to use his street smarts to redeem his reputation.
Convict (as Ed Deering)
Cleopatra (Claudette Colbert), reina de Egipto, recibe al cónsul romano Julio César (Warren William), con quien traza una alianza de cara a afianzar su posición. A la muerte de Julio, coquetea con Marco Antonio (Henry Wilcoxon), para intentar conservar el favor romano.
Constable Balk (uncredited)
La feliz vida de un esquimal cambia desastrosamente cuando se conecta con un comerciante blanco sin escrúpulos.
Policeman (uncredited)
Stanley y Oliver son dos polícias novatos y despistados a los que tratan de robar la rueda de recambio de su coche patrulla estando ellos dentro, comiendo. Más tarde, no logran tomar los datos de un atraco y tratan de llamar a la centralita desde el teléfono de una joyería, sin darse cuenta de que en ella se está cometiendo un robo...
Policeman at Streetcar (uncredited)
Fast-talker extraordinaire Tracy gives one of his quintessential wiseguy performances as a conniving ambulance chaser who falls in love with Evans, unaware she's a special investigator for a streetcar company he's repeatedly victimized.
Speakeasy Bartender (uncredited)
Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho), el nuevo director del prestigioso Huxley U, contrata a dos ineptos, Baravelli y Pinky, para ayudar a su escuela a ganar un partido de fútbol frente a su rival Darwin U.
Train Official (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Mulligan - a Policeman (uncredited)
Mary Brown y Steve no parecen tener suerte en el amor. Los dos son abandonados por sus parejas, quedando desencantados y convencidos de que jamás podrán volver a enamorarse. Es así como deciden embarcarse en un matrimonio de conveniencia, pero cuando sus antiguos amantes intenten acercarse de nuevo a ellos deberán decidir qué es lo que realmente les importa...
Henchman Jim Sockett (uncredited)
A tough District Attorney goes after a murderous crime gang, only to find that his witnesses, an innocent family, have clammed up in fear of reprisals.
Cop
Song composer Howard Green is frustrated by disturbances his wife, in-laws, and landlord while writing his latest song.
Buck's Partner
Jeff y Cash encuentran un bebé, y es Cash quien decide hacerse cargo de él. Con el paso del tiempo los dos amigos llegan a ser propietarios de dos ranchos vecinos, pero entre ellos surgen problemas: la hermosa hija Jeff es uno de ellos (FILMAFFINITY)
Motor Cop
A drive in a new car with the family turns into a fiasco.
Marine (uncredited)
A sex worker yearns to leave the grimy underground community she was born into, and sees her way out through a sympathetic sailor.
Armstrong
La primera película hablada del maestro D.W. Griffith hace un repaso a la vida del famoso presidente norteamericano.
Sergeant
A story about a man from Wyoming who enlists in the Army and is sent to the front during World War I. There he saves the life of an American society girl working in the Ambulance Corps. Afterwards at a rest camp, they meet again, fall in love, and are secretly married.
Studio Gate Guard (uncredited)
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930) with Hispanic/Spanish-speaking actors.
Mr. Smith
A jealous husband endeavors to reach his wife who is quarantined in an apartment with her former spouse.
When the rich uncle finds the bride in the company of one of her former suitors, he mistakes him for the bridegroom.
Officer
Anita gana un concurso de belleza local, cuyo premio es un viaje a Hollywood para convertirse en estrella de cine, por lo que viaja a dicha ciudad en compañía de su madre y de Elmer, este en calidad de agente de la joven. Además ambos se aman, pero Elmer no tiene cabida en los planes de la madre. En el viaje conocen a una estrella de cine que presenta a Anita a los directivos de la MGM. Mientras Elmer también trabaja para convertir a Anita en estrella. El estrellato llega, ¿pero a quién?
Doughboy
In this melodrama set during WW I, a gangster joins the army and is promoted to major. He then returns from war torn Europe to tell a family that their beloved son had died in his arms during a battle. The major then falls in love with the late soldier's sister and decides to accept a position in town as the new police commissioner.
Football Coach
Un aviador de la Marina y su profesor de la escuela de vuelo se enamoran de la misma hermosa enfermera.
Policeman
Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get the ice cream even close to the car where the rest are waiting.
Cop
Johnny Burke stumbles into a beautiful crook, played by Carmelita Geraghty, who used him to steal a pearl necklace.
Motorcycle cop
On the way to his wedding the bride groom finds a nude, married woman in his car
Big Moving Man (uncredited)
Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that took place in the house. They say his ghost still roams the house. Night comes and every noise and creak in the house scares the papa, mama and son (the daughter is out on a date). The Mover gives the daughter a parrot saying "It's a religious parrot – I bought it from a sailor". At any rate, the parrot gets into the act by yelling scaring Papa and Son who have come down looking for the source of the noise. Later Daughter and Remover return from a costume party and sneak into the house. The young man is dressed in a skeleton outfit and the fun continues. There has been film reconstruction in a number of places, particularly the last third of the film. In many cases there is a photograph depicting the scene being described.
Henchman
This western comedy is about rancher Finlayson's beautiful daughter, Martha Sleeper, who refuses to marry the bad guy and how Jimmy and dimwitted cowhand Stan bumble their way into a successful defense of her and the ranch.
Guest
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
Amorous Sailor
Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.
Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
After being beaten to a story of scandal involving Countess Polasky, James W. Hornby assigns his son 24 hours to find an even more scandalous story about the countess. After spending the night in the wrong street looking for the wrong countess, he comes up with a plan: the butler will be seen in a comprimising situation with the countess, and then photographed. The countess, who is sick of reporters, has other ideas... Written by Paul L
