Jack Wagner

Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.

El pescador Quino (Pedro Armendáriz) y su esposa Juana (María Elena Marqués) son muy pobres y están desesperados porque el médico extranjero del pueblo (Charles Rooner) se niega a atender a su hijo Coyotito, que ha sufrido la picadura de un alacrán. Cuando, inesperadamente, Quino encuentra en el mar una magnífica perla, Juana intuye que el hallazgo sólo les traerá desgracias y trata de convencer a su marido para que la devuelva al mar. Pero él no la escucha; sólo piensa que ha llegado el momento de salir de la miseria. Así que va a ver a los comerciantes del pueblo, pero sus ofertas son tan ridículas que decide ir a venderla a la ciudad.

Magdalena y Marí­a son hermanas gemelas que la vida ha llevado por caminos separados. Mientras Magdalena ha quedado viuda de un millonario, Marí­a trabaja de manicurista. La desesperación lleva a Marí­a a asesinar a su hermana y a hacerse pasar por ella, sin imaginarse que el destino le tiene reservada una cruel sorpresa. Con Dolores del Río en un doble papel.

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

Commodore Fitzhugh, an old retired naval officer, lives at the Annapolis Naval Academy and, unhappy with the "modern" navy, likes to talk about his days in the "old" navy, especially about his part in the Battle of Manila Bay under Adm. Dewey during the Spanish-American War, when he commanded the USS Congress. That ship, now decommissioned and docked in Annapolis harbor, is--unknown to Fitzhugh--about to be towed out to sea to be used for target practice. When Fitzhugh finds this out, he sets out to either save his beloved vessel or "go down with his ship".

Cleo Borden grew up in a saloon, loves the men—and the men love her—but her aspirations lead her to enter into a contract to marry a wealthy man. When he dies and leaves her all of his fortune, she soon learns that although she has money, she is not yet a lady, so she embarks on a journey to become one. She has no desire to change herself, but the man she sets her sights on does—so she obliges.

Señor Martinez, a famous theater owner, visits a local café in Mexico because of its reputation for good food and to audition the famous dancer who performs there. Martinez tells the café owner that if the dancer is as good as he has heard, he will offer the dancer a contract to perform in his theater. The café's female singer hears about this and is determined that he won't leave the café without her.

A maid with a checkered past falls in love with the son in the posh household where she works, and gives him a baby.

Clancy and MacIntosh are a pair of stock comedy Irish and Scottish plumbers who have been partners for twenty years; but when Clancy accidentally buys some shares on margin, MacIntosh's Scotch thrift rebels and their partnership breaks up. In the meantime, their children are in love...

Susan Adams, who works as a pianist in a Broadway music store, has ambitions for a stage career. Arthur Bennett, famous theater producer and successful star-maker, calls her into his office to complain about her loud piano under him, and she haughty replies that if he gives her a chance on stage, she will do it.

Juan de Dios O'Rourke, an American Secret Service, of Spanish-Irish descent, leads the cattle ranchers and border patrol in a fight to suppress a gang of cattle rustlers, who have been driving large herds north-to-south from Texas into Mexico, and smuggling illegal, no-passport Chinese aliens south-to-north from Mexico into Texas, operating from a rambling mansion on the Texas side of the border, aided by his sweetheart, a rancher's daughter, Phoebe Joyce.

Mystery of bootleggers, hijackers, a girl with bobbed hair, and a talented bull terrier.