In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the opportunity to play a prank.
El ponche del director Helmut Weiss se basa en la novela homónima de Heinrich Spoerl y Hans Reimann que se ha convertido en una película alemana de culto. La película cuenta la historia de un escritor, Johannes Pfeiffer, que se infiltra como estudiante en una escuela secundaria después de que sus amigos le dijeran que se había perdido una gran experiencia de vida desde que fue educado en casa.
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.
Percy, a young, rich American, is on vacation in Germany and thinks that every girl wants his sorry ass. He’s far from right: There’s the hugely admired Eve, whom he’s decided will be the love of his life, but who isn’t in the slightest bit impressed with either him or his Dollars. To finally be able to talk to her without being disturbed so he can express his feelings, he slips a mickey in her drink and takes her to the house of his friend Max. When Eve finally emerges from the drug-induced nap forced upon her, Percy admits his love (!) and is told to drop dead. And this is their idea of a romantic comedy?!?
Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) es un rico y apuesto caballero que se aburre muchísimo. Un día, preocupado, decide visitar al doctor Sir James Aldroyd, que le aconseja un método para curar su aburrimiento: trabajar y vivir durante todo un año sin tocar ni un penique de su fortuna. Ernest, convencido de que lo conseguirá, hace con su médico una apuesta de 50.000 libras.
Un panadero que ha hecho fortuna se lanza al comercio de pasta. Un amigo, harto de su superficialidad y de sus ínfulas de nuevo rico, decide engañarle y organiza la falsa visita de un príncipe a su empresa.
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
