(archive footage)
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were battling the Depression as well as eventually getting ready for another World War.
Mr. Twiddle
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.
Henry Cadwallader, Lawyer
Milo Terkel's life is never the same after he is willed a dog named Joe. Milo buys his wife a diamond necklace for their anniversary, but when he returns home he finds a note saying she is attending a charity affair. He decides to celebrate alone, taking Joe along for company. After two "mystery gardenias" at the Florida Club, he meets gorgeous Miss Gilmore who spots the necklace and asks to try it on. Milo is punched in the nose by Miss Gilmore's boyfriend, Louie. But Milo's troubles really begin when his dog starts to talk to him, and ONLY to him! He tells Milo to act tough, like Humphrey Bogart. It's a laugh-a-minute as Milo changes from lamb to lion and is innocently caught by his wife with the shapely Miss Gilmore. When his wife sues for divorce he tells the judge about Joe being his advisor. The judge can only suggest that Milo and his wife take a long vacation to work out their problems. Everyone knows a dog simply can't talk!
Casper Millhouse
When the wealthy Mrs. Cooper passes away, she divides her estate between her sons, Henry and Wayne, and her only daughter, the tomboyish Geraldine.
Harley P. Stowers
Newlywed Janie's (Joan Leslie) World War II-veteran husband (Robert Hutton) goes to work at her father's (Edward Arnold) newspaper.
Martin
Tras una brillante temporada en Broadway, el famoso actor John Sheridan se dispone a estrenar una nueva obra del escritor Paul Taylor. Kim Walker, una aspirante a actriz que trabaja como camarera, consigue que el actor le firme un autógrado, aunque lo que realmente ha firmado es una carta de recomendación dirigida al productor. Pero Taylor no está de acuerdo y se resiste a confiar el papel de la protagonista a una desconocida. (FILMAFFINITY)
Doc Buden
The story takes place in 1940. On the eve of America's entry in World War II, a colonel retired to his small Southern town, and discovers that there is a plan afoot to tear down Confederate Monument Square. He begins a campaign to rally the townspeople to save the square.
Hippenstahl
Los Frake, una familia de granjeros, acuden a la feria del estado de Iowa. En el primer día de la feria la hija de los Frake, la siempre descontenta Margy, conoce al apuesto Pat Gilbert...
Willie Crump
Las personas fuera de la ley vienen y van en las vidas de Nick y Nora. Ahora es el momento de conocerlos como parientes. Los elegantes detectives dejan al pequeño Nick Jr. en la escuela, cogen a Asta y se van a Sycamore Springs, lugar de la infancia de Nick.
Bradford Bellamy I
Honest Plush Brannon is a con-man thrown out of the Barbary Coast in San Francisco in the 1880s and headed for the gold rush region of Nevada. He discovers a real mine which lead to several complications.
Parsons
Maisie está agobiada y su jefe le ordena tomar dos semanas de vacaciones. Al ir a subir al autobús con destino a Reno, donde cantará en una banda, conoce a una chica y un soldado, que le da una carta para su mujer, quien ha ido a Reno para pedir el divorcio. Pero la mujer no es la verdadera, y Maisie se pone a investigar.
Chester Klazenfrantz
Uno de los musicales “acuáticos” más famosos de la Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, con Esther Williams en el papel de una estudiante enamorada de un compositor de canciones (Red Skelton) mientras ensaya en la piscina bellas coreografías de danza sincronizada. Con numerosas y espectaculares escenas de ballet acuático.
Mr. Nizby
Un marinero ayuda a dos hermanas a que abran un bar. Con el tiempo se enamorará de Jean, una de las hermanas, inconsciente de que su hermano Patsy también siente algo por la joven.
Wilfred Ball
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.
Professor Catty
Una huerfanita es educada de manera que se convierta en un genio, pero un reportero provocará que se escape del instituto donde se haya recluida y le pida que le enseñe el mundo real...
Mr. Jones / Duc de Choiseul
Un tipo adinerado se enamora de la artista de un club nocturno, que a su vez ama a un bailarín. Ante el dilema de casarse por dinero o por amor, ella opta por lo primero. Pero el millonario sufre un accidente, y sueña que se encuentra en la época de Luis XV, y que él es monarca que persigue a madame Du Barry, que, claro está, tiene el rostro de su amada. Simpática comedia musical rodada en technicolor, que combina la época actual con de la Francia cortesana. Cuenta con buenos trabajos de Lucille Ball y Gene Kelly, éste cantando los temas musicales "Do I Love You" y "Song of the Rebellion".
Eustace Middling
Dos torpes, fracasados como hombres de negocios y guardias de ataques aéreos, se topan con un nido de saboteadores nazis empeñados en volar la planta local de magnesio.
Mr Arbuthnot
Un notable periodista (Spencer Tracy) quiere publicar un homenaje a un respetado y admirado patriota muerto en un accidente de coche. Hepburn es la viuda del hombre sobre el que Tracy quiere escribir.
Little Old Man
Un periodista es despedido de su trabajo por haber dejado escapar una gran noticia. Se va a Washington a ver a la directora del sindicato de prensa en busca de consuelo. Los acontecimientos se precipitan cuando caen en sus manos unos documentos secretos: será acusado de varios crímenes por haberse implicado sin querer en un asunto de espionaje.
Reverend Howgan, the Minister
Little Delft, Michigan follows the customs of old-world Holland and is known for its Tulip Festival. The owner of the hotel insists that his seven daughters marry in order, from eldest to youngest.
Engineer Jonah McCleod
The coming of the railroad to the West triggers an Indian war.
Mr. Stickwell
Struggling performers, Sothern and Skelton's lives are thrown off gear when they are caught with a bagful of hard cash robbed by a goon. With Skelton in prison, how will Sothern prove their innocence?
Paul D. Cummings
Danny, un pobre mexicano-norteamericano del norte de California, hereda dos casas de su abuelo que son rápidamente aprovechadas por sus amigos vagabundos.
Mr. Stone
Un grupo de jóvenes cantantes y bailarines que busca triunfar en Broadway decide participar en un musical con el propósito de recaudar fondos para los niños pobres. El entusiasmo que ponen en todo lo que emprenden les ayuda a lograr sus sueños.
Professor Philip Murray
The college president, the head cheerleader and a gambling gangster try to keep a flunking football star in the game
Captain Makepeace Liveright
Enredo alrededor de un aburrido profesor de psicología, que viaja a Nueva York con su esposa, para reunirse con una editorial que podría publicar su obra, recién terminada, sobre el tema de los celos. Y en efecto, el editor muestra interés… ¿pero es por el libro, o por la atractiva mujer del autor?
Herman Rundvik
Memorable interpretación de Joan Craword en el papel de una mujer acusada de asesinato que se somete a una operación de cirugía estética para cambiar de vida. Remake de un drama sueco protagonizado por Ingrid Bergman.
"Pop" Cavendish
A fishing boat captain searches for romance in hopes of improving his financial picture.
'Dusty' King
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.
Joe Darsie
Despues del estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Johanna Janss, una austriaca que vive en los Estados Unidos, va a ser deportada a su país. Para evitarlo, decide casarse con Bill, un humilde escritor norteamericano a quien conoce en un bar. Ella está dispuesta a pagarle el favor con el dinero que consigue de su amante, el editor Barton Kendrick.
Professor Charles W. Birdo
A medicine show man tries to con people into believing he's a legitimate stage actor.
Mr. Clyde Perkins
A radio actor faces trouble when a science-fiction story causes the audience to panic.
Mr. Flandrin
Margot (Myrna Loy), la editora de una glamurosa revista femenina, para evitar el continuo asedio de sus colegas masculinos y la cólera de sus celosas esposas, decide ponerse un anillo de oro en el tercer dedo de la mano izquierda, haciendo ver que está casada. Todo se complica cuando el artista Jeff Thompson (Melvyn Douglas), harto de sus continuos fracasos con Margot, decide fingir ante todo el mundo ser su marido, que se creía desaparecido hace mucho tiempo.
Bartholomew
This final Carter film is a lot of fun, with Nick (unwillingly, at first) taking on a ring of Fifth Columnists (since this was filmed before the US entered the war, we're not told the villains are Nazis, but it's pretty clear anyway). Of course, the helpful and persistent Bartholomew is at his side--much to Nick's irritation. To further complicate things--and to make them still funnier--Joyce Compton is along for the ride too, as a delightfully brainless "detective" named Christine Cross.
McCoy
Cuando los periódicos publican la noticia del asesinato de Jesse James, su hermano Frank, que desde hace años vive con una identidad falsa (Ben Wooden), decide abandonar su pacífica vida de granjero para vengar su muerte.
Bartholomew
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Henry - the Valet
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
Sam Wellman
When the studios reject her because she"s too young, a young actress sets out to build a career on her own.
Mortimer Hopkins, Sr.
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive. Director William Thiele's 1940 film stars Frank Morgan, Billie Burke, Ann Rutherford, John Shelton, Harold Huber, Donald Meek, Nat Pendleton, Renie Riano, Frank Albertson, Reginald Owen, Ann Morriss and Richard Carle.
Mittelmeyer
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
Mr. Vestry
A frontier scout, a Boston officer and a Russian girl escape with a map past Confederates.
Amos Budge
While on her way by stagecoach to visit relatives out west, Flower Belle Lee is held up by a masked bandit who also takes the coach's shipment of gold. When he abducts Flower Belle and they arrive in town, Flower Belle is suspected of being in collusion with the bandit.
Adelbert Thistlebottom
In this musical comedy, a traveling salesman gets mixed up with a bratty heiress after she gets in a car wreck as she heads for her elopement. The two begin traveling together and get further mixed up with a fleeing bank robber, a crazy tourist camp, and other troubles. Songs include: "Oh Johnny, How You Can Love," "Maybe I Like What You Like," "Swing Chariot Swing," and "Make Up Your Mind."
Bartholomew, the bee man
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter plane is under manufacture.
Editor Wilson
A mobster's moll leads a newsman, cub reporter and photographer to a scoop.
Lyle P. Stout
Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for him as director of her next film. Many silent stars shown making the transition to sound.
Jonathan N. Gillis
Blondie and Dagwood are in charge of operations at a mountain motel. The elderly owners of the establishment are in danger of losing their life savings. Among other things, arson threatens.
Prosecutor John Felder
Se basa en los años de juventud de Abraham Lincoln, que llegaría a ser presidente de los Estados Unidos (1861-1865). El antiguo leñador de Kentucky es ya un abogado que empieza a destacar por su defensa de los derechos de los más humildes. Fue candidata al Óscar en 1939 por el mejor guión original.
Samuel Peacock
Personajes muy variopintos emprenden un largo, duro y peligroso viaje en diligencia. Entre ellos, un fuera de la ley en busca de venganza, una prostituta a la que han echado del pueblo, un jugador, un médico, la mujer embarazada de un militar y un sheriff. Las relaciones entre ellos serán difíciles y tensas. Además, durante el viaje, tendrán que afrontar el ataque de una partida de indios apaches.
Mc Coy
En 1867 empieza la construcción del ferrocarril en el estado de Missouri. Los agentes de la compañía constructora presionan con amenazas y engaños a los propietarios de las tierras por donde pasará el tren para que las vendan a precios irrisorios. Sin embargo, estas presiones se estrellan contra la resistencia de una mujer que vive con sus dos hijos, Jesse y Frank James.
Dean Thatcher
Un político que se presenta a gobernador ayuda a una universidad a conseguir la victoria de su equipo de fútbol americano.
Mr. Poppins
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.
Willoughby Wendling
Un huérfano es adoptado provisionalmente por el gerente de un hotel poblado por gente de negocios. Al dueño del hotel no le gustan los artistas y quiere que la niña regrese al orfanato.
P.U. Rogers
Teddy Shaw, a bored New York office girl, goes to a camp in the Catskill Mountains for rest and finds Chick Kirkland.
Iradius P. Oglethorpe
Pat and Molly Malloy, once famed vaudeville and Broadway performers, arrive to play the small town of Hamilton, Conn. with a troupe of dancers, singers, a trained dog and an educated seal. Harry Clark, the clerk at the rundown Swanzey Hotel, insults Pat and the latter uses the $4000, that he and Molly have been saving for years to buy a retirement farm, to buy the hotel so he can fire Harry. Local skinflint, J.A. Higgins wants the hotel as he knows the state has intentions to buy it for a museum, but Pat won't sell.
Sunday School Superintendent
Película basada en la novela novela homónima de Mark Twain.Ambientada en un pueblecito a las orillas del río Mississippi, narra las aventuras de dos chicos: Tom (Tommy Kelly) y su inseparable amigo "Huck" (Jackie Moran).
Gordon Ainsley, aka Henry Robinson
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Foster, Whitney Bourne, Cecil Kellaway, Donald Meek, Samuel S. Hinds, Arthur Lake, Paul Guilfoyle and June Johnson.
Conway Jeeters
A Broadway producer is in a quandary when he discovers that the opening of his newest big production coincides with that of a major charity event. He despairs that the show will close after opening night until an ingenious writer suggests that he simply give the production snob-appeal by making the tickets nearly impossible to get by fabricating a story that they were all purchased by a flamboyant Texas oil baron who is totally besotted by the show's star.
Justice of the Peace
Valentine Ransome (Barbara Stanwyck), una rica heredera texana, está decidida a transformar en un hombre de provecho al joven Jonathan Blair (Herbert Marshall), último descendiente de una larga disnatía dedicada al transporte marítimo y con el negocio al borde de la ruina. Lo que 'Johnny' no sospecha es el precio que deberá pagar...
Judge Blynn (uncredited)
Un escritor acepta realizar una obra para una actriz con el objetivo de enamorar a la hermana de ésta.
Joseph
Canary-voiced boy wonder Bobby Breen once more croons his way into our hearts in Make a Wish. While vacationing at a boys' camp, the rambunctious Breen befriends famed composer Basil Rathbone. Stuck for an inspiration for his latest operetta, Rathbone at last finds it when he meets Breen's gorgeous mother Marion Claire, a popular singer. Alas, her stiff-necked fiance Ralph Forbes refuses to allow her to return to the stage, whereupon Rathbone spirals into a depression -- and even worse, a profound case of writers' block. But Little-Mister-Fixit Breen manages to patch up everything just in time for Claire to debut in Rathbone's latest masterpiece. Offering much-needed comedy relief are Henry Armetta, Leon Errol and Donald Meek as a trio of parasitic would-be songwriters. Make a Wish was based on a story by Gertrude Berg, of "Molly Goldberg" fame.
Dr. Zimmer
An ad man gets his model girlfriend to pose as a debutante for a new campaign.
Daniel Drew
Al estallar la Guerra de Secesión americana (1861-1865), Jim Fisk (Edward Arnold) es un popular vendedor ambulante. Su sagacidad y la de sus dos ganchos es legendaria. Cuando empieza la contienda, se dedican al contrabando del algodón: lo compran en el Sur y lo venden en el Norte. Una vez terminada la guerra, se han hecho ricos y, no conformes con dominar la vida económica de Boston, se preparan para emprender la conquista de Nueva York. Para ello, Jim y su socio Nick (Cary Grant) deciden invertir en Bolsa.
Uriah S. Grant
Set in the post-WWI days in the Siberian tank town of Skzavoskanoff, U. S. Army Sergeant Chuck Connors and Private Jiimy Barton are charged with upholding the principles of American Democracy in the face of the exotic charms of Olga, and a dastardly plot by the phony General Stavinski and his treacherous aide. Finally the impostors are exposed.
Nicholas Daniel Murphy
Biografía del político irlandés Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-1891), que en 1875 fue elegido miembro del Parlamento Británico, gracias a lo cual consiguió reactivar el movimiento independentista de Irlanda. Su relación durante años con una mujer casada acabó con su carrera política. El hecho de que la censura modificara este episodio acabó siendo el principal defecto de la película.
Potter
A radio reporter sets out to rescue his ex-girlfriend when she is kidnapped by gangsters.
Ezra Cheeves
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.
Gramp Smith
Larry Poole, in prison on a false charge, promises an inmate that when he gets out he will look up and help out a family. The family turns out to be a young girl, Patsy Smith, and her elderly grandfather who need lots of help. This delays Larry from following his dream and going to Venice and becoming a gondolier. Instead, he becomes a street singer and, while singing in the street, meets a pretty welfare worker, Susan Sprague. She takes a dim view of Patsy's welfare under the guardianship of Larry and her grandfather and starts proceedings to have Patsy placed in an orphanage.
Caretaker
Una joven, que sale huyendo de su boda (Joan Crawford), conoce a un periodista (Clark Gable) con el que vivirá una aventura inolvidable llena de acción, intriga, espionaje...
Bennett
When two halves of a thousand-dollar bill are discovered in the snow, the penniless pair that individually grabs each half must come to terms. Actress Julia Wayne needs the whole $1,000, and so does sportsman Larry Stevens. Since compromise will serve neither of their needs, they are stalemated - until complications arise.
Mr. Gunnison
Life changes in surprising ways when a lazy, unemployed husband and father finds a box containing thousands of dollars in cash.
Mr. Frisbee
Jennie Mullins and her fiancé Peter Cary are happily in love but their families are miserable about their relationship. The Carys and Mullinses have been feuding for years over the apparent failure of the Carys' business which was caused by the now-deceased Mr. Mullins. Despite familial pressure to the contrary, Jennie and Peter proceed with their wedding. Just before the wedding, Peter receives advice from his soon-to-be brothers-in-law, Jeff and Bill Mullins. Both men warn him about the drudgery of marriage, ply him with drink, and destroy his fantasy of an ideal, romantic marriage.
Judge
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to kiss her. Charged with assault, the quick-thinking Philippe claims it's French tradition to do as he did, and is let go. To his surprise, Philippe learns that Monique has paid his fine. As the tabloids exploit the situation, Monique dates Philippe, until a photo appears of him kissing Yvonne.
Hotel Manager
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.
Dr. Whacker
Inglaterra, siglo XVII. Bajo el reinado de Jacobo I, primer monarca de la dinastía de los Estuardo, son constantes los enfrentamientos entre la Corona y el Parlamento. El doctor Peter Blood, un hombre entregado por entero a sus pacientes, vive al margen de los problemas políticos. Pero su actitud cambia cuando, injustamente acusado de traición, es enviado como esclavo a las Indias Occidentales. Dotado de una gran habilidad y astucia, consigue escapar y se convierte en el temible pirata Capitán Blood.
The Judge
A penniless socialite is hired by two young men as a front in their plan to start a magazine. Soon, however, they find themselves more interested in her than in their publishing venture.
Mr. Foster
Mary, a woman with good intentions, takes pity on Henry, an artist with no home. What begins as a simple offer to come inside from the cold for tea gradually turns into more. Before the unsuspecting woman knows it, Henry, his family, and his friends con their way into her home. Eventually, Mary creates a ruse to rid herself of the parasites, but they have a different plan.
Mr. Slade
Peter Ibbetson y Mary Mimsey, enamorados desde que eran niños, se vieron separados por las circunstancias de la vida, pero con el tiempo volverán a encontrarse: él convertido en un famoso arquitecto y ella casada con el duque de Towers
Thomas Sherridan
A young man, hard-pressed to pay off his mortgage and support his family, decides that he'll get money any way he can--honestly or otherwise.
Sawbuck McTavish
En 1849, el descubrimiento de oro en California desencadena una intensa oleada migratoria. Miles de aventureros atraviesan las Montañas Rocosas hasta llegar a las costas del Pacífico, atraídos sobre todo por la ciudad de San Francisco.
Uncle Wyndersham
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.
Mayor Everett Bartholomew
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.
Chess Player (uncredited)
Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable) es el capitán de un barco experto en cruzar los mares de China. Es un hombre experimentado, fuerte y aguerrido, al parecer de vuelta de todo. En cierta ocasión, el barco debe transportar un importante cargamento de oro desde Hong Kong hasta Singapur. Gaskell teme algo más peligroso que un tifón; el ataque, frecuente en la zona, de los piratas para hacerse con el botín.
Paul Parker
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
Charlie
Las insidiosas habladurías típicas de un pueblo pequeño hacen muy desgraciados a un joven y a la mujer casada de la que está enamorado.
Peter Mulligan
Irlanda 1922. Traición entre amigos para un conocido filme de Ford. Rodada en apenas 3 semanas. En el agitado Dublín de los años veinte, Gypo Nolan, un tipo sin oficio ni beneficio, expulsado del Ejército de Liberación Irlandés y con tendencia a empinar el codo, sueña con viajar a Estados Unidos en compañía de su novia, Katie, que se gana la vida como prostituta. Animado por la recompensa que ofrecen las autoridades, Gypo delata el paradero del activista Frankie McPhillip, un viejo amigo y compañero.
Dr. Doskil
Un inspector de policía investiga una serie de extrañas muertes en una población checa. Las víctimas presentan en el cuello pequeñas marcas que hacen sospechar que lo que está pasando es obra de vampiros.
Seriah Skinner
Thanks to a series of comic mishaps, a timid, small-town office clerk finds himself wanted by the police and labeled by the media as "Public Enemy No. 2." Comedy.
Hoyt
Arthur Ferguson Jones es un hombre corriente, que lleva una vida muy sencilla. Nunca llega tarde al trabajo y nunca le sucede nada interesante. Un día, todo cambia: se queda dormido y es despedido para dar ejemplo, es confundido con Mannion, un despiadado criminal asesino, y es arrestado. El parecido es tan sorprendente que la policía le da un pase especial para evitar un error similar. El verdadero Mannion ve la oportunidad de robar el pase y moverse libremente, llevando la situación al caos.
Moxley
Two surgeons (Chester Morris, Robert Taylor) in love with a nurse (Virginia Bruce) end their rivalry in the operating room.
Hankerson
Al coger el mismo tren todas las mañanas, Marilyn y el periodista Peter Dawes han entablado una buena y larga amistad. Cuando la chica decide dar calabazas a un acaudalado caballero británico, Peter lo convierte en noticia, poniendo de relieve la integridad moral de su amiga que no se ha dejado seducir por la fortuna del pretendiente. Así, Marilyn se convierte en una celebridad que, desde entonces, eso conocida como "La chica del No". En cualquier caso, llega un momento en que tendrá que decidir a quién ama realmente.
Minister
Cuenta cómo un inmigrante checo, Novak (Lederer) recién llegado a Nueva York, y a punto de ser repatriado, se escapa "in extremis"; tras varias peripecias, conoce a una corista, Silvia (Rogers) y a su hermano de 11 años.
Mr. Irish, Moose Village General Store
Un pintor de retratos se reúne con un antiguo amor, cuando las inminentes memorias de ésta amenazan su carrera política.
Valet
Sonia es una viuda, inmensamente rica, de Marshovia, pequeño país centro europeo del que controla la mitad de la riqueza. El país depende de que ella gaste su dinero en él, así que, cuando se traslada a París porque no logra encontrar marido, el rey envía al Conde Danilo a cortejarla y traerla de vuelta. Si no lo consigue, se le formará consejo de guerra.
Josephus Bushmills
El periodista alcóhólico Steve Bramley se marcha en un crucero de placer para descansar, con la esperanza de dejar de beber y escribir un libro. A bordo también viajan Schulte, un amigo de Steve, detective privado que espera atrapar a un criminal que lleva una fortuna en bonos robados. Steve empieza a beber y a observar a los viajeros, algunos de los cuales no son lo que aparentan...
Mr. Wiggs
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. Her boyfriend Bob arranges to take Wiggs' sick boy to a hospital. Their other boy makes some money peddling kindling and takes the family to a show. Mrs. Wiggs is called to the hopsital just in time to see her boy die. Her neighbor Miss Mazy wants to marry Mr. Stubbins who insists on tasting her cooking. Mrs. Wiggs sneaks her dishes past Stubbins who agrees to marriage. Mr. Wiggs appears suddenly, in tatters, with just the amount of money (twenty dollars) needed to save the family from foreclosure. Miss Lucy and Bob get married.
Snibby the Jeweler (uncredited)
Aspiring young Scottish politician John Shand enters into an unusual agreement with the wealthy Wylie family -- if they fund his education, he must marry their daughter, Maggie. Staying true to his word, John weds Maggie and begins a successful career, thanks largely to his savvy wife. The couple's relationship is placed in jeopardy when John faces temptation in the form of the lovely aristocrat Lady Sybil Tenterden.
Fogg
A sleazy lawyer's female assistant sets out to end his cheating ways.
Dr. Saunders
Un detective (Victor McLaglen) investiga una serie de asesinatos en el marco de un espectáculo musical que acaba de estrenarse.
Judd Barr, Cabot's son
In New England circa 1933, a niece is reported missing and presumed dead and Cabot Barr (George Arliss) summons his relatives to the family estate for a memorial service. Once there, Barr taunts each one, claiming their only interest in him is his money, and sends them away when the report about the niece proves to be false. Only niece Marjorie, who has ridiculed one of his pet eccentricities, seems to be the object of any sentimental affection.
Dr. George Wiley
Bob Brown uses his bedside manner to charm his patients while his partner makes the actual diagnoses.
Durkin
En esta ocasión, Paul Muni –especializado en papeles de gángster– intentó un cambio de registro al encarnar al editor de un periódico que, firmando con el pseudónimo de Nellie, comienza a investigar por su cuenta el asesinato de un banquero. Sus pesquisas le llevarán hasta los bajos fondos, donde conoce a algunos mafiosos y a la rubia de rigor (Glenda Farrell).
Spencer Trask
Gore, un antiguo entrenador de éxito, pero de cáracter despiadado y cínico, dejará de lado incluso a su mujer en su afán por convertir al Calvert College en una potencia del fútbol.
Dr. Crabtree - Criminologist
A couple of murderous crooks try to smuggle the famous Stanhope diamonds into New York but they're double-crossed and killed before reaching New York.
Dr. Amos Crabtree
Noted team of detective and criminologist solve the murder of a new bride, in her compartment, on the train on which they are travelling.
Dr. Crabtree
Dr. Crabtree (Donald Meek) and Insp. Carr (John Hamilton) are visited by a man who has been receiving notes threatening to kill him. The latest note says he will die at eight o'clock tonight, so Carr sends a couple men to his house. Sure enough, the many is murdered under everyone's noses, so the two men must find out what really happened.
Dr. Crabtree
When the skeleton of a young man is dug up in an alley, a mysterious Chinese merchant and his eccentric upstairs tenants come under suspicion. The team of Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree use the skull of the victim to solve the murder.
Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Story of mother's antagonism to her son's wife. From the novel "Wild Beauty" by Matsel Farnham.
Dr. Crabtree
When the leading lady of a motion picture is murdered in the middle of a scene, Inspector Carr and Dr. Crabtree are called in to investigate.
Dr. Crabtree
A cellist is murdered during a symphony concert. Shortly afterwards, the manager of the hall is found dead, an apparent suicide. But is it?
Dr. Amos Crabtree
During a rainstorm at a remote manor house, Richard Crayell plays host to several guests. At nine o'clock sharp, he excuses himself from the card table to take his medicine, promising to return soon. When he doesn't, Claire goes in search of him, and finds his door locked from the inside.
Doctor Crabtree
When the apparent murder of two stockbrokers are discovered in their Wall Street office. Police Inspector Crane summons forensic expert Dr. Crabtree to the crime scene. A beautiful woman found in the closet, a frightened African-American elevator operator, and a suspicious business associate are among the witnesses questioned.
Pa Ryan
Nora Ryan, a poor Irish girl, living in New York decides to change her life by working as a personal maid for the wealthy, Gary family.
Jonesy
El amante de la esposa de un gangster intenta que le lleven a la cárcel para evitar la furia del marido engañado.
Goofy
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
Richard Burton
After buying a car, Richard Burton finds that his wife and daughter have become unreasonably extravagant, and is surrounded by sponging friends.
