Self (archive footage)
Making-of documentary about the 1933 musical, 42nd Street.
Judge
Tres atracadores de bancos, perseguidos por un sheriff, se adentran en el desierto y allí se encuentran a una mujer moribunda que está a punto de dar a luz.
Capt. Dr. Wilkens
Owen Thursday, general durante la Guerra civil (1861-1865) y recientemente degradado, llega a Fort Apache como teniente coronel acompañado de su bella hija Philadelphia para hacerse cargo del mando. Fort Apache, situado en medio del desierto, es un puesto militar fronterizo y sus soldados estan curtidos en las luchas contra los apaches mescaleros.
Ed Thompson
Family film about an elderly rancher, her young grandson, and the horse that the child raises from a colt.
Cal Baggett
A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.
Biscuits
Curt Mason saves Doc Henderson's Medicine Show from being robbed by the Morrell gang but later earns the enmity of Carolyn when he blames the troupe for polluting a local watering hole. Arriving in town, the medicine show, which consists of Doc Henderson, Taffy, the singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots and Carolyn, begin their performance while Curt is unsuccessfully attempting to stop the Morrell gang from robbing the bank. The sheriff mistakes Curt for one of the gang, and to save their friend, Curt's buddies Biscuit and Big Boy stampede their cattle through town. In order to clear his good name, Curt and his friends go in search of the real bank robbers, who as it turns out are working under orders from Doc Henderson.
Amos Norton
Returning G.I. Curt Norton (Ken Curtis), owner of a radio station, finds his father Amos (Guy Kibbee) has allowed the station to run down and has squandered Curt's money in bad investments in war-surplus material. Eddie Jackson (Robert Kellard), who owns the rival station, is also attracted to Curt's sweetheart Jean White (Joan Barton). When Curt and the Hoosier Hotshots successfully stage an auction to raise money, Eddie hires Mimi Carston (Claudia Drake) to claim that Curt married her in France.
Uncle Charlie
In the second film of Monogram's Joe Palooka series, Joe is 'used', by two state senators scheming to obtain oil-rich lands, in a publicity campaign to get the land transferred to the state, supposedly for a park. When Joe learns that he has been used as a dupe he becomes disillusioned and leaves the prize=fighting profession. But, his manager, sparring partners, and fiancée manage to expose the land-grab scheme, clear Joe's name and discredit the crooked politicians.
Dusty Wyatt
In this Western, Ken Curtis, Columbia Pictures' low-budget answer to Gene Autry, romanced one of the studio's most beautiful starlets, Rita Hayworth-lookalike Dusty Anderson. She played Helen Wyatt, whose father (the rotund Guy Kibbee) loses his ranch to the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, the Hot Shots have been swindled by a couple of Eastern crooks (Ian Keith and Matt Willis) and consider themselves the lawful owners. Chased by the irascible Wyatt, the band members seek protection from aspiring singer Curt Stanton (Curtis), who they mistake for a gunslinger.
Dusty Nelson
Starring Ken Curtis and the hayseed singing group the Hoosier Hot Shots, this musical Western is really Lady for a Day with a switch in gender. Rotund Guy Kibbee is Dusty Nelson, the handyman at the Bar B dude ranch, whose daughter Susan is arriving with her socialite fiancee, Jerome Winston. Susan believes her father owns the ranch, and to spare Dusty any embarrassment, the Hot Shots, ranch manager Curt Durant and sidekick Big Boy Stover agree to continue the deception.
Radio Director / The Chief
A trumpet player in a radio orchestra falls asleep during a commercial and dreams he's Athanael, an angel deputized to blow the Last Trumpet at exactly midnight on Earth, thus marking the end of the world.
Capt. Jackson of the 'Ellabella'
A medicine man on the last show boat on the Mississippi is mistaken by two gangsters as a bootleger, and has to envade them.
Saint Peter
Joe Instructor, an Army Air Forces flight instructor, visits Pilot Heaven and has a discussion with Saint Peter about the unacceptable number of pilots who have died and gone to heaven without ever getting into combat, all as a result of haphazard or inattentive flying. Joe points out several pilots as examples and tells Saint Peter just what they did wrong that landed them in Pilot Heaven.
Dean Phineas Armour
Danny Churchill es un joven de familia rica que sólo piensa en las chicas, por lo que su padre decide enviarlo a un instituto masculino en mitad del desierto, donde se supone que no habrá chicas a la vista. Lo cual es completamente cierto si no contamos a la hija del director.
Ulysses Bradford
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
Scattergood Baines
Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.
Judge George Lee
Radio sleuth Wally 'The Fox' Benton travels to Georgia with his fiancé Carol to be married; and to help Carol's college chum, Ellamae Downs, solve a mystery involving a murdered man, old Fort Dixon, and buried treasure.
Scattergood Baines
Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.
Judge Horace Bowser
In this comedy, the town gossip fills her time running the lives of others. Naturally, she is also a matchmaker.
Lester Cadwalader, Sr.
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has been entered into the town's mayoral race by some of the local businessmen. They have chosen him because they think he is easy to manipulate. As a sales gimmick, the pudding magnate advertises that his product contains the highly nutritious "Vitamin Z." He suddenly begins selling pudding like crazy and soon his political campaign is well-funded. Unfortunately, there is no "Vitamin Z" and when this is discovered, the town fathers try to dump him and show that he is a fake.
Grandpop
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.
Scattergood Baines
When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.
'Pops' Muller
La rutina de un grupo de boxeadores novatos que viven en una casa de huéspedes se ve alterada cuando llega la hermosa Judy Galestrum. Están muy interesados por ella el joven estudiante Ken Burke y el fornido sueco Olaf Jensen. La rivalidad entre los dos amigos los lleva inevitablemente a enfrentarse en el ring.
Harry Bryant
Lee, que acaba de casarse con Katherine, se propone un descanso de sus responsabilidades matrimoniales cuando Katherine se va a la boda de una amiga. Pero pronto se aburre y acaba en casa de los suegros. Lo malo es que también se cansa de las injerencias de su suegro en su vida personal, lo cual le provoca problemas con Katherine.
Judge Graham
A newsman (Walter Pidgeon) falls in love on Cape Cod with the judge (Rosalind Russell) his angry boss (Edward Arnold) expects him to discredit.
Bishop Maxwell
Un joven le pide a una encargada del guardarropa que finja ser su prometida para hacer a su padre feliz en su lecho de muerte. Sin embargo, la salud del anciano mejora y ahora su hijo no sabe cómo decirle que está comprometido con alguien más, en especial porque su padre se ha encariñado con la impostora.
Scattergood Baines
Scattergood finds out that his neighbor, Elly Drew, is going to sell her home to support her son David, an aspiring playwright, who is in New York City trying to get his play produced. Scattergood decides to loan Elly the money but things are not as David has been telling his Mother...
Scattergood Baines
Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.
Scattergood Baines
Young Scattergood Baines arrives in the small New England town of Coldriver. Through some shrewd business maneuvering, he manages to open up a hardware store. Twenty years later he has become a prosperous and respected member of the community, a member of the local school board and the owner of a railroad that transports timber to the local sawmill. Problems begin to arise, however, when a young schoolteacher he has hired turns out to be not quite what he expected, and the mill owners pressure Scattergood to sell them his railroad, with the idea of raising the transportation fees paid to them by the local loggers.
A. D. Huguenine
Chad Hanna, un joven que trabaja en una taberna, se enamora de Albany Yates, amazona en un circo ambulante. Chad decide unirse también al circo.
Harry Brent
Joe Mason suffers from amnesia and is often in trouble. Catherine Foster befriends him and they marry. After a fight remembers that he is the son of a rich businessman from Chicago, but he can't remember anything recent.
Mr. Webb
Los cambios llegan lentamente a una pequeña localidad del estado americano de New Hampshire, en los albores del siglo XX. La gente nace, crece, se casa, vive y muere. El periódico y la leche se reparten cada mañana y nadie cierra con llave la puerta de sus casas...
Judge Van Treece
A New Yorker moves West when he inherits an Arizona ranch.
Luther Marvin
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Governor Hopper
Jefferson Smith, un joven ingenuo e idealista, que parece fácilmente manipulable, es nombrado senador. Ignora que en Washington tendrá que vérselas con políticos y empresarios sin escrúpulos que le harán perder la fe. Sin embargo, gracias a su secretaria, una joven que conoce muy bien los entresijos de la política, protagoniza en el Senado una espectacular y maratoniana intervención en la que, además de defender apasionadamente la democracia, pone en evidencia una importante trama de corrupción.
Judge Black
Dos jóvenes se proponen triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo: son Mickey Moran (Mickey Rooney), talentoso músico y cantante, hijo de un artista veterano, y Patsi Barton (Judy Garland), una joven cantante
Fred 'Cap' Streeter
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.
David Bronson
A Harvard man fights a railroad baron with a disguise and the power of the press.
Pa Briggs
A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Pa
Un rico hombre de negocios quiere casarse con su secretaria, pero antes ha de pasar la inspección de la familia de ella.
Alfons
Terminada la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), tres soldados alemanes regresan a casa y se encuentran con un país destruido y sumido en el caos. A pesar de su precaria situación economica, deciden unir sus escasos recursos para construir su propio coche. La relación entre ellos se complica cuando conocen a una hermosa mujer.
Dennis
Falling in love with the voice of Broadway chanteuse Margaret Garret, cocksure young tycoon Daniel Brewster decides to rescue the star from her hectic lifestyle of frenzied fans and mooching relatives. When Margaret has her ardent suitor arrested, the judge appoints her as Daniel's probation officer, forcing the duo to spend time together. As Daniel teaches Margaret to let her hair down and enjoy life, she begins to fall for her fun-loving admirer.
George Ames
Ohio, 1840. Un pastor llega a una pequeña comunidad dispuesto a ofrecer sus servicios espirituales, y encuentra a unas gentes mezquinas e incapaces de aceptar cualquier síntoma de progreso. El hijo del pastor se rebela contra esta situación y marcha a Baltimore para estudiar medicina. Cuando estalla la Guerra Civil Americana, el muchacho se alista en el frente.
Francis X. "Eight Ball" Harrigan
A ruthless outlaw becomes very protective of a prizefighter when he learns the young man is his own son.
Dr. Bertram Simms
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
J. Rutherford 'Doc' Waddington
Smugglers are using a device for controlling airplanes in flight, and newspaper reporters from Chicago are vying for the story. Reporter Elmer Lane is out to scoop rival reporter Betty Harrison, and capture her heart in the process.
Doctor John Aloysius Barnard
Stalwart Appalachian woman finds romance as she struggles to better herself and her people amid prejudice and familial abuse.
James Woolford 'Jim' Hanvey
Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.
Malcom "Dinky" Winthrop
After being released from prison, con man Thurston Hall gathers his gang of cronies--along with innocent chump Guy Kibbee--to help him sell worthless stock in a New Mexico gold mine.
Leonard 'Len' Cuppy
A Fort Wayne, Indiana housewife (Alice Brady) drags her husband (Guy Kibbee) and daughter (Betty Furness) to Europe for culture.
Mr. J. G. Carver
A meek salesman with an uncanny ability to pick horses is virtually kidnapped by a trio of gamblers.
Asa Plunkett
In this children's adventure, the children of a small town are enthralled by the tales of the town drunk.
Washoe Smith
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.
Sam Johnson
A salesman tries to sell a tractor to a customer who hates tractors while falling for the girl.
Julius Trent
The Big Noise is retired textile manufacturer Julius Trent (Guy Kibbee). Seeking a new outlet for his entrepreneurial energies, Trent buys a half interest in a thriving dry-cleaning establishment. This gets him mixed up with a gang of protection racketeers, who promise dire consequences if Trent doesn't dance to their tune.
Captain January
Star es una niña de cuatro años que vive con un farero (el capitán Enero) desde que éste la rescató de un naufragio cuando era tan solo un bebé. Ahora su feliz convivencia se ve inesperadamente amenazada cuando el nuevo encargado de las escuelas del pueblo trata de alejarla del farero para internarla en un orfanato
Silas Hobbs
Ceddie, un niño pobre de Brooklyn, se convierte en el heredero del título y la fortuna de un conde inglés. Pero el testamento contiene una cláusula que lo obliga a vivir a Inglaterra con su abuelo, un viejo cascarrabias de carácter frío y amargado
Samuel Clark
City girl marries country doctor, meets prejudice and exclusion when she tries to befriend the townspeople.
Hagthorpe
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.
Henderson
A failed actor finds success as a radio singer.
Matt Upshaw
A ditzy wife yearns to join "high society" when she and her husband become suddenly wealthy. Comedy.
Col. Jefferson Davis Youngblood
Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.
Himself
This short documentary narrated by sportscaster Ted Husing explores the free-time activities of some of Hollywood's most popular celebrities. Big names such as Boris Karloff, Buster Crabbe, and Clark Gable make appearances, enjoying games of golf, field hockey, swimming, and many other fun hobbies.
Sam Preston
Sam Preston is a small-town newspaper publisher who suffers from wanderlust. Leaving his family, he thinks well-provided for, he packs a suitcase and hits the road. Ten years later he comes back to find the newspaper shuttered and his family gone.
Detective Lt. Lance O'Leary
A murder happens when greedy relatives gather to await the demise of their wealthy and very ill family patriarch.
George F. Babbitt
Middle aged George F. Babbitt is a leading citizen in the town of Zenith, the fastest growing community in America according to its town sign. George is a large part of that growth as a property developer and realtor. He is lovingly married to his wife Myra, the two who have two children, Ted and Verona who are approaching adulthood. George has always had a fearless attitude, much like that of a naive child, which has led to his business success. He encounters some personal stresses when he faces what he believes is a potential home-wrecking issue, and when his oldest friend Paul and his wife Zilla deal with domestic problems. These stresses make George want to provide even more to his own family, leading to George agreeing to participate in a less than scrupulous but lucrative business dealing. George's bravura gets him into a potential scandal. This situation makes him question his general behavior, especially toward his family.
Herbert Kalness
After cantankerous and miserly Herbert Kalness insults his daughter's fiance and prospective in-laws at a dinner party, Mrs. Kalness devises a scheme to teach her husband a lesson in good manners.
Horace Hemingway
A reformer's daughter wins the lead role in a scandalous Broadway show.
Uncle Newton P. Frink
An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.
Tom
Three couples raise a ruckus when they travel to Nevada for quickie divorces.
Joe 'Pa' Lovewell
A young reporter pines for his high-school sweetheart, but she's preoccupied with appearing in their small town's community musical show. This 1934 comedy, with numerous songs, was inspired by the popular Depression-era comic strip of the same title. With Hal Le Roy, Rochelle Hudson, Guy Kibbee, Hugh Herbert,Douglass Dumbrille and Patricia Ellis.
Henry Simpson
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Himself
Students at New York's Rovina Finishing School for Girls send their photographs to the makers of Claybury's Beauty Soap, in the hope of being chosen as "Miss Complexion of 1934." Martha Howson wins the contest, which includes a trip to Hollywood and a tour of the Warner Brothers lot with Lyle Talbot. When she gets to the studio, all she wants to do is meet Dick Powell, star of the new Warner Brothers film Dames (1934).
Himself
A potpourri of features involving Hollywood celebrities. The Columbia University football team, winner of the 1934 Rose Bowl game, visits the Warner Bros. Studios and is greeted by several stars; Margaret Lindsay, Guy Kibbee, and Dick Powell work at a gold mine; Joan Blondell, recovered from a recent illness, thanks her fans; songs from the movie Harold Teen (1934) are performed by the songwriters and the film's stars.
Justice Of The Peace
Carol feels, for whatever reason, that her husband, John, has grown indifferent to her, and is on a quest to find out why, suspecting another woman. She sees the family physician, Dr. Swope, first and then hires a private detective. Her own sleuthing is more effective and she devises a plan; having long been pursued by Eric, she apparently accedes and accompanies him to an apartment and, per her plan, enter the wrong one. There, they find Carol's best friend, Charlotte, and John hiding in a closet. The latter, showing more nerve than good sense, goes into a rage and berates Carol for her apparent philandering. The battle continues at home, where their daughter Janet informs them that because of them, she and Paul have given up on the idea of marriage, but are going away together, anyway. Carol and John trail them to a hotel and find them in twin beds, whereupon John, armed with a fire-ax, summons a justice of the peace and demands a fire-ax version of a shotgun wedding.
George Ellerbe
Durante una convención de una empresa de neumáticos, se suceden toda clase de desmanes sexuales y alcohólicos.
James Claffin
Ambicioso largometraje que engloba a tres generaciones de la familia Nordholm en sesenta años de historia. Una saga que arranca con cierto toque de western, al presentar una granja de Dakota del Sur, donde el joven Orin marcha en busca de mejores oportunidades de vida. Una vez instalado en Chicago alcanza un gran éxito al inventar un sistema de refrigeración para automóviles. Cuando todo parece irle sobre ruedas (nunca mejor dicho), el crack del 29 le golpea duramente.
Deacon R. Jones
Two golddiggers go fishing for millionaires in Havana.
Silas 'Si' Gould
Chester Kent está agotado y acorralado, se le han acabado las ideas y tiene solo unos días para preparar tres musicales para un productor de Hollywood. Para empeorar la situación tiene un espía que le entrega sus nuevas ideas a sus rivales. Su secretaria, Nan Prescott, está enamorada de él y junto con el resto de su leal equipo le ayudarán a salir adelante.
Judge Henry G. Blake
Una anciana (May Robson) mantiene correspondencia con su hija, que vive en España, y le hace creer que es una gran dama de la alta sociedad que vive en un lujoso hotel. En realidad, es una alcohólica que vive de la venta ambulante de manzanas. Cuando su hija le anuncia que irá a verla para presentarle a su novio y a su suegro, miembros de una aristocrática familia, la desesperación se apodera de ella.
The Golfer
Bobby Jones magnanimously demonstrates two specific aspects of a good drive: Position and back swing.
Phlaxer
El boxeador Jimmy Dolan mata accidentalmente a un hombre en una fiesta y huye. Se esconde en un centro para chicos inválidos, donde empezará a perder su cinismo, bajo la influencia de los niños y de Peggy y Mrs Moore, quienes dirigen el centro. Cuando un detective lo reconoce, deberá decidir si escapar o reconocer su culpabilidad delante de los niños.
Railway Detective McDuff
As the demand for raw silk goes sky high, crooked businessman Wallace Myton corners the market with plans to drive up the price. Determined to fulfill his contracts, manufacturer Donald Kilgore imports $3 million worth of silk to Seattle and accompanies it by special train to New York. But when his secretary is found murdered, Kilgore soon discovers Myton has planted three killers on board with orders to stop the express and its passengers dead in their tracks.
Faneuil H. Peabody
En plena época de la Gran Depresión, Dick Powell es un compositor de canciones que se rebela contra sus adinerados padres para poder casarse con la corista Ruby Keeler. Musical de la Warner con espectaculares coreografías de Busby Berkeley. Obtuvo excelentes críticas.
Doc Peter McGill
One woman faces many trials on the road to romance after unwittingly marrying a bigamist, then a carnival's barker and then falling for a young engineer.
Abner Dillon
Julian Marsh, un exitoso productor de Broadway, a pesar de su delicada salud, produce un nuevo espectáculo, financiado por un hombre rico que está enamorado de la actriz principal, Dorothy Brock , aunque ella no le corresponde. Cuando la víspera del estreno Dorothy se lesiona, es sustituida por una chica del coro.
Kenneth Van Dusen
Kay and June, two showgirls, are hurt when they seek financial help from Daisy. On Daisy's wedding night when she is rendered missing, Kay and June decide to look for her to claim the reward.
Policeman Charlie Cabot
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
Dr. Daniel Blake
A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
Mr. Murphy
During the Russian Revolution, a young nobleman and his peasant maid flee from their homeland to Constantinople where they marry and begin a challenging new life.
Joe Horn
Debido a una extraña epidemia, los pasajeros de un barco son obligados a desembarcar en una isla. Entre ellos se encuentran una prostituta y un misionero que la acosa.
Hummell
Tragicomedia que parte del convencional argumento del paleto de Indiana que hereda una gran fortuna y parte hacia la ciudad de Nueva York. Allí, y con los malos consejos de su primo, descubrirá la buena vida, las mujeres, las juergas con alcohol y, cómo no, los problemas cuando tras una descontrolada borrachera una muchacha aparece asesinada. Versión cinematográfica sobre la obra teatral de Ward Morehouse.
Mike the Drunk with Megaphone
Fame goes to a priggish singer's head and almost costs him his girlfriend.
Pop Slavin
Overworked boxer Jim goes to a health ranch in New Mexico to recover where he falls in love with Peggy and her sickly son. Once recovered, Jim leaves to return to the ring. Can their romance survive the distance?
Zachary Hicks
The Progressive Party convention is deadlocked for governor, so both sides nominate the dark horse Zachary Hicks. Kay Russell suggests they hire Hal Blake as campaign manager; but first they have to get him out of jail for not paying alimony. Blake organizes the office and coaches Hicks to answer every question by pausing and then saying, "Well yes, but then again no." Blake will sell Hicks as dumb but honest. Russell refuses to marry Blake, while Joe keeps people away from Blake's office. Blake teaches Hicks a speech by Lincoln. At the debate when the conservative candidate Underwood recites the same speech, Blake exposes him as a plagiarist. Hicks is presented for photo opportunities and gives his yes-and-no answer to any question, including whether he expects to win.
Pop, a Policeman
Tras ser abandonada por el hombre que la ilusionó con un futuro respetable, Molly Louvain (Ann Dvorak) cae en las garras de Nicky Grant (Leslie Fenton), un truhán al que se apega para poder sostener a la pequeña hija de un padre cuyo nombre nunca confesará. Entre tanto, Jimmy Cook (Richard Cromwell), un decente botones que la ama sinceramente, es leal y constante con ella, pero, Molly se convertirá en personaje de primera plana y el reportero Scotty Cornell (Lee Tracy), irrumpirá en su vida.
Bookie
Cuando está a punto de ser ejecutado, un condenado revive los hechos que lo condujeron a morir en la silla eléctrica.
Pop Greer
Joe Greer, un famoso campeón de carreras automovilísticas, regresa a su ciudad natal para competir en una carrera. Allí descubre que su hermano menor aspira a convertirse en campeón.
Bartender
Tras la ejecución de un inocente, un joven fiscal deja su cargo y se hace abogado defensor. Se hace rico y poderoso defendiendo mafiosos, pero pronto verá el error de esta decisión.
'Finky' Finkelwald
A young innocent falls for a compulsive gambler.
Pop Devlin
Joe Grant is an inventor, fireman and baseball player in his small hometown. He gets an offer to play in a big team and hopes to get more money for his inventions. But Joe's invited to present his invention to a fire extinguisher company at the same time when he is supposed to play. Will he be able to show the effectiveness of his invention and win the game?
Clifford Gray
Gar Evans (William Powell) acepta desarrollar el producto de Ginsburg, una goma artificial creada a partir de aguas fecales, sólo después de que su amigo Mike Donahey (Frank McHugh) le asegura que no es un fraude. Gar es supersticioso; cree que sólo tendrá éxito si su sufrida novia Francine Dale (Evelyn Brent) se une a la empresa. Ella, sin embargo, se ha cansado de él, especialmente tras haberla dejado cinco días atrás para recoger sal de bromo y no regresar.
Scrap Iron Scratch
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel.
Mack 'Pop' Riley
Amidst a backdrop of growing violence and intimidation, independent cab drivers struggling against a consolidated juggernaut rally around hot-tempered Matt Nolan. Nolan is determined to keep competition alive on the streets, even if it means losing the woman he loves.
Fred Smith
An inventor and his lanky girlfriend set an altitude record in his winged contraption.
McGonigal
Wallungford es un estafador, especialista en engañar a tontainas. Cuenta con dos cómplices. Su nuevo objetivo es una fábrica de cerámica de un pequeño pueblo. Cuando ha recibido dinero de diversos inversores, se enamora de Dorothy y decide regenerarse.
Col. Gowdy
A circus side show performer tries to discourage her younger sister from following in her footsteps.
A. Rupert Johnson Jr.
Un botones estafador y su novia camarera están establecidos en un hotel.
Mr. Kibbee (uncredited)
Bobby Jones gives a truant salesman some driving tips while his angry boss looks on.
Cass Wheeler
Ivy 'Bunny' Stevens intenta suicidarse cuando Hamilton la abandona. Menos mal que aparece un predicador del Ejército de Salvación que está dispuesto a ocuparse de ella.
Pop Cooley
Estados Unidos, Ley Seca (1920-1933). El padrastro de una bonita chica pertenece a una banda de traficantes de alcohol. Ella está enamorada de un atractivo joven que trabaja en una caseta de feria de tiro al blanco y desea casarse con él, pero como no tienen dinero, se le ocurre la idea de introducir a su novio en los negocios de su padrastro, sin saber que se trata de una banda criminal. A causa de una jugarreta de su padrastro, la chica acabará en la cárcel. Y, mientras, el novio ingresa en la banda.
Harry Taylor
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn't know is that he is a blackmailer who is using her to get to her uncle.
Police Commissioner
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he's been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to work. As the police swarm into the seedy tenement, she decides to help him, and the two form an uneasy alliance culminating in a suicide pact.
Mr. Hart
A salesman tries to sell life insurance, hair tonic, and girth reducing exercise equipment and anything else to a man who doesn't want any of it.
