Willie the Giant (voice)
Dos cortos de animación clásicos de los estudios de Disney. En 'El Dragón Chiflado' (1941), un jovencito y un famoso luchador de dragones se unen para enseñar a un dragón dócil el arte de ser una fuerza a tener en cuenta. En 'Mickey y las Judías Mágicas' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy y Donald Duck enfrentan al temible Willie the Giant para intentar recuperar el arpa de canto mágico a Happy Valley.
Self (archive footage)
From all the cartoons Walt Disney and his team create a full length feature film fun and fancy free . Learn the story of how ww2 Changed bongo and the rest of the cartoons . How Edgar burgan got to play himself and his puppets.
Doctor / Prof. von Schwarzenhoffen
Dance of the Cookoos is merged a cinematic cross section with the high points from almost 100 works of Laurel & Hardy, into an original framework action
Billy (Large Duck Hunter)
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Sultan/Actioneer
Siglo XIX. Un grupo de variopintos personajes, compuesto por un explorador (Cedric Hardwicke), su asistente (Fabian), un reportero entrometido (Red Buttons), un profesor despistado (Richard Haydn) y una maestra liberada (Barbara Eden), emprenden una expedición en globo a través de una peligrosa región africana. Animados por el deseo de reclamar las tierras descubiertas para el Imperio Británico, la heterogénea cuadrilla se ve obligada a capear temporales, luchar contra traficantes de esclavos, enfrentarse a despóticos sultanes y, lo que es aún peor, ¡soportarse los unos a los otros!
Julius Wilson
An elderly motion picture artist drifts through a tenement block, devising a plan to change the lives of its dissatisfied residents with a dusting of Hollywood magic!
King Jilouili
War-weary Captain Willoby and his men are the occupation force on an island of lovely women...and are forbidden to fraternize.
General Felipe Toro
A Ricardo le gusta la vida tranquila de su Boston natal. Pero, en contra de sus deseos, su familia prefiere que siga los pasos de su padre y se convierta en un bandolero.
Suitor (uncredited)
Billie has the mistaken impression that her only daughter is pregnant and must rush to the hospital. At the same time, her old boyfriend, now wealthy, returns to make amends with her.
Willie the Giant (voice)
El noveno clásico Disney está lleno de magia, aventura y divertidas canciones. Es el único en el que participan tus personajes favoritos: Mickey Mouse, el Pato Donald, Goofy y Pepito Grillo.
Willie the Giant (voice) (uncredited)
Basado en la atemporal aventura de "Jack y las Judías Mágicas", Mickey, Donald y Goofy suben a una fantástica planta hasta un lugar donde todo es enorme: ¡la comida, el castillo y el temible gigante llamado Willy que guarda un hermoso arpa dorada! ¿Mickey y sus amigos burlarán al gigante y podrán volver a salvo de vuelta a casa?
Cafe Manager
Gene Kelly y Frank Sinatra son dos marineros de personalidades opuestas: uno (Sinatra) es tímido y un tanto ingenuo, mientras que el otro (Kelly) es un hombre de mundo. Ambos vivirán mil peripecias en la ciudad de Los Ángeles
Billy
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.
Billy
Also known as Ghost Crazy. Three goofballs run up against ghosts and a giant gorilla in a haunted house.
Tiny Lewis
The American Beauty Association is about to hold its annual trade show in New York City and songwriter "Tiny" Lewis (Billy Gilbert) has just sold a song to Ina Ray Hutton ('Ina Ray Hutton'), the leader of an all-girl band headlining the show. Lewis shares an apartment with Bradley Miller ('Ross Hunter') and Michele (Fritz Feld), an artist, and Miller has just invented a non-staining lipstick called "Rosebud." Preparing to get a booth at the show, Miller is told by J. Webster Hackett (Alan Mowbray), a very devious "Cosmetics King,", intent on selling a big lipstick order to buyer Edgar Pomeroy (Thurston Hall), that it will cost him a $1000 to join the association and get a booth, which is about $999 more than Miller and his roomies have between them. But Miller's beauty-parlor girl friend, Janet Wilson ('Ann Savage'), meets factory-owner P. G. Grimble (Hugh Herbert), and money is soon no issue. (IMDb)
Radio announcer Billy Gilbert is hired by a friend to get smitten with his wife.
Billy
Two vaudeville acrobats adopt the son of an actor friend.
Himself
A young husband becomes a game-show participant in the hopes of winning the cash to pay his pregnant wife's doctor.
Cabbie
Publicity man Norton Persuades taxi driver Billy to substitute for an uncooperative potentate.
(archive footage)
Un portaaviones es enviado a territorio Japonés en misión de reconocimiento. Los soldados tienen orden de evitar cualquier conflicto. Los hombres desconocen la razón por la cual no pueden entrar en combate y esto provoca frustración y desconcierto entre la tripulación.
Sid Drake
Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names evacuates the studio and terrorizes the management and personnel. Undaunted, the comedians hire an assistant director and unknown talent, and set out to make their own movie.
Nicholas 'Nick' Neopolitan
The Andrews Sisters harmonize their way through yet another 60-minute Universal musical quickie. The plot this time concerns a Lonely Hearts club which is used as a front by con artist Colonel Winchester (Charles Butterworth). Trying to promote a phony formula for synthetic rubber, Winchester gets mixed up with diligent young DA Tony Warren (Patric Knowles) and lady detective Linda Marlowe (Grace McDonald).
Billy Gilbert
A down-on-his luck actor teams up with a singing barber to do a vaudeville act. Its success eventually leads them to Broadway, but things start to go awry.
Alexsos
When Billy and Cliff try to help a woman cross a muddy street, they wind up getting soaked. The woman invites them up to her apartment to dry off, but just when they get there her jealous husband shows up.
'Papa' Ferrelli
Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"
Ahmad
El califa Harum es derrocado y perseguido por su ambicioso hermano Kamar. Malherido, se refugia en el circo donde trabaja la bailarina Sherezade, que le ayudará a recuperar el trono
Palola's Father
With his sidekick Rusty, Jeff Harper sails to paradisiacal tropical isle Ahmi-Oni to bargain on behalf of his cattle baron father for land owned by transplanted Irishman Dennis O'Brien. But Jeff falls in love with O'Brien's daughter, Eileen, and even his father can't break them up after he arrives and himself falls under the spell of island splendor.
Chef Popodopolis
Bessie Cobb, cake decorator in the kitchen of one of Miami's swankier hotels, is the central figure in an elaborate scheme by Chick Patterson, bell captain, who believes he can not only enrich Bessie, but himself, his fiancée, and the kitchen's three screwball chefs, Chef Popodopolis, Chef Petrovich and Chef Barzumium. He plans to enter Bessie in the singing contest sponsored by band-leader Danny Marlowe for a large recording company looking for new talent.. Chick has a recording made of Bessie's voice and substitutes it for that of "Sugar" Caston, who is being sponsored by a big-time gangster and is set up to win. But members of a rival gang, out to get "Sugar", mistake Besiie for her.
Knobby
The gang is sent to the Wilton Reform School after they are unjustly convicted of stealing a truck. Bill Collins, brother of co-leader Danny, becomes involved in a killing and, while also innocent, is convicted and sentenced to death. Through a series of events, Muggs, Glimpy, Danny and the rest of the gang, learn that Knobby, a henchman of Luke Manning, knows something about the murder.
Homer Burnaby - Justice of the Peace
En 1868, el explorador del Ejército Johnny Ware es obligado a ayudar a los indios contra sus opresores blancos, pero escapa y se encuentra en la pedanía de Desert Center. Allí se cruza con Christine Larson, que está a punto de casarse con uno de los malvados agentes indios... pero no si Johnny puede evitarlo.
Arbolado
La empleada de unos almacenes de Nueva York es premiada con un crucero con destino La Habana. La compañía envía a uno de sus directivos para asegurarse de que el viaje se desarrolla sin problema alguno, pero no advierte a la muchacha que el acompañante en cuestión tiene novia. Decepcionada por la falta de interés del caballero, la joven acepta el galanteo de un atractivo jugador – con gran enfado de su compañera y cantante – que la toma por una rica millonaria en vacaciones. El apuesto ejecutivo no tarda en comprender que está comprometido con la mujer equivocada.
Poldi
The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.
Billy Wilson
Charlotte Lord, a widow in her early forties and owner of Manhattan's smartest modiste shop, is about to marry Guy Barton, a wealthy businessman. But Mexican divorces have been declared illegal, so Guy is still married to Sybil Barton, an unscrupulous gold-digger who left him twelve years earlier. She demands that Guy give her $250,000 for his freedom.- Written by Les Adams
Amos
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
Mr. Dominic
Complications in a dressmaking firm when a model has to hide her marriage.
Styles
Perky young Nanette attempts to save the marriage of her uncle and aunt by untangling Uncle Jimmy from several innocent but ensnaring flirtations. Attempting one such unentanglement, Nanette enlists the help of theatrical producer Bill Trainor, who promptly falls in love with her. The same thing happens when artist Tom Gillespie is called on for help. But soon Uncle Jimmy's flirtations become too numerous, and Nanette's romances with Tom and Bill run into trouble. Will Uncle Jimmy's marriage survive, and will Nanette find happiness with Tom, Bill, or somebody else?
Sheik
Songwriters Calhoun and Harrigan get Katie and Lily Blane to introduce a new one. Lily goes to England, and Katy joins her after the boys give a new song to Nora Bayes. All are reunited when the boys, now in the army, show up in England.
Tony
La cantante de cabaret Bijou, expulsada de varias islas del Océano Indico por suscitar peleas, recala en Boni Komba para trabajar en el Café Seven Sinners. Tiene mucho éxito entre los marineros americanos, especialmente con el Teniente Dan Brent. Cuando Dan le propone matrimonio, su carrera y su vida correrán peligro
Field Marshal Herring
Un humilde barbero judío tiene un parecido asombroso con el dictador de la nación Tomania, que promete sacar adelante y que culpa a los judíos de la situación del país. El dictador ataca al país fronterizo, pero es confundido con el barbero por sus propios guardias, siendo ingresado en un campo de concentración. Simultáneamente, el pobre barbero es confundido con el dictador...
Master of Ceremonies
Victorian melodrama gets a big send-up in this spoof production of the old play "The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved." The play within the movie is the old one where evil villain Cribbs schemes to get his lusty clutches on the heroine by driving her naive husband to alcoholic ruin. Luckily, a temperance lecturer is on hand to set things straight, as is the great Buster Keaton as the drunkard's friend.
Tony
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to move into a posh apartment, with all the usual problems that accompany sudden wealth.
Hector
In this musical, a con man makes a good living by promoting bogus charity shows. He gets the communities all revved up and then skips town with all their money. But then he meets three earnest people wanting to garner financial support for an orphanage. This time the con man's loyal assistant finally catches on to the wicked scam and turns him in to the police. Meanwhile, the newly reformed assistant and one of the charity workers fall in loves.
Charles
Ginger Rogers y Ronald Colman comparten un premio de un sorteo y se van de falsa luna de miel, con resultados perfectamente predecibles.
Hoffman
A Hollywood studio goofs and signs the wrong girl--a hillbilly from the Ozarks--to a movie contract. Comedy.
Orestes
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
Mr. Reier
Ma Webster (Blanche Yurka) and her boys rob a bank on Christmas Eve; G-men stop them with Tommy guns.
Mondehare
Millionaire Baron de Courland and his fiancée Linda Stewart employ Jim Logan as a guide for their hunting trip in the jungle. Linda finds unplanned adventure in her sudden love for Jim, ultimately forsaking her future with the Baron for the joys of true love.
Pierre, the Cobbler
A "good-time girl", raised by her somewhat lax divorced father, finds herself involved in an accidental death, and the only way she's able to get out of it is to volunteer--albeit reluctantly--to be a nurse in the war effort. She travels to England and is assigned to a hospital under a very strict matron. What the girl doesn't know is that the matron is the mother she has never seen.
Billy Pepino
Mary and Joe Phillips' (Nan Grey and Tom Brown) attempts to improve their financial status are alternately aided and endangered by the antics of their two-year-old, Sandy.
Joe Pettibone
Hildy Johnson, la mejor reportera del periódico Morning Post, anuncia que va a dejar el periodismo para casarse y dedicarse a su familia y a las labores del hogar. Pero Walter Burns, el editor del periódico y ex-marido de Hildy, no puede aceptarlo, por lo que se sirve de toda clase de tretas para retenerla en el periódico y, de paso, intentar reconquistarla.
Loupgerou
Tom Destry, hijo de un legendario pacificador de la frontera, es un joven pacífico que rechaza todo tipo de violencia, por lo que es objeto de toda clase de burlas cuando recorre a caballo la ciudad de Bottleneck, el feudo personal de Kent. Las burlas aumentan cuando Destry nombra sheriff al borracho Wash Dimsdale. Esta actitud cambia cuando resulta que Destry, a pesar de odiar las armas, es un buen tirador. Mientras tanto, Frenchy, la cantante del saloon y novia de Kent, que se siente ofendida ante la indiferencia que Destry muestra hacia ella, jura poner en ridículo al nuevo sheriff.
Manuelo
Diabolical French capitalist Paul Reynard is forced to leave Irene, his bride of one year, when he is arrested for the crimes of forgery and embezzlement and sentenced to a penal colony off the coast of South America.
Tolio
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls she's just as good as they are.
Stanislov Papadopoulos
La vida de Gus Edwards, famoso compositor de vodevil, actor y productor.
Dick Schultz (uncredited)
En la universidad de Middleton, controlada por un rico donante, el presidente de los estudiantes ha de destacar en algún deporte para conquistar el corazón de su amada. El problema es que todos son de pago.
Nick Mendoza
Dan Frazier is a U. S. Border Patrolman on the California-Mexico border whose hot temper and ready-fists keep him in trouble, both of which indirectly lead to the death of a fellow trooper. He resigns from the force in order to find out who was responsible. He believes it was a gang of smugglers, engaged in smuggling illegal aliens into the United States from Mexico, and in order to get inside the gang he fakes smuggling activities.
Garage Mechanic
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
Screenplay
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.
Professor Dimitrius Kapouris
The big Barber College competition between rivals Clipton and Beardsley is coming up and everything is on the line for professor and coach Kapouris. But thanks to a secret depilatory he developed, Clipton has the edge.
Bud Boggs
Trouble-prone Billy Peck and his gang descend on a traveling circus that has just hit town, and before long their antics are causing the circus owner all kinds of problems.
Prof. Minorous
A wealthy businessman promises to donate a huge endowment to his college alma mater, but there's one condition -- his loser of a son, a student at the school, must become a football hero. Comedy.
Mr. Small
The story begins while Tommy Martin and his mother, Martha Martin say goodbye to Henry and Reuben Johnson. After having stopped by the Mennonite farm, where Tommy and Martha stay with the William and Annie Decker, the Johnsons are headed back to their hometown of Goshen. The balance of the film is concerned with both trying to get the necessary train fare and with Tommy clearing his name over a misunderstanding.
Nick
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
Mr. Gilbert
La película arranca en las trincheras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, donde un Stan despistado se queda guardando la posición... ¡por veinte años! Al fin, se entera que el conflicto ha terminado. Entretanto, su amigo Ollie se ha casado. El reencuentro supone reiniciar la amistad, pero esto puede traer consecuencias en el matrimonio de Ollie.
Canteen waiter
A young captain hoping to replace the U.S. Army's horses with mechanized vehicles faces court-martial after his commanding officer, who's opposed to modern changes, is killed.
Self (uncredited)
This short shows how Hollywood gets ready for the world premiere of an "important" movie. The film celebrated here is Marie Antoinette (1938), which had its premiere at the Carthay Circle Theatre. We see the street leading to the theatre transformed to suggest a garden that might be seen in a French palace. This includes the placement of trees and other foliage, as well as large statues along the route. Grandstands are set up so fans can see their favorite stars as they arrive for the premiere. Finally, the proverbial "galaxy of stars" arrives in their limousines. Fanny Brice and Pete Smith make remarks at the microphone set up on the carpet outside the theatre.
Cafe Owner
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.
Mr. Papalapoulas
El hijo de un millonario, que reparte leche para ganar una apuesta a su padre, se enamora de una aristócrata que él confunde con una criada.
Counter Man
Bandleader and manager discover skater in Norway. They become rivals as she returns with them to America.
Chaffee - a Creditor
The day after Carol returns from a European trip, she wakes up to find her dead father's creditors hauling everything away. Her aunt wants her to marry a millionaire, but Carol insists on getting a job.
Oloff
El cadete de West Point, Dick Thorpe, se enamora de una chica, que resulta ser una princesa de un reino europeo.
Sneezy (voice) (uncredited)
La malvada madrastra de la princesa Blancanieves decide deshacerse de ella porque no puede soportar que la belleza de la joven sea superior a la de ella. Sin embargo, Blancanieves consigue salvarse y se refugia en la cabaña de los siete enanitos. A pesar de todo, su cruel madrastra consigue encontrarla y la envenena con una manzana. Pero la princesa no está muerta, sólo dormida, a la espera de que un príncipe azul la rescate.
Boris
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
Innkeeper
Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French Officers, in order for them to reveal Napolean's intentions toward Spain. She is sent to Bayonne, France to gather military secrets. Prior to this, she meets, Don Diego while performing at a club. Unknown to her, Don Diego is actually Captain Andre, who is sent to Spain to spy on her. While in France, Nina discovers Diego's true identity, only after she has fallen in love with him. Nina Maria outwits her potential captors and returns to Spain, and goes into hiding. Napoleon's troops invade Spain, resulting in Nina's capture. In a strange twist of fate, Nina and Captain Andre are reunited, but, the 2 nations are now at war... Written by Kelly
Newsboy (uncredited)
Un artista bohemio y una chica de la alta sociedad intentan averiguar si están hechos para casarse. Una vez casados, son pobres pero felices, hasta que él salta a las portadas de los periódicos y se convierte en la nueva sensación social.
Krause
Un cantante que aspira a convertirse en compositor es acusado de un crimen y debe demostrar su inocencia. Por otro lado, los delincuentes responsables le amenazan para que no vuelva a cantar. Mientras medita sobre su futuro, Nino Maretti se enamora de la bella Jean.
Garage Owner
Una joven cantante muy generosa intenta ayudar a alcanzar el éxito a la orquesta los "Cien Hombres", un grupo de músicos ya retirados que viven en una casa de huéspedes. Sin embargo, la persona que más le preocupa es su padre (Adolphe Menjou), el más desafortunado del grupo. En realidad, a la orquesta lo que le falta es un líder con carisma. Entra entonces en escena el legendario director de orquesta Leopold Stowkowski, quien, después de mostrarse reacio a escuchar a la chica, queda cautivado al escuchar la Rapsodia Húngara nº 2 de Liszt interpretada por los cien andrajosos músicos en las escaleras de un edificio
Dr. Molnac
A singer finds another heir (Gene Raymond) to marry, to avoid the one (Joe Penner) her mother found.
George Papaloopas
Steve Raleight (Robert Taylor) quiere producir un "show" en Broadway y, aunque ya tiene al promotor, Herman Whipple, y a la estrella, la joven Sally Lee (Eleanor Powell), no le dejan realizar su sueño. Caroline Whipple (Binnie Barnes) quiere utilizar para el espectáculo a una estrella conocida, y no a una cualquiera. Por otro lado, Sally compra un caballo con la intención de participar en una carrera para obtener fondos con los que promocionar el show...
Photographer
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.
Soda Steward (uncredited)
Harvey, el hijo arrogante y malcriado de un padre poco cariñoso, cae por la borda de un barco de vapor transatlántico y es rescatado por un barco de pesca en el Gran Banco de Terranova. Harvey trata de convencerles para que lo lleven a tierra alardeando de su riqueza ante la tripulación, aunque nadie le toma en serio. El capitán le ofrece un trabajo mal pagado hasta que regresen a puerto. El duro trabajo como uno más de la tripulación convierte al joven en un hombre maduro y considerado.
At Dr. Van Loon's Sanitarium, swing music is the cure.
Charley - the Bartender
The 1937 film version of Bret Harte's story, starring Preston Foster.
Fat hobo
El doctor Jim Stanton (John Beal) es un prestigioso cirujano traumatizado por las muertes de un accidente de avión que él pilotaba. Expulsado de su hospital por el escándalo, Jim se marcha a California con la esperanza de empezar una nueva vida bajo una nueva identidad. Conoce entonces a Doris (Joan Fontaine), una enfermera que se las ingenia para que Jim maneje durante una urgencia el avión-ambulancia en el que ella trabaja, logrando así demostrarse a si mismo su valía.
Bartender
Dos americanos, Tommy Baldwin y Joe Dugan, tienen que custodiar un fabuloso diamante en Shanghai pero rápidamente se lo roban. Saben que huyen en un barco de Shanghai a los Estados Unidos, y ellos también se embarcan n la intención de recuperar la joya. Sus esfuerzos les llevan a descubrir varios cadáveres pero también que a bordo hay una rubia, Jane Dunn, que es en realidad es un agente encubierto de la Agencia de Aduanas de EE.UU. Tommy y Jane, descubrirán el misterio y encontrarán el amor. (FILMAFFINITY)
Turk
Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.
Billy
Doris lives with her rough Coast Guardsman father. He has plans for her to marry an up and coming officer, but there is competition when a new, brash, Guardsman enters the picture. Dad hates the new guy, mostly because he is like himself.
Jose
Una cantante australiana de ópera se casa con un rico norteamericano para poder residir legalmente en los Estados Unidos.
Joe Papaloupas
A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon for real, to the annoyance of his co-star, hoofing chanteuese Mona Merrick.
Ephraim Allen
A juror at a murder trial is convinced the defendant is innocent.
Von Muller
Tom and Harry are sailors on a yacht, and go ashore for a few beers and whatever else may come up. What comes up is a brawl between them and the barflies in the waterfront saloon they go to. They are aided by an elderly lady and her knitting needles.
Torre
Helen Roberts, who's on probation, goes back to work as a waitress at Torre's Fish Palace, a San Francisco waterfront dive. The customers are low characters trying to make time with Helen and ex-rum runners trying to make a dishonest dollar. Some of the latter, including Helen's unwelcome suitor Martin Rhodes, are after a mysterious, valuable hidden "cargo"; when violence erupts, Helen finds herself innocently involved, and is soon on the run from both cops and crooks.
Cafe Manager
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...
Fisher
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
George Poppupoppalas (uncredited)
Two rival newspapers are engaged in a circulation battle, complicated by the fact that a vicious gangster inserts himself into the middle of it. Also complicating matters is that one newspaper's editor and circulation director are competing for the affections of a pretty blonde reporter.
Rudolpho
A wife whose husband is away asks her decorator to impersonate her husband, to help her deal with a pest. Soon there is quite a web of confusion that also involves the decorator's girlfriend and the wife's suddenly returned husband.
Dr. Von Blatt
Mr. Brown is riding home from work one day with his new neighbor, Mr. Johnson. When Brown explains that he has all kinds of problems at home, Johnson wants to help him. So, when they arrive, Johnson gives Brown a demonstration of one of the tricks that he uses to get his family to act as he wishes them too. But when Brown tries out Johnson's ideas on his own, things do not go as planned.
Otto, the janitor (uncredited)
When a grand jury acquits a gangster accused of murder, a retired elderly citizen decides it's up to him to see that the criminal is proven guilty and put behind bars.
Un preso condenado injustamente se escapa del penal de la Isla del Diablo. Para evitar ser descubierto, se disfraza de anciana y lleva consigo una extraña pócima que tiene el poder de reducir el tamaño y la inteligencia de los seres humanos. A continuación, se esconde en un laboratorio para planear su venganza contra los que lo enviaron a prisión.
Mr. Donovan
Una pareja decide casarse y tratar de mantener sus respectivos trabajos. El equilibrio es precario, y un millonario anda enredando en su felicidad. Simpática comedia con la pizpireta Barba Stanwyck.
Burger
Chester Beatty and Tessie Weeks have been engaged for 5 years and going together for 15 years before that. Chester is reluctant to burden Tessie with marriage because of his secret problem. He is a sleepwalker. When Tessie finally does rope Chester into marriage, he can't get time off from his boss of 26 years, Mr. Frisbee. To resolve the problem, Chester sets out to impress his boss by securing a big sales contract of glass eyes. He takes Tessie and follows the rich doll company owner Horace B. Stanton to a lakeside resort and befriends him. However, his sleep-walking makes him a prime suspect in a thievery/murder case.
The Tailor
A truck driver and a gold-digger meet at a swank hotel and both think the other is wealthy. A drama of greed and society.
Court Doorman (Uncredited)
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.
Italian in Park (uncredited)
When a couple become parents for the first time, they discover grandmothers can be almost as demanding as a newborn.
New York Policeman
Aspiring Producer Michael McCreigh convinces Uncle Carlton to finance a play on the condition that he lives the play's ridiculous plot. If Michael fails, he must work in Carlton's meat packing plant.
Gen. Ramos
Story of the gold strike on an immigrant's property that started the 1849 California Gold Rush.
Carlos (uncredited)
While a ship captain is at sea dealing with a mutiny among his crew, his wife is at home having an affair with his best friend.
Billy
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett moved over to the remnants of the Christie Brothers for a series of short subjects in which they played variations on Laurel & Hardy. Here, in this short subject, they get hired to run a used car lot and steal a car for James Morton.
Cook at Cafe (uncredited)
Una aspirante a cantante y un joven compositor se enamoran y se casan: pero, mientras que ella alcanza el éxito, él sigue siendo un desconocido. Así las cosas, ella decide renunciar a su prometedora carrera por amor a su marido.
Waiter (uncredited)
Southern California's Hotel Coronado caters to and is frequented by members of the social upper-crust. Although she lives on the wrong side of the San Diego track, in a tent-city with her father. Otto, and ditzy sister, Violet, June Wray is a singer with the Eddy Duchin Orchestra appearing to the hotel. Johnny Marvin, an aspiring songwriter and the son of a wealthy automobile manufacturer, is staying at the hotel and, from they moment June and Johnny meet, they fall instantly in love. Trouble arises when Johnny's father objects to the romance, and complications and help arrive in the form of two Marine-hating sailors,Chuck Hornbostel and "Pinky" Falls, when Chuck marries June's ditzy sister.
Los Hermanos Marx en la alta sociedad. A dos amantes que actúan en la ópera se les impide estar juntos porque no aceptan al hombre como tenor. Utilizando varios trucos típicos de los Hermanos Marx, logran que el tenor principal se ausente, y de esta manera el joven amante tendrá su oportunidad.
Cappa Rosa
The son and daughter of feuding ranchers defy their fathers in the name of love.
Dr. W.J. Gilbert
Cautious, frugal Charley is told by his insurance doctor that he has six months to live, and goes on to live life to the fullest.
Mr. Quick
A Mack Sennett directed spoof of murder mysteries.
Oswald Carroll (uncredited)
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
Senor Luis Balero Cantino
The Stooges are running the local drugstore and mix up a potion that a desperate businessman decides to sell as scotch. The Stooges impersonate Scotsmen at a party to fool the prospective buyer. Their usual antics disrupt the party, ending when a barrel of their "scotch" explodes and floods the whole house.
Autograph Seeker on Train (Uncredited)
El Doctor Gogol se enamora de Yvonne Orlac, la esposa del pianista Stephen Orlac. Cuando éste sufre un accidente de tren, y sus manos son amputadas, Yvonne pide ayuda a Gorgol, que le transplanta las manos de un asesino. La operacion parece funcionar, y el organismo de Orlac no rechaza las nuevas manos. Sin embargo, Orlac descubrirá unas nuevas tendencias que nunca había tenido: la necesidad de matar. Su mujer Yvonne tambien descubre el cambio de su marido. Mientras tanto, Gogol sigue enamorado de Yvonne, con un amor cada vez más obsesivo... (FILMAFFINITY)
First Chef
Afraid of marriage, Simone (Mary Ellis) breaks off her long term engagement with her fiancé Paul de Lille (Tullio Carminati). Paul heads to the top of The Eiffel Tower with thoughts of suicide. In another part of Paris and also afraid of marriage, Mignon (Ida Lupino) breaks it off from her young lover (James Blakely). Despairing, Mignon also climbs to the top of the The Eiffel Tower intending to leap to her death. There she meets Paul and the two compare stories. After discussion, Paul dissuades her from leaping and the two conspire to make their respective partners jealous by pretending to have an affair with each other.
A man gets hit on the head and decides to give his fortune to artists.
Lesh the Lush
Harry and his wife move into a "modern", gimmick-laden house.
Just as Charlie is running for mayor on a purity platform, an old flame threatens to show his torrid love letters to his wife if he does not withdraw from the campaign.
Dangerous Patient
The stooges are three doctors who graduated medical school by being in it for too many years. They come across such problems as an overly chirpy nurse, a mental patient, and a combination to a safe swallowed by the hospital superintendent in the course of their attempt to get through the day.
Billy Gilbert and Vince Barnett being.... Super Stupid....
Husband
An action-filled film with outlaws-of-the-clouds at war with the men of the U. S. Flying Service. A young pilot, Nick Ferris, fights to track down a dangerous gang of smugglers and clear his name of an undeserved stigma.
Fritz, Jack's Dad
Frank Albertson's father wants his son to marry Lois January, but they really are only friends. Frank watches Lois doing a hooch dance at a secret tropical ritual, and he quickly changes his mind and falls for her fleshy charms.
The Doctor
Stan y Ollie viajan a las montañas por la salud de Ollie y estacionan su caravana cerca de un pozo en el que una pandilla de licoreros ha arrojado su alcohol ilegal anteriormente; y los muchachos proceden a saciar su sed pensando que es agua de montaña rica en hierro. Sin embargo, el verdadero problema no comienza hasta que una pareja casada de automovilistas se detiene para pedir prestada gasolina, y el marido, que ya está de mal humor, deja a su esposa sedienta con los niños mientras él se va a llenar el tanque de gasolina vacío de su automóvil. Se hizo una secuela de esta película: TOMA Y DACA, qv
Innkeeper
Bert Wheeler es un pobre cleptómano en la Inglaterra del siglo XVII, y esto provoca que la pareja viva todo tipo de situaciones disparatadas.
Uncle Percy (voice)
Betty's father has an invention that looks like a fancy camera; it emits an ultra-lavender ray that temporarily rids the ray's target of inhibitions. To test it, Betty's father zaps Charley hoping his newly-aberrant behavior will cause Betty to end her affections for the milquetoast. Dad's plan backfires: the invention works perfectly, Charley gets a backbone, and Betty loves her new forceful man. However, Charley's courage and lack of a superego get him in trouble with the law. He goes on trial for assaulting a bullying police officer. Is Charley going up the river leaving Betty high and dry?
Meyer Schmaltz
Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher play neighbors who go to a speak easy to see Gilbert's son perform.
Sneezing Man
Thelma, who came to Hollywood from Joplin to be a star, is ready to go home. She and her pal Patsy are packing up and packing it in. Then, through Patsy's deviousness, Thelma gets a call to come to the studio immediately to audition for a costume drama.
Pinsky
A burlesque impresario is hired to help the failing fortunes of an old opera company.
Count Gustav
At a ritzy beauty salon, while a mud pack is on her face, a wealthy socialite invites Thelma and Patsy, two salon attendants, to a party, mistakenly thinking they are social acquaintances whom she wants to entertain a visiting count. Just before our working-class pair arrives at the party, the hostess is called away to see to an ill dog. Thelma tries to behave in a refined way, but Patsy, with a head full of practical jokes and a bra filled with trick gadgets, turns the party on its head. The butler calls the hostess back to her home. Is Thelma and Patsy's moment in high society coming to a crashing end?
William Gilbert
Charley finds that he got more than he bargained for when he takes a job as a kindergarten teacher.
Mr. Ruttledge (voice) (uncredited)
Stan y Ollie se comprometen a asistir a una convención de los “Hijos del Desierto” que coincide con un viaje a las montañas planeado por el matrimonio Hardy. Ollie simula una enfermedad que exige un viaje por mar. Mientras él y Stan disfrutan de la convención, el barco tropieza con una catástrofe.
Betty's Father
Charley unwittingly becomes a house painter.
Schmaltz
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Director
Hal Roach comedy starring Billy Gilbert and Billy Bletcher. Also starring Don Barclay, Charley Rogers, Ruth Gillette, Theodore Lurch, Charlie Hall.
Louie Schmaltz
The Schmaltz Brothers are tricked into buying a beer garden.
Director
The Schmaltz Brothers are tricked into buying a beer garden.
Nightclub Manager
Un grupo de jóvenes obliga bajo sus personales métodos a confesar su crimen a un gángster.
Schmaltz
After Billy gets discharged for wrecking his Taxi, he takes a job at a Taxidermy business. Ben brings in his flea to be stuffed & loses it. They get locked in at night and are frightened.
Sneezing Patient
A hospital surgeon (James Dunn) protects a mystery woman (Gloria Stuart) who knows too much about a card-game murder.
Train Conductor
Thelma wins a screen test with a Hollywood studio, but trouble ensues on the train trip out there.
Commissioner Jerry Allesandro (uncredited)
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
Heinie Schmaltz
Ben proves to be the undoing when Billy opens a new deli. Ben and Billy do a variation of the famous "who's on first" skit.
Captain Schmaltz
Comedy short with ZaSuPitts and Thelma Todd. After accidentally getting a policeman friend fired, the girls must come up with some way to get him re-hired or be stuck with him as an unwanted roommate.
Billy / Dutchie
After running over a police officer's motorcycle, Ben and Billy are chased by the law onto a docked ship where they disguise themselves as a European baron and general. In the same guises they then invade a high society party with the gendarmes in close pursuit.
Cuban Carriage Driver (uncredited)
Una mujer es chantajeada por su primer marido, ella planea un viaje al extranjero para librarse de él.
Von Smaltz
Instead of delivering some fancy dresses to a customer, the girls wear them to a party.
Bill
When the boys run over a dummy, they think they've killed someone. They decide to dispose of the "body" and mistake a seminary for a cemetery.
Mr. Gilbert
Told to "hike" out to his company's West Coast headquarters, Charley does exactly that.
Mr. Gilbert, Dance Hall Proprietor
The girls moonlight as taxi dancers in order to earn some extra money.
Billy Gilbert
When Billy must prove that he's married in order to keep his job, he disguises Ben in drag in an attempt to pass him off as the little woman.
Joe - Junkyard Owner
Stan y Ollie son vendedores ambulantes de pescado. Cuando a Stan se le ocurre una brillante idea para mejorar el negocio, pescando su propios peces, Ollie se lo toma al pie de la letra.
Attorney for the Prosecution
Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.
Billy Gilbert
Billy and Ben continually make a mess of things, having multiple accidents with their Taxi.
Process server
Mrs Hardy is annoyed that her husband Oliver seems to spend more time with his friend Stanley than with her. After a furious argument, Mrs Hardy says that she is through if Ollie goes out with Stan again. Stan suggests that Ollie adopts a baby, which he does. Unfortunately, his wife has left their apartment on returning, and a process server delivers a paper informing Ollie that she is suing him for divorce, naming Stan as correspondent. The boys are now left to look after the infant on their own.
I.M. Sweet, truck driver
James Gleason picks up abused kid and tries to clean him up.
Cabbie
When the boys end up with a half-naked woman in their cab, trouble ensues when her jealous husband appears.
Billy
After graduating from Taxi Driver school, Billy, Ben, and Clyde soon find themselves involved with a gang of jewel smugglers.
Mr. Hathaway
Mientras Laurel y Hardy luchan en el frente durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), un buen amigo suyo resulta gravemente herido y, antes de morir, les pide que busquen a su hija y la lleven a casa de sus abuelos; pero la misión resultará más difícil de lo previsto. En su segundo largometraje, Laurel y Hardy se propusieron suavizar con unas pinceladas de humor un asunto tan serio como la guerra.
Kinskey's Friend (uncredited)
Blondie es una neoyorkina y Lurlene es su mejor amiga. Cuando Lurlene consigue un papel en un gran espectáculo de Broadway, también hace que Blondie forme parte del elenco. Pero esta amistad empieza a ir mal cuando Larry Belmont, el novio rico de Lurlene, empieza a fijarse en Blondie.
Jealous Husband
Ill-tempered Billy proves troublesome for fellow taxi drivers Franklin and Clyde.
Second Ticket Agent (uncredited)
Un empresario no permite que nada se interponga en su camino en la adquisición de un edificio de oficinas de 100 pisos.
Secretary of the Interior (uncredited)
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
Secretary of the Interior
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money.
The Doctor
Ollie está en el hospital con una pierna rota. Stan le paga una visita, acompañada de un regalo bien de huevos duros y nueces. Stan causa tantos problemas que una furiosa Dr. Gilbert órdenes paciente y resultados del hospital a la vez. Antes de salir, Stan accidentalmente se sienta en una aguja hipodérmica llena de sedantes. Él intenta volver a casa Ollie, pero es casi dormido al volante, y el coche circula salvajemente por las calles.
Commanding General
Charley writes the national anthem for the country of Nicarania and winds up getting mixed up in a revolution there.
Joe the Landlord
Los desastres causados por los torpes artistas Stanley y Oliver llevan a la ruina al circo en el que trabajan. Su endeudado propietario decide compensar a los empleados repartiendo el circo entre ellos. A Stanley le toca el circo de pulgas mientras que Oliver se lleva un exótico chimpancé con tutú llamado Ethel...
The Actor
Zasu inadvertently turns Thelma's vaudeville act into a shambles.
Harry Sweet stars as a hick Olympic hero who is housed in a high society mansion and causes havoc to the high brow party in progress.
Bill Morgan
In this The Boy Friends series short, college students Mickey and Alabam stay at a city friend's place for what they tell him will be one night - though it stretches into several months.
Professor von Schwarzenhoffen (uncredited)
La empresa de mudanzas Laurel & Hardy tiene el cometido de entregar un piano mecánico, que ha de subir por un elevado tramo de escaleras. Entorpecen su labor una enfermera, un policía y, finalmente, el supuesto destinatario del piano. Primera comedia en la historia del cine en obtener un Oscar al mejor cortometraje
Spanky's Father
While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune."
Tailor's Customer
Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.
Todd's Butler
Charley is an efficiency expert trying to teach a millionaire's daughter the value of money.
Mr. Morton (uncredited)
In their first comedy two-reeler of 1932, vivacious Thelma Todd and fluttery ZaSu Pitts learn that the royal seal of a foreign country has been stolen and promptly set out to catch it -- a sea lion.
Mr. Jones a Rancher
A timid accountant for a California cattle ranch and a lookalike dashing bandit become rivals for the beautiful daughter of a wealthy rancher.
Pierre, the Dressmaker (as William Gilbert)
Two young women, Zasu and Thelma, complain that all of their dates take them to Coney Island. The next day a car goes by and they are splashed with mud. The driver stops and offers to buy them some new clothes. They accept the offer and later agree to go on a date.
Distraught Passenger On Streetcar (uncredited)
It's in three distinct segments. The first and probably best involves Charley, his girlfriend, and her father foolish her mother and the suitor she prefers into getting Charley into the house for dinner. In the later two segments, in which Charley must get married within minutes to get a job, and then tries to go on a picnic with his new family, are both also packed with laughs and timed with an almost musical brilliance.
Drunk
Stan y Ollie, dos víctimas de la Gran Depresión que recorren América sin apenas pertenencias, agradecen la comida que les ofrece una anciana. Mientras almuerzan en su cocina, oyen como ésta implora a su casero que no la eche. Deciden ayudarla con una subasta sin saber que lo que oyeron fue el ensayo de una obra de teatro.
Dooley
The female head of a criminal gang in Chinatown is after a valuable jewel, and lets nothing stand in her way of finding it.
The Sea Captain
The Gang plays hooky from school so they can listen to the tall tales of a friendly sea captain.
Butler (uncredited)
After running their car off the road, a society matron insists that the girls spend the evening at her mansion.
Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Zasu falls for a wrestler, drags Thelma to his next fight.
Smith - Investment Broker aka The Spot (uncredited)
Charley's in love with the daughter of a financier who wants her to insist that Chas have a pile of cash before she marries him. But, the Depression is everywhere: Charley's behind on his rent and nearly everyone he meets is down on their luck. After reading a "how to" book on the power of a forceful will, Charley applies the lessons with mixed results, but he does land a job that includes delivering a shake-down letter to his girlfriend's father. Is the naïve Charley going to end up in jail?
Naval Officer
Searchlight Doyle, lightweight boxing champion of the United States Navy, is shanghaied into the fleet of Sainte Cassette, an island republic, as a replacement for a wealthy slacker who must serve his country to receive a $2 million inheritance, a scheme concocted by attorney Gabriel Grabowski. All his shipmates, except Hyacinth Nitouche, assume that he is indeed the wastrel he purports to be. Doyle falls in love with Adrienne, the most beautiful of the captain's daughters, and wins her affections by treating his comrades in her teashop. Admiral O'Brien, grandfather of the man Doyle is impersonating, comes to visit, and mistaking him for a civilian, Doyle throws him overboard and to everybody's surprise is complimented on his vigilance. But his real identity is exposed by some American sailors, and he is suspected of killing young O'Brien; he is cleared of suspicion, however, and is reinstated by the admiral, thereby gaining Adrienne's love.
A program of musical entertainers perform on a cross country train.
Stage Manager (uncredited)
Two desperate singers take a job as the singing act in a movie theater between shows. They soon regret their decision.
Short Man
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
For generations, Our Gang comedies have been enjoyed by millions of fans the world over. Now, celebrate the 100th anniversary of this iconic and beloved film series .
In 1922, producer Hal Roach introduced the kiddie troupe known as “Our Gang” to theater audiences and kicked off one of the most popular and prolific franchises in the field of short subjects, with 220 one- and two-reel comedies released over a twenty-two year period.
This 6-disc set is a must-have for any true Our Gang fan.
