Man-Proof (1938)
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?...if the man you loved and longed for married another woman!
ジャンル : コメディ, ドラマ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 15分
演出 : Richard Thorpe
脚本 : Vincent Lawrence, Waldemar Young, George Oppenheimer
シノプシス
A newspaper illustrator tries to remain best friends with the man she secretly loves, even though he recently married another woman.
When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estate, he creates an elaborate plan to find and steal the prize. By convincing a girl named Casey to impersonate the estate owner's long-lost granddaughter, Harry hopes to uncover the treasure's location. But when Casey has a change of heart, she must follow the clues and find the treasure, in order to save Candleshoe and stop Harry before it is too late.
Unfounded suspicions lead a married couple to begin divorce proceedings, whereupon they start undermining each other's attempts to find new romance.
The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart to investigate the wacky house and its inhabitants.
M・クリフト、E・テイラー共演、貧しい家庭に育ち、出世を夢見る野心家の青年が破滅してゆく物語を通じて、資本主義社会を痛烈に批判したヒューマンドラマの名作。
貧しい家庭で育った青年ジョージ・イーストマン。出世欲の強い彼はある時、工場を経営する叔父のもとで働くことに。やがて、彼は社交界で令嬢アンジェラと出会い、惹かれ始める。また一方で、同僚のアリスとも親密になる。そして彼女はジョージの子を身籠もった。だがパーティーで再会したジョージとアンジェラは、互いに強く惹かれ合い関係を深めていく。こうして対照的にアリスの存在が煩わしくなってきたジョージは、彼女の殺害を謀るのだが…。
When heiress Jean Courtland attempts suicide, her fiancée Elliott Carson probes her relationship with John Triton. In flashback, we see how stage mentalist Triton starts having terrifying flashes of true precognition. His partner, Whitney Courtland, uses Triton's talent to make money; but Triton's inability to prevent what he foresees, causes him to break up the act and become a hermit. Years later, Triton has new visions and desperately tries to prevent tragedies in the Courtland family. Can his warnings succeed against suspicion, unbelief, and inexorable fate?
やり手の女弁護士にグレン・クローズ、彼女が弁護する被告人にジェフ・ブリッジスが扮した法廷サスペンス。ラヴ・ロマンスの要素も巧みに盛り込まれ、二転三転するストーリーは必見だ。リチャード・マーカンド監督作。
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
Carny con artist and snake-oil salesman Eustace McGargle tries to stay one step ahead of the sheriff but is completely devoted to his beloved daughter Poppy.
New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.
Tobacco heiress Doris Duke develops an unlikely friendship with her butler, Bernard Lafferty.
ボンドは、石油王のロバート・キング卿に返金される大金を奪取する事に成功。キング卿が大金を確認するためMI6に訪れる。ボンドがMへの報告中、その大金に爆弾が仕掛けられていることに気づき止めようとするが間に合わず、キング卿は爆死した。ボンドは犯人と思われる女暗殺者を追うが、激しいボートチェイスの末、女暗殺者は気球と共に自爆する。 真犯人は009に銃弾を頭に撃ち込まれるも死なず、そのせいで痛みを感じない体となった不死身のテロリスト「レナード」だと睨んだMI6は、キング卿の娘であり、レナードに誘拐された経験があるエレクトラ・キングが次に狙われると判断。ボンドに彼女の警護を命じる。 そんな時、レナードによって核弾頭が盗まれ、キング社の石油パイプラインにその核弾頭が仕掛けられる。
In this reworking of "No, No, Nanette," wealthy heiress Nanette Carter bets her uncle $25,000 that she can say "no" to everything for 48 hours. If she wins, she can invest the money in a Broadway show featuring songs written by her beau, and of course, in which she will star. Trouble is, she doesn't realize her uncle's been wiped out by the Stock Market crash.
Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. She then persuades him to take her to California.
Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.
The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job – showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults the traditional matchmaker – and also has words with God.
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht—and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls overboard and loses her memory, Dean sees an opportunity to get even.
A man and woman, who've never met, are forced by circumstances to share the same apartment. A remake of the 1933 film "Rafter Romance".
Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie but insists upon calling her Barbara. Later, at the Merriday beach house, Julie's Aunt Sarah tells Julie that her great great grandmother was named Barbara, and furthermore, that ancestress had an illegitimate child fathered by one Benjamin Gunther.
Renée (Mae Murray) is the heiress of a Mexican ranch, granddaughter of a woman known for her recklessness and frivolity at night. This first "Mademoiselle Midnight" is banished in the opening scene by Napoleon III at Empress Eugenie's insistence to Mexico. Renee is kept locked at the hacienda at night by her father to prevent her following in her grandmother's wayward footsteps. She falls in love with a visiting American (Monte Blue) but is also pursued by the craven outlaw Manuel Corrales. Miss Murray gets to do some of her trademark dancing, but this one isn't a comedy, despite comic relief provided by Johnny Arthur.