Madame Racketeer (1932)
ジャンル : コメディ
上映時間 : 1時間 12分
演出 : Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Alexander Hall
シノプシス
International con artist Martha Hicks a.k.a. Countess von Claudwig is released from another stay in prison and decides to treat her rheumatism with a stay at her estranged husband's hotel at a Wisconsin spa. There undercover, she checks in on the two daughters she abandoned as infants.
Adventurous filmmaker, Carl Denham, sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to displayed on Broadway as Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.
British estate agent Renfield travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a castle in London and is, unbeknownst to Renfield, a vampire. After Dracula enslaves Renfield and drives him to insanity, the pair sail to London together, and as Dracula begins preying on London socialites, the two become the subject of study for a supernaturalist professor, Abraham Van Helsing.
第1次大戦がはじまってまもない、ドイツのある町。群衆の歓声に送られて、戦場へ向かう大部隊が進軍してゆく。学校の教室では、老教師が生徒に愛国心を説いていた。情熱に駆り立てられた若者たちは、ただちに出征を志願するが、前線は飢えと死の恐怖だけの毎日だった。
フランケンシュタイン男爵家の嫡男である若き科学者ヘンリーは、生命創造の研究に没頭していた。ヘンリーは助手のフリッツと共に墓地から盗み出した死体を接合し、彼に恩師であるウォルドマン教授の研究室から人間の脳を盗んでくるように指示する。同じ頃、行方不明になったヘンリーの身を案じる婚約者のエリザベスは、共通の友人ヴィクターと共にウォルドマンの元を尋ね、ヘンリーが生命の創造を行っていることを聞き出す。三人はヘンリーが籠る山奥の塔に向かい、彼の実験に立ち会うことになる。嵐の雷光を利用して高圧電流を浴びせられた死体は生命を得て目覚め、ヘンリーは狂喜する
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio "Tony" Camonte, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
大富豪のわがまま娘エリーは、結婚を反対されて家出。マイアミからNYへ向かうバスで出会った失業中の新聞記者ピーターは、スクープ狙いで彼女に同行するが……。古き良きラヴ・コメディの傑作。
限定された空間で起きる事件を巧みに連関させると言ったいわゆる“グランド・ホテル形式”の原点。過去の想い出を引きずるバレリーナ、彼女の真珠の首飾りを狙う、カイゲルン男爵を自称する泥棒。事業が危機にある入り婿社長のプライジング、彼の速記者フレム、余命あと僅かなクリングラインの五人による、一日半の人間模様を描く。当時のMGMスターを豪華に配役。悠然と構えながらも、グールディングの演出は映画的処理の手際が鮮やかで大変魅きつけられる。
財政難のフリードニア共和国は、富豪夫人の援助を受けるため、彼女の愛人を宰相に就任させる。それを機に、隣国がフリードニアの乗っ取りを企んでスパイを送り込むが……。マルクス4兄弟のハチャメチャ・ナンセンス・コメディ。
Harry Holt returns to Africa with his friend Martin Arlington to head up a large ivory expedition.
Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.
In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.
A World War I veteran’s dreams of becoming a master architect evaporate in the cold light of economic realities. Things get even worse when he’s falsely convicted of a crime and sent to work on a chain gang.
中年の真面目な高校教師が、キャバレーのダンサーに惚れ込み、ドサ回りの道化役者となって……。ほろ苦い人間像を描き、マレーネ・ディートリッヒ、エミール・ヤニングスを代表する映画史に残る1作。
An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when an archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the archaeologists accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.
Things get tough for Carol and her showgirl pals, Trixie and Polly, when the Great Depression kicks in and all the Broadway shows close down. Wealthy songwriter Brad saves the day by funding a new Depression-themed musical for the girls to star in, but when his stuffy high-society brother finds out and threatens to disown Brad, Carol and her gold-digging friends scheme to keep the show going, hooking a couple of millionaires along the way.
An obsessed scientist conducts profane experiments in evolution, eventually establishing himself as the self-styled demigod to a race of mutated, half-human abominations.
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.