Love Is News (1937)
love IS news... when it's romantic TYRONE... lovely LORETTA... and dashing DON stepping out together on a streamlined, screamlined, springtime love-lark!
ジャンル : コメディ, ロマンス
上映時間 : 1時間 17分
演出 : Tay Garnett
脚本 : Harry Tugend, Jack Yellen
シノプシス
When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly he's front page news, every salesman is at his doorstep, and he loses his job. A series of misadventures ensues with him alternately back on his job and fired and her ex-fiancé showing up.
内気で不器用な高校生テッドが憧れのメリーとデートする幸運をつかむが、ズボンのファスナーがひっかかるトラブルがもとでデートは中止、メリーとの仲もそれきりになってしまう。13年後、テッドはまだメリーのことを忘れられず--やや妄執的--、怪しげな探偵パット・ヒーリーを雇って、マイアミに住むメリーを調査してもらう。ところがパットもメリーに夢中になってしまい、テッドとパットのあいだで騙しあい化かし合いのメリー争奪戦になる。やがて2人はメリーに首ったけなのが自分たちだけではないのを知り、結局、5人の男たちがメリーに自分を選ぶよう迫ることになる。
TV writer Elliott Nash buries a blackmailer under the new gazebo in his suburban backyard. But the nervous man can't let the body rest there.
男性的タッチで知られるホークスがコメディにもその才能を発揮した名作。ベビーという豹をめぐり、次から次へと災難に巻き込まれる動物学者と困った令嬢の姿を軽妙なタッチで描く。
コラムニスト、アイクはある男の話をもとに1本の記事を書き上げる。それは何度も婚約を繰り返しては、挙式の最中に花婿を置き去りにして逃げ出すマギーという女の話。彼女を”男を食い物にする女”と切り捨てたその痛烈な記事は大反響を呼んだ。ところが、当のマギーが新聞社に抗議の手紙を送りつけたために、アイクのコラムは打ち切られてしまう。ジャーナリストの意地を賭けたアイクは彼女の住む町に乗り込み、折しも4度目の結婚式を控えるマギーの取材を開始するが…。
レジーナは友人とのスキー旅行の途中で離婚を決意するが、帰宅すると夫は死んでいた。さらに、夫が戦時中に3人の男と軍資金を横領したあげく、仲間をだましていた事実が発覚する。3人から脅迫を受けるはめになったレジーナは、旅行で知り合ったピーターに助けを求めるが……。
A hardcore US racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant scholar whose questioning of the tenets of his faith has left him angry and confused, turning against those who he thinks have a tragic history of their own making.
In this horror parody, a masked serial killer menaces the town of Bulimia Falls with various sharp objects. Attention-seeking television personality Hagitha Utslay is soon on the scene, reporting on the ever-growing body count. Former mall security guard Doughy shows up to protect the teenage population, but he's clearly not much help, allowing the murderer to pick off even more hapless kids as numerous scary movies are referenced.
ハリウッドでウッズボロー連続殺人事件のその後を描く映画「スタブ3」の撮影が行われていた。しかし、ある日、同作に出演する女優が何者かに惨殺される事件が発生。それを皮切りに次々と撮影現場で殺人事件が起こる。
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
A wisecracking New York reporter intrudes on a research scientist's quest to unmask The Moon Killer.
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
After a quarrel with her boyfriend on New Year's Eve, Mane drives her car from Mexico City to Cuernavaca to meet her parents in their country house. The car breaks down in the highway and Mane has to ask for help. Mechanic Cruci arrives and, after testing the car, offers Mane a ride on his motorcycle. Back in Mane's house, she invites him some drinks to celebrate New Year's Eve. They get drunk and, the morning after, Mane's parents arrive and find them sleeping together. Not knowing what happened, Mane and Cruci are forced to get married against their will.
When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
A framed reporter and the crooks on his trail scramble to locate a book containing the names of American war profiteers and traitors who collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Screwball black comedy about a wacky family that forgets where they've buried a corpse.
When a rival newspaper publisher complains to his captain about possible collusion between himself and reporter Torchy Blane on scooping her rivals in crime news reporting, Det. Lt. Steve McBride determines to thwart her efforts to get inside information - and she determines to go on getting it, by whatever means necessary.
A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
