Bobby Burns

In this Columbia All-Star Comedy short (production number 8438), Joe DeRita is a bachelor inventor who reads a marriage proposal written on an egg by a lonely widow with one child. He accepts, and soon finds out the boy is the "bad" part of the egg in the title, as he soon destroys whatever it was that Joe had invented.

An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the validity of her claims.

19세기 스코틀랜드의 어느 마을, 유명한 교수이자 의사인 맥팔레인 박사의 조수로 일하게 된 의학생 페티스는 해부학에 쓰일 시체를 가져다주는 그레이(보리스 칼로프)라는 괴상한 마부를 알게 된다. 무슨 영문인지 맥팔레인 박사는 그레이에게 뭔가 약점이 잡힌 듯한 모습이고 정체 모를 그레이는 맥팔레인 박사의 인생에서 악마같은 존재로 어슬렁거리고 있다. 또한 그가 가져오는 시체들도 정부에서 받아오는 노숙자의 시체가 아니라 무덤을 도굴하여 가져온다는 사실을 알게 된다. 불길한 예감에 페티스는 박사의 곁을 떠나려고 하나 인간의 도덕적 양심과 의학의 발달이 가져다주는 기여 사이에서 혼동을 느끼며 결국 맥팔레인 박사와 그레이 사이에서 머물게 된다. 그들의 행동을 감시하듯 지켜보는 늙은 하인 조셉(벨라 루고시), 그리고 젊고 착한 청년 페티스의 장래를 걱정하는 박사의 부인, 거기에 박사에게 꼭 수술을 받아서 하반신 마비가 된 딸을 걷게 만들려는 마시 부인 등 주변인물들과의 복잡한 관계가 얽히게 되면서 상황은 뭔가 불길한 결말을 향해서 달리게 되고 결국 무시무시한 비극이 일어나게 되는데...

브루클린의 가난한 아일랜드 이민자 가정. 책을 좋아하는 당찬 13살 소녀 프랜시는 아버지 조니를 무척 따른다. 엄마 케이티는 악착같이 살림을 꾸리려 하지만, 조니는 안정된 일자리보다 꿈을 그린다. 그러던 중 케이티는 셋째를 임신하고, 조니에게 프랜시가 학교를 그만두게 해야겠다고 한다. 딸이 얼마나 학교를 좋아하는지 아는 조니는 눈보라 속에 일자리를 구하러 간다. 베티 스미스의 동명 소설을 각색한 카잔의 데뷔작으로, 가난한 이민자 가정의 소녀 프랜시의 성장을 그렸다. (2017년 영화의 전당 - 엘리아 카잔 특별전)

Good samaritan Shemp rescues a girl from an accident, and a newspaper photographer snaps a picture of her thanking Shemp. The paper mixes up the caption, implying that Shemp and the girl are lovers. This doesn't sit well with Shemp's fiancee, who breaks off their engagement, leaving him so heartbroken he asks the rescued girl's gangster boyfriend (Dick Curtis) to kill him. When Shemp's intended returns and apologizes, he realizes that his days are numbered unless he can find the gangster and call off the hit.

독일 점령기 프랑스. 소심하고 겁 많은 중년의 초등학교 교사 앨버트 로리는 동료인 루이스 마틴을 남몰래 사랑한다. 루이스는 나치 정권의 열렬한 지지자인 철도 기술자 조지 램버트와 약혼한 사이다. 로리는 겁이 많아 보이지만, 사실 레지스탕스의 일원이다. 어느 날 테러가 발생하고, 독일 당국은 로리를 포함한 일군의 인질들을 잡아들여, 진범을 잡지 못하면 이들을 총살하려 한다. 아들에 대한 맹렬하고 이기적인 집착으로 루이스를 매우 질투하는 로리 부인은 루이스의 남동생 폴을 의심하고, 램버트에게 고발한다. 이로 인해 폴은 살해당하고, 램버트는 자살을 선택한다. 결국 이 모든 죽음의 혐의는 앨버트에게 돌아가고, 독일 경찰은 그에게 거부할 수 없는 제안을 한다.

A Tennessee boy (Bob Burns) returns from the big city, runs for mayor and puts his musical kin on the radio.

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

Comedy. Although he lacks a law degree Harry persistently pesters District Attorney O.T. Hill for a job

Curly wins $50,000 in a radio contest and the stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically wreck, running up quite a bill. When they discover that, minus tax deductions, the jackpot is only $4.85 they quickly agree to marry three pretty rich widows who are also living in the hotel. The "widows" are actually gold diggers conniving to the get the jackpot money. When the girls find out what the jackpot is really worth, the boys get conked with champagne bottles.

Larry is engaged to Lisbeth Blair but he becomes attentive to Gail, a singer, and is injured in an accident in her apartment. He is slowly going blind and decides that he shouldn't marry Lisbeth. A surgeon restores his sight and he and Lisbeth reconcile to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home" sung by the Hall Johnson Choir.

The stooges get a job selling "Brighto", what they think is cleaning fluid. After ruining a cop's uniform and a new car, they discover Brighto is actually medicine. Taking their sales pitch to a hospital, they get into more trouble and must leave on the run when the head of hospital turns out to be the owner of the car they ruined.

Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.

A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.

Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.

The stooges are small time actors traveling by train to an engagement. Along with their pet monkey, they manage to spoil the trip for quite a few of the other passengers including the conductor and a big movie star. Eventually their antics get out of hand and they are literally tossed off the train.

When Patsy criticises Thelma's poetry, she ups and leaves for a better standard of living.

His wife's obsession with playing bridge is starting to drive Leon crazy.

Thelma and Patsy get jobs at a radio station.

A loose biopic based on the life of Gilded Age tycoon "Diamond" Jim Brady.

The stooges are down and out. With a cop chasing them, they flee into an artists studio where they are mistaken for students. The cop continues to hunt for them and they use a variety of disguises and tactics to elude him. A wild clay throwing fight ends the film.

A wealthy blonde gal in Las Vegas gets mixed up with a lady gangster and the G-man that is chasing the gangster.

The Blondes and Redheads series: To prove his sophistication, a brutish gangster enlists the girls' help in winning a dancing competition

In this drama an older actress plays her last role. The aging thespian is terribly depressed and ready to kill herself when she finds out that an older more successful friend has vanished. The missing actress's family is in a real quandry. To help them, the other impersonates the older actress. Loose ends are knitted together and then she admits her ruse.

Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie's health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the boys proceed to quench their thirst thinking that it is iron-rich mountain water. The real trouble doesn't begin, though, until a married motoring couple stop by to borrow some gasoline, and the already-cranky husband leaves his thirsty wife with the boys while he goes off to refill his car's empty gas-tank. A sequel was made to this film: TIT FOR TAT, q.v.

The day starts out fine for Leon, but as it goes on, things start to deteriorate.

A reporter sets out to prove that his girlfriend was framed and sent to prison.

Charley's boss "rehearses" for his honeymoon--with Charley.

Juror Zasu accidentally swallows a piece of evidence which just happens to be a time bomb.

Button Gwinett Brown is a freshman congressman on a mission to rid Washington of corruption. He quickly runs afoul of the powerful Senator Norton...

Mary Smith is picked up by the police and is about to be sentenced, in night court, to jail for prostitution. But a stranger, Jimmie Martin, stands up and tells the judge that Mary was waiting for him and they were going to be married.

When Thelma is stopped by a cop for speeding, she tries to get out of it by telling him that she and Zasu are on their way to the hospital.

The girls and their pet monkey create havoc on board a train carrying a traveling Broadway troupe.

Thirteen years after a dinner party in which the thirteenth guest failed to arrive, the remaining guests are being murdered one by one, and their bodies being placed at the same dinner table in the appropriate seats they occupied thirteen years prior.

Thelma and Zazu are on a leisurely excursion in a borrowed car. Thelma lets Zazu drive. When she brakes to avoid a bull pulled along by three rustics, her foot gets stuck and the car crashes through a barn. The barn's owner won't let them leave without paying damages. The gals hoof it, walking in a large circle to arrive back at the farmer's house after dark. While outside his door, they hear a radio broadcast to beware a lion escaped from a wintering circus. Can Thelma and Zasu reclaim the car while avoiding the angry farmer, his prize bull, and the renegade lion?

Thelma and Zasu go to a Turkish bath to try to get rid of a cold.

Stan and Ollie check into a seedy hotel and help a young girl escape the clutches of the landlord. They are forced to flee the hotel with no money and Ollie arranges for Stan to fight at a local boxing hall for $50. Stan's opponent turns out to be Musgy who uses a loaded glove. During the fight the glove is swapped and Stan triumphs only to find that Ollie has bet their fee that he would lose.

Ollie's house is a mess after a wild party from the previous night. Ollie receives a telegram from his wife (who is on vacation in Chicago), which tells him that she is returning home in the afternoon. Fearing his wife's wrath he calls Stan over to help him clean up. Things go downhill and they make more mess not less.

The boys think their days of fishing to feed themselves have come to an end, when Stan's rich uncle Ebenezer dies leaving a large estate. But they soon learn that Ebenezer was murdered and all the relatives, including Stan, are suspects.

Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.

While the other kids and animals find things to do on the farm, Farina becomes single-minded in his quest to do nothing at all.

In-laws make life unbearable for Monty (Review from Selectd Motion Pictures journal)

The guests at a dinner party in a mansion are spooked when a creepy "spirtualist" decides to stay for dinner.

Big Boy's grandfather is ordered by the authorities to provide a home for Big Boy, so he sends his butler to get him.

Way Out West silent comedy

Hallucinations abound after eating Deviled Crabs with Pokes & Jabs.

The small town vaudeville manager, before the afternoon performance, discovers his property man has quit without notice, so is compelled to hire one of the hangers-on, Slippery Pokes

The small town vaudeville manager, before the afternoon performance, discovers his property man has quit without notice, so is compelled to hire one of the hangers-on, Slippery Pokes

Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.

Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance.

A comedy involving tiger skins.

A comedy involving tiger skins.

Mrs. Hanson reminds hubby that it is her birthday as he is about to leave for his office. On the way he stops in a jewelry store, and purchases for her a silver mesh bag, which he sends home by a messenger. When Mrs. Hanson receives the bag she cannot resist the temptation to show it to her next-door neighbor, Mrs. Jones, who at once becomes jealous.

Instead of paying his landlady, a man invites a seamstress out for dinner. To tease him her colleagues appear uninvited at the restaurant. When the bill comes it is huge and costs the man all of his money, his watch and other belongings, while the seamstress doesn't even want him to walk her home. He goes home penniless and his landlady does not let him in: he has to sleep outside.

A comedy about Willem, who goes out hunting; his friends decide to scare a him with a bear suit.