William Irving

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

In order to avoid an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love, Sarah Millick runs off to Vienna with her music teacher, Carl Linden, whom she does love. They are married. In Vienna, they struggle to make a living by making music. Carl writes an operetta and tries to get it produced. They are helped along by Viennese Baron, but his intentions are not honorable. He kills Carl in a sword fight. A big producer does put on the operetta, with Sari in the lead -- but without her husband, it is a bittersweet victory.

세계대전에서 패배한 토매니아국에 힌켈이라는 독재자가 나타나 악명을 떨친다. 한편, 힌켈과 닮은꼴 외모의 이발사 찰리는 국가의 유태인 탄압정책으로 인해 곤경에 처하지만 병사로 참전했던 전쟁에서 우연히 구해줬던 슐츠 장교의 도움을 받아 위기를 모면한다. 독재자 힌켈의 악행은 갈수록 도를 더해가고, 찰리는 유태인 수용소에 끌려가게 되지만 기지를 부려 탈옥에 성공한다. 하지만 이발사와 똑같은 얼굴을 한 힌켈이 탈옥범으로 오해 받아 감옥에 잡혀 들어가게 되는데…

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. When the Nazis come to power, the family is divided and Martin Brietner, a family friend is caught up in the turmoil.

Dr. Herbert Lee, an archaeologist seeking to decipher ancient Mara inscriptions, is aided by his son Terry, Terry's pal Pat Ryan, and Normandie Drake. Jungle pirate and warlord Fang (Dick Curtis) plots to kill The Dragon Lady, Queen of the Temple of Mara, and seize the treasures of her ancestors. Both Fang and The Dragon Lady have sworn death for any foreign intruders.

소비에트는 5개년 계획 수행 중 심각한 기아난을 겪게 되어 러시아 제국의 보석을 팔기 위해 세 명의 요원을 프랑스 파리로 파견한다. 보석의 원래 소유주 스바나 대공비는 보석을 되찾기 위해 애인인 레옹 백작을 요원들에게 보낸다. 레옹은 요원들이 보석을 팔지 못하도록 하면서 그들에게 자본주의의 온갖 쾌락을 제공한다. 모스크바에서는 냉정하고 완고한 열성당원 니노치카를 보내 보석을 회수하게 한다. 레옹은 니노치카를 유혹하여 이를 막으려 하지만 온갖 노력에도 불구하고 니노치카는 꿈쩍도 하지 않는데...

Joel & Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.

Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal of a string of murders.

Jenny Swanson, a waitress on a college campus, is dying to visit Paris. Thanks to English professor Ronald Brooke, she manages to make her dream come true. Besides seeing the sights in the French capital she makes friends with a wealthy family there, the Brands.

A group of disparate travelers are thrown together in a posh Alpine hotel when the borders are closed at the start of WWII.

Excitement runs high when a family's farm is chosen as the site for a big cornhusking contest.

A nightclub dancer and a detective try and catch the gangster who framed her brother.

A sleazy lawyer gains clients by showing up at terrible accidents. His boss, determined to stop him, hires a pretty girl to cozy up and coerce the truth out of the ambulance-chaser. Unfortunately, the boss doesn't count on the romance factor and sure enough, love blossoms between the girl and the shyster.

A newlywed unhappily discovers that her husband's scheming ex-wife still has a controlling influence in his life and home.

The Stooges are artists living in Paris. When the landlord comes after the overdue rent, the boys skip out and wind up joining the French Foreign Legion. Posted to the desert, their assignment is to guard captain Gorgonzola from the natives. When the captain is kidnapped, the boys must disguise themselves as harem girls to infiltrate the chieftains hideout and rescue him.

U. S. Customs Agent Tom Evans is given the assignment of running down a smuggling ring which hijacks Canadian fur-shipper's trucks and sells the loot in the United States.

Mary Gillespie is restoring the Col. Gillespie Circus to its former splendor after her father's death. With the help of her publicist boyfriend Jim, the sell-out crowds are returning to the big top. Egotistical equestrian star Senor Martinet, however, holds $60,000 of notes signed by the Colonel and due in 24 hours. When a mysterious shadowy figure is seen on the circus lot, and Martinet is murdered in the center ring during his performance, there are suspects aplenty, including Vindecco, Martinet's badly abused hunchback assistant.

A society girl is suspected of murdering an artist whose brother is a notorious racketeer. In her pursuit of an alibi, she inadvertently implicates a struggling advertisement photographer. Now they must keep up the appearance of being engaged as a bumbling detective snoops around, and their initial distaste for each other blossoms into romance.

The stooges are gypped into trading their restaurant for "Thunderbolt", a washed up race horse. When Curly feeds Thunderbolt some chili pepperinos, he runs like crazy towards the nearest water. The boys enter Thunderbolt in a big race. With jockey Larry feeding Thunderbolt the pepperinos, and Moe and Curly on a motorcycle leading him with a bucket of water, they win the race.

Madcap couple George and Marion Kerby are killed in an automobile accident. They return as ghosts to try and liven up the regimented lifestyle of their friend and bank president, Cosmo Topper. When Topper starts to live it up, it strains relations with his stuffy wife.

Charley tries to get out of an arranged marriage so he can marry another girl. What he doesn't realize is that they are one and same girl.

Set in colonial times, the stooges are convicted criminals who are banished from England to the American colonies. When they arrive, they find that the colonists are starving because the local Indians won't let them on their hunting grounds. The stooges go hunting any, and after a wild chase, are captured by the Indians. They escape and another wild chase ensues.

Aa Columbia 2-reel comedy starring Tom Kennedy and Monty Collins in NEW NEWS (1937). Fans of the 3 Stooges will recognize the exact same plot and situations from their short CRASH GOES THE HASH (1944). Yes, this version came out BEFORE the Stooges version...so anyone that says these guys are ripping the Stooges off, they are wrong! Columbia made 526 slapstick two-reelers between 1933-1958...190 starred the Stooges...336 others starred a variety of comedians.

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.

Two dimwitted detectives investigate the robbery of an express company.

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.

버몬트 주의 작은 마을에서 축하 카드에 시를 쓰는 일을 하는 롱펠로우 디즈(Longfellow Deeds: 게리 쿠퍼 분)가 얼굴 한 번 본 적 없는 삼촌에게서 막대한 유산 을 물려받고 하룻밤 사이에 벼락부자가 된다. 마을 사람들의 환송을 받으며 뉴욕으로 향하는 디즈, 작은 마을의 시인이자 마을 악단의 튜바 연주가였던 그는 이제 뉴욕에 있는 으리으리한 맨션에서 삼촌의 사업을 돌보게 됐다. 하지만 정작 그가 할 일은 변호사들에게 사업을 맡기고 얼굴 마담만 하면 되는 것. 한편, 냉소적인 신문사 편집장인 맥 웨이드(Editor Mac Wade: 죠지 밴그로프트 분)는 디즈의 순진하고 정직한 이미지에 의심을 품고 베이브 베넷(Babe Bennett: 진 아서 분)이라는 현실적인 여기자를 보내 디즈에 대해 몰래 취재하도록 한다. 한 달간의 유급 휴가를 걸고 디즈에게 접근하는 베이브. 디즈의 집 앞에서 기절한 척한 후 자신을 실업자라고 속여 디즈의 동정과 관심을 산다. 마음 여린 디즈는 아무 것도 모른 채 그녀를 극진히 돌봐주고 다음 날 아침 베이브가 일하는 신문의 1면에 '신데렐라 맨'이라는 제목 아래 디즈를 장난거리로 만든 기사가 실린다. 낯선 환경에, 이런 사건까지 생기자 디즈는 더더욱 베이브에게 의존하고 디즈와 베이브는 뉴욕의 구석구석을 돌아다니며 함께 시간을 보내며 점점 가까워진다. 그러다 디즈는 베이브에게 청혼을 하게 되고 양심의 가책을 느끼는 베이브는 디즈를 떠나려 한다. 그런 와중에 디즈는 베이브의 실체를 알게 되면서 실망한 그는 상속받은 돈을 가난한 이들에게 나눠주려고 한다. 하지만 디즈의 변호사들과 삼촌의 유산을 노리는 친척이 디즈의 유산을 가로채려고 서로 협심해 디즈를 정신병자로 취급하는 사건이 생긴다. 디즈의 정신 상태에 대한 재판이 있는 날. 사람들에게 실망한 디즈는 모든 권리 행사를 포기하고 침묵을 지키고 베이브는 디즈에게 정당하게 싸울 것을 호소하는데....

A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.

The stooges are inept deliverymen at a brewery. When they learn about a company golf tournament, they sneak onto a golf course to get some practice. They quickly proceed to bother the other golfers and destroy the course. Forced to escape in their beer truck, more havoc ensues when the load of beer barrels are spilled out down a steep hill.

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

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

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 playwright descended from the Borgias family becomes a murder suspect.

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.

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.

Three people live together in the maintenance shed at Central Park as an alternative to living on the streets.

A diver saves his best friend's life but loses his own arm in doing so. Later, unable to find work because of his missing arm, he is forced to go to work for a criminal searching for lost treasures. Meanwhile his friend, who has since become a policeman, finds himself assigned to break up the crook's operation and bring in his gang--including the man who saved his life.

Director William C. McGann's 1935 film stars Gloria Stuart and Ross Alexander as a young couple in love who face economic woes once they're wed.

Wife tries to do something about her husband's fondness for the bottle.

Moe discovers Curley's unknown boxing talent when he knocks out the Champ at a restaurant when Larry plays "Pop Goes the Weasal" on the violin. Moe becomes Curly's manager, and they win every fight, with the help of Larry. At the championship game, though, Larry's violin breaks. Curly is getting beat down bad when Larry makes his unexpected entrance and helps Curly prevail.

An arrogant boxer (Pat O'Brien) discovers his wife (Glenda Farrell) had a hand in his success.

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

It's love at first sight for singer John Craddock and Jane Blodgett who meet while John is seeking a radio job with the "Blodgett Dog Biscuit Hour," and John learns that the sponsor is Jane's father, Warren Blodgett, an avid souvenir and antiques collector. John gets himself in bad with Blodgett when he accidentally ruins a deal in which Blodgett was attempting to acquire a bedpost for his collection. To break up the romance, Blodgett and his wife take Jane to Switzerland, where Blodgett has his heart set on obtaining a jealously-guarded cowbell.

Based on Graham Greene's novel Stamboul Train, the movie focuses on the lives of individuals aboard the Orient Express as it makes a three-day journey from Ostend to Constantinople.

재산을 노리고 구혼을 한 비행사인 킹 웨슬리와 결혼하고자 하는 엘리를 아버지 알렉산더가 반대하고 요트에 가둬 두자 엘리는 헤엄을 쳐 해안으로 도망쳐나와 뉴욕으로 가는 그레이하운드 버스에 오른다. 그 버스에는 근무 중에 술을 마셔 해고당한 신문 기자 피터가 맨 뒷 좌석에 자리잡고 있는데, 엘리는 피터와 맨 뒤의 좌석에 나란히 앉게 된다. 여행 도중 엘리가 소지품이 든 가방을 잃어버렸음에도 신고하기를 거부하자 피터는 엘리의 신분에 대해 의심을 하게 된다. 그레이하운드로 계속되는 여행 다음날 둘은 잠시 쉰 휴게실에서 느긋하게 아침 식사를 하다가 엘리와 피터는 버스를 놓치게 되고, 피터는 엘리의 신분을 알게 된다. 엘리는 피터에게 뉴욕에 도착하도록 도와주면 자신에 대한 특종 기사를 쓰게 해 주겠다며 거래를 제안하지만 부잣집 딸이나 부를 탐내 결혼하려는 킹 웨슬리 같은 사람한테 전혀 관심이 없다면서 퉁명스럽게 이 제안을 거절한다.하지만 북쪽 으로 향하는 여행에서 몇 가지 우연찮은 사고가 일어나게 되고 피터와 엘리는 여러 곤경에 같이 빠지게 되는데...

Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.

Harry is down and out. A woman friend from a temperance union loans him a buck. He goes to a bar and orders a glass of milk to get a free sandwich. After he loses the greenback, the burly saloon keeper confiscates Harry's sandwich and tells him to sweep the floor to pay his tab. In the back room is a boxing ring where the owner stages fights. By happenstance, Harry ends up in the ring. Outside, the temperance union pickets the saloon. Between the beer and the boxing, can Harry stay on his feet and help his crusading friend?

Tired Feet (1933) is a Harry Langdon comedy short done for Educational Films.

세계 1차 대전의 상황에서 헨리는 작가의 꿈을 접고 의료병의로 자원하여 근무하게 된다. 어느날 영국에서 온 임시 간호원 캐서린을 만나게 되고, 헨리가 부상을 당해 병원에 입원해 있는동안 캐서린의 간호속에 두사람은 깊은 사랑에 빠지게 되고 꿈같은 시간을 함께 보내던 어느 날 캐서린은 자신의 임신 사실을 헨리에게 알린다. 하지만 당시 유부녀는 전방에 있을수 없다는 규율 때문에 결혼은 불가능 했다.전방으로 간 헨리 중위를 기다리고 있는것은 과로로 정신이 이상해진 리날디 소령이었다. 자신의 도움을 필요로하는 부상병을 버리고 후퇴했다는 자책감으로 헛소리를 하는 리날디 소령을 헌병들이 독일 첩자라 단정짓고 체포한다. 그를 변호하던 헨리 중위도 같이 체포되고 리날리 소령의 총살형 장면을 목격한 헨리는 군사 재판소에서 탈주를 한다. 간신히 캐서린은 헨리중위를 설득하여 스위스로 탈출을 감행한다. 무사히 스위스에 도착한 헨니와 케서린은 아이의 출산만을 기다리며 행복한 나날을 보낸다. 마침내 진통이 시작된 캐서린은 생각지도 못한 난산을 격게 되는데...

Director Lloyd Bacon's 1931 drama takes a different look at the Broadway arena by focusing on the owners of a theatrical costume shop.

A young man falls into the clutches of a nightclub singer who corrupts him.

Two gold diggers try a French dressmaker, two Mr. Smiths and Havana.

After El Lobo robs Don Jose he gives one of the stolen items to Conchita. Later when he saves Anita in a runaway coach, Don Pedro invites him to the wedding of Anita and his son Don Jose. But Conchita is at the wedding and recognizes him putting his life in danger.

A police dog helps to track down two payroll robbers.

A meek husband takes lessons on how to take control of his dominating wife.

1차 대전이 진행되고 있을 무렵, 폴과 알버트, 프란츠, 뮬러, 벤은 전쟁에 참전해 조국을 구하라는 한 교수의 연설에 감동을 받아 혹독한 훈련을 마친 후 전선으로 향한다. 하지만 전선에 배치되자마자 벤은 전사하고, 프란츠는 부상으로 다리를 절단하게 된다. 정신을 차린 후, 평생 불구로 살아야한다는 사실에 이성을 잃고 날뛰던 프란츠도 병원에서 사망한다. 한편, 뮬러는 프란츠가 아끼던 군화를 받게 되자 아주 기뻐하지만 그 역시 전사한다. 결국 폴은 전쟁터에서 전쟁의 참상에 대해 서서히 깨닫기 시작하는데...

Syd (Syd Saylor)is a punch-drunk, 10th-rate prizefighter who, since his manager can't book him any matches, turns to selling reducing machines for a living. He is trying sell one to a policeman's wife when her husband comes home and gets the wrong impression of what is going on.

A musical parody on prison reform in which a prison warden gives his cellblocks the look of a summer resort in order to stave off reformers.

Tom Dugan trying to go on a date behind his wife's back gets a surprise.

A Mexico/United States border patrol officer is aided by his police dog, Rinty.

In this romance set in Russia, a fisherman's daughter is jilted by her true love and instead marries a baron. Time passes and the two men meet each other in Siberia where they have both been exiled. When the poorer man has the opportunity to come home, he changes places with the baron so that he can return to his wife. Unbeknownst to him, she has gone to the frozen wasteland to search for him.

United States Marine Corps Captain "Happy" Smith and Gunnery Sergeant Wilmer lead a squadron of Marines in a search of a party of American tourists lost in a Central America banana republic jungle.

Walter has invented an automatic remote-control for his jalopy. When a potential buyer comes to look it over, Walter proudly shows how he cam the car stop and go, turn corners and steer correctly. His spiteful rival, Bill, switches the plug and the car runs out of control. Walter and his sweetheart, Mary, plan to elope but they discuss their plans in front of an open microphone at the broadcast station, and Mary's father hears it and sets out to stop their elopement.

사진사 버스터는 MGM 스튜디오에서 일하는 아가씨 샐리에게 반한다. 오로지 샐리와 가까워지기 위해 버스터는 사진 일을 그만두고, 영화 촬영감독이 되려 한다. 버스터는 수중에 있던 돈을 모두 털어 영화 촬영용 카메라를 사지만, 조작법조차 제대로 알지 못한다. 한편, 샐리에게 마음이 있던 MGM의 촬영감독은 버스터의 꿈과 포부를 비웃는다. 찰리 채플린과 함께 무성영화시대를 대표하는 코미디의 대가 버스터 키튼의 작품. 키튼은 특유의 절대 변하지 않는 무표정한 얼굴(스톤 페이스)로 곡예에 가까운 육체적 연기를 선보이며 웃음을 선사한다. (2017 영화의 전당 - [시네마테크] 마지막 침묵: 1928년의 기적, 위대한 무성영화의 기억)

A free-spirited young girl has three middle-aged admirers, each of whom sees her from a completely different perspective. Unknown to her, they also happen to be the guardians of a wealthy young man to whom she is attracted.

Tammany Burke, young owner of a giant roller coaster, is fighting heavy odds against a syndicate led by financial baron Hughey Cooper. Assisted by his sweetheart, Joan, and her father, Jingles Wellman, formerly a clown, Burke prepares for a sabotage of his machine by syndicate hirelings. In the midst of a great battle the riot squad arrives to arrest the troublemakers, and Burke and his sweetheart are left in happy possession of their roller coaster.

To win his girl Gertie back, Freddie decides to climb a high mountain and challenge a world champion.

Fifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.

Billy Dooley buys a book on jiu-jitsu to court a fashion model.

Dr. Burton's divorce is about to be effective when his flappery ex-wife Irene pays him a visit turning everything upside down. To avoid explanations to his bride-to-be and her mother they all take the train, including Irene and her lawyer, who will try to prevent him from committing bigamy, as the divorce won't be effective until midnight.

Comedy starring Jack Duffy and Anne Cornwall, featured in James Roots' 100 Essential Film Comedies

Wimpy sailor boy Billy Epsom has just arrived from New Guinea with a guinea pig in a box for his sweetheart. But today's newspaper headline reads, "Guinea Pig With Deadly Germs Roaming Our Streets". Billy causes havoc at the Yellow Cab stand when a cabbie catches sight of his cute little "piggy". Billy sets out to see his girl at her father's mansion. On the streetcar, he takes the guinea pig out of its box. Soon passengers and driver are diving off, and the runaway car is gaining on a dynamite truck!

At a magic show put on by Blondini the magician, a member of the audience is invited up to participate. He gets into all sorts of shenanigans, tripping over the stage curtain, sending ducks up through the wrong trapdoors. He can hardly believe his eyes when a girl is sawn in half!

Jimmie, Lavoris and Turpentine, three Knights of the Road (Bums/tramps), have just arrived in the West where Two-Gun Joe, the local bad man, surprises them while they eat. The sheriff runs him off but, in his haste to escape, Two-Gun drops a monogrammed pipe. Jimmie picks it up. Molly, on a nearby ranch, is having troubles with her foreman who, when he sees the pipe, thinks Jimmie is the outlaw and gets real peaceful. Impressed, Molly offer Jimmie the ranch-foreman's job. But they haven't seen the last of Two-Gun Joe.

Comedy Short

A devilish courtship.

The comedy occurs on shipboard where Jimmie is the object of attention for a pair of pickpockets who plan to use him to smuggle their ill-gotten off the ship. Arrested at customs, he manages to escape but gets caught again as he tries to rejoin his girl whose father is trying to remove her from his influence.

Baby Peggy is joined by her star-making partner, Brownie the Wonder Dog and is in a circus as a junior clown.

Whoever can make the sale of an order for noodles exactly five feet long to the customer in the black beard and white carnation gets to marry the boss' beautiful daughter, Madge Kirby

Princess Triloff, an emigrée from Czarist Russia, escapes to America where she becomes a patron of the arts. She falls in love with the verses of impoverished poet Owen Carey and becomes his anonymous benefactor. When Owen inherits a fortune from his rich Uncle Krakerfeller, he assumes his uncle's identity and confers his own upon an impoverished friend, Frank Manners. At a resort, Owen meets the princess and falls in love with her, but is chagrined to discover that she is enamored with Manners. The princess finally discovers Owen's real identity and the two fall in love.

A poverty-stricken Cockney girl rises through incredible adventures to become the wife of a nobleman.

Yvonne von Krutz, a Belgian, lives with her German husband Karl, whom she was forced to marry, and her spirited little brother Jacques in a farmhouse on the Belgian countryside. With the German invasion of Belgium, Karl joins the German forces, and Jacques is taken to a reformatory to be trained as a munitions worker. When Karl is taken prisoner, Capt. Jefferson Strong, an American engineer, assumes the German's identity and discovers an underground supply of explosives near the von Krutz farm. By means of a tunnel, the Americans plan to mine the explosives. To save Jacques and a group of children from the munitions factory, however, Jefferson sends them across the American lines through the tunnel, but they lose their way, and he is forced to disable the mine. Jefferson is court-martialed, but King Albert of Belgium, who has befriended little Jacques, intercedes on his behalf. Learning that Karl has been killed, Jefferson pursues his budding romance with Yvonne.

Bobby Vernon is fooled into a mock bigamist gag and chaos assures.