René Hubert

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

Budapeste, novembro de 1956. Uma revolta força a União Soviética a uma intervenção militar. Diana Ashmore (Deborah Kerr), uma inglesa divorciada, tenta tirar do país Paul Kedes (Jason Robards), um húngaro com quem está envolvido. Ele está com um passaporte in

Com a revolução russa em 1917, o Czar Nicolau II e sua família foram capturados e executados, mas segundo rumores, sua filha mais nova Anastácia havia sobrevivido e vivia na Europa. Anos depois, um ex-general russo, que vive de um empreendimento fraudulento envolvendo a herança real, precisa provar aos seus investidores a existência da princesa, e se utiliza de uma mulher perturbada e sem identidade para assumir o papel de Anastácia.

In Marseilles, France in 1794, Desiree Clary, a young millinery clerk, becomes infatuated with Napoleon Bonaparte, but winds up wedding Genaral Jean-Baptiste Berandotte, an aid to Napoleon who later joins the forces that bring about the Emperor's downfall. Josephine Beauharnais, a worldly courtesan marries Napoleon and becomes Empress of France, but is then cast aside by her spouse when she proves unable to produce an heir to the throne.

Tom Jeffords tenta fazer a paz entre os colonos e os Apaches. Em 1870, houve 10 anos de guerra cruel entre colonos e Apaches de Cochise. O ex-soldado Tom Jeffords salva a vida de um menino Apache e começa a se perguntar se os índios de fato não são humanos. Então ele resolve usar esta oportunidade de tornar-se um embaixador. Contra todas as probabilidades, a sua missão solitária na fortaleza de Cochise abre um diálogo. Oportunamente, o presidente envia o General Howard com ordens para concluir a paz. Mas, mesmo com a sorte de Jeffords, a queixa profunda e o ódio em ambos os lados fazem um trágico fracasso ser muito provável.

The story of a crude gangster hopelessly falling for a sweet young city government employee.

A cowboy is hired by a stagecoach boss to stop the railroad reaching his territory and putting him out of business. He uses everything from Indians to dancehall girls to try to thwart the plan. But the railroad workers, led by a female sharpshooter and an ambitious salesman, prove tough customers.

Period musical about a song plugger who vows to turn an opera composer's music into popular hits.

Saloon-bar singer Freddie gets very angry whenever boyfriend Blackie seems to be playing around. She always packs a six-shooter, so this is bad news for anything that happens to be in the way. As this is usually the local judge's rear-end, Freddie and friend Conchita are soon hiding out teaching school in the middle of nowhere.

Lord Windermere appears to all - including his young wife Margaret - to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.

Bonny Kane and 'Skid' Johnson are vaudeville performers in the 1920s. The two of them suffer marital difficulties when Skid gets an offer to appear on Broadway while Bonny gets left behind on the road. Things get worse with Skid's increasing drinking problem and the fact that the press has reported him to be spending a lot of time with his pretty co-star.

Circa 1861, Angelina, ruling countess of an Italian principality, is at a loss when invaded by a Hungarian army. Her lookalike ancestress Francesca, who saved a similar situation 300 years before, comes to life from a portrait to help her descendant. Complicating factor: the newlywed countess feels strangely drawn to the handsome invader...

The Arizona wilderness, 1880. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell sends a message telling Capt. Walsh, who is escorting a wagon-train through Apache territory, heading for the fort at Furnace Creek, that he should cancel the escort and rush to another town. Apache leader "Little Dog" is leading the attack on the wagon-train and massacring everyone at the poorly manned fort. As a result the treaty is broken with the Indians and the white settlers take over the territory with the help of the cavalry, as the Apaches are wiped out and only "Little Dog" remains at large. Gen. Fletcher Blackwell is court-martial-led for treason.

Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

When a music-hall dancer is murdered, a moss rose marks the page of a Bible next to her body. Luckily, another chorus girl saw a gentleman leaving the lodgings. She approaches him directly, saying she'll go to the police if he doesn't meet her demands, but he brushes her off contemptuously. When he learns she's dead serious, he tries to buy her off with a thick wad of pound notes. But it's not money she's after; all she wants is two weeks at his country estate, living the life of a `lady.'

Two pairs of lovers try to thwart an arranged marriage at Costa Rican fiesta time.

George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.

Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.

Aided by her eccentric friends, a young woman goes looking for her missing brother.

Em 1882, Wyatt Earp e seus irmãos decidem se estabelecer em Tombstone depois que seu gado é roubado e seu irmão mais novo James é morto. Wyatt é um ex-delegado e aceita de bom grado ser delegado em Tombstone, juntamente com seus irmãos como ajudantes. Ele logo se torna amigo do segurança do saloon local, Doc Holliday e ele faz justiça calma e friamente. Wyatt tem vários desentendimentos com Ike Clanton e seus quatro filhos. Então ele é forçado a matar Billy Clanton, o que leva ao famoso tiroteio no OK Corral.

In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters vie for the affections of a Frenchman who's come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.

For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

Dez estranhos são convocados para uma ilha remota e, enquanto esperam o misterioso anfitrião aparecer, uma gravação registra acusações sérias sobre cada um dos convidados. Logo eles começam a ser assassinados, um por um. Enquanto os sobreviventes tentam manter o juízo, eles chegam a uma conclusão perturbadora: um deles deve ser o assassino.

Durante sua visita anual à Feira Estadual de Iowa, a família Frake desfruta de muitas aventuras. O patriarca orgulhoso Abel (Charles Winninger) tem grandes esperanças para seu campeão de suínos Blueboy, e sua esposa Melissa (Fay Bainter) entra no concurso de picadinho e picles... com resultados hilários. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)

A Barbary Coast saloon owner hopes to marry his way into San Francisco's high society. Directed by Henry Hathaway, the film was released in 1945.

Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad's chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes between Dad and his girlfriend Claire. So glamorous dancer Bonnie is enlisted to distract Junior. Which does Bonnie want more, the fur coat or true love? Plot is a framework for numerous Ziegfeld style stage productions.

Catherine the Great falls in love with an army officer who is plotting against her.

When composer George Harvey Bone wakes with no memory of the previous night and a bloody knife in his pocket, he worries that he has committed a crime. On the advice of Dr. Middleton, Bone agrees to relax, going to a music performance by singer Netta Longdon. Riveted by Netta, Bone agrees to write songs for her rather than his own concerto. However, Bone soon grows jealous of Netta and worries about controlling himself during his spells.

Leslie Calvin, the sole survivor of a submarine accident, goes to her relatives in order to recover emotionally. Unfortunately, she encounters various scam artists led by Mr. Sydney who intend to kill her and steal the family assets. Dr. George Grover helps Leslie to defeat Sydney.

Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to the Presidency of the United States. During his terms in office, Wilson must deal with the death of his first wife, the onslaught of German hostilities leading to American involvement in the Great War, and his own country's reticence to join the League of Nations.

Glamorous Lorry Jones, the toast of a Missouri military canteen, has become "engaged" to almost every serviceman she's signed her pin-up photo for. Now she's leaving home to go into government service (not, as she fantasizes, to join the USO). On a side trip to New York, her vivid imagination leads her to True Love with naval hero Tommy Dooley; but increasingly involved Musical Comedy Complications follow.

Em 1877 um homem cavalgava pelo oeste e, da noite para o dia, tornou-se célebre. Não descobriu um continente, nem venceu uma guerra. Não foi um grande general, estadista ou cientista, ainda assim após várias décadas as lendas sobre ele continuam tão vivas quanto em sua época. Seu nome era William Frederick Cody, mas para os jovens e velhos, ricos e pobres, reis e plebeus, era conhecido como Buffalo Bill. Ele começou a construir sua fama quando era batedor, por ter uma pontaria infalível e, ao defender uma diligência que fora atacada por índios bêbados, ter salvo Louisa Frederici , a filha de um senador. Cody não queria matar e ansiava pelo estabelecimento de uma co-existência pacífica entre os brancos e os índios. No entanto esta era uma tarefa difícil, pois um ambicioso empresário, Vandevere, só queria ter cada vez mais lucro, não se importando em tirar os índios das suas terras ou promover a matança indiscriminada de búfalos.

A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his new girlfriend is part of a phony clairvoyant act.

Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial no Atlântico, um navio e um barco alemão se envolvem em um combate e ambos naufragam, mas existem alguns sobreviventes que vão para um dos botes. No entanto, eles têm diferentes origens e propósitos, mas surge o pomo da discórdia quando um dos sobreviventes se revela um nazista.

In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.

After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

Bernadette é uma jovem camponesa que vive na França. Quando ela conta aos vizinhos que viu uma bela senhora no caminho para casa, todos assumem que se trata da Virgem Maria. Bernadette é considerada louca por uns, e santa por outros.

Child bride Claudia Naughton has made life difficult for her husband David because she can't stand living so far away from her mother. She's also afraid her husband doesn't find her desirable enough. To remedy both situations, she sells their farm to an opera singer so they'll have to move back to the city near her mother, and she tries to make her husband jealous by flirting with a neighbor. Eventually, Claudia has to learn to grow when she discovers that she's about to become a mother and that her own mother is gravely ill.

An American singer becomes engaged to an English duke, but is continuously pestered over her past as a burlesque dancer by a reporter from her hometown.

Nora and her uncle get railroaded into spending the night at a broken-down hotel in Canada. After Nora falls for the handsome owner, she convinces her uncle to invest in the inn and modernize it. After the hotel opens, Nora's uncle faces financial ruin and her romance hit a snag in the form of pretty reporter.

An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet and gets married, but then there are complications.

Henry Van Cleve apresenta-se às portas do inferno mas descobre que está sendo rigorosamente criticado em suas qualificações para a entrada. Surpreso por existir qualquer dúvida sobre sua idoneidade, ele relata sua vida animada e as mulheres que ele conheceu, começando por sua mãe, mas, principalmente, concentrando-se em seus felizes, mas por vezes difíceis, 25 anos de casamento com Martha.

The story of the life and career of the baseball hall of famer, Lou Gehrig.

A famous actress has to win over her ready-made family when she weds a shipping magnate.

Lydia MacMillan, a wealthy woman who has never married, invites several men her own age to her home to reminisce about the times when they were young and courted her. In memory, each romance seemed splendid and destined for happiness, but in each case, Lydia realizes, the truth was less romantic, and ill-starred.

The romantic story of Franz Schubert 's fight for recognition of his music. The 1941 Reinhold Schunzel biographical musical composer melodrama.

In old New Orleans, a beautiful adventuress juggles the attentions of a rich banker and a dashing sea captain.

The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she suggests they marry, but almost at once finds she has inherited eighteen million pounds. He makes it clear he wants nothing to do with the money and what it can buy, and Jane sets off alone on a spree pursued by two ardent suitors. Jarvis finds he has gained notoriety for turning down such a catch and his plans for ernest research are soon compromised.

Um tímido oficial do exército britânico renuncia à seu posto na véspera de seu destacamento ser enviado contra rebeldes egípcios. Chamando-o de covarde, sua namorada e três amigos oficiais lhe dão 4 penas brancas como símbolo de seu ato. Então o oficial britânico procura resgatar sua honra, ajudando secretamente seus antigos camaradas. Quando sua unidade é vencida e capturada pelos rebeldes, nosso herói, disfarçado de árabe, encontra uma oportunidade de tentar libertar cada um deles e assim poder devolver as 'penas' da covardia recebidas de seus antigos camaradas.

A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

The morning after a London barrister lets a mystery woman stay in his suite, a friend files for divorce.

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from despair.

In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

Durante o reino da Rainha Elizabeth I, na Inglaterra, as tensões militares com a Espanha são evidentes. Em meio a um ambiente de amor e guerra, um espião é enviado à Península Ibérica para investigar possíveis suspeitos e futuros ataques ao seu país.

Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.

Baseado na obra de H.G. Wells, narra cem anos de história da humanidade, de 1930 até o século XXI. Esse período é atravessado por guerras que duram décadas, uma peste que aniquila metade da população e a reconstrução da civilização em busca do espaço sideral.

An American businessman's family convinces him to buy a Scottish castle and disassemble it to ship it to America brick by brick, where it will be put it back together. The castle though is not the only part of the deal, with it goes the several-hundred year old ghost who haunts it.

The Daring Young Man is hotshot-reporter Don McLane, played by James Dunn. Always on the prowl for a good story, McLane is persistently outscooped by his rival, sob sister Martha Allen (Mae Clarke). After several reels of double-crossing one another, hero and heroine give in to the inevitable and fall in love. But as Martha waits at the altar in her wedding gown, McLane is off on another crusade, this time getting himself arrested to expose corruption within the prison system.

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by also going on stage.

Socialite, privileged, Jane Dale and lawyer Bill Shevlin meet in an automobile accident at night, on a dirt road, in a storm, near a hick town which fleeces travelers through corrupt law enforcement.

A crew of young military-school cadets are enjoying their first weekend in Paris. Frank Harrington, a girl-shy cadet, wins the lottery which "They" have organized, an Frank wins the right to woo the star of the Folies Bergere, Gaby Aimee, with her garter serving as proof of conquest. Meanwhile Frank has found the one girl-of-his-heart, Patty, and this serves to complicate matters.

A songwriter's young daughter (June Lang) begins to dream of stardom when she's offered the lead role in a new operetta.

On the French coast, unlucky Marie Galante is abducted and forced to board an American cargo ship bound for the Panama Canal. When an escape attempt leaves Marie high and dry in the Yucatan, she takes work as a nightclub singer to earn her safe passage to the Canal region. But Marie faces bigger problems when she gets mixed up in a destructive plot against the U.S. Naval fleet, and so she accepts the kindly assistance of secret agent Dr. Crawbett.

Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?

Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia.

Um romance leve e cômico sobre um motorista de táxi chamado Jean e uma florista chamada Anna que acontece em Paris durante a celebração do dia da Bastilha em 14 de julho.

Gifted German wrestler Polokai falls in love with ex-con Laura, who persuades him to emigrate to America and gets him involved with crooked promoters.

Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.

Jacques Dombreval gets a new job at a lawyers office in Paris and end up in a romantic entanglement.

Sátira sobre dois ex-presidiários, um dos quais consegue progredir de vendedor a dono de uma fábrica, onde percebe que os operários são reduzidos a autômatos.

The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country's queen.

A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter's womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé's lover.

An aspiring classical singer is romanced by both a famous opera star and his younger understudy.

After catching their husbands with other women, two wives go on a girls-only vacation.

John Paul Bart is just a pants-presser in a tailor's shop, but he has big ambitions. One night, he borrows the clothes of a wealthy client and bluffs his way into a high society party. After meeting wealthy businessman Abraham Nathan, John Paul quickly rises to the top of Nathan's company. Suffering during The Depression, John Paul helps Nathan save his company with a radical program of cooperative ownership between workers and management. Meanwhile, John Paul makes an enemy of Gustav, who is engaged to Tanya - the daughter of Mr. Huber, owner of the tailor shop. John Paul maintains a friendship with Tanya, provoking jealousy in Gustav. Gustav threatens to reveal John Paul's plain origins to Nathan, and John Paul briefly resigns from Nathan's company. However, John Paul's plan is a success, and Nathan hires him back immediately. Tanya leaves Gustav and ends up with John Paul.

Jeffrey Haywood wants to marry to Virginia Embrey. However, Virginia refused to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica gets married first. Angelica, in turn, finds every man she knows too dull and predictable, and for this reason prefers to stay single. Jeff then tries to make Angelica interested in the mild-mannered and timid Reggie Irving passing him off as a notorious playboy to intrigue her. He asks his friend Polly to teach Reggie "how to treat a woman right", but he turns to be a disastrous learner.

Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton's invitation to move in with him. After falling in love with young up-and-coming newsman Jack Madison she leaves Brockton to wait for Madison's return from a long assignment. She runs out of money and becomes desperate, returning again to Brockton who, upon learning of Madison's sudden arrival, tells Laura she must inform Madison of her living situation or he will.

Pioneers and a family man leave Virginia for Kentucky during the Revolutionary War.

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.

Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who is greeted with cheers, applause and romantic propositions whenever he performs in his native Vienna. But when he embarks on a tour of South America, tragedy strikes. The sweltering climate causes Winkelmann to lose his voice on stage, a disaster met with hoots and cat-calls. Dispirited he returns to Europe, where he soon learns that no one is aware of what happened in South America. Intending to retire so as not to be exposed to further humiliation, Winkelmann is goaded back on stage -- where, miraculously, his gorgeous voice returns.

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

A young woman's elderly husband dies and leaves her $5 million. She travels to Paris and becomes part of the "Continental" set and is pursued by a rich playboy and a lawyer who works for her.

Originally Liebeswalzer, this German operetta was the third talkie vehicle for the effervescent Lillian Harvey. The plot is a typical Graustarkian affair, with Princess Eva (Harvey) preparing to marry a duke whom she's never met. Getting cold feet, the duke ducks the wedding, persuading a handsome young commoner named Bobby (Willy Fritsch) to take his place. The wedding goes on as planned, with Eva never suspecting that her new hubby is a ringer. Eventually, the false duke confesses everything, leading to all sorts of intrigue before a happy ending can be realized. Love Waltz was simultaneously filmed in an English-language version, which posed no problem for the British-born Harvey but caused a few uncomfortable moments for her Teutonic co-stars (eventually, Willy Fritsch was replaced by John Batton, who'd played a bit role in the German version).

Kitty Kellermann is put on trial for murdering her husband, a failed painter. When her counsel resigns from his mandate, the mysterious Peter Bille steps in, though it becomes apparent that he actually is not an advocate but Kitty's lover and moreover confesses the murder. The widow has to admit that the pictures by her deceased spouse sell much better, only for him to suddenly appear alive.

Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.

Triângulo amoroso entre um cantor de rua que, após ser detido por engano, briga com seu melhor amigo, que lhe roubou a amante. Tudo é pretexto para mostrar um retrato da Paris dos anos 30, numa comédia agridoce, pontuada por diversas canções de sucesso.

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.

A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.

A disgraced alcoholic surgeon settles in a small village in the Swiss Alps. He falls for Hilda, a servant at the hotel where he lives. He tricks her into marrying him by making her think her lover, Ruffo, has abandoned her. Things don't go quite as planned, however, when Ruffo returns.

Capt. Robert Kelly holds off the foreign mob single-handed and makes good his escape during the Boxer rebellion.

Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme loves Jennie, he also has a weakness for stage stars -- so when a riverboat theatrical crew comes to their town, he is smitten by lead actress Lillian Lyons. Desperate to keep Orme, Jennie insists on going onstage to best Lillian, but is soon out of her depth.