George Bassman

Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.

O mundo está mudando e para um velho homem da lei como Steve Judd, não há muitas oportunidades de trabalho. Ele aceita trabalhar para um banco para transportar um carregamento de ouro através de um território perigoso. Ele contrata o velho parceiro Gil Westrum e seu jovem pupilo Heck para ajudá-lo. Mas não sabe que Gil e Heck planejam roubar o ouro com ou sem a sua ajuda. Na fuga, os três se envolvem no desejo de uma jovem mulher de escapar tanto de seu pai como de seu noivo e seus irmãos perigosamente psicóticos.

O mundo está mudando e para um velho homem da lei como Steve Judd, não há muitas oportunidades de trabalho. Ele aceita trabalhar para um banco para transportar um carregamento de ouro através de um território perigoso. Ele contrata o velho parceiro Gil Westrum e seu jovem pupilo Heck para ajudá-lo. Mas não sabe que Gil e Heck planejam roubar o ouro com ou sem a sua ajuda. Na fuga, os três se envolvem no desejo de uma jovem mulher de escapar tanto de seu pai como de seu noivo e seus irmãos perigosamente psicóticos.

Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.

Jerry Kingsley is a wealthy garment manufacturer left lonely in his 60s when his wife dies. Despite the difference in their ages, he strikes up a romance with divorced 24-year-old receptionist Betty. The relationship is dismissed by his daughter, Lillian, discouraged by his sister, Evelyn, and denounced by Betty's mother. But when Jerry begins to mention marriage, even Betty is forced to confront her ambivalence.

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.

Marty Piletti é um açougueiro ítalo-americano, tímido e solitário, e que vive no Bronx em Nova Iorque. Ele acredita que nunca nenhuma mulher se interessará por ele mas, por insistência de sua mãe, ele sai uma noite para dançar e conhece uma professora, que se sente tão rejeitada quanto ele. A insegurança dos dois, porém, é um entrave que pode prejudicar a relação deles.

Marty Piletti é um açougueiro ítalo-americano, tímido e solitário, e que vive no Bronx em Nova Iorque. Ele acredita que nunca nenhuma mulher se interessará por ele mas, por insistência de sua mãe, ele sai uma noite para dançar e conhece uma professora, que se sente tão rejeitada quanto ele. A insegurança dos dois, porém, é um entrave que pode prejudicar a relação deles.

A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits, joins forces with a girl and her father to search for the mineral. When the father is hurt in an accident, daughter and engineer continue the project, aided by a Native American guide. Unbeknownst to the group, a reputable citizen of the town, really of low moral value, is shadowing themi, his intention, to jump their claim. Written by Buxx Banner

Made by RKO-Pathe, in Pathe color and three-dimension, in observance of the 150th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase from France at a cost of $15,000,000 (more than the annual income of the U.S.A. at the time). After a short narrative showing U.S. Ambassador Robert Livingston (Val Winter) negotiating the purchase with Napoleon and Tallyrand, the rest of the film, guided by Livingston's spirit, visits the 1953 territory of the purchase and shows the growth of such former outposts as Minneapolis, Minnesota; Des Moines, Iowa; St. Louis, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri and Kansas, and Little Rock, Arkansas. Most of the footage is given to New Orleans, Louisiana and its Vieux Carre, docks, business district and museums, ending with the preparation for that city's annual Mardi Gras.

The life and career of Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, who held the title for 12 years--longer than any other boxer in history--and who had to not only battle opponents inside the ring and racism outside it.

Marty Pilletti is a 36-year-old butcher who lives with his mother, who is always asking him why he doesn't find a nice girl and get married. The truth is Marty is lonely and would like nothing better, but he has low self-esteem and admits to his mother that he's ugly and no one wants him. He's tired of going to the Saturday night dance with his buddies and then going home more depressed than he was when the evening started. But at one of those dances he meets Clara. They have a great deal in common but Marty will have to overcome peer pressure if he and Clara are to have a relationship.

Casal de advogados se vê em lados opostos em um caso no qual a ré disparou contra o marido, ao encontrá-lo com a amante. No início marido e mulher mantêm as discussões durante o julgamento, mas em virtude da cobertura dada pela imprensa o casal não expõe suas posições apenas no tribunal e isto gera algumas confusões.

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer's daughter amid postwar unrest.

A neglected wife gets mixed up with an hypnotic charmer and murder.

Con woman Ricki Woodner and detective Bob Simms follow a prison-bound swindler Ace Connors on his five-day gourmet binge.

Em suas andanças sem rumo, Arthur Keats acaba parando em Twin Oaks, um restaurante à beira da estrada, onde conhece Cora Smith. Cora cuida do lugar com seu marido, com quem vive um casamento medíocre. Arthur e Cora acabam envolvendo-se em um romance apaixonado, mas para conseguirem a felicidade deverão dar fim à pedra no caminho - o marido de Cora.

Evie's co-workers at the uniform shirt factory, and her almost-fiancée's inability to kiss, inspire her to slip a letter into a size sixteen-and-a-half shirt for some anonymous soldier. It's received by "Wolf" Larson, who immediately throws it away, but his sensitive, dreaming--and short--buddy John McPherson snags it, and begins a correspondence with Evie, pretending to be Wolf. But things get complicated when Evie wants to meet her tall, handsome soldier. And even more complicated when Wolf sees Evie and likes what he sees.

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

When two bumbling barbers act as agents for a talented but unknown singer, they stage a phony murder in order to get him a plum role.

A G.I. en route to Europe falls in love during a whirlwind two-day leave in New York City.

A police detective (Edward Arnold) uses fluorescent powder to catch a pickpocket (Selena Royle) and her gang.

The descendent of a ghost imprisoned for cowardice hopes to free the spirit by displaying courage when under duress.

Radio crime show host "The Fox" finds himself on the trail of a serial killer while a suspect himself.

A widow's grown children try to break up her romance with a college professor.

Little Joe é um bom malandro, dividido entre o amor da sua esposa Petúnia e o fascínio de Georgia Brown, uma bonita rapariga de má vida... preso num duelo entre os enviados do Senhor e do Diabo. Como pode a virtude triunfar sobre o Mal? Segundo Petúnia: «Ás vezes, quando se enfrenta o Diabo, temos que o espetar com a sua própria forquilha»

Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Sailors and spies mingle in between the acts at Hattie's nightclub in the Canal Zone.

Miss Winters is a dancer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and is asked to secretly transport a prototype magnetic mine to Puerto Rico. She thinks that she is working for the US Government, but fails to see why she would be involved.

Married songwriters almost split up while putting on a big show.

Um detetive é contratado para proteger a vida de um cantor, que herdou recentemente uma loja de departamentos do trapaceiro gerente da loja.

Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.

Os irmãos Marx se aventuram no velho Oeste. Joseph e Rusty ganham uma escritura como pagamento e usam ela para pagar cervejas. Mais tarde descobrem que precisam da escritura e tentam recuperá-la mas os bandidos vão tentar impedi-los a todo custo!

Baby Dumpling, the six-year-old son of Blondie and Dagwood Bumstead disappears from sight during his first day at school. While Dagwood frantically combs the city in search of the boy, Baby Dumpling spents a nice, safe afternoon with poor little rich girl Melinda Mason, who with her new playmate's help arises from her sickbed to walk across the room for the first time in months.

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.

Mickey Moran, son of two vaudeville veterans, decides to put up his own vaudeville show with his girlfriend Patsy Barton. But child actress Rosalie wants to make a comeback and replace Patsy both professionally and as Mickey's girl.

Esta adaptação para a tela, roteirizada por Anita Loos e Jane Murfin e dirigida por George Cukor, foi um tremendo sucesso no seu lançamento. Estrelada por Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford e Rosalind Russell. O filme deu continuidade à tradição das peças só com personagens de mulheres tagarelas. Dos glamorosos apartamentos da alta sociedade de Manhattan, até Reno onde todos se divorciam, o filme mostra um enfoque ácido de suas vidas e dos esforços dos maridos para fazerem suas esposas ricas e poderosas. Durante toda o filme não aparece um único homem se quer, embora sejam muito citados, e o tema central seja os relacionamentos das mulheres com eles.

An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.

Quando um magnata é acusado de assassinato, o detetive particular que o procura vê-se preso como cúmplice e tenta fugir da polícia, sequestrando uma poetisa pelo caminho.

Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home, out of work.

Shows how the game of football developed, and how its rules came to be.

An American art collector, living in France in the 1870s, who loses his fortune in a stock market crash devises a scheme to get back his wealth through insurance fraud with the added consequence of potentially killing hundreds of people. His scheme is to place his art collection aboard a ship, insure the collection far beyond its value, and place a barrel of dynamite with a clock-piece timed to go off when the ship is at sea.

That Mothers Might Live is a 1938 American short drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann. The short is a brief account of Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis and his discovery of the need for cleanliness in 19th-century maternity wards, thereby significantly decreasing maternal mortality, and of his struggle to gain acceptance of his idea. Although Semmelweis ultimately failed in his lifetime, later scientific luminaries advanced his work in spirit like microbiologist Louis Pasteur, who provided a scientific theoretical explanation of Semmelweis' observations by helping develop the germ theory of disease and the British surgeon, Dr. Joseph Lister who revolutionized medicine putting Pasteur's research to practical use. In 1939, at the 11th Academy Awards, the film won an Oscar for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

Jerry Halliday, compositor norte-americano de comédias musicais luta contra as convenções da alta sociedade londrina para conquistar o coração de Lady Alyce Marshmorton. Ao contrário do que Jerry pensa, ela ama outra pessoa, mas com a ajuda de seus amigos George e Gracie, ele acredita que sua vitória está garantida.

A polish countess dispatched by her country to become Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she might influence him to make Poland independent.

A bohemian free spirit helps meek Waldo win back his fiancée and falls in love with her over-controlling sister in the process.

A silent, little man carrying a violin case wanders into the kitchen of a swanky nightclub looking for a meal. The chef takes pity on him and convinces the nightclub's owner that the man is actually a world-famous artist. The owner insists that the man perform for his customers. That's when the fun begins.

A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.

When a major newspaper accuses wealthy socialite Connie Allenbury of being a home-wrecker, and she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit, the publication's frazzled head editor, Warren Haggerty, must find a way to turn the tables on her. Soon Haggerty's harried fiancée, Gladys Benton, and his dashing friend Bill Chandler are in on a scheme that aims to discredit Connie, with amusing and unexpected results.

A group of musicians is determined to appear on a radio program.