Pop Middleton (archive footage)
Documentary featuring original materials from the 1939 New York World's Fair. Includes film images of Jason Robards, Jr. as a child at the World's Fair and clips from the promotional film, "The Middleton Family at the New York World's Fair"
Grandpa
Mama Rose lives to see her daughter June succeed on Broadway by way of vaudeville. When June marries and leaves, Rose turns her hope and attention to her elder, less obviously talented, daughter Louise. However, having her headlining as a stripper at Minsky's Burlesque is not what she initially has in mind.
Dr. Burke (uncredited)
In a small Mississippi town in 1916, an eccentric spinster battles her romantic yearnings for the randy boy next door.
Sam Tyler (uncredited)
Glenn Tyler quer ser um escritor de sucesso, porém, os conflitos de sua vida pessoal parecem demais para ele, até que ele envolve-se romanticamente com três mulheres, uma rica, uma psicóloga e uma espevitada, as três querem levá-lo a curtição e loucura total.
Captain of the Far West
Baseado livremente numa História de Luther Sage, Yellowstone Kelly, este Faroeste tem um elenco cheio de estrelas. Clint Walker é o Personagem-Título, um soldado caçador que faz amizade com as tribos indígenas norte-americanas em seu Território de caça. Sua amizade com os índios Sioux é fortalecida quando ele salva a vida de seu cacique, mas quando a Cavalaria dos EUA é atacada pelos Índios, ele fica dividido entre suas amizades e a lealdade ao seu País. As Tropas são abatidas pelos Sioux, mas Kelly resgata Wahleeah (Andra Martin), uma garota índia Apache que está sendo mantida prisioneira pelos Sioux porque ela se recusa a casar com seu cacique. Agora, em nome de sua honra, ele terá que enfrentar toda uma nação Indígena.
Justin Corley
Gun-slinging drifter "Maybe" Smith's Colt .44 pistol and shooting skills are put to the test shortly after his arrival in the New Mexico frontier town of Dusty Flats. After outdrawing wanted outlaw Buckstorm Corley in the saloon, Smith finds himself up against the entire corrupt Corley clan -- who've been running roughshod over the fearful townsfolk for years.
Chief Gould
Quando um carro-bomba explode no lado norte-americano da fronteira entre os EUA e o México, Miguel Vargas, o agente antidrogas mexicano, inicia sua investigação, junto com o capitão da polícia americana Hank Quinlan. Quando Vargas começa a suspeitar que Quinlan e seu parceiro obscuro, Menzies, estão plantando provas para enquadrar um homem inocente, suas investigações sobre sua possível corrupção rapidamente colocaram em risco a si e sua nova esposa, Susie.
Dr. Fisher
Aging gunslinger Jacob Wade hopes to settle down with his estranged son, but his old enemies have other plans for him. Gunslinger Jacob Wade finds his long-abandoned son Riley, now a young man who hates his father but has nowhere else to go. Hoping to settle down, Jacob finds no town will have him. They end at Monolith, the ranch of Jacob's former girlfriend Ada, to whom he had no intention of returning. A mustang hunt finds Riley himself attracted to the shapely Ada...and Jacob having trouble with his eyesight. And his visions of a quiet life are doomed by the re-appearance of enemies from his past...
Clay Ford
An imprisoned gunfighter must scatter to elude the authorities. Outlaws Bob Ford (Robert Vaughn) and Vic Rodell (Stephen McNally) are nabbed, but the governor offers them amnesty in exchange for their help in bringing Jesse and his brother Frank (Douglas Kennedy) to justice. Peggie Castle and Barton MacLane also star in this tale of the Old West's most famous traitor.
Wayne Shattuck
A young man returns home after several years absence to find that a gang is after not only his family ranch, but his girlfriend as well.
Drunken Cowpuncher
A former gunfighter who went to prison but then took up religion arrives in a western town as the new preacher. There he finds a feud between the ranchers and the farmers. The Railroad Agent is after the ranchers land and has his men causing all the trouble. The new preacher sets out to bring the two sides together and he says he will not need a gun.
Hoak Wayne
Mitch Wayne e Kyle Hadley são amigos desde criança. A irmã de Kyle, Marylee, pretende se casar com Mitch. Mas este considera a jovem praticamente uma irmã e na verdade está apaioxonado por Lucy. O problema é que Kyle também está e é ele quem acaba se casando com Lucy, antes mesmo que Mitch pudesse expressar seus sentimentos. Kyle, antes um playboy e bebedor, com o tempo passa a ter mais responsabilidade. Mas então descobre que é estéril e mergulha com tudo na bebida. Marylee, movida pelo ódio de ter sido rejeitada, sugere ao irmão que Mitch e Lucy são amantes. E quando Lucy revela estar grávida, Kyle acusa o amigo Mitch de ser o pai.
Mr. Totter
Matt Ballot has returned home after 12 years of hard-drinking in all 48 states. His wife has managed to raise their 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son nicely without his help. Matt is considered a disgrace to the town he came from and now he finds himself trying to win the love of his children, his wife, and the respect of the townspeople. Set in Arkansas in the 1920s.
Marshal Pete MacKay
A general-store keeper scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back.
John Rutherford
Fazendeiros de gado tentam de todas as formas apossar-se das terras de um corajoso colono, que as defende com unhas e dentes.
Sam
Two brothers discharged from the Confederate Army join a businessman for a cattle drive from Texas to Montana where they run into raiding Jayhawkers, angry Sioux, rough terrain and bad weather.
Purdue
A former Union Army officer plans to sell out to Anchor Ranch and move east with his fiancée, but the low price offered by Anchor's crippled owner and the outfit's bullying tactics make him reconsider. When one of his hands is murdered he decides to stay and fight, utilizing his war experience. Not all is well at Anchor with the owner's wife carrying on with his brother who also has a Mexican woman in town.
Ed Benedeck
Avery Bullard (Raoul Freeman), o presidente da Tredway Corporation, uma conhecida fábrica de móveis, morre repentinamente. Como ele não deixou claro quem seria o seu sucessor, o conselho executivo, formado por 7 pessoas, precisa se reunir rapidamente para encontrar um sucessor, pois como Avery faleceu na tarde de sexta-feira é importante que na segunda o mercado encontre a Tredway com novo presidente, para não desvalorizar as ações da empresa. O provável sucessor é Loren Phineas Shaw (Fredric Marsh), um frio homem de negócios que só pensa no lucro dos acionistas, sem se preocupar com a qualidade. Para impedi-lo de chegar à presidênciaé preciso encontrar logo alguém com idéias bem inovadoras, mas esta pessoa tem de ser uma das outras seis do conselho executivo, que se mostra dividido sobre qual o melhor caminho. Enquanto isso Shaw só precisa do seu voto e de mais três para se eleger.
Captain Donnelly
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.
Judge Pierce
A federal agent arrives in Laramie to try to find out who is behind the efforts to stop the construction of a new railroad track.
Michael Reilly
Ex-cavalry buddies, Rex and Slim, band together to capture a wild stallion, solve a murder and thwart the killers from cheating a boy out of his inheritance.
Tom Carter
A young boy witnesses his father murdered by bandits and grows into adulthood vowing revenge.
Sam 'Pop' Tracy
Johnny Tracy, son of veteran race driver Pop Tracy, is working his way up on the racing circuit, but is urged by his sweetheart, Marcy Parker, to give up the track if he wants to marry her. He persuades her to marry him on the promise that he will quit after racing once in the Indianapolis 500, but he is injured in a qualifying race and goes to work as a spark plug salesman for Mackey, an old family friend. He is a failure at selling but Marcy changes her attitude towards his racing, and he qualifies for the 500.
Sheriff Brown
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
Smokestack the Train Engineer
Pouco antes da Guerra Civil (mas depois que o sul se separou), os sabotadores do sul tentam impedir que a construção da ferrovia cruze o Kansas até a fronteira; o capitão do exército Nelson é enviado para se opor a eles. Enquanto as trilhas avançam para o oeste, Nelson deve enfrentar uma sabotagem cada vez mais violenta, enquanto tenta romance a linda filha do capataz Barbara.
Pat McGowan
A young girl and her father, who is unjustly accused of murder, seek refuge in a Georgia swamp until they are befriended by a trapper who penetrates the swamp in search of his dog.
Mike Callan
Deaf boxer Paul Callan captures the interest of gold-digging blonde Sonya Bartow and retired fight manager 'Pop' Richardson. For a time, Sonya has the upper hand with Paul, but ultimately a rival appears in the shape of upper-crust reporter Ann Hollis. With a 3-way fight under way for influence over Paul, he takes matters into his own hands, but learns that getting what he wanted isn't necessarily a happy ending.
Cooper
Para o xerife Will Kane (Gary Cooper), o dia do seu casamento será marcado não pela emoção, mas pela adrenalina e a perseguição com o perigoso bandido Frank Miller. Miller fugiu atrás de vingança, já que Kane o colocou na prisão. Mas, agora, nem a população local irá ajudá-lo.
Asylum Warden Anderson
A man believe to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
John (Policeman)
When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thursday, the Kid tricks his gang into donning Santa suits and "collecting dough for old dolls" like Nellie who have nowhere to live.
Mr. Buchanan
An out of work racehorse trainer is adopted by the daughters of a wealthy breeder and trains a cast-off horse for the big race of the season.
Fred Salter
Bank robber serves his time in prison, tries to go straight.
Wallace Bennett
A lawyer uncovers secrets behind a 12-year-old murder case.
Vice Admiral Williams
A Navy commander experiments with launching missiles from submarines.
Mr. Yaeger
A family man -desperate for a job- latches onto a friend that encourages him into being a criminal.
Dr. Maynard
A young doctor falls in love with a disturbed young woman and apparently becomes involved in the death of her husband. They head for Mexico trying to outrun the law.
Police Officer Houlihan
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox.
George Parker
A blacklisted reporter brings his shady ways to a small-town newspaper after being fired from a big city daily.
Clanahan
A história da bem sucedida dupla de compositores Bert Kalmar e Harry Ruby, da famosa editora musical Tin Pan Alley, é contada de forma leve e solta.
O Cantor-Dançarino Bert Kalmar (Fred Astaire) não pode continuar sua carreira no palco após sofrer uma lesão, então ele tem que ganhar a vida fazendo letras para músicas. Por sorte ele conhece o compositor Harry Ruby (Red Skelton) e a primeira música da dupla é um sucesso. Ruby arranja o casamento de sua ex-parceira Jessie Brown (Vera-Ellen) com Kalmar, e Kalmar e Jessie impedem Ruby de se casar com as garotas erradas. Mas devido ao fato de Ruby causar a saída do financiador de uma peça de Kalmar, eles acabam rompendo suas relações.
Chuck (uncredited)
Jimmy Ringo é o gatilho mais rápido do oeste, mas ele está ficando cansado de tudo e gostaria de se aposentar. Mas onde quer que vá, há sempre algum garoto durão que quer tentar vencê-lo num duelo.
Clay
Traveling entertainer gets mixed up with bank robbers.
Sandy Reeves
Gene responds to cattle rustling by stringing barbed wire all around his range.
Frank Shaughnessy, Dodger Executive
Biography of Jackie Robinson, the first black major league baseball player in the 20th century. Traces his career in the negro leagues and the major leagues.
Kelsey Bunker
Bud Dolliver, a former WWII hero, and an ex-convict, returns to his home town in an effort to make a new life for himself but, even with the help of Lou Jellison, a cannery worker, he finds it hard to live down his reputation.
Judge Waller
Notorious stagecoach robber Rhiannon is unintentionally appointed as deputy when he saves the sheriff's life and must wear two hats between his new job that he enjoys and his old occupation that he misses.
Sawyer
A female police detective (Marsha Hunt) enters jail to gain the confidence of a shoplifter and learn the identity of the leader of a stolen goods racket.
Police Sergeant Garrett
When he learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner, returning WWII hero Joe Miracle steals the money from the club's safe and hides in a settlement home, while the mob is on his tail.
Nelse Lansing
It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.
Lew
An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up.
Sheriff Harmon
A group of Arizona ranchers, trying to learn the identities of the Salt River Gang and prevent any further rustling, marks the currency that rancher Frank Abbott turns over to the gang to get his cattle back. Unfortunately drifters Dick McBride and Chito Rafferty are accused of being in the gang when they are found with the money, which they have actually won at the casino of saloon owner Brad Carew, a member of the gang. Dick and Chito break out of jail and hunt down the fleeing Carew in hopes of finding out who the true leader of the gang is.
Chauncey
A fast-talking salesman is "kidnapped" by a town, which intends to use him in its annual race with a rival community.
Thomas Lee
A dedicated priest tries to reform a group of homeless boys in turn-of-the-century St. Louis.
Tesander
An advertising executive dreams of getting out of the city and building a perfect home in the country, only to find the transition fraught with problems.
1905 was a period of heavy immigration from Europe to America before laws were passed restricting the flow of immigrants. Almost every character in this movie is a recent arrival. Tisa has been in America only four months, yet she is holding four jobs to save enough money to pay for her father's boat passage to America. She works in a garment factory in Greenwich Village owned by Mr. Grumbach, who is studying to pass his citizenship test. Denek, a brash young man, tries to help her but gets her into trouble and her deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.
Cab Driver
Elsa 'Rosalie' Bannister é uma mulher que é salva de um grupo de ladrões pelo jovem Michael O'Hara. Como agradecimento, ela o convida para trabalhar no iate de seu milionário marido. Michael aceita o emprego, mas não pelo dinheiro, e sim para ficar mais próximo de Elsa e, assim, tentar fugir com ela - pois agora ele está completamente apaixonado pela moça.
Judge Raymond
Jeff Carter (Donald Curtis) tenta dar um fim à deliqüência juvenil na cidade e cria um clube para garotos. Entretanto, o jovem Danny Jones (Billy Halop) mostra sua influência nos adolescentes locais. Primeiro filme de Marilyn Monroe.
Det. Capt. R.W. Davis
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Severance
A private eye (Adele Mara) and her sidekick solve the case of a dead client.
Capt. Rogers
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Mr. Holstrom
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.
San Francisco Homicide Lieutenant
Quiet, organised Dr Talbot meets nightclub singer Nora Prentiss when she is slightly hurt in a street accident. Despite her misgivings they become heavily involved and Talbot finds he is faced with the choice of leaving Nora or divorcing his wife. When a patient expires in his office, a third option seems to present itself.
Detective Owens, San Diego Police
Steve Morgan kills a man in a holdup and hitches a ride to Los Angeles with Fergie. At a gas station, they pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan takes over and persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in as one by one, the others learn that Morgan is a killer.
Dr. Jonathan Byrne
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Warden Kelly
An ex-con sets up a program to straighten out hard-core prisoners. Things don't go as planned.
Cop (Uncredited)
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Police Lieutenant Blake
A mystery grows after a bank robbery car leads investigators to a carnival sideshow.
Capt. Lawrence
A daily news editor recalls a married detective and the deadly woman behind his downfall.
Shannon
Set at a major newspaper, this crime drama centers on a fellow who returns to newspaper reporting after he bombs as a playwright. Believing his grown son is in danger of marrying a gold digger, the paper's publisher assigns his new reporter to expose her.
Simmons
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Police Commissioner Collins
A crime reporter writes book to expose names and methods of the criminal leaders. He is held on a charge after refusing to explain how he got his information, but is released and helps to expose the syndicate.
Tom Cary
The hometown life of a young soldier suffering from shellshock amnesia is revealed in flashback.
Sheriff Elwood
Supremo Sacerdote Yousef Bey (John Carradine) é enviado aos Estados Unidos para resgatar a múmia de Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) e da princesa Ananka e trazê-las de volta ao Egito. Ao realizar um ritual no Museu onde se encontra a múmia da princesa Ananka, ela some no ar como se fosse uma alma e reencarna no corpo de Amina (Ramsay Ames), uma egípcia que vive na América e têm a mesma aparência da falecida princesa. Agora Kharis deve sequestrar Amina e levá-la até o Supremo Sacerdote, para juntos voltarem para o Egito e obterem o descanso eterno em sua tumba.
Sam Weston
Insurance Investigator Roy is looking for Weston and the missing money he supposedly obtained in a robbery. When he catches him and listens to his story, he changes his mind about him. A freak accident locates the missing money box and they find the seal unbroken. Roy then announces the box will be opened at the showboat that evening.
Mr. Mason
A writer for a radio program needs some fresh ideas to juice up his show. For inspiration, he rents a room with a typical American family and begins to secretly write about their true life antics. The show becomes a big hit, but he begins to feel guilty about his charade when he falls in love with the family's pretty older daughter.
Charlie Witherspoon
O cowboy Dan Somers e o magnata do petróleo Jim Hunk Gardner disputam os direitos de arrendamento de petróleo em terra indígena, bem como o amor de uma professora.
Albert Ness
In this anti-Japanese WW II propaganda film, Japanese invaders attempt to raid Alaska and are totally obliterated. The trouble begins when a stranger visits a small town and tells them that the U.S. is going to be taken over by a powerful country. The story turns out to be true when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. The town then rises up and slaughters a Japanese raiding party.
Tom Gibbons
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
John 'Pop' Ormsby
Pop Ormsby wins the contract from the Army Engineer Corps for the construction of the Alaska Highway connecting Alaska to Canada. The elder of his two sons, Woody Ormseby, decides he had rather fight with bullets than bulldozers but is assigned by the Army to work on the project. Woody and his younger brother Steve are both rivals for the affection of Ann Caswell, the daughter of Road Engineer Blair Caswell.
Sam Bennett
A man of no worth brags to his daughter back East that he is rich and owns a big ranch. When she decides to pay a visit to her father, Roy and his buddies agree to pretend that the poor man is the owner of the ranch.
Judge John Grey
A deputy sets out to prove that a respected judge, who had once been a criminal, is being framed for crimes committed by a crooked saloon owner.
Mr. Hendricks
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
Ed Cumberland
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
Mr. Tim Wiggs
In the shanty town called the Cabbage Patch, Mrs. Wiggs scrabbles for survival with her brood of children and hopes for the return of her husband, who left many years before.
Florida Doctor (Uncredited)
Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish showgirl who despises and uses him.
Mr. Carlin
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the citizenry. Dawson frames Craig with poisoned medicine, but Craig redeems himself during a Gold Rush epidemic.
Detective Grimes (Uncredited)
While an escaped convict, Moose Malloy, goes in search of his ex-girlfriend Velma, police inspector Michael O'Hara attempts to track him assuming him to be a prime suspect for a number of mishaps.
Policeman
A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father's art treasures.
Steve Finnerty
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Pinky Dolan
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Barnes
Bold, eccentric Broadway performer Elizabeth Madden befuddles her handlers by coming home with a baby she picked up on the street. She wants to keep the baby but has to find a husband to make adoption viable. She offers her new obstetrician Dr. McBain help with his research on rabbits in exchange for marriage - and he accepts. The marriage of convenience turns into a marriage of real love until Dr. McBain's ex-wife comes looking for money.
American Immigration Official (uncredited)
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
Jim Kane
Charles Foster Kane foi um menino pobre que acaba se tornando um dos homens mais ricos do mundo. O filme inicia com a sua morte, momentos antes da qual pronuncia a palavra "Rosebud". Após dias de sensacionalismo em cima da notícia de sua morte, o jornalista Jerry Thompson é enviado por seu chefe para investigar a vida de Kane, a fim de descobrir o sentido de sua última palavra, a qual ninguém sabia. Entrevistando pessoas do passado de Kane, o jornalista mergulha na vida de um homem solitário, que desde a infância é obrigado a seguir a vontade alheia. Ninguém a seu redor importa-se com Kane, que busca por meio da aquisição de bens a adoração das pessoas. Ao final, Thompson, após a exaustiva investigação da vida de Kane através de entrevistas, se vê incapaz de descobrir o significado da palavra, concluindo que "Charles Foster Kane foi um homem que possuiu tudo o que quis e depois perdeu tudo. Talvez Rosebud seja algo que ele nunca tenha possuído ou algo que tenha perdido".
Chief R.L. Graves
George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm Springs. The gimmick in this one is a set of rare stamps, smuggled from England. Wendy Barrie is the true heir to this treasure, and the Saint is engaged to protect her and the stamps. Our hero meets Barrie in a posh Palm Springs resort, where a gang of homicidal thieves have converged to relieve the girl of her inheritance. Three murders and one kidnapping attempt later, the villains are foiled by the Saint, with the aid of his onetime partner in crime Pearly Gates (Paul Guilfoyle). The Saint in Palm Springs is the sixth in RKO's series of films based on the character created by Leslie Charteris.
Capt. Mahoney
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.
Mr. Casey
Mr. Casey's daughter, Connie, wants to go to Pottawatomie College and without her knowledge, he sends four football players as her bodyguards. The college is in financial trouble and her bodyguards use their salary to help the college. The football players join the college team, and the team becomes one of the best. One of the football players, Clint, falls in love with Connie, but when she discovers he is her bodyguard, she decides to go back East. The bodyguards follow her, leaving the team in the lurch.
Timson
A tough girl raised in the streets finds that her dialect and manners are helpful as source material for a playwright.
McDermott
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
Father McGann
Sailor is going to marry his girlfriend when he returns, but she becomes foster mother to baby whose parents are accidentally killed. The baby is accidentally left on board a visiting battleship.
Ed, Chief of Police
A reporter enlists the help of a gangster's secretary to obtain evidence to bring her boss to justice.
Lieutenant Sullivan
A brash night club singer becomes a cop to impress a woman.
Army Captain Brackett
Inventor Thomas Edison's boyhood is chronicled and shows him as a lad whose early inventions and scientific experiments usually end up causing disastrous results. As a result, the towns folk all think Tom is crazy, and creating a strained relationship between Tom and his father. Tom's only solace is his understanding mother who believes he's headed to do great things.
Randall
This expose of the U.S. parole system, as seen through the eyes of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, takes dead aim on lawyers who manipulate the justice system in order to get undeserving convicts parole from prisons. The point is made when FBI agents are assigned to track down "Big Boy" Bradmore, who after getting an undeserved parole, via the efforts of a shyster lawyer, promptly murders an FBI agent.
Passline
Texas girl goes to New York, becomes a newspaper reporter, and tries to get her gambler boyfriend to come home.
Father
"An average American family", the Middletons, visit the 1939 World's Fair and witnesses the advent of future technology, encountering robots and dishwashers for the first time.
Railroad Detective
When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.
Macbeth
Comedic short featuring Shakespeare's notable characters; many performing musical numbers. An assistant director is told to read all Shakespeare’s works in order to mine them for potential film plots. Falling asleep on the job, he dreams of various Shakespearean characters coming to life from the pages of giant books and singing and dancing in celebration of their "goin’ Hollywood." The characters appearing include Romeo, Juliet, Juliet’s Nurse, Puck, Peter Quince, Hamlet, Old Hamlet’s Ghost, Falstaff, Antony, Cleopatra, and Macbeth. Shakespeare appears toward the end of the film to object, but he is quickly convinced by his characters to join a big song and dance routine. Includes passing references to a number of familiar Shakespearean scenes including Hamlet’s "to be or not to be" soliloquy, Romeo and Juliet’s balcony scene, Hamlet with Yorick’s skull, and Enobarbus’ speech on Cleopatra’s barge.
The Landlord
A vaudeville team convinces an agent to book their new act, which uses a Civil War theme.
Bank Robber
Bert Lahr is a big city boy hung up on tales of the Old West. When his playing cowboys and Indians causes a ruckus, he's brought before a judge who prescribes him rest and relaxation...out West.
Bartender
Take a Chance was based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, though only one of the original songs, Eadie Was a Lady, has been retained. The thinnish plot involves the misadventures of a pair of pickpockets, played on Broadway by Jack Haley and Sid Silvers and on film by James Dunn and Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards.
Harry Wart
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
Four convicts escape from a chain gang. Shortly thereafter, changes are made at the prison, because a blue ribbon commission will be investigating conditions there. The changes include steak every day for dinner and stage shows for entertainment. After reading about this, the four escapees plead with the warden to take them back in. Or was this all a dream?
Grogan
Jack Haley joins the circus.
Capt. Denny
Jack Mason of the Coast Guard Academy meets Mary at the graduation ball and falls in love with her, though the girl's mother finds wealthy Rex Cutting a more proper choice for her daughter. On a yachting cruise arranged by Mrs. Trumbull, Jack is not invited. Meanwhile, Mary suspects Rex of picking up contraband beyond the 12-mile limit and refuses his proposal of marriage, while Betty, her impish sister, drives Skippy to distraction in the galley, where he has installed an automatic kitchen that does most of his work. Jack smuggles himself aboard but is forcibly ejected at port by a coast guard, and Mrs. Trumbull discourages his attempt to elope with Mary; but on a subsequent cruise, he hides himself in a lifeboat with two aides. When the captain stops to take on a cargo of rum, Jack and his aides take over the vessel, and a battle ensues. The yacht is wrecked on an island, and Jack proves his heroism, while Rex reveals his true colors and is identified as a fugitive bootlegger.
Dynamite Dan
Felix Rudolff is a dressmaker tailor and later dresses like a policeman after seeing a parade He becomes a rookie policeman who handcuffs Dynamite Dan. He doesn't stay captured. Felix Rudolff has to deal with a live and kicking Dynamite Dan. Rufolff ends up with the collar and the girl.
Larry
Hobart Cavanaugh & Harry Shannon out on a date without their wives.
