Riffraff (1936)

Мэй Дойл, разочаровавшаяся в жизни женщина. После смерти своего гражданского мужа она возвращается, после десятилетнего отсутствия, в родной рыбацкий городок Монтеррей, откуда бежала в поисках свободы и новой жизни. Здесь, поселившись в доме своего младшего брата Джо, Мэй знакомится с Пеги, которая, как и она когда-то, жаждет сбежать из захолустного городка и опостылевшего консервного завода.

Фильм повествует историю доктора биологии, живущего в небольшом городе у океана. Былые запасы рыбы, благодаря которым город процветал давно иссякли, и теперь уровень жизни и экономика городка пошли на спад. На фоне этого рассказывается история доктора, ключевые моменты его жизни: разочарование и надежда, одиночество и любовь.

The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.

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.

A dull statistician changes his life after winning a pile of money after successfully determining the number of beans in a barrel. He decides to do something novel with the prize and ends up buying a barrel factory. He encounters trouble when the nearby pickle factory is threatened by a shyster attempting to close it.

Harry Langdon and Charley Rogers star in this 1941 Monogram comedy, about two bumbling brothers who take jobs at a New York food cannery and accidentally lose a valuable diamond inside a can of pork-and-beans.