For the Defense (1922)

Jenny Bowman is a successful singer who, while on an engagement at the London Palladium, visits David Donne to see her son Matt again, spending a few glorious days with him while his father is away in Rome in an attempt to attain the family that she never had. When David returns, Matt is torn between his loyalty to his father and his affection for Jenny.

Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reggie Oliver, a Scotland Yard detective, posing as a music critic are both keeping their eye on Carla Nillson, a famous singer, whom they suspect of espionage. They all meet in London, then in Lisbon, and eventually in New York City, where Carla sings on the radio.

When she can't support her illegitimate child, an abandoned young woman puts her up for adoption and pursues a career as a torch singer. Years later, she then searches for the child she gave up.

Мастера мирового авторского кино сняли 7 маленьких увлекательных историй, действие которых происходит в Гаване.

A singer marries a famous composer, and after a while she gets the itch to go back on the stage. However, her husband won't let her. When she hears that a popular French singer named "Raquel" is coming to New York, she decides to go to Raquel with a plan--unbeknownst to her husband, "Raquel" is actually her sister, and her plan is for them to switch places so she can fulfill her dream of going back on the stage. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Henry Thomas tries to overcome the horrors of his childhood and start a new life with his wife and kid. However, his abusive step-mother and his dependence on alcohol threaten to ruin his future.

A none-too-popular (nor good) radio singer, Rita Wilson is murdered while singing on the air in a radio studio. Radio page boy, Frankie Ryan, and his janitor pal, Jeff, solve the mystery for the none-too-sharp police.

J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.

A famous singer and matinée idol helps a pretty young theater usher in her dreams of becoming a singer, but when her career begins to take off and she becomes engaged to a wealthy young man, he realizes he's fallen for her and plots to break up her impending marriage.

Documentary follows Bobby Liebling, lead singer of seminal hard rock/heavy metal band Pentagram, as he battles decades of hard drug addiction and personal demons to try and get his life back.

Rick Lemming (Rijk de Goyer) lives in the heart of Amsterdam, where he holds a dovecote and a saloon with slot machines. His best friend Ed Svaan, the champion of karate in the Netherlands, is deeply in love with singer Lily (Sylvia Christelle). With the help of Ed, Lilly concludes a contract with a television director who assures everyone that he will make a high-profile film. Rijk wants to check where his boyfriend and girlfriend are being drawn in and secretly watches the shootings. In fact, a pornographic film is being shot.

Лорел и Харди – путешествующие музыканты-универсалы. Вдвоем они показывают Восьмое чудо света – оркестр, играя вдвоем на всех инструментах. Однажды на дороге они случайно знакомятся с молодым пройдохой Чарльзом Райтом. Пользуясь их наивностью, он уговаривает их помочь ему провернуть одно дельце, выручку от которого они поделят пополам. Но в ближайшем городке Чарльз знакомится с девушкой Сьюзан, которую, как он выяснил, уже обвели вокруг пальца мошенники покрупнее. Желая вернуть деньги у мошенников, Честер с нашими друзьями задумывают грандиозную аферу...

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.

Shirley is the youngest of eight children from a mixed race marriage. By the time she is a toddler the family have moved to the all white area of Splott and by the time she is 12 Shirley has discovered she has an extraordinary voice and can earn money singing in pubs around the docks after her father if jailed for sexual crimes. As a young teenager she begins singing and dancing in 'coloured review shows'. But it is a chance meeting with struggling agent Mike Sullivan that changes her life forever. He promises to make her a star, but has no idea of the personal sacrifice that will mean for the teenaged Shirley.

Jimmy O'Brien (Robert Lowery)and Sammy Rubin (Sidney Miller), write jingle commercials for radio, and meet Mary Adams (Dona Drake), who wants to break into radio as a soloist for a band.

Убегая от гламурной и полной бурлеска жизни, Джоан Гордон решается на авантюру. Она отправляется вместо своей служанки к ее жениху-фермеру, с которым та заочно познакомилась через брачное агентство. Приехав на ферму, Джоан тут же вступает в брак с фермером Джимом. Сможет ли молодая пара преодолеть житейские невзгоды? Их, между прочим, немало: не заладившиеся с самого начала отношения, докучливые и беспардонные соседи, невыплаченный кредит за ферму. А тут еще бывший парень Джоан, который ее разыскал и предлагает вернуться к красивой жизни…

Доктор Альфред Моррис, университетский профессор химии, заново открывает древнюю формулу майя и синтезирует газ, который превращает людей в податливых, послушных, похожих на зомби «гулей». Подопытным Морриса становится студент-медик Тед Эллисон. Профессор считает, что невеста Эллисона, красивая концертная певица Изабель Льюис, хочет разорвать помолвку, потому что предпочитает более «зрелого» Морриса. На самом же деле Изабель любит своего концертмейстера Эрика. Чтобы на время вывести Теда из подобного трансу состояния Моррис изготавливает сыворотку из сердец, которые по его приказу извлекает Эллисон из тел умерших или еще живых людей. Когда выясняется, что места убийств совпадают с гастрольным графиком Изабель, на след сумасшедшего ученого выходит репортер.

At the Katnip Kollege, we see a roomful of cats taking a course in Swingology. Everyone swings except Johnny, who can't cut it and has to sit in the dunce chair. Miss Kitty Bright tells him to look her up when he learns how to swing. Finally, listening to the pendulum clock at night, Johnny gets the beat. He rushes out to where everyone is playing and sings "Easy As Rollin' Off a Log" to Kitty Bright. She joins in; he grabs a trumpet for an instrumental break, with the complete band. They both fall off a log; she covers him with kisses.

Patricia Medina plays the title character in The Buckskin Lady. Medina is cast as female gambler Angela Medley, who is forced by circumstances to align herself with outlaw Slinger. But Angela has never gotten over her love for honest frontier doctor Bruce Merritt, and at the first opportunity she redeems herself by catching a bullet intended for the doc. Henry Hull delivers the film's most memorable performance as Angela's drunken wretch of a father. Per the title, Buckskin Lady affords the viewer ample opportunity to see Patricia Medina in form-fitting western garb.

Психиатр Дэвид Юнг вместе со своей подругой певицей Кейт Кристофер переезжают в новый дом — старинный особняк. Дом оказывается совсем непростым — он населён духом своего прежнего владельца. Бывший владелец жил в середине XIX века. У Дэвид и Кейт начинаются видения. И кроме того призрак пытается вселиться в самого психиатра.