Harry D'Arcy

1927 год, Канзас-Сити. Тяжелые будни маленького джазового оркестра во времена сухого закона. Трубач Пит Келли, управляющий оркестром, переживает не самые радостные дни. Например, приходится играть на заказ для разных заносчивых барышень с дурной репутацией. Одна такая - Айви Конрад - поклонница Пита и досаждает ему своим заигрыванием. Или же приходится держать оборону против рэкетиров: гангстер Фрэн МакКарг хочет получать процент от скудных заработков коллектива, предлагая взамен свою защиту. В оркестре разногласия среди музыкантов. Пит оказывается на грани отчаяния...

The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she wanted all the church bells to ring for three days after she was buried, but is told that this will cost a lot of money. The checks that he writes to the various churches all bounce, but it is the weekend and, in desperation, he prays that a miracle will happen before the banks reopen. It does, but not in the way he hoped.

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to her death.

Singer Ann wants back her money that the manager of a big-band has embezzled.

Two actors who play detectives on the radio find themselves investigating a real crime masterminded by an arch-criminal named the Cobra.

The teens of a defense-plant town hop on the road to juvenile delinquency while their parents are busy with the war.

Leon Errol wants to retain his secretary; complications ensue.

Errol is mistakenly involved in the raid of a burlesque show where he had innocently gone in order to hire some talent, including a fan dancer, for his lodge show.

Эми, молодая, не имеющая друзей дочь Оливера и Элис Рид, заводит знакомство с призраком первой жены своего отца и нелюдимой стареющей актрисой.

On a trip to New York, a small-town blowhard gets caught between a wealthy widow and a gold digger.

A client offers mail-order private detective Edgar $5,000 for finding $50,000 in a kitchen wall of a residence he claims to own.

Edgar decides the 4th of July fireworks celebration in town is too much for his nerves, and he and his wife Sally and her brother will take a nice drive out into the countryside and have a nice, peaceful picnic. His first mistake is inviting the sons of his neighbor to go with them, and his second is picking an Army artillery firing range as the location of the picnic.

Mrs. Errol, rehearsing for a play but keeping it a secret from Leon, forces him to take a taxi, as she needs the family car. The taxi driver tells Leon a tale of a love triangle that sets Leon's imagination on fire. He follows his wife and discovers her rehearsing a love scene with an actor, and he thinks it is real. He is leaving when he hears a pistol shot and rushes back, to discover his wife stuffing a dummy in a hamper, but he thinks it is a real body. To protect his wife, Leon steals the hamper, and is almost lynched by a crowd who also thinks the hamper contains a real body.

Leon Errol and his wife try to prevent their nephew's romance.

Leon Errol and his wife try to prevent their nephew's romance.

Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien's charity bazaar with predictable results.

Salesman Leon Errol joins a polo club to secure an order from a tough-sell member. He manages to gum up the deal for his company and gets fired.

Salesman Leon Errol joins a polo club to secure an order from a tough-sell member. He manages to gum up the deal for his company and gets fired.

Whitley and his singing group want to make time with young ladies at a finishing school...and vice-versa. However, the old matron in charge threatens to shoot Ray and his men so they come up with a plan to trick her.

Edgar starts a trailer vacation with his wife Vivien and father-in-law, but doesn't get far before they are overtaken by two men from the finance company, who repossess the trailer for non-payment. Edgar discovers that Pop had failed to mail the money order he had given him for the payment. He also finds some other items Pop failed to take care of.

Edgar is a census taker, but is primarily interested in finding a rich widow for his father-in-law (Billy Franey), so he won't have to continue to support him. All Pop wants to make him happy is a cow. When Edgar comes home with both a cow and a phony rich widow, the results are not what Edgar planned for.

Edgar Kennedy is over-joyed when told he has won a $5,000 prize in a "How To Be Happy Though Married" contest. A reporter interviews Edgar and his wife Vivien who tell him about their engagement and elopement. Then Viviens father tells them that according to a law he has found in a law-book, they aren't legally married. After a series of misadventures, they learn that the law is a new one and that the Kennedy marriage is legal.

53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

53rd episode of RKO's "Mr. Average Man" Series starring Edgar Kennedy.

Protecting himself in an attack by rustlers, Rancher Steve Holden believes he has killed one of the attackers, young Bud Mathews, who in reality has warned Holden of the rustlers' approach. Unaware that Mathews was actually killed by rustler boss Cass Barton, Holden heads out to Mathews' home town where he plans to tell the boy's family of his death but instead uncovers a plan by a local businessman to force Mathews' father out of his ranch.

Harry's grandfather's spirit inhabits his old policeman's uniform, which is being used in an amateur play.

A gunfighter and his partners clear a Spanish rancher charged with murder.

While his wife and mother-in-law are away on a vacation, Errol sub-lets their apartment and the new tenants throw a wild party.