John Berkes

John Burrows, an ordained minister from a small village in the East, envisions himself with a larger congregation. He is mortified when his wife drunkenly interrupts a sermon, then despondent after her suicide. Burrows travels to Los Angeles for a fresh start, but takes to the bottle himself and ends up arrested for public intoxication. A skid-row con man, Gandy, finds him a bed at a flop house, while a street preacher, Doc Thorssen, and daughter Christine take him to a local mission. Christine is blind. She falls in love with Burrows, enjoying his discussions of the spirit and the soul but knowing little of his past. One day she is struck by a streetcar and knocked unconscious, causing Burrows to once again question his faith. He ultimately accepts the Lord's will and is offered a better place to live and preach. Burrows decides he is better suited to the mission, with Christine by his side.

Журналист Чарльз Тэйтум, работавший ранее на крупную нью-йоркскую газету, вынужден из-за своего пьянства сменить место работы и перебирается в глухую провинцию. Он надеется дать новый старт своей карьере, однако, в течение целого года не может найти достойную тему. Однажды он узнает, что неподалеку некий Лео Миноза застрял в старой индейской шахте и не может оттуда выбраться. Чарльз решает, что это именно то, что он так долго искал, и начинает раздувать из этой истории большую сенсацию…

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as child.

Mary Scott learns she only has ten months to live before dying of an incurable disease. She manages to keep the news from her husband, Brad and daughter, Polly. She tries to make every moment of her life count, but her effort is weakened by the discovery that Brad is interested in his assistant, Chris Radner. But when she learns that Brad does indeed love her and not Chris, and that Chris is leaving town, she realizes what she must do to ensure the future happiness of Brad and Polly. She persuades Chris to stay, makes a genuine friend of her and watches Polly grow towards Chris.

Emery Slade was one of the brightest stars in Hollywood in 1932, but by 1949 his career has hit the skids. Fortunately, he is able to convince studio head Melville Crossman to cast him in the adaptation of a hit Broadway show. Crossman has one condition: Slade must travel to New York and convince the female star of the stage production to join the film. Slade goes, but, when he eyes the winsome Julie Clarke, he hatches a different scheme.

Conceited singer Garry Mitchell refuses to renew his radio contract, so agent Doug Blake decides to find a new personality to replace Garry. In New York, he finds Martha Gibson, a single mother with a great voice. He arranges for her to move to Hollywood, but then has a problem trying to sell her to the show's sponsor. Doug tries every trick he can think of to make Martha a star, and as the two work more closely, he falls in love with her. Complicating matters further is when Martha meets and becomes attracted to Garry.

When two US cavalrymen transporting a gold shipment get killed, US Army Intelligence investigator John Haven goes undercover to a mining and logging town to find the killers.

Молодожёны мистер и миссис Кент постоянно подозревают друг друга в неверности. Кроме того, уже третий год подряд они не могут поехать в свадебное путешествие в связи с неотложными делами мистера Кента. Пользуясь сложившейся ситуацией, миссис Кент решает сказать мужу, что поедет одна, но на самом деле отправляет в круиз вместо себя случайную знакомую - певицу из клуба "Каса" Джорджию Гэррет, чтобы самой остаться в Нью-Йорке и попытаться застукать мужа "с поличным". В свою очередь, мистер Кент нанимает частного детектива Питера Вёрджила, чтобы проследить, чем будет заниматься его супруга во время путешествия.

Rival reporters (George Brent, Joan Blondell) investigate a Hollywood star (Adele Jergens) and the box she receives with a dead man inside.

Желая начать новую жизнь после возвращения с войны, городской пижон Боб покупает фермерское угодье с большими планами на развитие-взращивание кур и последующей продажей яиц. Правда, своими планами он не поделился со своей новоиспеченной супругой, городской штучкой Бэтти. У молодых разные взгляды на ферму, которая на самом деле требует больших усилий, чтобы превратиться в место, пригодное для жилья и ведения бизнеса. Боб и Бэтти знакомятся со своими соседями, среди которых Бэтти ждет настоящее испытание для терпения: гламурная соседка Харриет Путнэм определенно имеет виды на Боба.

История менеджера игорного клуба в Нью-Йорке, который после двух связанных с клубом убийств оказывается в центре сложной интриги с участием своего криминального босса, полицейского инспектора и двух влюблённых в него женщин.

От пуль наемных убийц погибает скромный служащий бензоколонки. Страховой агент Реардон расследует это на первый взгляд случайное преступление. Раскручивая нить жизни погибшего «Шведа», Реардон раскрывает тайну кровавых преступлений и предательств, в центре которых ослепительная женщина-вамп Китти Коллинз. Он слишком близко подходит к давней загадке исчезнувших 250 000 долларов и теперь у него появляется новая задача: выжить!

A pair of married ex-convicts trying to go straight get jobs at a department store. A gangster who knows about their past threatens to expose it unless they agree to help him rob the department store.

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.

Soon after a young woman breaks off her engagement to a doctor, the doctor is found murdered. Suspicion falls on his ex-fiancé and a pilot with a checkered past.

A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian.

Действие фильма происходит в маленьком городе в штате Висконсин. 7-летняя Сельма и 5-летний Арнольд живут на соседних фермах и дружат едва ли не с пеленок. Отец дарит Сельме новорожденного теленка, которого она называется Элизабет. Нельс — редактор крупного журнала. Виола — новая школьная учительница, приехавшая из большого города. В то время как Нельс надеется жениться на Виоле, та не хочет оставаться в городе, где никогда ничего не происходит…

Фильм повествует о взрослении девочки, которая старается сохранить идеализм, несмотря на окружающие ее жестокие реалии, в том числе нищету и алкоголизм отца.

Two bumbling magicians help a Middle Eastern prince regain his rightful throne from his despotic uncle.

Joan Bannister is the wife of globe-trotting war correspondent David Bannister. Returning to the US, Bannister becomes suspicious when Joan begins keeping company with known Nazi functionaries, notably the sinister Mr. Peter. Suspecting that his own wife may be the elusive “Madame Spy” wanted by American authorities, Bannister is in for quite a few surprises.

A young boy donates his pet, a police dog, to the army to be trained as a war dog.

A seemingly charitable soup kitchen operator (who moonlights as a criminology professor) uses his Bowery mission as a front for his criminal gang. Police attempt to close in on the gang as they commit a series of robberies, murders and bizarre experiments on corpses.

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, America was rife with rumors about the size of Japan's armed forces and how well-equipped they were to wage war against the U.S. Using animation, the first part of this film dispels these rumors by showing that the U.S. had more raw materials and more fighting ships. The narrator also cautions moviegoers against spreading rumors (which are often initiated by enemy infiltrators to create fear and dissention) and believing everything they read in the newspapers. Just because "they say" something, that doesn't make it true.

Two Army sergeants disrupt a bar, a party and an Army-Navy dance.

Police detectives battle the League of Murdered Men, a gang of resurrected dead criminals.

В центре истории соперничающие репортеры Сэм и Тесс, которые влюбляются в друг друга и женятся. Однако брак совершенно не успокаивает их накаленные отношения…

Gene Autry heads a cattlemen's association and calls on the inexperienced Jim Agnew to negotiate the sale of five hundred heads of cattle. Jim ends up losing the cattle in a crooked poker game, however, and Gene and his sidekick Frog set out to find the cheating gamblers. It soon becomes clear that the leader of the gamblers is none other than Asa Lock, the dastardly father of Gene's romantic interest Stephanie.

In this Warner Bros. short film, Alex visits his sister Belinda and her husband Fred. It looks like Alex is going to be around for a while, much to Fred's displeasure. Alex in is New York to look for a job and he sees an ad for a champagne salesman. He decides to crash a swank party given by railroad tycoon J.D. Swinnerton and his wife. Alex has his own zany way of getting an introduction to the man. Mayhem ensues when several of the guests come as Robin Hood and one of them is a jewel thief.

A cabbie and petty thief dreams of the big heist that will end his thieving ways.

A divorced glamour girl keeps warm with a professor amid sports and romance at Dartmouth College's Winter Carnival.

Newspaperman (Whalen) looks into the deaths of bond-carriers while romancing a show girl (Rogers).

Now that they're engaged, Ann wants Joe to retire from the ring, seeing as how he's the heavyweight champ. Ann's mother, who doesn't want her daughter marrying "beneath" the wealthy family's standing, to set Ann up with a European count. What the mother doesn't know is that the "count" is after the family's money more than he is Ann.

Фильм рассказывает о реально существовавшем «Черном Легионе», который был ответвлением Ку-клукс-клана и действовал в Соединенных Штатах Америки в 1930-х годах. Фрэнк Тейлор, работник завода в Детройте, присоединяется к «проамериканской» группировке, выступавшей против иностранцев и иммигрантов, занимавших рабочие места и обвиняя именно их в растущей безработице. Растущие потребности его семьи, давление со стороны Легиона, в ряды которого он вступил, все более амбициозные планы по поводу работы и повышения в должности, все ведет Фрэнка на путь преступления. Сначала Легион помогает ему занять место мастера, спалив ферму и силой посадив в поезд предыдущего талантливого работника, назначенного мастером, который был из числа иммигрантов. Но когда Тейлор попытался выйти из состава Легиона, ему пригрозили расправой с семьей…

The Palooka gang is out of money again, and Knobby and Johnny try to raise some quick cash by selling phony watches. Their first sale is their last, when a burly customer realizes he's been had. Next stop, Joe, Knobby and Punchy load up at a local diner, and Knobby has a scheme to skip out on the bill. Of course, the diner owner turns out to be their watch customer, and the boys make a hasty exit with the manager's waitress girlfriend in tow. Knobby books Palooka into a local vaudeville house to put on some exhibition bouts. Of course, their friend from the diner is in the audience, with a bag of rotten tomatoes, and he's more than willing to come on stage when Knobby asks for a volunteer to box with Joe.

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.

Joe Palooka and Strangler Chokeovitch have set up training camps on adjacent beachfront sites. When Joe knocks out the Strangler after a misunderstanding, Chokeovitch's manager challenges the champ to a professional wrestling bout, with the winner taking all the gate receipts.

Before the big fight, Joe and his opponent come to blows at their hotel. Palooka knocks him out and the fight has to be postponed.

Johnny's freeloading brother Henry will go to any length to bet on a tip at Belmont, including stealing from Junior's piggy bank. When Johnny's mother-in-law tells them to take Junior to the dentist to have a tooth pulled, and gives them $2 for the doctor, the game is afoot. The money goes to Henry's bookie, and the boys decide to pull Junior's tooth themselves... by tying a string onto the back bumper of a car. But a pet parrot spills the beans, and mother-in-law goes chasing after them with fire in her eye, and a fireplace poker under her coat.

This early comedy short has Bob Hope and John Berkes putting on sailor uniforms to find dates, getting mistaken for real sailors and being dragged back to a Navy ship by the shore patrol. Though not much plot, the short does give each star a chance to shine doing comedy bits both together and separately.

Boxer Joe Palooka steps into the ring after a friend's dog gets kicked.

Henry and Johnnie need to clean the apartment before the wives get home.

An aspiring photographer and his bumbling assistant go to great lengths to take a picture of a beautiful actress whose wealthy husband does not want her photographed.