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This jazz musical short has a comedy plot about marital infidelity. Bandleader Cab Calloway plays a ladies man who dates the wife (Fredi Washington) of a train porter who is…

In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of buccaneer Captain…

A spinster dressmaker falls for a ne’er-do-well.

Nan Reynolds encourages her copywriter husband Bill to open his own agency. Nearly out of business, he finally gets a client. Former girlfriend Patricia Berkeley writes a very successful commercial…

The switchboard operator in an apartment building falls in love with a businessman who lives in the building, whom she has gotten to know only over the phone. When she…

Naive Ezekial Cobb, brought up by his missionary father in China returns to America to seek a wife. Corrupt politicians enlist him to run for mayor as a dummy candidate…

Actress Jessica Wells, sister of actor Damon Wells, is on top of her form except when her husband Vance is around. When Vance takes her to the apartment of a…

Leaving Missouri to find a wealthy husband in New York City, Eadie Chapman becomes a chorus girl and soon entertains at the lavish home of millionaire Frank Cousins. Cousins proposes…

John Travers and Yak, his faithful Indian sidekick, pick up where a murdered sheriff leaves off, and try to nab the mysterious Shadow.

Stan and Ollie travel to the mountains for Ollie’s health, and park their caravan near a well into which a gang of moonshiners have earlier dumped their moonshine; and the…

The Great McGonigle and his troupe of third-rate vaudevillians manage to stay one step ahead of the bill collectors and the sheriff.

Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with…

Betty takes a trip to the beach and needs the assistance of a big, hunky lifeguard when she rides her rubber horsy out too far!

An elderly woman provides an alibi to a man she scarcely knows who is on trial for murder of his girlfriend’s racketeer father.

Charlie is hired to deliver a pearl necklace to a millionaire at his ranch. When murder intervenes he disguises himself as a Chinese servant and begins sleuthing.

Young Alice Mason wishes to start a family, but because her own has been deemed “defective” by the state health authorities—her parents are lazy alcoholics who continue breeding, and her…

Eddie Ellison is an ex-con who spent time in Sing-Sing prison. Kay marries him as soon as he serves his time. Five years later, Eddie and his ex-convict buddy Larry,…

Olive runs some kind of boarding school. She serves her charges a huge bowl of spinach, but they are less than enthusiastic about it. Popeye comes by and demonstrates the…

Popeye sees Olive going into the Bruiser Boys Club, where she works in the hospital ward. Their motto, “Can you take it?”, is a clear challenge to Popeye. President Bluto…

A safecracker goes straight after doing a stretch for a bum rap. He agrees to do one last job for his “pals”.

A woman returning to her island birthplace finds herself drawn to a voodoo cult.

An unwed mother watches as her illegitimate son is raised by others. Director Lambert Hillyer’s 1934 drama stars Jean Arthur, Richard Cromwell, Donald Cook, Anita Louise, Jane Darwell, Mary Forbes…

There are plenty of guilty secrets at the school where Hildegarde Withers teaches. When she finds the body of the pretty music teacher, she calls in her old friend Inspector…

A traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial.

A British officer stationed in Ireland falls for the wife of an intelligence man.

A young man desperately in love with a nightclub singer sees an opportunity to spend some time alone with her when they’re traveling through the Nevada gold country, and he…

American Civil War, 1862. After the disaster of the Second Battle of Bull Run, Major Allen, chief of the Secret Service of the Union, asks actress Gail Loveless to become…

Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig…

Bandits lead by Matt the Mute enter a bar and kill multiple people. Randy Bowers comes to town and is framed by Matt the Mute, who is working with the…

A young couple struggling against poverty must keep their marriage a secret in order for the husband to keep his job, as his boss doesn’t like to hire married men.

Val takes the assistance of a society reporter and a journalist to investigate the disappearance of her half-sister Arlene, a wealthy socialite who is involved in criminal activities.

Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York’s Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him…

An heiress abandons an out-of-work husband, two sons and a lovesick daughter.

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws…

A young lady named Hilda who works as a servant for the wealthy Clarksons, sheep farmers, and dreams of being a great singer. An upcoming visit by Sir Julian, a…

Vicki Wallace takes great pleasure in teasing her husband Tony who takes no pleasure at all in being teased and it isn’t long before he ups and clips her on…

A reporter interviews Max Fleischer about his creation, and Betty illustrates with excerpts from three prior cartoons.

Shortly before the curtain goes up the first time at the latest performance of Earl Carroll’s Vanities, someone is attempting to injure the leading lady Ann Ware, who wants to…

Catherine and Mack and their close friends Chris and Madge graduate from a West Coast college and fly to New York City to find work.

Letty, a young woman who ended up pregnant, unmarried and on the streets at fifteen is bitter and determined that her child will not grow up to be taken advantage…