Search results for "1937"

In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

An American woman falls in love with a romantic Parisian head waiter who tries to save her from her possessive wealthy ex-husband who wants to keep her under his control.

The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations…

A professor, Komiya, and his bossy wife, Tokiko, are to look after Setsuko, their high-spirited niece from Osaka. Despite being a minor, Setsuko is a liberated woman who does whatever…

British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash-land in the Himalayas, where they are rescued by the inhabitants of the hidden, idyllic valley of Shangri-La. Protected by…

An evil prison administrator cruelly abuses the inmates at his prison, until one day the tables are turned.

A boy and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Two reporters pose as man and wife in order to get the goods on a munitions supplier and the rumours of war in Europe.

When a crafty reporter uses false pretenses to get a story out of heiress Tony Gateson, she turns the tables on him, telling the press that they are engaged. Suddenly…

Hoppy goes undercover as an outlaw (which permits him, for once, to drink and be mean to children) to track down a bunch of outlaws operating along the border. Loco,…

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

Dick Tracy’s foe for this serial is the crime boss and Masked Mystery Villain The Spider/The Lame One and his Spider Ring. In the process of various crimes, including using…

A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.

His role in the plight of an unemployed man (Humphrey Bogart) and his disabled daughter profoundly affects an intractable Irish policeman (Pat O’Brien).

An Australian opera singer hires a husband so she can work in the U.S. Moore sings “Minnie the Moocher” in one scene.

A new Broadway show starring Gary Blake shamelessly lampoons the rich Carraway family. To get her own back, daughter Mimi sets out to ensnare Blake, but the courtship is soon…

Paradiset is a boarding house in the archipelago of Stockholm, run by the strict Elvira Pettersson, and with a large variety of guests. Her maid Lotta quits her job but…

It’s race day, and first prize is $2 million (less $1,999,998.37 in taxes). Porky’s little car is matched against cars driven by stars of yesteryear, including Laurel and Hardy and…

A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

Donald continually heckles Mickey’s magic act, but Mickey bests him at every turn. Donald shoots off a magic pistol that causes all the stage props to fall down on them…

A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the “Scorpion” over possession of a ‘death ray’ machine.

When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates foreigners through violence.

Pépé le Moko, one of France’s most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave…

A remake of Frank Capra’s Submarine (1928), Devil’s Playground is a snappy Columbia “B plus” picture starring Richard Dix and Chester Morris. Submarine officers Dorgan (Dix) and Mason (Morris) battle…

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder,…

Drummond manages to save a woman from jumping in front of his car but she runs away with his car. He traces her and she asks him to help her…

Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has…

Ambitious reporter Torchy Blane guides her policeman boyfriend to correctly pinpoint who shot the man she was interviewing.

‘The Penny Pool’ (1937) features Duggie Wakefield and his Crazy Gang who come to the assistance of young lovers Tommy Bancroft and Renee Harland, who have been sacked from their…

American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the…

The rarest of Laurel and Hardy films this side of The Rogue Song (1930), That’s That is a gag reel made up of alternate takes and bloopers said to have…