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Climbing to fame, Irish-American composer Ernest R. Ball romances a showgirl, who catches the eye of an underworld character.

A nightclub star helps trap an enemy agent on the trail of an American newsman.

In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by mine owner…

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man’s old…

A police lieutenant is determined to bust the gang of crooks selling defective automobile tires.

Eminent psychiatrist Dr. Brenner invites cartoonist Bill Harrison and his wife, Jack, to a banquet honoring war refugees. Bill volunteers to pick up fellow psychiatrist Dr. Baumler at the train…

Jan-Erik Widgren meets the lonely Bertha Olsson, a woman struggling with alcoholism. Though Bertha is already linked to Caligula, Jan-Erik’s heartless teacher, she begins a relationship with the boy anyway….

Hafiz, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle…

When Rocklin arrives in a western town he finds that the rancher who hired him as a foreman has been murdered. He is out to solve the murder and thwart…

A lonely child, neglected by her parents, encounters and befriends a German Shepherd, but she’s unaware the animal is a military dog being trained for service in WW2.

When allied troops liberate a small battle-scarred Belgium town in 1944 the American and British commanders do all they can to help the war-weary people back on their feet. There…

Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.

A young bride who comes from a rich family has a hard time adjusting to life in a boarding house with other soldiers and their wives. Her spoiled ways cause…

During World War II Stan and Ollie find themselves as improbable bodyguards to an eccentric inventor and his strategically important new bomb.

An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet into…

A small-town girl with a soft spot for American soldiers wakes up the morning after a wild farewell party for the troops to find that she married someone she can’t…

A ranch owner fires his ranch hands and brings in women to replace them. The owner’s daughter wants the male hands back and comes up with a plan to do…

Taking all the places on both teams, Goofy demonstrates the game of football with varying results, having problems with the coach and the goal post.

Newly-married Gary Ainsworth (Dennis O’Keefe) once gave his former sweetheart Mabel (Gail Patrick) a sexy negligee with his initials embroidered in the lacework. It is Gary’s unenviable task to retrieve…

In this Gothic tale, a returning WW2 vet goes looking for a small-town girl whom he knows only from letters. It’s the pretext for an off-beat treatment of sexual frustration…

Standing before a divorce court judge are Sergeant Andy Anderson and Janie Anderson asking him to dissolve their marriage. Janie’s father, William Smith, objects and the judge allows him to…

Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home…

Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she’s spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.

Blonde goddess Marika Rökk plays Julia Koster, a ravishing red-headed musical revue star and her opening number, “At Night It Isn’t Right To Be Alone”, playing to a packed theater,…

Cass Brown is about to marry for the second time; his first marriage, to Isabel was annulled. But when he discovers that Isabel just had their baby, Cass kidnaps the…

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

People from different walks of life mysteriously find themselves at the gate of an unknown city

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.

Chinese detective Charlie Chan solves a murder linked to the occult.

Two bumbling plumbers are hired by a socialite to fix a leak. A case of mistaken identity gets the pair an invitation to a fancy party and an entree into…

A Brooklyn showgirl gets mixed up in a divorce between a soldier and his wife.

Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties…

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure….

“Spare me!” pleads the mouse to the dumb lion who just caught him, “And some day I’ll save your life.” Once out of the lion’s clutches, though, the mouse taunts,…

The Falcon travels to Mexico where he gets involved with murder and a mysterious painting.

In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube’s gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar’s village when Count Orso is found murdered. The wicked baron blames the gypsies and imprisons…

The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to London, thanks in…

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey, and his subsequent ascent to…

Don’t be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It’s a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat…