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A con man tries to blackmail a Mexican gangster.

Chester Wooley and Duke Egan are travelling salesmen who make a stopover in Wagon Gap, Montana while enroute to California. During the stopover, a notorious criminal is murdered, and the…

Rip Smith’s opinion-poll business is a failure…until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run…

Even though Mickey’s evening started slow and lazy, things get moving in a hurry when Minnie calls from outside the big dance, wondering why he’s late. Luckily his best pal…

Jiminy Cricket hosts two Disney animated shorts: Bongo about a circus bear escaping to the wild, and Mickey and the Beanstalk, a take on the famous fairy tale.

A mysterious thief has stolen the prosperous Happy Valley’s most prized possession: the musical Singing Harp. Can Mickey, Donald, and Goofy find the answer in the irritable Willie the Giant’s…

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as ‘Gruesome’, has found out about a scientist’s secret formula for a gas that temporarily…

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To…

A beautician and her crooked boyfriend attempt to rob the bookie operation located in the back room, but when the plan goes wrong, they frame an innocent man.

An Irish rascal and inveterate gambler uses his considerable skills at the gaming tables of New Orleans to become fabulously rich.

A young dance student accidentally cripples a teacher she doesn’t like.

An orphan helps a doctor fight an epidemic in a small western town, in one of Allan Dwan’s closely observed studies in Americana.

A car accident traps two men inside a car near the water. With the tide coming in, they discuss the circumstances that led up to the accident.

A straitlaced turn-of-the-century father presides over a family of boys and the mother who really rules the roost.

Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain….

Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive…

Shemp has to get married within seven hours in order to inherit $500,000. Now that’s incentive! The bumbling threesome set to work right away with hilarious results.

A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.

An attempt to bring the work of surrealist artists to a wider public. The plot is that of an average Joe who can conjure up dreams that will improve his…

Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her sister Judge Margaret Turner….

Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a…

Sheltered by her conservative parents, a small-town teenager finally goes out on a date.

Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.

Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she’s approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes…

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy’s mate.

An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

Upset at a new Broadway musical mocking The Nine Muses, Greek goddess Terpsichore comes down to earth to land a part in the show and change it.

In this chronicle of a vaudeville family, Myrtle McKinley (class of 1900) goes to San Francisco to attend business school, but ends up in a chorus line. Soon, star Frank…

A woman uncovers deadly secrets when she visits her late husband’s family.

A man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of soldiers just out of the army. But which one? And why?

The daughter of a Nevada casino owner gets involved with a racketeer, despite everyone’s efforts to separate them.

After the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during…

Story of an investment agent who embezzles a large sum from an estate, hoping to cover his crime by marrying the estate’s heiress. The girl is already engaged, so he…

A mysterious Civil War veteran courts a Missouri farmer’s daughter amid postwar unrest.

A shy California farm girl falls head-over-heels in love with Barry Burnett, a fugitive from a chain gang building a road through the wilderness.

A grandson of a recently deceased millionaire mistakes a beautiful female disc jockey for her aunt, who once dated the grandfather.

“Kilroy Was Here” was a popular expression during World War II, but it’s not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes…

A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.

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…

Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins’ dreams of escape keep him going, but how can…