Roast-Beef and Movies
A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
George Givot
Gus Parkyurkarkus
Curly Howard
Bogus Movie Producer (as Jerry Howard)
Bob Callahan
Bogus Movie Producer
Ed Brady
Gunman in Fictitious Film Scene (uncredited)
Ann Dvorak
Chorine (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Burrows
Vocalist (uncredited)
Dorothy Granger
Easter Wester (uncredited)
Warren Hymer
Man at Gunpoint in Fictitious Film Scene (uncredited)
Si Jenks
Producer (uncredited)
A trio of amateur film makers try to persuade a group of studio executives to exhibit their new movie.
Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big name stars to appear, while the studio's creditors attempt to thwart them.
Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and their unpleasant classmates, becoming a constant thorn in Mother Superior's side. However, as the years pass, Mary and Rachel slowly mature and begin to see the nuns in a different light.
A medicine man is sent looking for the son of his tribal king, and brings back an American golfer and a host of goons intent on keeping him in the golf tournament.
Will is looking for an escape from his family when he encounters Lee, the school bully. Armed with a video camera and a copy of Rambo, Lee plans to make his own action-packed video epic.
A movie producer who made a huge flop tries to salvage his career by revamping his film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
When the owner of the Minnesota Twins passes away, he bequeaths the team to his preteen grandson. The newly minted head honcho quickly appoints himself manager, causing unrest in an organization that struggles to take orders from a 12-year-old.
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion after Ollie's sweetheart rejects him.
When an upwardly mobile couple find themselves unemployed and in debt, they turn to armed robbery in desperation.
12-year-old Henry Rowengartner, whose late father was a minor league baseball player, grew up dreaming of playing baseball, despite his physical shortcomings. After Henry's arm is broken while trying to catch a baseball at school, the tendon in that arm heals too tightly, allowing Henry to throw pitches that are as fast as 103 mph. Henry is spotted at nearby Wrigley Field by Larry "Fish" Fisher, the general manager of the struggling Chicago Cubs, after Henry throws an opponent's home-run ball all the way from the outfield bleachers back to the catcher, and it seems that Henry may be the pitcher that team owner Bob Carson has been praying for.