Writer Peter Voss is faking a bank robbery, to find the robber of a rare jewelery.
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Writer Peter Voss is faking a bank robbery, to find the robber of a rare jewelery.
A truant officer mistakes Windy Bear for a very large schoolboy playing hooky.
A secretary at a publishing company, Birgitta, writes a novel, based on her secret love of her boss. She sends it anonymously to her own company, who decides to publish it. The book becomes a success. Birgitta's husband's mistress get hold of the script and confesses that *she* wrote the novel. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
The action takes place in 1714 in the London royal palace of St. James. The Duchess of Marlborough, the favorite of the weak-willed queen, skillfully rules the state. Her political opponent, former minister Lord Bolingbroke, dreaming of restoring his influence at court, successfully wages a cunning war against the duchess, using the rivalry between the queen and the duchess of Marlborough, who are in love with the young officer Mesham.
In his first and only venture into filmmaking, Dutch comedy icon Toon Hermans tells the story of Jeep Moutarde. Mr Moutarde's house is threatened by the owners of the Knik Knak sausage factory who want to tear it down and build a sausage factory in its place. Fortunately, the other villagers — including a French wine seller, the village priest and Moutarde’s new love Helen, an English biologist — want to help him.
Pauline Carton hosts a revue of Paris stripteasers
A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts".
Barba Giannis the potter tries to match Krinio with the wealthy Alexandros Harisis. Her mother Margarou and her uncle Platon feel very lucky, but Krinio is in love with Loukas and can no longer bear her mother's pressure.
Antonis is the nephew of the good-hearted grocer Harilaos Toukouras. He is slothful and lazy but he is the only heir to his uncle, who considers marriage as the only solution to his nephew’s problems. That’s why he is looking for a bride for him by checking the newspaper ads. Due to a printing error, an ad for the sale of a sewing machine appears in the personal ads column, bringing uncle and nephew to the house of a serious and honest estate agent who has two single sisters.
The Big Bad Wolf's proper little nephew has learned at school that his uncle was the fiend who blew the Three Little Pigs' houses down and is ashamed that his uncle could have committed such a deed, so his uncle tells him what REALLY happened.
Foundling Beaky Buzzard is adopted by a couple of polite, English sparrows named Monte and Gwendlyn. When Monte tries to teach lame-brained Beaky to catch a chicken, Beaky's ineptitude results in Monte being repeatedly struck with a mallet and caught in a grenade explosion.
The Five Greats of Good Humor (Los Cinco Grandes Del Buen Humor), a group of comic actors that emerged in the 1940s: Luz, Carret, Gueñol, Rico and Cambón, film a movie in Mar del Plata.
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
The stooges are dance instructors sent by a movie company to a tropical island to teach the natives how to dance so they can appear in a movie. The boys run into trouble with the local witch doctor who wants to add their heads to his collection. The stooges defeat the witch doctor with hand grenades they swipe from a multi-armed idol, and get on with the dancing lessons.
Three women share the same apartment and the same goal, to find a wealthy husband and settle down.
Two young men try to make it big as musicians.
Rosa Maria, whose father is a sailor, was picked up by Tomé, having a child of her son Renato, who is expelled from home.
Sonja Broberg needs to make extra money so she offers to help the author Johannes Porshammar with his latest novel about single mothers, a subject he knows very little of. However, Sonja is also single but borrows a young boy from a kindergarten, claiming to be his mother. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
Beliche, a naive postman, suffers from depression because he has almost no letters to deliver. The neighbors to whom Beliche takes their correspondence decide then to launch a plan to receive many more.
The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
First mate Knud Karlsen has just received sad news from his girlfriend. On board the ship is also chef Valdemar, sailor Ole, owner's confident son Robert and a whole bunch of eager sailors. On board develops the drama out every minute, culminating in the film's climax, when a fire breaks out on board
Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a pipe dream until one day fortune smiles on him when he saves the life of a young woman. Gisèle, the young lady in question, happens to be the daughter of a car manufacturer. Robert and Gisèle fall for each other and decide to marry. They get on quite well except on one point: Gisèle does not want her husband to take part in car races. But passion is the strongest and, breaking the ban, Gilbert wins the La Baule car event. Overcoming her aversion, Gisèle finally allows her husband to pursue his brilliant career.
Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.
A few aspects of Tahiti, whose inhabitants lead an easy, idle life.
A street vendor and a servant theater, newly unemployed, accidentally swap their briefcases trinkets for one of three bandits who just rob a bank. The chase, which also involves two "rapas" only ends when, aided by a chorus girl, unwittingly participating in a musical number of the show's theater company.
A bandit and his horse find out that a big shipment of gold bullion is being shipped by train, so they make immediate plans to hijack it. As fate would have it, Woody Woodpecker is the train's guard.
Story of staid college professor gathering data for a thesis in criminal psychology who becomes the object of a night-club singers affections.
Costas is known as the "Prince". Now that he has learned of the arrival of the Greek-American Paralis and his daughter Vera, for whom Paralis is looking for an aristocratic groom, he decides to appear before him as a real prince.
Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predators, finding true romance in the arms of Raymond Pellegrin.
Two retired Bavarian traffic police officers and a Berlin detective work together to track down jewelry thieves.
A passing truck spills a variety of hats, causing Elmer and Bugs to change personalities in rapid succession to fit the headgear they wind up wearing.
This cartoon is a parody of the then current TV show, "Dragnet". Police are warned of an escaped criminal, "The Bat", who possesses a super strength tonic.
Martin the vagabond is cheerful and musical like few others. Together with his new friend Anders, he sings his way to a meal and a place to sleep. During a performance, Anders meets the daughter of Bakkegaarden, whose mother has been a widow for a long time and may have a past with Martin. But not all the local farmers are equally fond of the two wandering charmers.
Two ghosts who died in a turn-of-the-century duel and now haunt a theater attempt to help a girl who's in danger from bank robbers.
Amado is an employee of a brewery that dreams of success in football. Inveterate dreamer sends a letter to the pantheon of athletes. There champions Assembly decides to send the spirit of a great scorer for help. However, the devil, a fighter with no luck, decides to take the place of the player and turn beloved wrestling champion. This is one of the first incursions of Mexican cinema to the sub-genre of movies precursor struggle and many others that followed over the decades of the 50s and 60s.
In need of a new vehicle, Joe goes to the Cagey Car Company lot to get a used car,... with predictable results.
The inhabitants of the quiet mouse village are thrown in a panic when it is learned that that a strange planet is approaching. The planet lands and throngs of bat-winged cats attack the mice with strange weapons. But Mighty Mouse arrives and sends the invaders fleeing.
At a used car lot, Mr. Magoo is intent on buying a car for his nephew Waldo. He is slick talked into buying an old clunker thanks to a shifty salesman but he drives it off anyway. Unfortunately, the myopic Magoo drives off a pier and under the ocean where he mistakes the various aquatic surroundings such as fish, sunken boats, and seals for other cars, dilapidated mansions, and a horn happy driver respectively.
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
A scientist invents the portable hole, only to have a thief steal his samples to go on a crime spree.
These dueling one-act comedies highlight the work of playwright John Mortimer. In "The Dock Brief," an ill-prepared attorney is put to the test when his client confesses to killing his wife. In "What Shall We Tell Caroline?" a father with good intentions tries to protect his wife and daughter from the bad things in life.
A comedy film taking an ironic view of the bourgeois period prior to the First World War.
When the mice at home, none of which are Herman, become to much for Katnip the cat, he decides he needs a vacation in the Catskill Mountains. Once there, he gets rough treatment from mosquitoes, ants and fish. He returns home to find the mice have baked him a coming-home cake, that, since the candle is a stick of dynamite, explodes in his face, thereby making him feel at home.
Joe Besser needs money to pay back a loan of $2500 and travels to ask his aunt for the money. She boards the train, along with a man who looks like a wanted bank-robber, and tells Joe she needs $2500 herself and can not help him. Between them they capture the bank robber and split the $5,000 reward.
The title of this cartoon is a misnomer, because it is in fact Tweety Bird who is the homeless one here, and Sylvester is Granny's pet. Tweety seeks shelter from a blizzard and taps on Granny's house door. Sylvester answers and grabs the canary. He tries to hide Tweety from Granny while evading the attacks of Hector, Granny's bed-ridden bulldog, who wants revenge on Sylvester for his broken leg. Tweety keeps escaping Sylvester's clutches, with Hector's help.
An elderly mouse tells the bedtime story of Little Red Riding Hood to her grandson, who visualizes the tale in cat-and-mouse terms, with himself as Red and Sylvester as the Big Bad Wolf.
On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.
A girl makes a young man move away from his girlfriend and she goes with her friend.
An unemployed musician is called to teach piano lessons to the daughter of a wealthy man, the girl tries to make him fall for her, while the wife tries to use him to make her husband jealous. When he refuses she threatens to fire him.
The film revolves around a happy couple, but the wife's mother works to spoil the relationship between the couple, and indeed succeeded in spoiling the relationship and was divorced despite the couple's love for each other, and also succeeded in marrying her daughter again from a wealthy person.
A field commissioner tries to solve the problems of his village.