Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con artists who have bugged rooms and suites, with the title of "professional listener", and he passes off what he hears to his employers, Lulu, Trixie, Maurice and Champ and they use the information for blackmail purposes. They also so involve his sweetheart, Toots, that he can not withdraw even when he finally learns he is being used as a tool.
Cinematic Era: 1937 Vintage
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A really nice mood bomb from Danish films golden age in the comedy genre! Peter Malberg is the somewhat goofy - but very much in love author Peter Strøm. He has fallen for the publisher's daughter, Else Fischer (played by one of the 30s biggest divas, Gull-Maj Norin). The same has just happened to the bright journalist Fritz Faber, who also intends to fight for the young Else. Naturally, this creates the classic intricacy and it all happens on board the Great America-steamer.
Det begyndte ombord
6.8 1937 • Cinematic -
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
The Private's Job
6.2 1937 • Cinematic -
A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
La Rose effeuillée
9.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.
Night of Mystery
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
An orphan girl becomes adopted by a group of old men and is placed in the home of one of them. She sings and dances and helps out where she can.
45 Fathers
4.5 1937 • Cinematic -
Inside the electrochemical "brain" of the traffic light.
Seeing Green
0.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Action for Slander
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
At a ball at the Metropol, the married Margit gives a harmless kiss to a one-time friend from her childhood and cousin, Eberhard. The two notice, however, that Margit's ill and jealous husband observed them from a distance, because he recognized the coat she recently purchased. Quickly, Margit asks the salesgirl Trude to put on her coat and meet Eberhard in the lobby. Things take a decidedly different turn, however, when Trude and Eberhard fall madly in love with each other.
Ball at the Metropol
8.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
Make-Up
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Captain's Orders
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
The ancient families of Kont and Hadhazy have long been at war with each other. Lord Cont is a supporter of Vienna's rule, while Hadhazy is a follower of the Hungarian revolutionary Kossuth. Lord plans to fight Hadhazy at an approaching county meeting. Vicky, the beautiful and savvy daughter of Hadhazy's family, just before this, returns home from a Swiss boarding school for young girls, expelled because of her behavior. Vicky, dressed in a man's costume, goes to defend her father and with the honor of a nobleman fights the young scion of a family hostile to her. The young man's name is Feri Kont, and he mistakes the young man's introduction to Vicky for her brother Kalman Hadhazy. The political conflicts between the two families are mitigated by love complications. A misunderstanding at a county ball is brought to light, and the two warring camps are reconciled through the love of Vicky and Feri.
Viki
8.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A small town Ohio barber accompanies his ditzy wife to Atlantic City, where she competes in the Happy Noodle Company's Mrs. America Contest.
Meet the Missus
6.5 1937 • Cinematic -
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Saga kaibyōden
0.0 1937 • Cinematic -
At a forest skating rink, a wolf persistently looks after a hare and is about to take her home.
Don't Bite Here
0.0 1937 • Cinematic -
An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes her go on stage in the most basic outfit. A revelation, success is at his doorstep! However, the young woman would prefer a virtuous life and a serious marriage to the easy but immoral existence offered to her by the world of entertainment.
Cinderella
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
In this war film, set in 1817, an American Army captain searches throughout Spanish-ruled Florida for his brother who has been abducted by an evil Don. En route he begins to romance the daughter of the Don.
Drums of Destiny
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
It’s Not Cricket
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A 15 episode serial in which Blake battles the "Scorpion" over possession of a 'death ray' machine.
Blake of Scotland Yard
3.7 1937 • Cinematic -
This Traveltalks visit to India starts in Baroda. We see how the maharajah of Baroda lives in his large castle. His opulent lifestyle includes many servants, as well as animals covered in expensive fabrics. The animals parade before the cameras. We then go to Agra, the site of the magnificent Taj Mahal temple.
India on Parade
7.3 1937 • Cinematic -
Philo Vance investigates a series of murders among members of the wealthy Greene family.
Night of Mystery
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Captain's Orders
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Wanted!
9.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
Aren't Men Beasts!
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A hungry little pig eats a couple of pies off the windowsill. When it's time for dinner, he ties together the spaghetti of all the other little pigs and eats it all. That night, he has a nightmare where he is force-fed by a mad scientist.
Pigs Is Pigs
6.3 1937 • Cinematic -
"The Russian Cold" - Kalle Brodin, the leader of the Swedish communists, just released from a short prison term, don't know what to do with the directives that comes from Moscow.
Ryska snuvan
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.
Partners in Crime
8.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Emanuel Pokorný, a bachelor, is to join a rural church school as a professor. Before leaving, however, he finds an infant abandoned in his room. Since he has no time to search for the child's parents, he secretly takes the child to the boarding house. And from that moment on, there is no end to his travails...
Girls, Stand Fast!
7.8 1937 • Cinematic -
Il feroce saladino
8.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Youth on the March
0.0 1937 • Cinematic -
While trying to track down Butch, Spanky and Alfalfa get caught up in a dance recital.
Rushin' Ballet
6.7 1937 • Cinematic -
Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble.
Lost and Foundry
6.9 1937 • Cinematic -
Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly finishes a mere second in the Oaks, Harry's snooty fiancee, Muriel, who never liked the setup anyway, disgustedly heads for greener pastures. Harry promptly marries Peggy, and, after an official investigation of the Oaks' results, Brownie gets revenge on the fickle Muriel.
Racing Romance
8.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Working for a slick restaurateur who has fallen for her, a down-on-life songstress falls instead for a crusading crime reporter, unaware that her employer is the secret head of the city's major gambling machine racket and has a penchant for murdering anyone who gets in his way.
King of Gamblers
7.5 1937 • Cinematic -
Jim Dorn endeavors to protect Jean McNain from a man she knows has committed a murder, Carter Snowden
The Mysterious Pilot
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Tex and his pals join the Rangers to fight rustlers along the border. When Doc and Pee Wee get framed for rustling and then jailed, Tex deserts the Rangers, crosses the border, and joins up with the outlaw gang hoping somehow to clear his pals.
Riders of the Rockies
4.3 1937 • Cinematic -
A cowboy helps a pretty young woman find lost gold. Restored by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Harlem on the Prairie
7.5 1937 • Cinematic -
A series of gags at a dog show, including a stage revue. A dog gets into a trunk of roller skates and crashes through the stage show.
Dog Daze
6.3 1937 • Cinematic -
Signal in der Nacht
8.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Polish comedian Adolf Dymsza cross-dressing and masquerading as a woman in order to gain the confidence of his sweetheart's domineering guardian.
The Screw-Up
6.8 1937 • Cinematic -
A Japanese wartime film directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Marching Song
0.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Unbeknown to each other, a husband and wife acquire separate nightclubs in the same London street; however, both clubs are on the brink of bankruptcy.
Let's Make a Night of It
6.0 1937 • Cinematic -
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
Life Dances On
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now attacking his fortune.
La Bête aux sept manteaux
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A cowboy is arrested for rustling cattle. A lynch mob is formed by his buddy to try and arrange an escape in the confusion. Things go wrong.
Valley of Terror
6.3 1937 • Cinematic -
Christof Peleikis is a seasoned sailor who once served as a helmsman on many ships. Since having a wife and child, he works as a fisherman and lives in a small village. When a ship gets into trouble off the coast one day, Christof rushes to its aid. He manages to save the ship and its crew, but one of the helmsmen is killed. Christof is eventually persuaded by the alluring captain's wife, Evelyn, to take the man's place. Without saying goodbye to his family, he sets sail...
Heimweh
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.
Amateur Crook
5.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Jerry and Connie are engaged to be married, but they're also rival newspaper reporters, and when they're both assigned to cover the same murder case, the temptation to out-scoop the other threatens their relationship.
There Goes My Girl
7.5 1937 • Cinematic -
A pro-Republican drama/propaganda film made during the Spanish Civil War.It tells the story of Manolo, a young worker who, after the military coup, joins the militias to fight for freedom.
And What Do You Do?
6.5 1937 • Cinematic -
Miss Klutz is the worst dancer that has ever enrolled at the school ran by Maestro Boris Cobblier, and he is even considering giving her money back to get rid of her, a consideration not to his financial liking. But the owner of a competing dance school has lost her prize dancer and calls on Cobblier with a request to borrow one of his dancers. Seeing a way to kill two birds with one stone---get rid of Miss Klutz and ruin a competitor---he gladly loans Miss Klutz out. But things don't work out just as he had planned.
Bashful Ballerina
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
An insurance investigator tracks a series of robberies to a gang who are hiding the stolen jewels in the produce of a bakery.
The Last Curtain
6.7 1937 • Cinematic -
Three "spinsters" focus their attention very narrowly on their nephew, in his first phase of adulthood. Éloi, handicapped by his shyness, behaves a bit awkwardly. He falls under the unfortunate influence of a couple of haddocks. The love of a pretty blonde woman will save him from this embarrassment.
My Aunts and I
10.0 1937 • Cinematic -
"Howdy" Nelson believes there is no such think as real love and that romance can be cooked up between any eligible persons (of the opposite sex.) He is so imbued with the idea that he has established a summer camp for that reason,and has written a play on the subject. The Yacht Club Boys visit the camp, misrepresenting themselves as Broadway producers, and the talented guest of the camp put on Nelson's play...which all ends up with a lot of marriage mating; Judy and Skipper, Betty Jane and Stanley and...Gwen and "Howdy,' the guy who was positive there was no such thing as true love.
Thrill of a Lifetime
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Brave Rooster fools a mischievous Fox who has tries to eat at his table.
Uncalled Guest
0.0 1937 • Cinematic -
Among the Gruber family, the rumor spreads like wildfire that their wealthy American relative, Menyhért Gruber, is visiting Hungary with his daughter, Mary. Various plans are devised to exploit the rich relative. The boldest of them all is the plan of Bálint Koltay, who directly pursues Mary's hand. However, the young ones fall in love with each other so deeply that Bálint stands by Mary even when the "wealthy" Gruber informs him that he's bankrupt. At this point, the only thing left to arrange is for Bálint, who poses as a landowner, to actually present a noble castle to his future father-in-law.
The Borrowed Castle
8.5 1937 • Cinematic -
A jealous trapeze star decides he must eliminate his romantic rival.
Circus Girl
6.5 1937 • Cinematic -
On a cattle drive Hoppy, camp cook Windy, companion Lucky, and young Artie Peters encounter an eccentric professor. The professor professes to be searching for the evolutionary missing link, but in reality he is a cattle rustler who uses his dynamite to scatter the cattle in order capture some of them. Hoppy and Bar 20 guys ultimately capture the professor.
Hopalong Rides Again
6.3 1937 • Cinematic -
A 12-episode serial in which Tim Tyler goes to Africa in search of his father in gorilla country. He meets up with Laura, who is after Spider Webb who has framed her brother. Webb causes the death of Tim's father, but is eventually tracked down.
Tim Tyler's Luck
7.0 1937 • Cinematic -
A newsman with a no-good wife exposes a religious racket with a newswoman who loves him.
The Women Men Marry
6.3 1937 • Cinematic -
Drenge til Skovs
0.0 1937 • Cinematic