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Directed by Edward SedgwickOrigin USAGenres ComedyActors Buster Keaton,
Jimmy Durante,
Roscoe Ates,
Phyllis Barry,
John Miljan,
Henry ArmettaRating56%
Elmer J. Butts, taxidermist, goes to a dry rally, where he follows the beautiful Hortense and her gangster boyfriend Butch Laredo into the meeting hall. He sits by Hortense, only to be thrown out after the speaker asks if they want liquor back in this country, and he calls out “Yes!” The next day, Jimmy Potts, driving a car covered in pro-booze stickers, brings a fish to Elmer’s shop for stuffing. It's Election Day, and there's a referendum on Prohibition on the ballot. Jimmy convinces Elmer to vote wet, and they go to the polls only to cause confusion and collapse the booths., 1h39
Directed by Ralph Murphy,
George Marshall,
Frank Tuttle,
A. Edward Sutherland,
Lewis AllenOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
MusicalThemes Films about music and musicians,
Musical filmsActors Betty Hutton,
Eddie Bracken,
Victor Moore,
Walter Abel,
Anne Revere,
Cass DaleyRating65%
Pop Webster (Victor Moore) is a former silent movie star once known as "Bronco Billy" who now works as the guard on the main gate at Paramount Pictures. However, he's told his son Johnny (Eddie Bracken), who's in the Navy, that he's the studio's Executive Vice President in Charge of Production. When Johnny shows up in Hollywood on shore leave, Pop and the studio's switchboard operator Polly Judson (Betty Hutton) go all-out to maintain the illusion for Johnny and his sailor friends that Pop's a studio big-wig. Things get a bit complicated when Pop offers to put on a variety show for the Navy, featuring all of Paramount's stars, but Polly convinces Bob Hope and Bing Crosby to do the show, and they convince the rest of the stars on the lot., 1h7
Directed by Edward SedgwickOrigin USAGenres War,
Comedy,
Action,
AdventureThemes Military humor in film,
Political films,
Buddy filmsActors Stan Laurel,
Oliver Hardy,
Edgar Kennedy,
Jacqueline White,
Stephen McNally,
Nella WalkerRating61%
Set during World War II, just after Pearl Harbor, Stan (Stan Laurel) and Ollie (Oliver Hardy) try their hand at various business ventures. Their store opens and closes in various guises but without success. They finally open it as a bicycle store, but it goes bankrupt and they close it down to enlist in the army. They fail in every attempt to succeed in the military and return to their home town Huxton only to find out that their store now is open, with a man named Eustace Middling (Donald Meek) in charge, selling radios instead of bicycles. But Middling offers the unfortunate brothers to share the space in a joint venture. Stan and oliie don't realize that Middling in fact is a German spy, using the shop as a front to cover a base for espionage on the US Military. The brothers also join the civil defense by becoming air raid wardens in Huxton. To complete their training, they have to take part in an advanced military drill, and Stan of course manages to get the wrong assignment—one that is far more complicated than they can handle. They set out on their mission, to rescue a very prominent banker, J.P. Norton (Howard Freeman), from a fire. They fail hugely with their mission, ending up burying the banker alive in a huge load of sand. Still, they are given one more chance to prove their aptitude as air raid wardens, involving the task of ensuring that all the town citizens turn off their lights at night. They get into a quarrel with one of the more troublesome inhabitants, Joe Bledsoe (Edgar Kennedy), resulting in a commotion and a rumor that spy activity is taking place in Joe's home. The brothers are knocked out, and in the end they are finally dismissed from the corps altogether. When they return to their shop, they happen to overhear the psies speaking German, and follow them to a hide-out outside of town. They find out that Middling's real name is Mittelhause, and overhear him talking about blowing the town's magnesium plant to pieces with another spy, Rittenhause (Henry O'Neill). The brothers try to send a message to the civil defense, but instead they are captured by the German spies. Stan accidentally knocks out one of the spies and the boys manage to flee and alert the civil defense, who arrive at the plant just in time to stop the sabotage. Stan and Ollie also expose Middling as a German spy., 1h27
Directed by Ralph MurphyOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ComedyActors Irene Hervey,
Hattie McDaniel,
Skip Homeier,
John Sutton,
Rose Hobart,
Beverly WillsRating64%
The plotline involves a young tomboy named Mickey (Butler) with a beautiful singing voice, who is torn between singing and playing on her baseball team. Meanwhile, Mickey trying to make her widowed father fall in love with her neighbor's aunt, Louise (Hervey), a woman who is helping Mickey try to be more ladylike so she can become her best friend's love interest., 1h30
Directed by Edward SedgwickOrigin USAGenres War,
Comedy,
HistoricalThemes Political filmsActors Red Skelton,
Brian Donlevy,
Arlene Dahl,
George Coulouris,
Lloyd Gough,
John IrelandRating65%
In 1865, Aubrey Filmore works as a bell boy at the Palmer Hotel in St. Louis. Aubrey wants to work as a spy for the Union Government, and contacts Colonel Clifford M. Baker at the Union Secret Service, to ask if he can be of service in their elite spy unit. Aubrey has asked before, and the answer from Colonel Baker is still no.Directed by Buster Keaton,
Edward Sedgwick,
Roy RowlandOrigin USAGenres Comedy,
Musical theatreThemes Sports films,
Transport films,
Films about automobiles,
Auto racing films,
Road moviesActors Red Skelton,
Sally Forrest,
Macdonald Carey,
Jane Darwell,
Monica Lewis,
William DemarestRating61%
Amateur inventor Joe Belden has his Indiana hometown in a tizzy over his new "horseless carriage" in 1895. It runs on gasoline, but the townspeople aren't impressed and only Joe's mom and his sweetheart Liz Bullitt are supportive. , 1h20
Directed by Edward SedgwickOrigin USAGenres ComedyActors Marjorie Main,
Percy Kilbride,
Richard Long,
Meg Randall,
Ray Collins,
Emory ParnellRating67%
Ma and Pa Kettle come home after their fun and exciting trip to New York City only to find out that they're going to become grandparents. Tom's wife Kim is expecting a child. As Tom frets about the pregnancy, the whole Kettle household is happy with the family's newest addition. Right in the middle of their breakfast the Kettles receive a telegram delivered by Alvin, the Western Union delivery boy, from Jonathan and Elizabeth Parker (Kim's parents) declaring that they will soon arrive at the Kettle house to see the newborn.