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Broken Toys, 9minutes
Directed by Ben Sharpsteen
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Jeu, Films about toys, Children's films

Une poupée de marin cassée se retrouve dans une décharge. Elle n'est pas seule et d'autres jouets cassés s'approchent d'elle. Insufflant par une chanson un nouvel espoir aux jouets, ils se rassemblent et se réparent avant de rejoindre un orphelinat tout proche où ils font alors la joie des enfants.
Bonnie Scotland, 1h20
Directed by James W. Horne
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, June Lang, Anne Grey, Lionel Belmore, Vernon Steele

After escaping from jail where they had "one more week to serve," Laurel and Hardy travel to Scotland as stowaways on a cattle boat, where Laurel (as "Stanley McLaurel") believes he is heir to his grandfather's fortune. As it turns out, Laurel has only been bequeathed a set of bagpipes and a snuff container).Use of the latter causes Hardy, trying to demonstrate to Laurel the proper way to use snuff, to fly off an old bridge. His clothes are soaked.
The Good Fairy, 1h38
Directed by William Wyler
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Margaret Sullavan, Herbert Marshall, Frank Morgan, Reginald Owen, Eric Blore, Beulah Bondi

Luisa Ginglebusher (Margaret Sullavan) is a young, naive orphan who is given a job as an usherette in a Budapest movie palace. Detlaff (Reginald Owen), a waiter she meets in the theatre, takes her to an exclusive party where, to hold off the advances of Konrad (Frank Morgan), a meat-packing millionaire a little too fond of drink, she picks a name from the phone book to be her "husband", hoping to do a good deed and divert some of Konrad's wealth to someone else.
Becky Sharp, 1h24
Directed by Lowell Sherman, Rouben Mamoulian
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Political films, Films based on plays, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Miriam Hopkins, Frances Dee, Cedric Hardwicke, Billie Burke, Nigel Bruce, Alison Skipworth

Becky Sharp (Miriam Hopkins), a socially ambitious English young lady manages to survive during the years following Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
Water Babies, 7minutes
Directed by Wilfred Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Mel Blanc, Clarence Nash

Le soleil se réveille sur un calme lagon sur lequel les nénuphars s'ouvrent pour révéler des "bébés d'eau" endormis. Peu après leurs réveils, une parade aquatique est annoncée. Elle les emmène sur la terre ferme pour d'autres festivités. Parmi les festivités, il y a un combat entre un bébé toréador et un crapaud buffle, un rodéo sur des grenouilles. Le soir venu, les bébés retournent sur le lagon, dormir dans leur nénuphars après une prière.
We're Not Dressing, 1h14
Directed by Norman Taurog, Benjamin Glazer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Bing Crosby, Carole Lombard, George Burns, Gracie Allen, Ethel Merman, Ray Milland

Spoiled socialite Doris Worthington (Lombard) is sailing the Pacific with her friend Edith (Merman) and her Uncle Hubert (Errol), while being courted by Prince Michael (Milland) and Prince Alexander (Henry). She is bored, however, and finds entertainment in verbal sparring with one of the sailors, Stephen Jones (Crosby). During one of their battles, Doris slaps Stephen, who retaliates by kissing her and gets fired. In a drunken accident, Uncle Hubert runs the yacht onto a reef in the fog. Stephen rescues the unconscious Doris as the others flee the capsized ship, and everyone makes it to the tropical island although the princes claim credit for Doris’s rescue. Unfortunately, the only person with any survival skills is Stephen, and the socialites are quick to demand that he gather food and build shelter. Stephen attempts to divide up the work but the haughty passengers snub his leadership so he fends for himself. The smells from Stephen’s dinner of mussels and coconuts soon entice the hungry passengers to gather their own food; all except Doris, who tricks Stephen to get his food and gets slapped in turn. The group is forced to cooperate, although Doris remains indignant and infuriated.
The Wise Little Hen, 8minutes
Directed by Wilfred Jackson, Burton Gillett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about birds, Mise en scène d'un canard, Children's films
Actors Clarence Nash, Pinto Colvig, Mae Questel, Florence Gill

Une mère poule et ses poussins recherchent de l'aide pour planter un champ de maïs, mais les deux voisins, le canard Donald Duck et le cochon Pierre le Cochon, font tout pour éviter le travail. Elle parvient à leur donner une leçon à la fin du dessin animé.
Babes in Toyland, 1h17
Directed by Charley Rogers, Gus Meins, Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Musical films, Films about toys, Buddy films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Billy Bletcher, Charlotte Henry, Baldwin Cooke, Jean Darling

Stannie Dum (Stan Laurel) and Ollie Dee (Oliver Hardy), live in a shoe (as in the nursery rhyme There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In A Shoe), along with Mother Peep (the Old Woman), Bo Peep (Charlotte Henry), a mouse resembling Mickey Mouse (and actually played by a live monkey in a costume), and many other children. The mortgage on the shoe is owned by the villainous Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon), who is looking to marry Bo Peep. Knowing the Widow Peep is having a difficult time paying the mortgage, Barnaby offers the old woman an ultimatum – unless Bo Peep agrees to marry him he will foreclose on the shoe. Widow Peep refuses, but is worried about where she'll get the money to pay the mortgage. Ollie offers her all the money he has stored away in his savings can, only to learn that Stannie has taken it to buy peewees (a favored toy consisting of a wooden peg with tapered ends that rises in the air when struck with a stick near one end and is then caused to fly through the air by being struck again with the stick). He and Stannie set out to get the money for the mortgage from their boss, the Toymaker (William Burress). But Stannie has mixed up an order from Santa Claus (building 100 wooden soldiers at six feet tall, instead of 600 soldiers at one foot tall) and one of the soldiers, when activated, wrecks the toy shop. Stannie and Ollie are fired without getting the money.
Twentieth Century, 1h31
Directed by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about television, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films based on plays
Actors John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly, Dale Fuller, Edgar Kennedy, Ralph Forbes

Ebullient Broadway impresario Oscar Jaffe (Barrymore) takes an unknown lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Lombard) and makes her the star of his latest play, despite the grave misgivings of everyone else, including his two long-suffering assistants, accountant Oliver Webb and the consistently tipsy Owen O'Malley. Through intensive training, Oscar transforms his protegée into the actress "Lily Garland", and both she and the play are resounding successes. Over the next three years, their partnership spawns three more smash hits, and Lily is recognized as a transcendent talent.
This Man Is Mine, 1h16
Directed by John Cromwell
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Irene Dunne, Constance Cummings, Ralph Bellamy, Kay Johnson, Charles Starrett, Sidney Blackmer

Tony and Jim Dunlap are happily married. However, the dull-but-dependable Jim had been in love with Fran Harper, a school friend of Tony's, before he was married to Tony, and Fran has just been divorced. Now Fran is coming their way, bringing her pick-up boyfriend Mort Holmes along, and she intends to steal Jim from Tony. Tony sees Fran as a reminder of her own mother, who left Tony's father and caused him to drink himself to death. Thus, Tony is determined to avoid meeting Fran. However, they meet at the house of their friends Jud and Bee McCrae, and Fran goes off with Jim after everyone has left. When Tony finds that Jim and Fran have been together, she threatens to divorce him. However, Tony eventually beats Fran at her own game, and wins Jim back.
Evelyn Prentice, 1h19
Directed by William K. Howard
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors William Powell, Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Una Merkel, Harvey Stephens, Isabel Jewell

John Prentice est un district Attorney de grande renommée. Il est marié à Evelyn et est père d'une petite fille. John délaisse toutefois sa femme, vivant une relation adultère avec une de ses clientes Nancy Harrisson. Evelyn, se sentant seule, fait la connaissance par l'intermédiaire d'une amie d'un poète nommé Lawrence Kennard qui lui offre un de ses ouvrages. Charmée par l'homme qui lui fait des avances, Evelyn Prentice échange une série de lettres avec lui et commence une liaison avec lui, ignorant qu'il est un escroc. Au plus fort de sa liaison adultère avec le faux poète qui veut aller plus loin avec elle, Evelyn se sentant coupable décide de mettre un terme à leur relation. Lawrence Kennard va tenter de faire chanter Evelyn par le biais des lettres qu'il a conservées. Tentant de les récupérer, Evelyn tue son amant d'un coup de révolver. Une autre femme est accusée du meurtre. S'ensuit un procès qui sera mené par John, ignorant que le crime a été commis par sa propre femme.
The Flying Mouse, 9minutes
Directed by Dave Hand
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Films about animals, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Gertrude Lawrence, Pinto Colvig, Marcellite Garner, Clarence Nash

Pendant que ses frères s'amusent et que sa mère en lave un, une petite souris regarde avec envie les oiseaux volant dans le ciel et décide de voler elle aussi. Mais la tâche n'a rien d'aisé...
The Gold Ghost, 21minutes
Directed by Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Western
Actors Buster Keaton, Warren Hymer, William Worthington, Lloyd Ingraham, Leo Willis, Billy Engle

Buster éconduit roule sans but. Il arrive dans le Nevada dans la région des Gold Ghost. La ville fantôme s'appelle Vulture (un vautour l'attends sur l'enseigne de la maison du shérif). En même temps que Buster s'autoproclame shérif de la ville, le gangster "Bugs" Kelly crash son avion. Buster joue au shérif et sympathise avec Bugs. Mais 2 mineurs redécouvrent la filon d'or qui a fait la richesse de la ville. Les gens affluent et avec eux, le béguin de Buster. Mais les coups de feu pleuvent sur la ville et Buster doit assumer sa nouvelle position pour faire bonne figure. Avec l'aide de Bugs, il maitrise tous les hors-la-loi et regagne le cœur de sa fiancée.
Murder at the Vanities, 1h29
Directed by Mitchell Leisen
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Victor McLaglen, Carl Brisson, Gertrude Michael, Jack Oakie, Kitty Carlisle, Dorothy Stickney

Jack Ellery (Oakie) is staging a lavish musical revue, starring Eric Lander (Brisson), Ann Ware (Carlisle), and Rita Ross (Michael), supported by a cast of a hundred background singers/dancers (almost all women, and many scantily clad) and two full orchestras. On opening night, just before the show, somebody tries to kill Ware several times. Ellery calls in police lieutenant Murdock (McLaglen) of the homicide squad to investigate. During the show a private detective and then Rita are murdered. Ellery hides this from the rest of the performers, claiming the victims are just sick, and talks Murdock into investigating while the revue continues on, otherwise Ellery will go broke.
Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back, 1h23
Directed by Roy Del Ruth
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Children's films
Actors Ronald Colman, Loretta Young, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Warner Oland

Bulldog Drummond's partner Algy is set to wed. Bulldog attends the wedding but on his return home in the deep foggy night he wanders into an old mansion of Prince Achmed in search of a telephone. To his shock he finds the corpse of an old man. Bodies keep disappearing as Drummond attempts to contact the authorities, including neighbour Captain Nielsen. But a woman is on the case, Gwen, who is the daughter of the dead man.