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, 56minutes
Directed by Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Crime
Actors Dick Purcell, Ann Sheridan, Anne Nagel, William Hopper, Dennie Moore, Hugh O'Connell
Rating55%
At a hunting lodge retreat, banker Hubert Kingery (Eric Stanely) announces to five fellow officers that one of them has forged documents and embezzled $500,000. Before the evening is over, Kingery is shot dead and the police officially rule it a suicide. Kingery's daughter Gwen (Anne Nagel) doesn't agree and asks for help from her aunt's nurse, Sarah Keate (Ann Sheridan), who suggests her detective boyfriend, Lance O'Leary (Dick Purcell), for the case. O'Leary has all of the suspects return to the lodge and begins his investigation. Stuck in the snowbound shelter, the suspects and victims begin to pile up.

, 1h17
Directed by H. Bruce Humberstone
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jane Withers, Rochelle Hudson, Robert Wilcox, Steffi Duna, Katharine Alexander, José Crespo
Rating57%

, 1h5
Directed by James Whale
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Madge Evans, John Boles, Bruce Cabot, Marion Martin, Gene Lockhart, Nana Bryant
Rating57%
A passenger aircraft crashes in mid-Pacific and some of the survivors reach an island inhabited only by an American, Jim Taylor, with his Chinese servant, Ping. He declines to help them, telling them to build their own shelter and gather their own food and, though he has a boat and fuel, refusing to take them off. The reason why he wants to remain undisturbed, we learn, is that he is wanted for murder. In time his attitude to the intruders softens as they, despite endless bickering, manage to form a working community and he finds himself increasingly drawn to an attractive young nurse, Anne Wesson, who is running away from her husband. When the boat is prepared for a trip to civilisation, two crooked businessmen from the party steal it with Ping on board. In a fight, he kills them both and, fatally wounded, brings the boat back. The rest can then escape.

, 1h25
Directed by Alfred Santell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Fred MacMurray, Harriet Nelson, Ben Blue, Eve Arden, Rufe Davis, Billy Lee
Rating62%
Johnny Prentice, a bandleader in Chicago with a bad temper, alienates some of his musicians and is in danger of losing custody of Half Pint, his son. He hires Linda Rogers to be the boy's tutor.

, 1h13
Directed by Hal Roach, John G. Blystone, John Sherwood
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Mafia films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Buddy films, Gangster films
Actors Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Walter Woolf King, Eric Blore, Anita Garvin, Charles Judels
Rating65%
Stan and Ollie are mousetrap salesmen hoping for better business in Switzerland, with Stan's theory that because there is more cheese in Switzerland, there should be more mice.

, 1h1
Directed by Lew Landers
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about disabilities
Actors Richard Dix, Eduardo Ciannelli, Paul Guilfoyle (acteur, 1902-1961), Whitney Bourne, Walter Miller, Richard Lane
Rating55%
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Directed by Del Lord
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Buddy films
Actors Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, James C. Morton, Bud Jamison, Lucille Lund
Rating75%
Curly wins $50,000 from writing a catchy jingle for a radio contest. The boys quickly spend their loot, and check in at the Hotel Costa Plente. Their suite is furnished with many expensive items which they systematically destroy. In the process, three gold diggers connive their way into the boys' room, under the guise that they are three rich widows looking to remarry. This works perfectly, as Curly quickly discovers that all the tax deductions reduce his winnings to a minuscule $4.85. The boys hastily agree to marry the ladies, who soon find out the Stooges are broke and give them what for.

Directed by David Butler
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Tony Martin, Marjorie Weaver, Slim Summerville, John Carradine, Berton Churchill, Mary Treen
Rating57%
Radio singer Tony Martin's rating are slipping, so he makes travel plans to the Southern United States to find new talent. The Ritz boys get wind of Tony's pending trip. Marjorie Weaver and the Ritz Brothers make a trip to Kentucky. There they pose as hillbillies in order to be discovered.