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, 8minutes
Directed by Clyde Geronimi
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Transport films, Rail transport films, Films about dogs, Mise en scène d'un rongeur, Mise en scène d'une souris, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Walt Disney, Lee Millar, Billy Bletcher
Rating69%
Leaving for vacation, Mickey Mouse and Pluto arrive at a train station in Burbank, California (home of Walt Disney Productions headquarters). They board a west-bound train, but are both immediately kicked off by the conductor, played by Pete, because dogs are not allowed (side gag reveals Pluto's luggage to contain bones). Pete then rambles off the train's destinations and forces his watch to tell him when the train is ready to leave. When the watch does show its time for the train to go, Pete calls "All aboard!"

Directed by Bob Clampett
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about pigs, Court métrage de Porky Pig, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Mel Blanc
Rating64%
Porky décide d'aller pêcher le lendemain et dit à son chat. Le chat dort mal. Le jour suivant, alors qu'ils pêchent, le chat entre dans une bataille avec un poisson volant qui se comporte plutôt comme Daffy Duck.

Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Crime
Actors John Hubbard, Wendy Barrie, Edgar Kennedy, Elizabeth Patterson, Onslow Stevens, Joyce Compton
Rating68%

Directed by John Rawlins, Ford Beebe
Origin USA
Genres War, Action, Adventure, Crime
Actors Billy Halop, Huntz Hall, Gabriel Dell, Bernard Punsly, Hal E. Chester, Phillip Terry
Rating63%
A group of saboteurs called the "Order of the Flaming Torch" who are trying to undermine the "social order" of the United States kidnaps several prominent scientists, including the father of a local street gang member. The gang team up with the FBI and the "Junior G-Men" in order to stop the saboteurs.

, 1h35
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Max Ophüls, Jean Faurez
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Themes Political films, Films about royalty
Actors Edwige Feuillère, John Lodge, Aimé Clariond, Jean Debucourt, Jean Worms, Gabrielle Dorziat
Rating67%
Après la mort de son cousin Rodolphe lors du drame de Mayerling, l'archiduc François-Ferdinand, neveu de l'empereur François-Joseph, est devenu l'héritier de la couronne d'Autriche-Hongrie. Prince éclairé, François-Ferdinand envisage une réforme de l'empire, basée sur l'égalité entre ses peuples. Il rencontre la comtesse Sophie Chotek, dont il tombe amoureux et qu'il décide d'épouser, bravant ainsi son oncle. Leur histoire d'amour se terminera tragiquement lors de leur assassinat à Sarajevo.

, 9minutes
Directed by Harry Watt, Humphrey Jennings
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Documentary
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Documentary films about cities, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Quentin Reynolds
Rating69%
The film opens with shots of the London streets in late afternoon, as people begin their commute home. The narrator reminds the audience that these people are part of the greatest civilian army the world has ever known, and are going to join their respective service before London's "nightly visitor" arrives. Listening posts are stationed as far away as the coastline and the "white fingers" of searchlights touch the sky.

, 8minutes
Directed by Louis Debney, Jack Kinney
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors John McLeish, Florence Gill
Rating68%
Dingo suit les consignes d'un manuel pour apprendre à voler sur un planeur.

, 1h16
Directed by Leslie Goodwins
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lupe Vélez, Leon Errol, Donald Woods, Elisabeth Risdon, Cecil Kellaway, Grant Withers
Rating59%
This script must be run from the command line

, 58minutes
Directed by Noel M. Smith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors George Reeves, Rosemary Lane, Virginia Brissac, Edwin Stanley, Ferris Taylor, James Hayter
Rating52%
Wealthy Alice Bond (Rosemary Lane), dissatisfied with her dishwater-dull fiance Marshall Winkler (John Eldredge), throws him over in favor of Michael Stevens (George Reeves). To make certain that her new beau will be acceptable to her parents, Alice contrives to have Michael enter a mayoral campaign. As election day draws close, criminals complicate matters.

, 1h8
Directed by Frank R. Strayer
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Glenn Ford, Penny Singleton, Larry Simms, Arthur Lake, Jonathan Hale, Irving Bacon
Rating64%
Dagwood Bumstead has been caught possessing illegal fireworks and now he tries to make up for this by taking his wife Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch for 4 July celebrations. The ranch is a peaceful place in the country, but trouble starts already on the way over there, when the Bumsteads board the wrong train and have to hitchhike most of the way. The young couple that picks them up, Millie and Charlie, are on their way to get married and elope together, without their parents' consents. The Bumsteads have to accompany the young couple to court and the wedding ceremony, but the wedding is interrupted by Millie's father, Mr Tucker, storming in with a shotgun. Mr Tucker then takes the car, with Dagwood, his son and their dog still in it, and drives off. Charlie is forced to take Blondie to Aunt Hannah's ranch, and in she encourages him to have another go at marrying Millie and elop. unfortunately he twists his ankle on the way, and a very reluctant Dagwood has to take his place and go and fetch Millie from her (and her father's) home. Dagwood accidentally climbs through the window to Millie's father's bedroom, and is held at gunpoint. He flees head over heels and is chased around the property. His son discovers what he thinks is some kind of fireworks and lights it, but it is in fact a dynamite stick. When the dynamite explodes it rips up a hole in the ground, and in doing so, opens up an oil well. Millie's father is so happy over the new source of income that he consents to Charlie marrying his daughter after all, and the Bumsteads finish their weekend holiday at the hospital, in peace and quiet.

, 1h5
Directed by Sidney Salkow
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Warren William, Eric Blore, Bruce Bennett, Thurston Hall, Jed Prouty, Fred Kelsey
Rating60%
After admonishing his butler Jamison (Eric Blore) for conning money and adding a rare Cuban stamp to his coveted collection, former jewel looter and current detective Michael Lanyard (Warren William, also known as the Lone Wolf, flies back to Miami from Havana. He meets the gorgeous Patricia Lawrence (Frances Robinson) on board the plane. Initially shy, Lawrence decides to confide in Lanyard about her troubles — one of her mail-sender boyfriend Scotty's (Bruce Bennett) clients was killed some time ago after assigning Scotty to send a package stashed with dollar notes. Descending at the Miami airport, they are ambushed by kidnappers Chimp (Edward Gargan), Mr. Lee (Lester Matthews), and Big Joe Brady (Don Beddoe). The swift Lone Wolf outruns the criminals with Lawrence. He hides the retrieved stack of money in a hotel safe, but is discovered by Inspector Crane (Thurston Hall) and his assistant Dickens (Fred Kelsey), along with Miami police head Captain Moon (Jed Prouty). Lanyard evades capture and sets out to arrest the three villains on his own. The detective also realises that his prized stamp collection has also been swiped away by Big Joe Brady. He manages to track them down and has the police arrest them. Exonerated, the Lone Wolf mulls over missing an important stamp convention.

, 1h55
Directed by Richard Oswald
Origin German
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Spy films, Prison films, Films about racism, Films about religion, Films about capital punishment, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Fritz Kortner, Grete Mosheim, Heinrich George, Albert Bassermann, Oskar Homolka, Ferdinand Hart
Rating63%
En septembre 1894, le service de renseignement français prend connaissance d'un incident d'espionnage à Paris. Des secrets militaires auraient été transmis à l'attaché militaire allemand à Paris, Maximilian von Schwartzkoppen. « Dans l'intérêt de l'armée », dit-on, le ministre de la Guerre Auguste Mercier doit rapidement trouver un coupable. Le 15 octobre de la même année, Alfred Dreyfus, capitaine au sein de l'état-major, d'origine juive, né en Alsace, jusqu'alors totalement innocent, est arrêté sur la base d'éléments de preuve légèrement construits. L'agitation antisémite dans la presse, l'armée et la politique crée rapidement un chaudron contre le traître présumé à Paris dans les années 1890.

, 1h38
Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart, Philip Dorn
Rating69%
Famous German stage actress Emmy Ritter (Alla Nazimova) is held in a Nazi concentration camp. She is scheduled to be executed soon, but the sympathetic camp doctor, Ditten (Philip Dorn), has been a fan since childhood and offers to deliver a letter from her to her children...afterwards.

Directed by Arthur Lubin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Adventure, Musical, Romance
Actors Dennis O'Keefe, Constance Moore, Laura Hope Crews, Samuel S. Hinds, Berton Churchill, Marjorie Gateson
Rating64%