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A boxing promoter discovers young hunk Palooka and trains him to fight the reigning champ, but a drunken sot, Al McSwatt.
Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson, on death row in San Quentin, tells reporters how he got there: taking care of his private-eye neighbor's office.
1950 TV series in which Buster Keaton recreated many of his famous routines from the silent era. At the end of the 40's Buster was one of the first of the great stars to appear regularly on TV. Although his starring career in movies was long past, he made a big hit with early TV audiences and was even given two local TV series which were quite successful but were very expensive to produce.
The son and daughter of an abusive shopkeeper turn to a medicine show salesman for help.
A young woman endures the drudgery of working as a charwoman in her aunt's hotel. She is not paid much for her hard work. To make her drab existence a little more exciting, she enrolls in a correspondence charm course, which unbeknownst to her is a scam. Soon the swindlers show up and plan to use her to help them con her aunt and a bank president out of their money.
Abbott & Costello's version of the famous fairy tale, about a boy who trades the family cow for magic beans.
In this heart-warming Holiday tale, a lovable trained squirrel inadvertently helps a family of down on their luck vaudeville performers. A George Pal Production!
When a wealthy man is threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive.
Ollie has fallen in love with the innkeeper's daughter in Paris. The only problem - she's very much in love with her husband. To forget her he joins the Foreign Legion with Stan. Bad idea.
Suspected crime boss Nate Girard beats a murder rap, and newspaper photog Kent Murdock is on the story!
In Amos & Andy's only movie the duo are operating an open-air taxi service and experience convoluted entanglements with an opportunist and various society folk.
Clearly highly racist, in the time it was made this was considered 'normal' by mainstream America.
A crusty old sea captain, returns home from a long voyage to discover that his family and his business are in chaos.
Two zanies try to stage a show in a theater that has a reputation for being being jinxed.
Africa Screams is a 1949 American adventure comedy film starring Abbott and Costello and directed by Charles Barton that parodied the safari genre. The title is a play on the title of the 1930 documentary Africa Speaks.
A fun-loving young woman finds herself murdered after trading bedrooms with her wealthy friend. Her ghost seeks aid from a banker to find out why and by whom.
Against her better judgement, happily married Jill Baker is persuaded to see a popular psychoanalyst about her psychosomatic hiccups. Burgess Meredith.
A hat-check girl at the Stork Club saves the life of a drowning man. A rich man, he decides to repay her by anonymously giving her a bank account, a luxury apartment and a charge account at a department store. When her boyfriend returns from overseas, he thinks she is a kept woman.
"The Rage of Paris" is a 1938 American comedy film made by Universal Pictures. The movie was directed by Henry Koster, and written by Bruce Manning and Felix Jackson. It won the Venice Film Festival for Special Recommendation.
An eccentric woman learns she is not dying of radium poisoning as earlier assumed, but when she meets a reporter looking for a story, she feigns sickness again for her own profit.
A shallow society matron is urged by her senator father to join the Women's Army Corps.
