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A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics as a means of raising money. Either a masterpiece of absurdity or a triumph of satire, depending on your mood, but it’s quite possibly the funniest movie ever made, and becomes even funnier with subsequent viewings.
A phonetics and diction expert makes a bet that he can teach a cockney flower girl to speak proper English and pass as a lady in high society.
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes an amateur sleuth after developing the film, and goes in search of the woman captured […]
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
Here is an attempted early exploitation flick that ends up being much tamer than the name implies. Mary Lou escapes a prostitution ring and tells the authorities. An investigation begins at the Berrywood road house, a well-known den of iniquity. Love, lust, spanking, jealousy, fighting and some investigating ensues.
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor’s cruelty to his animals. But the inventive Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
Comic strip character The Little King, bored at the opera, sneaks over to the vaudeville house to see (and join) Betty’s Wild West Show. But the Queen tracks him down…
A team of international scientists and engineers attempts to build a tunnel under the ocean.
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective’s cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
