Ollie has fallen in love with Georgette, an innkeeper’s daughter. This is nice, except she is already married to a very dashing Foreign Legion officer. To forget his lost love troubles, he joins the Foreign Legion as well, dragging Stanley with him. In their idiotic bumbling, they get charged with desertion and are charged to […]
Videos released sometime between 1930 - 1939
Land of the Midnight Fun - 1939
A cruise to Nome, Alaska, starts with some cruise-ship jokes: the ship pulls out of the harbor like a car, raising anchor also raises the front of the boat, the ship follows the coast by curving around it. On arrival, we see some local scenes: A penguin eats two fish, then is eaten by the […]
Mr. Wong In Chinatown - 1939
A woman seeking help from detective James Wong is killed (Like the two other movies so far, people need to stay away from Mr. Wong!) with a poison dart before she has a chance to explain anything to Mr. Wong. As she dies she has just enough time to scribble “Captain J”
The Roaring Twenties - 1939
Three men attempt to make a living in Prohibitionist America after returning home from fighting together in World War I.
The Invisible Killer - 1939
A murder is committed in a gambling joint that baffles police and investigators. When someone decides to come clean and give some info, he is also murdered in the same bizarre way. Victims of these murders are always full of bullets right after answering the phone. Could the killer somehow be harnessing a force of […]
The Gorilla - 1939
Atwill, a wealthy and well-to-do man, finds his life threatened by a killer known as The Gorilla. Of course he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. It probably would have worked too, except right about the time the investigators show up a real escaped gorilla arrives on the scene and begins to confuse everything. Comedy […]
Gulliver’s Travels - 1939
This is the classic story, originally written by Johnathan Swift, about Gulliver, who washes up on the shores of Lilliput and attempts to prevent a war between Lilliput and Blefiscu over a wedding song. This musical version of the story was done by none other than Fleischer Studios, original rival to Disney and creators of Popeye and Betty […]
The Mystery of Mr. Wong - 1939
The second of the Mr. Wong series. In this one Boris finds Brandon Edwards who is getting the largest star sapphire in the world, the “Eye of the Daughter of the Moon”. He confides in Wong that his life is in danger. He dies, and in another few murders the sapphire gets juggled around a […]
Jamaica Inn - 1939
In Cornwall in 1819, a young woman discovers that she’s living near a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecks for profit.
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