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.
Pygmalion - 1938
Videos released sometime between 1930 - 1939
Hey! Hey! USA - 1938
Will Hay plays Dr. Benjamin Twist, a man whose ambitions outstrip his abilities. Twist is a porter on an ocean liner bound for America who, through convoluted plot twists, finds himself masquerading as a professor. Teaming up with a gangster stowaway (Edgar Kennedy), Twist finds himself embroiled in a kidnap plot on the far side […]
Mr. Wong, Detective - 1938
This is the second in a series of movies that exist in a strange subset of Mystery / Detective movies where the detective is of Oriental decent. You know, because people from the East have superior and almost mystic deductive qualities, perfectly suiting them to work as detectives for crowded cities in the USA. Anyway, […]
Tarzan’s Revenge - 1938
Eleanor, her parents and wimpy fiance embark on an expedition through Africa to scope out potential zoo specimens. A sultan spots her and wants her to join his massive harem. Tarzan and Eleanor have other plans. This one’s a stinky!
Algiers - 1938
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
Danger on the Air - 1938
When a soda magnate, Caesar Kluck, is found murdered at a radio station, it’s mostly Benjamin Franklin Butts’s (surely a joke name) job to sort through the plethora of suspects that had great reason to hate and kill Caesar.
Border Phantom - 1937
Larry O’ Day and his sidekick Lucky Smith find themselves in the middle of a mystery involving some mad German entomologists (the study of insects) and a ring of smugglers smuggling “picture girls” into America for wealthy Chinese bachelors. It all starts when Barbara Hartwell is wrongfully accused of murdering her uncle… I really enjoyed […]
Juggernaut - 1937
An evil, mad doctor (played by Boris Karloff) is in need of funds for his devious experiments so he cooperates with the greedy wife of a rich man to try to get at his money.
Hoosier Schoolboy - 1937
A new school teacher arrives in a small rural town in the middle of a milk crisis (ha!) that has the townsfolk on edge. Micky Rooney stars as a boy who’s father is a shell-shocked (PTSD) war veteran who has lost himself in the bottle. The townsfolk look down on Mickey Rooney and his dad, […]
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