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Feuding fathers deal with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is about to marry her own brother.
Comedy | Romance
Three Broadway Girls (1932)
Sophisticated comedy: a trio of money hungry women who all have sugar daddies who keep them in the lap of luxury, even as they drive the men crazy. Each woman represents a different personality type, from sensitive, to kind-hearted, to difficult and untrustworthy. Set in the age of jazz, the twenties come roaring back with [...]
This is the Army (1943)
In WW I dancer Jerry Jones stages an all-soldier show on Broadway, called Yip Yip Yaphank. Wounded in the War, he becomes a producer. In WW II his son Johnny Jones, who was before his fathers assistant, gets the order to stage a knew all-soldier show, called THIS IS THE ARMY. But in his pesonal [...]
The Young in Heart (1938)
Actor Thomas Higgins has taken on the persona of one of his well-to-do stage characters, ex-Bengal Lancer Colonel Anthony ‘Sahib’ Carleton. His family has too followed and are now known as the Carletons. They are doing this in an effort to live off the rich and wealthy who are willing to flaunt their riches on [...]
Stork Club, The (1945)
An old man despondent over his failing marriage accidently falls from a dock. Judy, a hat-check girl at New York’s famous Stork Club, saves him from drowning. Unknown to her, Jerry Bates (the old fellow) is rich. In gratitude he anonymously provides for her financially. Yes, it changes her life–and not all for the best. [...]
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Leslie Howard plays Sir Percy Blakeney, an 18th century English aristocrat who leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an underground effort to free French nobles from Robespierre’s Reign of Terror. Based on the novel by Baroness Orczy.
Adventure | Comedy
Million Dollar Kid (1944)
The gang is befriended by a millionaire whom they save from a mugging. However, they begin to suspect that the man’s son was actually one of the muggers. Knowing that the boy’s father is still grieving for an older son he lost during the war, and would be devastated if he learned his only remaining [...]
Last Three, The (1942)
Germany’s Adolf Hitler, with his Axis-stooges, Italy’s Mussolini and Japan’s Suki Yama, although he tried to avoid taking them, is on his way, via submarine, to a tropical country to negotiate a treaty with the High Chief Paj Mab. However, an American P.T-boat crew is already there and have some plans for schickenbit-grubber and his [...]
Beat the Devil (1953)
A quartet of international crooks — Peterson, O’Hara, Ross and Ravello — is stranded in Italy while their steamer is being repaired. With them are the Dannreuthers. The six are headed for Africa, presumably to sell vacuum cleaners but actually to buy land supposedly loaded with uranium. They are joined by others who apparently have [...]
Little Princess, The (1939)
When her father, Captain Crewe, goes off to fight in the Boer War, young Sara Crewe is placed into the care of Amanda Minchin, the head of an exclusive private school for girls. Sara lives a wonderful life of a privileged child and is quite happy in her surroundings. When her father is listed as [...]
