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- Comic propaganda short explaining the importance of blackout procedures during WWII.
- A short film from the British Postal Service which reminds users of the deadline for parcels for the upcoming holidays.
- The MPAA has a 50 year long history of their rating system.
- A short, experimental, slightly poetic montage of city and abstract images.
- Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
- George Potter, a wealthy banker, disowns his only son Henry as the result of the boy's gambling escapades. Shortly afterward he meets Sylvia Gray, a young woman of great beauty and charm, and falls in love with her. She is fond of him, imagines herself really in love and promises to become his wife. Then she leaves for a short vacation in the South and there meets Henry, who is living under an assumed name. Ignorant that Sylvia is his father's fiancée, Henry falls in love with her and she returns his affection. A letter from Potter, saying that he is coming soon, awakens her to the seriousness of the situation and, loyal to her promise, she refuses to see Henry again. The boy is brokenhearted. An acquaintance, trying to console him, makes the remark that Sylvia is "not worth losing sleep over;" Henry resents the statement and, as both young men are hot-headed, a duel ensues. Potter arrives just in time to learn that his son has been badly wounded. The father rushes to the bedside of the son, who has received a sword thrust in the breast. He finds Sylvia there and learns the true state of affairs. Convinced that the girl's influence for good will be the making of his son, he renounces his own claim, and soon after Henry's recovery becomes the father-in-law of his former fiancée.
- A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- The first Television Revue
- A Soviet farmer's son, who is working at a Kolchos is killed by his father, who wants to burn the fields of the Kolchos to damage the Soviet Society.
- Lord Dawlish an impecunious peer, is told by his girl's father to get a job or keep away from his girl. He goes as a dancing partner at a dance club and prospers in spite of a jealous rival.
- Describes the preparation of a racehorse for a big race.
- A young telephonist has flirtation - with tragic consequences.
- A short story based on the work of Friedrich Hölderlin.
- What is Glamour ? Through interviews with creative specialists, Deborah Landis costume academy winner, film critic Dominique Paini and Stephen Gundle author of an extensive book entitled « Glamour », Galeshka Moravioff demonstrates how an aesthetic approach of Modern Entertainment has been conceived and exploited between the late 1920's throughout the 1950's. It shows how the great costumes designers, Jean Louis, Travilla, Adrian and Edith Head were a major influence on the fashion industry of the mid late 20th century up to today. Movie clips of all the major stars of this golden era features : Marylin Monroe, Rita Hayworth, Greta Garbo , Kim Novak, Gene Tierney, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Joan Crawford ,Katherine Hepburn, Jane Russel... in memorable scenes dressed in breathtaking iconic gowns.
- Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very faithful to her husband, the Polish count Olaf Labinski. Alarmed by the growing physical and mental weariness of the desperate young man, his relatives and friends decide to turn to Doctor Balthazar, who has just returned from a trip to the Indies where he was initiated into the secrets of Brahman.
- An exchange of memories spanning over 250 years interweaves everything from the philosophy of Empedocles to excerpts from Madame Bovary, to extant paintings by Cézanne, to the buildings of the artists' village at Mont Sainte-Victoire.
- A boxer sees the error of his ways after deserting his true love.
- The comic adventures of three friends and a dog when they take a boating holiday on the River Thames.
- The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Visconti and Fellini are truly memorable. His movie score and sequences of his performances in theaters all over the world hand us down a full and evocative outline of this outstanding artist.
- Other than the title, this film has no connection at all to the 1934 W.C. Fields film of the same title even though some sources give the plot of the Fields' film as the plot of this film. Hubert Abercrombie Gumm (Hugh Herbert), a flighty, eccentric screwball (what else)acquires a job as an executive at a radio station at the insistence of his only-slightly less eccentric aunt Fannie Handley (Esther Dale), who is married to one of the company owners, Ernest Truex. After mixing up the script pages to the various radio programs, Hubert sets out to get the name of a returning explorer on a contract for the radio station.
- The painter Pierre Bernier becomes famous thanks to the portrait "The Naked Woman" which represents his model, the seductive Lolette. The very evening of his triumph at the Salon des Expositions, he decides to marry her. But, having become rich and famous, he soon falls in love with the Princess of Chaban and abandons the woman to whom he owes his success.
- A man fleeing the police after having committed a murder hides out in a boarding house in a small town.
- Lyda is a prostitute with no education and no hope for the future. Unfortunately, this ungrateful job leads her to have an unwanted pregnancy, and once born the child abandons her.
- A songwriter is mistaken for a convict.
- A psychiatrist tells the stories of a transvestite (Glen or Glenda) and a pseudohermaphrodite (Alan or Anne).
- Instead of accepting a well-to-do suitor, an orphan marries a tramp as a bet, but he turns out to be an English peer on the run for a murder he did not commit.
- A young man joins a theatre company in the costume department and discovers the inherent internal politics and social divisions.
- A look at the intimate moments of a man's life as he decides to commit a calculated act of aggression.
- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- Errol Flynn , playing himself as a war correspondent, helps Fidel Castro overthrow Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista . The film was shot, with Castro's cooperation, while he was still fighting Batista.
- A newlywed couple have a fight, and to get even with each other, each decides to take a lover--without actually going through with "the deed." Complications ensue.
- A German criminologist working for the Paric Police is bilked out of his life savings, and latterly joins up with a career burglar to pull off one big moneymaking heist in London. The case is investigated by a British inspector who bears an uncanny resemblance to the burglar.
- A mad doctor attempts to create atomic supermen.
- A phony spiritualist raises the dead.
- 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.
- In part one, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In part two, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.
- The owner of a plantation in the jungle marries a beautiful woman. Shortly afterward, he is plagued by a strange voodoo curse which transforms him into a gorilla.
- An evil arthritic rancher and his murderous daughter are having settlers killed to prevent them from selling their land to the railroad.
- A song and dance comedy in which Jack Hulbert plays an incompetent sailor.
- Vic Brady draws young Don Gregor into a life of crime. He then blackmails Gregor's plastic surgeon father into fixing up his face so he can evade the cops.