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- The "four clowns" of this Robert Youngson anthology are: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charley Chase and Buster Keaton. There are examples of Laurel and Hardy's individual work prior to their teaming; samples of Chase's work, including his 1928 short, "Limousine Love"; and an abridged version of Keaton's 1925 feature, "Seven Chances."
- A woman's sexual compulsions threaten to destroy her marriage.
- A woman's peculiar religious convictions lead her on a self-destructive path.
- A photographer finds herself falling under the spell of a witch.
- A seriously-ill schoolteacher becomes dependent on a "miracle" drug that begins to affect his sanity.
- Egotistical nightclub dance performer Raoul has the determination to succeed at all costs, and the only woman in his life who truly matters to him is a dancing partner named Helen.
- In this comedy/drama, a young American soldier desperately wants to lose his virginity before he's shipped off to Vietnam. He meets a friendly young woman who appears willing to help him solve his "problem." But there's something she hasn't told him ...
- A cannibal wreaks havoc in Cincinnati.
- After a traffic accident, a man is treated with dog plasma while his dog is treated with human plasma.
- The saga of a Chicago police detective's efforts to stop a young hood's ruthless rise in the ranks of organized crime.
- The real-life story of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen, who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife so he could be with his young lover. But was he truly guilty of murder?
- A look at Communist musicals that strove to be ideologically correct - and entertaining, besides.
- A young would-be actor seeks his first break.
- After the attack on Pearl Harbor, seven-year-old Jeanne Wakatsuki, her family and 11,000 other Americans of Japanese descent and their immigrant parents are imprisoned in the internment camp Manzanar in California.
- Four soldiers trapped behind enemy lines must confront their fears and desires.
- The tragic tale of a man and his singing flea.
- A condemned murderer, scheduled to hang in the morning, asks for the company of a woman in his final hours.
- Three strangers - two women and one man - find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. They soon discover that the house has been borrowed to serve as a temporary way station between life and death.
- An embittered gang leader seeks the respect of his neighbors and the love of a young woman.
- The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
- Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York.
- Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry.
- A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
- A prank that starts with a group of college students creating a fictitious person so they can get a credit card develops into a plot that takes a murderous turn.
- A rich, alcoholic widow assuages her loneliness through a ménage à trois with two seductive step-siblings, whose true motives threaten her sanity and life.
- A young man murders women, using a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.
- A successful movie director makes the most expensive film in his career and it becomes a huge flop. He tries to salvage his career by reshooting the film as an erotic production, where its family-friendly star takes her top off.
- A fictionalized former President Richard M. Nixon offers a solitary, stream-of-consciousness reflection on his life and political career - and the "true" reasons for the Watergate scandal and his resignation.
- A director makes a movie based on a murder he committed.
- A man schemes to get rich with a talking horse.
- Unbalanced tattoo artist Karl Kinsky grows obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he's hired for a photo shoot. As Karl's obsession grows, he determines that Maddy should bear his mark forever.
- Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows."
- The first part of this Academy Award-winning short consists of a behind-the-scenes look at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra as it prepares to perform Ravel's "Bolero." Individual musicians offer their thoughts as workers set up chairs and music stands; there are also comments by conductor Zubin Mehta and scenes of Mehta and the orchestra rehearsing. The rest of the film features a complete performance of "Bolero" with striking images of the orchestra as the music relentlessly approaches its climax.
- Santa has to get a job as Santa to earn money to pay his overdue rent bill
- In this short film punctuated by cartoonlike sight gags, a self styled soloist performs a concert outside The Royal Albert Hall in London by "playing" the black & white stripes of a crosswalk which resembles a piano keyboard; he wins over passersby, including a constable and a group of more traditional musicians.
- A British soldier kidnapped by the IRA soon befriends one of his captors, who then becomes drawn into the soldier's world.
- Merchant marine officer Tom Wingfield reminisces about his life in St. Louis where he had lived with his nagging mother Amanda and crippled shy sister Laura.
- A little shepherd boy newly arrived in Heaven tries to adjust to life in the Hereafter.
- A bigoted Frenchman finds himself forced to impersonate a popular rabbi while on the run from a group of assassins - and the police.
- The story of Nostradamus and his predictions about the future.
- A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.
- In tsarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
- A woman suspects that someone has clandestinely been filming her life and that her friends and acquaintences are seeing the movies in secret screenings.
- A mailman looks for a woman to kidnap as a personal act of insurrection.
- A crash course on the history of Western musical instruments.
- A radio station in the Deep South becomes the focal point of a right-wing conspiracy.
- When a lottery winner dies of shock, his fellow townsfolk attempt to claim the money.
- The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
- During a blackout, a New York executive crosses paths with a Broadway actress and her husband.