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- Patience and Anne, two spinsters of the old school of aristocratic birth, have managed to keep up appearances under very trying conditions and with limited means, until they are reduced to such circumstances they are obliged to sell their household furnishing, of antique pattern, to raise the necessary "wherewithal" to live and pay the mortgage off the old home. They place a sign on the outside of their house, advertising the antiques for sale, and with sad hearts await prospective purchasers. A wealthy man and his wife are passing in their automobile, seeing the card on the house, enter the hall, select the choicest pieces of the furniture and bric-a-brac, leaving instructions for their delivery C.O.D. To part with the associations of a lifetime is like losing old friends, and the two sisters, with troubled minds, retire, trying to lose themselves in sleep. During the night a vision of their father, whose portrait hangs in the parlor, appears to Patience in a dream, and leads her to a secretaire or desk in which is hidden a document giving full instructions about a treasure hidden in the garden of their home. Unconscious of what has happened in reality, she goes back to bed. In the morning when they come down to the old reception room they find the desk open and the secret packet disclosed with its contents. They withdraw the document, and learn of the hidden treasure, which they soon unearth in the garden and find themselves possessed of plate and coin sufficient to move the mortgage and make them comfortable for the rest of their lives, without disposing of any of their much-prized belongings.
- Ellen likes the courage of Jimmy, a bankrupt inventor, who fails to get any money for his experiments in making matches from his cousin Charles. First she loses her purse so that Jimmy may find it, next she loans him money in a letter purporting to be from Charles. Jimmy is advised to heat the letter over sulfur after he succeeds in his invention of a safety match. He does so, and the invisible ink turns, disclosing a love note from Ellen.
- A war veteran returns home to find his sweetheart totally upset: Her father will lose his sight unless she can get funds for an expensive procedure. He and some Army mates hatch a plot utilizing the railway safe, but a rival robs the safe and the money is taken by the pals. A train journey later involves high speeds. The money is needed before the rival can send the hero to prison.
- The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- In the depths of the Great Depression and in the waning days of the crumbling Weimar Republic, a poor Berlin youth is torn between loyalty to his unemployed Communist father and his ever-growing fascination of the Hitler Youth movement.
- The tragic life story of a power-hungry industrialist is recounted in the aftermath of his death.
- When a wrongly-accused prisoner barely survives a lynch-mob attack and is presumed dead, he vindictively decides to fake his death and frame the mob for his supposed murder.
- Three sisters believe life is going to be easy now that their parents are back together, but then one sister falls in love with another's fiancé and the youngest plays matchmaker.
- A poor merchant grows a highly successful department store in Chicago with the purpose of providing for his four children's future. He is misguided in thinking that giving them everything they want will give them the same ambition that he has, and finally he discovers that their spoiled lives have led his eldest to a scandalous shooting cover-up, the second to a highly-public failed marriage, the third to a music career, and the youngest to life on the streets.
- About the daughter of the couple who ran the Hôtel de la Gare de Courgenay, in the Canton of Jura. In 1915, the composer Hanns In der Gand was staying in the region and in 1917 he composed La Petite Gilberte, immortalizing the young girl's empathy with the soldiers.
- Visit to Australia's barrier reefs and the unusual critters found there. "Deals with the origin and habits of the following unusual fish: stone fish, giant mantis praun, barrier reef starfish, gekko, walking fish, mud skipper, and green turtle"
- When gamblers kidnap Muggs to throw a fight, friend Danny steps in and wins the scheduled boxing bout, leaving Mugs jealous, resentful and wrongfully suspicious.
- Career woman Jean, almost a partner in Mark's advertising firm, has been falling in love with Mark, who is unaware of it. But unknown to Jean, Mark has become engaged to singer Val. When Jean finds out she tries to save face by saying that she is also engaged, and then uses a little social blackmail to get psychiatrist Bill Perry to pretend to be her fiancé for an evening out with Mark and Val. Of course it backfires, things get more and more tangled, people fall in and out of love, and finally it gets sorted out into two happily married couples.
- A pair of sailors on leave try to help a movie extra become a singing star.
- Biography of songwriter and Broadway pioneer, Jerome Kern (Robert Walker). Unable to find immediate success in the U.S., Kern sought recognition abroad. He journeyed to England where his dreams of success became real and where he met his future wife Eva Leale (Dorothy Patrick).
- Dr. Jim Gateson, a country doctor who has counselled and ministered to his community for 30 years, is being honored with a surprise testimonial dinner. The scenario then flashes back through three decades, commencing with the young GP first hanging up his shingle, serving at the front during WWI, home life being disrupted by telephone calls from those in need, and competition from a new medic in town who doesn't make country calls.
- In order to get even with the pompous president of a soap company, an eccentric genius goes on his quiz show in order to bankrupt his company.
- Tommy Tucker gets hit by a car and ends up in safety heaven. Or does he?
- Co-hosted by a 'serious' anchorman who tried to do his job and a comedian dressed as a Mexican indian with an attitude, this successful live show had interviews, songs, jokes, but distinctively it made its own advertising by playing with the product of the sponsors and sometimes ruining it. For many years this was the oldest show of Mexican television, which continued its broadcasts in black and white even when color TV was common in households. It lasted over 3 decades.
- Scientists race to warn a colleague that his experiment could destroy life on Earth.
- When unmanned Soviet planes land at 25 big city airports and threaten to detonate their payloads, America's only hope is a covert agent in an Iron Curtain hospital.
- A man searches for the cause of his wife's unprecedented physical and mental transformation.
- After the murder of his fiancée, a Wyoming ranch hand sets out to find her killer.
- During a Congressional appropriations investigation, an Air Force sounding rocket returns to Earth with an unexpected cargo: a block of ice with unusual chemical properties. Soon the base commander, Major Dozier, is forced to deal not only with the bullheaded Congressman Burns, but the fact that the ice seems to be able to freeze everything around it.
- Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
- Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
- Me Traes de un Ala (a Mexican expression meaning "I'm madly in love with you" and can be translated literally as You Carry Me by One Wing) is a musical comedy about a beautiful and famous dancer who is stalked by two men that want her love. One is A fool that will do anything for her (seriously, anything.) The other one is a shady old man with a spooky past and very dangerous intentions.
- Patricia Kinworth is surprised to discover that her father has built a robot and named it after an old teacher nicknamed "Herr Doktor". Professor Kinworth built the robot to read his books to him, but has underestimated both the amount of intelligence he gave his creation and its desire to live out the stories that the robot has read.
- After a scientific expedition to a meteorite impact site in the jungle disappears, a three-man relief team sets off for the expedition's camp. The lone survivor tells them that the expedition was attacked by invisible insect-like creatures that came out of the meteorite. The scientists must find a way to defeat the insects before they are overwhelmed.
- A mysterious phenomenon that causes people to lose the use of their vocal cords appears in a remote corner of the northwestern United States and begins spreading. The government blames the event on freak fallout effects from H-Bomb testing, but an illiterate mountain man (Burgess Meredith) discovers the real source of the affliction.
- Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his soon-to-be son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.
- On a small South Pacific island during WW2, various US Navy P.R. personnel pass the time romancing the nurses and the native girls while trying to avoid front line sea duty.
- A frustrated fan of the hopeless Washington Senators makes a pact with the Devil to help the baseball team win the league pennant.
- Jane Osgood runs a lobster business, which supports her two young children. Railroad staff inattention ruins her shipment, so with her lawyer George, Jane sues Harry Foster Malone, director of the line and the "meanest man in the world".
- The adventures of a visually impaired old man.
- Teenage twin sisters swap places and scheme to reunite their divorced parents.
- During the Civil War a group of Union soldiers, a Confederate and a civilian escape the stockade using a hot-air balloon and end up on a strange Pacific island.
- Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
- The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
- Criminal cases where criminals are mentally evaluated, or people in the verge of a nervous breakdown.
- To seek revenge on a woman whom doesn't reciprocate his love, Dato Ali lies to the Sultan that misfortune will befall him and his kingdom if a sacrificial ritual is not performed. The Sultan believes him and orders that the sacrificial ritual be carried out, without knowing that it involves the use of blood from a woman in her first pregnancy on the sail boat 'Lancang Kuning' before its maiden voyage.
- Teenager Patty Lane and her worldly identical cousin Cathy navigate family and high school life.
- A young woman separated from her lover by war faces a life-altering decision.
- Emil goes to Berlin to see his grandmother with a large amount of money and is offered sweets by a strange man that make him sleep. He wakes up at his stop with no money. It is up to him and a group of children to save the day.
- In Munich for Oktoberfest, the Saint's friend, a US army sergeant 's killed whilst trying to stop an armed robbery at his base. Unbeknown to him, his girlfriend was actually part of the gang, and she's getting cosy with another American soldier.
- A comedy series about a wacky courthouse and Jose Candelario Trespatines, a chatty regular at the court of a honorable judge who keeps sending him back to jail (but somehow he keeps getting out and back to being a con-artist.) This defendant has been accused multiple times by the same gullible people; no matter what occupation he chooses they fall every time. The judge is bipolar: patiently he gives everyone a turn to speak and expose what happened, but he is also easily offended and fines people at every chance. Trespatines always claims acting in good faith and blames his fraud or theft on double entendres. But the judge knows him too well.
- A tender story based on the real life of Pedro Infante, actor and singer, an icon of Mexican cinema. His beginnings, his triumphs, his loves and his untimely death.
- A genius architect is losing both professionally and when it comes to matters of the heart. A film about internal turmoils surfacing, about freedom of thought and action, originality, non-conformism and everything that opposes these things.
- A few important events from the Romanian peasant uprising of 1907.
- A widower with ten children falls for a widow with eight, and they must decide about forming a huge, unconventional family.