Christian Kempenich is the Chief Clerk in the Town Council in a small town on the river Mosel in Germany. He goes to Cologne to attend a family baptism, and afterwards is lured to sample the wicked delights of the big city. He wakes up the next morning in a cheap hotel room with no memory of what happened, but there's a strange woman asleep in the bed with him. Horrified, he he...
Boston blueblood Aloysius Merriweather loves to play jokes on people and he’s come up with a joy-buzzer of a doozy. He’ll send barber Joe Jenkins in his place to a dinner party aimed at squeezing a few Merriweather millions. That Cinderella plan soon turns into a pumpkin coach with the wheels fallen off. Circumstances will force shave-and-a-haircut Joe to masquerade as Merriwea...
Based on a Pirandello play, Vittorio De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursue...
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
A model finds herself inadvertently embroiled in the theft of a society woman's valuable pearl necklace after modeling a wedding dress in the aristocrat's home. The pearls are hooked onto the hem of her voluminous dress. Afterward the model quickly flees the crime scene by diving into a taxi. The driver takes a shine to the girl and helps her hide. He and his friends then begin...
Actor Philippe Martin plans to meet Yvonne, his married girlfriend, in the afternoon cinema where they can neck and be together in the dark. Martin arrives late, and the feature has started, so he goes to the seats where they planned to meet. Soon he kisses the girl next to him, but it's Monique Perelin and not Yvonne as he'd expected. Indignation follows a slap to his face and...
The employees of a failing radio station must put on a huge ratings winner to have any chance of continued operation.
