George Freen (George Formby) is a scrawny, weakling barber’s assistant. Read More »
Musical
Sit Tight (1931) Lloyd Bacon, Winnie Lightner, Joe E. Brown, Paul Gregory
Winnie Lightner is the head of a health clinic and has Joe E. Brown as one of her employees. Read More »
Golden Dawn (1930) Ray Enright, Walter Woolf King, Vivienne Segal, Noah Beery
The film is based on the semi-hit stage musical of the same name by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach. Read More »
Louise (1939) Abel Gance, Grace Moore, Georges Thill, André Pernet
Louise, a young seamstress, has fallen in love with Julien, her neighbor Read More »
The Prickly-mouthed Geisha / Beran me-e geisha (1959) Eiichi Koishi, Hibari Misora, Shinjirô Ebara, Takashi Shimura
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Read More »
I Love a Bandleader (1945) Del Lord, Phil Harris, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Leslie Brooks
Harris and his assistant Eddie “Rochester” Anderson are painters doing a job at a nightclub. Read More »
The Lovers of Teruel / Les Amants de Teruel (1962) Raymond Rouleau, Ludmilla Tchérina, René-Louis Lafforgue, Milko Sparemblek
This puzzling experimental film is written and directed by Raymond Rouleau, who uses effects like Read More »
Mame (1974) Gene Saks, Lucille Ball, Robert Preston, Bea Arthur
It’s the late 1920s. Upon the death of wealthy Chicagoan Edward Dennis, his nine-year old son Patrick Dennis Read More »
Gitta Discovers Her Heart / Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz (1932) Carl Froelich, Gitta Alpar, Gustav Fröhlich, Paul Kemp
Hungarian peasant Julika is discovered by an impresario in a hamlet Read More »
The Broken Melody (1934) Bernard Vorhaus, John Garrick, Margot Grahame, Merle Oberon
Paul Verlaine is a struggling composer whose assistant Germaine is secretly in love with him. Read More »