Fred 'Snowflake' Toones

Washington'da senatörün ölmesinin haberi tüm eyalette yayılmıştır ve Senator Joseph Paine'in medya patronu Jim Taylor'dan istediği geçici göreve gelecek kişi için işlerine pek karışamayacak birini bulmasıdır. Jefferson Smith Boy Rangers'ın başkanı, dürüst ve idealleri olan biridir ve bu istek için biçilmiş kaftandır. Ne var ki, Washington entrikaları içinde Jefferson'ın dürüstlüğü ve kendini insanlara adaması bazı değişimlere sebep olur * İzlemeden önce sıkıcı bir politik film olduğunu zannediyordum.Kesinlikle sıkıcı değilmiş, aksine bir başucu filmiymiş. Kararında ilerleyen senaryo finaline doğru kalitesini hep arttırıyor. Zaten eski filmlerde en çok sevdiğim şey bu * Frank Capra neden filmlerinin son yarım saatini tüyleri havaya dikecek kadar etkileyici biçimde işliyor?

Kronik bir alkolik olan Don Birnam, içkiyle olan savaşında bir türlü galip gelememektedir. Kardeşiyle yapacağı hafta sonu gezisi öncesi birkaç kadeh içki içmek için dışarı çıkması, felakat gibi bir hafta sonu geçirmesine neden olacaktır. Kadehlerin ardı arkası hiç kesilmeyecek ancak Don yeterli parayı bir türlü bulamayacaktır. Kendinden geçmiş bir şekilde barları dolaşan genç adam, hayallerinden bile vazgeçmeye hazırdır.

When all Broadway shows are shut down during the Depression, a trio of desperate showgirls scheme to bilk a repugnant high society man of his money to keep their show going.

Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.

Mervyn LeRoy’un, .Robert E. Burns’ün otobiyografik hikâyesini temel alan, Ben Bir Pranga Kaçağıyım, şansı yaver gitmeyen bir 1. Dünya Savaşı gazisi olarak, uydurma bir suç yüzünden prangaya vurulup, uzak güney eyaletlerinde ağır işçiliğe mahkûm edilmesinin ardından, merhametsiz bir suçluya dönüşen masum bir adamın canlı bir portresini sunar. Adam dürüst bir hayat sürmek için kaçar, ihanete uğrar, yeniden kaçar ve yakalanmış bir kaçak olarak ömür boyu hapis cezasına çarptırılır. Kayayı bile orta yerinden çatlatacak sadist gardiyanlar, firarlar (birçok filme temel oluşturmuş, uluyan tazıların bataklıktaki takip sahnesi dâhil), hücre cezası, parmaklıkların ardındaki kendine özgü dil başarılı bir biçimde perdeye taşınır. Sırf defalarca gönderme yapılmış bir film olması (en son Coen Kardeşler’in O Brother, Where Art Thou?/ Nerdesin Be Birader? filminde) açısından seyredilmeye değer bir yapım. Modası geçmiş olsa da halen ünlü ve unutulmaz son cümlesiyle seyirciyi derinden etkiliyor.

Gerry ve Tom Jeffers evlilik hayatını zor bulmaktadır. Tom bir mimardır ve geçinmeleri giderek zorlaşmaktadır. Yaşadıkları daireden atılacakları sırada Gerry zengin bir iş adamıyla tanışır. İş adamı Gerrye hayata yeniden başlaması için 700 dolar verir ama Tom bu hikayeye inanmaz ve çift kavga eder. Gerry evliliklerinin bittiğine karar verir ve hızlı bir şekilde boşanabilmek için Palm Beache gider. Tomun ise onu durdurmak için planları vardır.

Taken to a hospital, after suffering a dizzy spell, Charley is told by a 'nut', posing as a doctor, that he suffers from 'Tetra-Ethyl", and the only remedy is to sit down, relax, clear the mind and recite a nursery rhyme. The fake doctor gives Charley a package to deliver to Mr. Henderson, the "Supreme Crown of the Knights of the Brown Derby." At the hotel, hosting a convention of "Brown Derbies," Charley suffers a dizzy spell and the only place he can find to sit down is in Mr. Henderson's lap, where he recites "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Mr. Henderson, it is revealed, also suffers from "Tetra-Ethyl." Seized by an attack, Henderson sits down and tries to recite "Who Killed Cock Robin," but forgets the lines, which Charley and Henderson's daughter, Betty, sing in a song together. That, coming at the end of the second reel,is all it takes for Charley and Betty to decide to get married.

Vahşi ve kanunsuz Dodge Şehri'ni temizleme görevini yerine getirirken, aynı zamanda şehirdeki genç kızlardan birine kur yapan bir kovboy hakkındaki bu klasik Western filminde Errol Flynn ve Olivia de Havilland başrolleri paylaşmaktadır.

Members of a teenage gang are sent to the State Reformatory, presided over by the callous Thompson. Soon Patsy Gargan, a former gangster appointed Deputy Commissioner, arrives and takes over the administration to run the place on radical principles. Thompson needs a quick way to discredit him.

Stan and Ollie try to deliver the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. Unfortunately, the daughter's evil guardian is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon-singer wife.

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

Abigail Chandler has written her stuffy Boston relatives that she's a successful opera singer in New York. In reality, she works at a burlesque house and is billed as High-C Susie. When her sister Martha comes for a visit, Abigail tries to hide the truth from her.

A deranged artist who may have murdered his wife is investigated by the Whistler.

A struggling widow and her daughter take in a black housekeeper and her fair-skinned daughter. The two women start a successful business but face familial, identity, and racial issues along the way.

An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.

A woman of twenty-one opens her grandfather's will left to her thirteen years earlier, per his instructions. Murder soon follows.

A manicurist and an engaged loafer, both planning to marry money, meet and fall in love.

An office clerk loves entering contests in the hopes of someday winning a fortune and marrying the girl he loves. His latest attempt is the Maxford House Coffee Slogan Contest. As a joke, some of his co-workers put together a fake telegram which says that he won the $25,000 grand prize.

Linda Powell, and English girl, stows away on a ship bound for the United States in order to join the G.I. she loves. She assumes the identity of an English war bride, Joyce Giles, who has decided she no longer loves the American soldier she married and is not going to join him in the U.S. Linda arrives to find that her soldier no longer wishes to marry her...

In Hoyt City, a statue of founder Ethan Hoyt is dedicated, and 100 year old Hannah Sempler Hoyt (who lives in the last residence among skyscrapers) is at last persuaded to tell her story to a 'girl biographer'. Flashback: in 1848, teenage Hannah meets and flirts with pioneer Ethan; on a sudden impulse, they elope. We follow their struggle to found a city in the wilderness, hampered by the Gold Rush, star-crossed love, peril, and heartbreak. The star "ages" 80 years.

The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by conning an insurance company. But they don’t count on the persistence of insurance man Rosmer Peck and his secretary Norma Perry.

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

Racket Squad is an American TV crime drama series starring Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock, a fictional detective working for the San Francisco, California Police Department. The show aired in syndication for a season before being picked up by CBS for three seasons. The series was filmed at Hal Roach Studios in Culver City, California, and was sponsored by cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris, hence there was a pack of the sponsor's brand on Braddock's desk at the beginning and end of the episode, as well as occasional scenes of him or other characters "lighting up".