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Comedy, musical film
Uncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise-talking employee named Letty, which causes him to leave the hotel. When he finds Tommy, he mistakes Grace for his wife and likes her and the way she keeps a clean house.
buddy film, Comedy
Laurel and Hardy play two police officers on night patrol. They get a call about a break-in and encounter a thief trying to crack a safe. Despite mistaking the thief for the shop owner, they unintentionally help him.
Comedy
A social climbing father uses everything from poison pen letters to blackmail in order to gain promotion and wealth for his children through marriages.
Comedy
Horse racing enthusiast T.H. "Randy" Randall is a happily divorced man nowadays. On the day of the one-year anniversary of the divorce, he and his former wife, Valerie, go to the restaurant where they first fell in love.
Comedy, Drama
The film tells the story of a young couple, Jack, a Chinese man and Sharifah, a Malay woman. Jack is a chef and manager of a restaurant owned by his father, who is a big chef. Sharifah is a TV programme producer for her father, Rahim, who is also a famous celebrity chef.
romantic comedy
Comedy
A well-connected and well-educated young lawyer, P. Cadwallader Jones, gets an appointment as deputy district attorney through the influence of his uncle. After embarrassing his superior in court, he is punished by being assigned a seemingly unsolvable cold case concerning a notorious embezzler who has been missing for four years.
Comedy
Comedy
Hollywood singing cowboy Ben Castle hires lawyer A. J. Furnival to help him overcome gambling debts to Harry Kallen that he incurred in Las Vegas.
Comedy
Terry Blessing creates a gambling system involving continual use of a ready reckoner. Although his system is very successful, he is ultimately robbed of his winnings by a well-bred young lady whom he accidentally meets after trying to impress her. The minor compensation, of regaining his original stake on a raffle, is also denied him, as it's merely the same amount that he owes to another.
Comedy, mockumentary
The film takes the course of an entire school year and describes three teachers and one assistant principal. Mr. Stroope is campaigning for Teacher of the Year but many of his students are a little bit smarter than him.
Comedy horror
After the death of his wife, the widower Dr. Hackenstein (David Muir) concocts the perfect plan: with the help of a few graverobbers and a couple of lost girls, he can use the spare parts to reanimate his dead spouse and build a better woman.
Comedy, Drama
Sheba Miller, a working-class girl who dreams about living a life of luxury. Her father runs a cigar store while she works as a stenographer. Jack, a soda jerk, is madly in love with her and has even asked her father for his consent to their marriage.
Comedy
Meek, soft-spoken Erwin Trowbridge finally has enough of his sneering brother-in-law, Clarence Dobbins; unappreciative boss, greeting card publisher J.G. Carver; and unsupportive wife Audrey. Erwin goes on a drinking binge and ends up in a hotel bar.
Comedy
Lovable rogue Max Mackendrick dreams about winning big on the Melbourne Cup. Set in the colourful world of horseracing, Horseplay follows the chaotic life of a wannabe horse trainer as he deals with the turf, the ladies and everyone else out to get him. Max is married to Alicia, daughter of a horse trainer.
Comedy
thumb|200px|left|Oliver with two of his assassins Jordan Oliver (Dishy) is caught embezzling $250,000 from his employer but, as he is the boss' son-in-law, is given a chance to pay it back. Meanwhile, his wealthy wife Clarice (Barnes) is about to divorce him. He can only get the money by having his wife murdered for $1 million life insurance.
Comedy
Bill has an unusual dilemma when he returns home from the war in Korea, where he had been a pilot. Out of pride, he wants to provide the sole support for Doris and their family, but Doris isn't sure what to do because she has just inherited a fortune.
Comedy
The immense success of The Jazz Singer, the first all-talking picture, results in the cancellation of a booking for three song-and-dance vaudeville performers: Jerry Hyland, May Daniels and George Lewis. Jerry, convinced that talkies are the future, decides they will head to Hollywood to break into the fledgling movie industry before others get the same notion. May comes up with the idea to open a school of elocution to teach actors how to speak on film.
Comedy, musical film
Flo and Dot work in a Broadway music shop. Flo sings while Dot plays the piano. Their boss complains to them that they are not selling as much sheet music as they should, and asks them to change their technique.
romantic comedy, war film
On the coast of Normandy in May 1944, the peaceable Jérôme lives in his crumbling château with his widowed mother and his beautiful young wife Marie, daughter of Dimanche, a local farmer. She is fed up with country life and dreams of a glamorous existence in Paris. Snooping around the estate is a stranger named Julien who fascinates Marie, seeing in him a means of escaping the twin boredoms of rusticity and matrimony.
Comedy
The gang along with other poor children in the town are given a party with games and great food to eat. In addition, each child would be given a food basket to bring home to their parents. It's given by a wealthy woman whose husband is running for office.
romantic comedy
Kay Denham is engaged to Berk Sutter, but wishes to take a vacation in Europe without him, prior to the wedding. He is dubious, but reluctantly agrees. She quickly finds that in Paris, as a woman traveling alone, she is approached by men with designs on her.
Comedy
During World War II, Harvey Leeds, working as secretary for the highly reputed British criminologist Sir Stafford Hart in London, is lobbying for legislation ordering the immediate arrest of all foreign agents stationed in Britain. Harvey is engaged to Sir Stafford's daughter, Pamela, and is visiting the Hart mansion. He is about to leave the mansion to be with Pamela, who works at an air raid shelter, when he happens upon a briefcase in the foyer.
Comedy
In Edwardian England, alcoholic Uncle Willie (Donald Wolfit) is an embarrassment to his family. Head of the household father (Cecil Parker), decides to set Willie up as the manager of a bicycle shop, hoping to impress visiting American heiress Virginia van Stuyden (Dianne Foster). The surprise for everyone comes when Uncle Willie's little shop begins to prosper.