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Comedy
When merchant sailor Chester Tuttle (Jon Hall) returns home to Tahiti after several years away, his family, headed by Jonas Tuttle (Charles Laughton), welcomes him with open arms. The Tuttles are a happy-go-lucky bunch who give little thought to the future and do as little work as necessary. Jonas often gets loans, which he never gets around to paying back, from Dr.
Comedy
Comedy
Radio quiz-show producer Jim Morgan reads letters to host Jack Bailey from listeners telling of the impact of their appearance as contestants on Queen for a Day on their lives. Three stories are presented. In "The Gossamer World", Marjorie Watkins thanks the show for sending a toy engine to her six-year-old son Pete, who has a wild imagination.
buddy film, Comedy, propaganda film
Offscreen narrator Pete Smith hails Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, seemingly picked at random in the street. Smith asks if they have any items made of wood on their persons. There is no live sound recording, so Stan and Ollie's responses are in pantomime.
romance film, romantic comedy
Wayne Carter is a New York bachelor/playboy, who pays no attention to the marital status of his many dalliances. However, there are some women whose attention he attempts to avoid, one such being the married Agatha Carraway. Helene and Lita Andrews are small town girls who have come to the big city in order to find fame and fortune.
Drama
Set in 1968 Junction City, Kansas (sometimes called "Junk Town"), the film reflects on the history of "East Ninth Street" during the 1940s when famous jazz musicians played the nightclubs. In 1968, the area has deteriorated into strip clubs and cheap bars where Vietnam War draftees from nearby Fort Riley stop and drink. People in the group include a drunk (Don Washington) who lost a leg in World War II, a taxi dispatcher (Isaac Hayes), a saloon owner (Queen Bey), and a crazy bag lady (Kaycee Moore).
Comedy
Maine housewife Connie Bedloe is pregnant, but the family's limited income from her husband Joe's college teaching job means that they can't buy the meat her obstetrician recommends. Connie gives up smoking to be able to afford lamb chops. Joe does not buy her explanation that she is doing this because she is pregnant, because the obstetrician's office is “like a forest fire.” He is not providing for her: He talks about going back to his father's cattle ranch, the “second biggest in Texas,” despite his father's interfering ways.
Comedy, Drama
Comedy
Comedy, Drama, romance film
An archduke who had been banished from Austria returns to Vienna for a reunion of his old fellow aristocrats and meets up with the former love of his life, who is now married to a psychoanalyst.
Comedy, documentary film, LGBTQ-related film
Comedy drama, romantic comedy
A British soldier goes off to fight in the First World War, with his girlfriend waiting and worried at home. He is soon wounded in battle and crippled. He comes to the conclusion that she would be better off believing that he has been killed so she can get on with her life.
Comedy, romantic comedy, silent film
Jack Kelly, a crack golfer who worked as a shipping clerk for the aging Mr. Waters. One day, Mr.
Comedy
A Hessian soldier serving with British forces during the American Revolutionary War deserts and tries to settle down in Connecticut with a local woman he has met.
Comedy drama
When wealthy drunkard Bob Rawlston causes Maisie to lose her carnival sideshow job as the Headless Woman, he offers her the use of his car to get to town. She is stopped and arrested by a motorcycle policeman who recognizes the automobile. When Maisie tells her story to the judge, Bob remembers enough despite a hangover to admit that he probably did lend her the car.
Comedy
A mama's boy falls for a spinster who works at a nursery in a department store.
Comedy
A farmer and his daughter are in the barn. She is saying she wishes the cow would have a calf. Left alone in the house she hears strangers in the barn and calls the police.
Action, Comedy drama
Lieut. Bill Brannigan learns friend and hotshot pilot Thomas Jefferson "Tommy" O'Toole, the self-styled "world's greatest aviator", is joining the USMC Reserve Aviator training program. O'Toole arrives at San Diego and promptly starts to move in on Brannigan's love interest, Betty Roberts, the daughter of the owner of the nearby Happy Landings Cafe.
romantic comedy
The daughter of wealthy and famous novelist Meg Swift, Mimi is a young woman who seems to have a perfect life. The opposite appears to be the case, as her deep love for playboy Alan Wythe remains unanswered. Despite her mother's newspaper artist friend Jimmy Kilmartin warnings of Alan's scandalous past revolving around women, Mimi is determined to one day become Mrs.
Comedy
The Stooges, proprietors of a local drug store facing lease expiration due to the obstinate landlord Amos Flint, witness his maltreatment of his elderly wife Cerina. Moved by Cerina's plight, the Stooges offer her refuge in their shop's rear quarters. Inspired by Cerina's desire to regain her lost youth, Shemp concocts a "Fountain of Youth" elixir, leading to Cerina's transformation into a stunning beauty.
musical film, romantic comedy
Jim and Walter Brewster are brothers and naval officers; both of whom are in love with Nancy Larkin, much to the chagrin of Nancy's sister Letty. Walter has the inside track with Nancy, but Jim & Letty conspire to keep them apart. There are various comic shenanigans and a "Beautiful Legs" contest that Letty enters in error, but wins and becomes an instant celebrity.
Comedy
thumb|thumbtime=15|When the Wind Blows (1930) On a windy spring night, a man tells Kennedy the Cop that it is a fine night for a murder. Farina is frightened and left at home to mind his baby brother in a ramshackle house with windows so weak that the wind blows through. A few doors down, Jackie is spanked by his father for refusing to finish his homework, with his little brother Wheezer laughing at him.
Comedy
Although Liang Xi Mei (Jack Neo) is retired, she spends her time looking after her obedient grandchildren. However, Robert (Mark Lee), her eldest son adds to her woes as he is always dreaming of making a fortune through easy means. She pins all her hopes on her youngest son, Albert (Benjamin Josiah Tan).
Comedy
Bala Sa Bala, Kamao Sa Kamao, Satsat Sa Satsat The first film in the trilogy centers around Diego, an action star who wants to take revenge against a group of bad guys, also known as "Bandidos" (bandits), after they killed his parents, his wife, Ashley, and everyone who attended their wedding, just a few moments right after they get married at the beginning of the film. As the story unfolds, Diego, being an action star, gets into misadventures and finds himself in trouble-after-trouble. Unfortunately, Divina Tuazon, a famous actress and Diego's new found leading lady, was kidnapped by the Bandidos.