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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,306 films · Page 668.
Comedy
Johnny Marvin, a wealthy and mischievous young man, arrives with his parents at the luxurious Hotel Coronado in Southern California. To keep Johnny occupied, the hotel manager enlists bandleader Eddie Duchin to involve Johnny in the hotel's orchestra and persuades singer June Wray to perform one of Johnny's compositions. June, living modestly with her father Otto, mistakes Johnny for a struggling songwriter.
Comedy
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
romance film, Tragicomedy
thumb|thumbtime=7|Beauty's Worth (full film) As described in a film magazine, Prudence Cole (Davies), a young Quaker woman, has been raised by her two severe maiden aunts, Elizabeth (Mattox) and Cynthia Whitney (Manning). She is permitted to visit the Garrisons, the mother (Shattuck) and her grown son Henry (Cooley), at an ultra fashionable resort, where her precise mannerisms make her the center of amused attention. Henry, whom she had hoped to marry, all but ignores her.
Comedy
Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama, romance film
The film follows Gus Victor, a satellite-dish salesman whose routine is unsettled by his encounter with Lucy, a radical performance artist. After Lucy leaves him a cryptic note, Gus sets out to find her, and the search changes his understanding of himself.
Comedy
After losing all his money gambling on horses, former newspaper reporter Barry Gilbert and "Doc" Norton break into a vacant mansion belonging to the Reitters for shelter from the rain. Just as the pair are settling in, Willetts and three other servants arrive. Willetts, the butler, does not know what the long-absent, but expected John Clark Reitter Jr.
Comedy, musical film, Western
Many Middleton Rodeo winning cowboys are murdered or disappear, one being Tex Masters' brother. Tex teams up with undercover policewoman Carmen Serano for justice and vengeance.
Comedy
Weighing themselves on a penny machine, the gang receives a fortune card predicting that they will receive "unexpected riches." Acting upon this, the kids decide to dig for buried treasure, using a fraudulent map provided by one of their wise-guy acquaintances. Though the treasure hunt comes a-cropper, the fortune card's prediction comes true in an unexpected fashion.
Comedy
romantic comedy
Comedy, Drama
stand-up comedy
Comedy
LGBTQ-related film
Narrated by their friend David (Swartz), World and Time Enough is the story of Mark (Guidry) and Joey (Giles). Mark is an HIV-positive art student who creates temporary "sculptures" on topics including AIDS, abortion, and the Bush economy. Joey works as a garbage collector, picking up trash along the roadways.
Comedy
Wealthy and eccentric Walter Whirtle (Alan Hale) and his wife Vivian (Irene Manning) can't seem to keep servants at their country estate. Whirtle, having insulted a policeman, is jailed, and meets inept (and newly fired) private detective Jerry Curtis (Jack Carson), who had arrested the district attorney. Claiming that he is being stalked by Nazi spies, Walter hires Jerry to pose as his butler and Jerry's long-suffering fiancée Susan Courtney (Jane Wyman) to pose as his cook and investigate.
romantic comedy
Comedy drama
Sybil Fitch adopts two orphan boys. Her husband is infuriated. However, when the boys catch scarlet fever, he finds that he really does love them.
romantic comedy
Football player Tod Lowell is the son of a man running for governor, who needs the support of a political boss. Tod's dad asks a favor, that Tod spend a few weeks squiring Gertrude Morgan, the man's daughter. Trouble is, Tod's been romantically involved with Betty Gilbert, a nightclub singer, while Gert's gotten engaged to Tod's football rival, Andy Mason.
romantic comedy
Larry Stevens is about to be evicted by landlady Lillie for not paying his rent. He happens to be passing by, as does Julia Wayne, when two halves of a ripped $1,000 bill float down to the street. Up above, gangster Bonelli has been handing out thousands to his girls.
Comedy
Joy Linnett and her stepsister Jackie miss a flight home to Ohio, but the attractive Joy, accustomed to getting her way with men, flirts with pilot Stevie Wilson until he agrees to personally fly the two young women. At home, old beau Warren James comes calling and invites Jackie to a country club's dance. As soon as Joy emerges in a swimsuit, the smitten Warren not only neglects Jackie, he invites her sister to the dance.
Comedy
thumb|left|A near complete copy of the film. Robert Bennett (Richard Dix) is a stockbroker who is very carefree with other people's money. Encouraging clients to buy stocks in companies that are failing is all in a day's work to him.
Comedy
American entertainers Jimmy and Tim find themselves stranded in the Middle Eastern kingdom of Araband. Hoping to strike it rich, they become entangled in palace politics when they meet Patra, the beautiful and headstrong daughter of the Sultan, who has just inherited her late mother's—and later her father's—vast oil-rich lands. Patra insists that these valuable resources be leased only to Americans, putting her at odds with Axis-aligned agents Rata and Ludwig, who aim to seize control of the oil for their own ends.
Comedy
Pete Smith tells his harrowing story of one evening at midnight being alerted by a telephone call from his Aunt Tilly in distress at the old deserted Smith mansion. The man drove the two hours to the isolated mansion to find that it was haunted by various creatures after him. Smith is attacked by a witch, a skeleton, an Indian warrior, an archer, and Frankenstein's monster (Ed Payson).
Comedy, Drama