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- A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's "Masterpiece".
- James Houghland, inventor of a new method by which television signals can be instantaneously sent anywhere in the world, refuses to sell the process to television companies, who then send agents to acquire the invention any way they can. On the night of his initial broadcast Houghland is mysteriously murdered in the middle of his demonstration and it falls to Police Chief Nelson to determine who the murderer is from the many suspects present.
- A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for. The problem is that most of the corruption he's vowed to eliminate is caused by the crooked political machine that helped elect him.
- On the Indonesian island of Bali, two young native women are shown how they spend their days leading up to their wedding ceremonies.
- A cowboy protects a little girl whose father was murdered by bandits after his gold mine, and now they are after her.
- A railroad employee finds out the identity of "The Wrecker", a criminal who is deliberately causing trains to crash. However, before he can disclose the crook's name, he is shot and killed. A passenger aboard the train volunteers to go after the killer and bring "The Wrecker" to justice.
- A young woman inherits a textile plant, and finds that she's expected to pay protection money to gangsters who have their own men among the plant's employees.
- A pilot and his dog crash-land on an island run by a psycho who owns a motel--and most of the locals.
- An opera singer whose career is on the wane finds newfound fame doing popular songs on the radio.
- A two-reel short from Alliance (produced in England and not the USA as some sources indicate)covering the history of "moving pictures" from 1848 to the (then) present, and even going into detail about how stationary frames of pictures are made to move, and how Sound is put onto the track. Footage from many silent films is used, including Mary Pickford (identified as Gladys Nicholson) in 1910's "Simple Charity", and Camille's death scene from "La Dame aux cemelias" in which Sarah Bernhardt dies standing on her feet (possibly to ensure the other performers didn't upstage her) and takes her own sweet time doing it. Marlene Dietrich sings "Falling in Love Again" from the English version of "The Blue Angel", which is good as the German-language title of that song is tough to write on a keyboard that has no accent marks. This short's title was changed to "March of the Movies" in the USA, which makes more sense than what most of the US film titles were changed to in England.
- This travelogue covers the highlights of an expedition into the Belgian Congo---yes, Virginia, there used to be a Belgian Congo--- with scientists Dr. Louis Neuman and Dr. Jacques Maus, representing Belgium and Dr, Daniel Daveport representing both the United States and Canada., natives of the Ubangi tribe representing the Ubangi tribe and doing all the hard work. Shortly before the expedition was finished, Dr. Louis Neuman was killed by a charging rhinoceros and the incident was captured on camera. The death itself was not used in the footage for the film but the charge of the rhinoceros and Neuman's mangled body was used.
- The story of eight women and how they served their country during World War I.
- An old prospector discovers a bonanza mine of gold on the Diamond Dude Ranch. He tells two men about it and they kill him, and then make plans to acquire the ranch. The property is owned by an easterner named Bob Jordan and is operated for him by John Grant, but it quickly becomes the scene o many mysterious mishaps and the few remaining guests are planning to leave when Jordon arrives. Dr. Pike and Mr. Cooper make an offer to buy the ranch but Joan Grant, the foreman's daughter, tells Bob the ranch can be made to be profitable if he would make some improvements. Bob spends most of his money on the construction of a dam, to improve the water supply, and then hires "Broncho" Wilson, the World's Champion Rider, and his Wild West Rodeo troupe, including Vera McGinnis, the World's Champion Trick Rider, to stage weekly shows. The remaining guests stay on, and many others show up. Among them are Joe Jenkins and his mother who chose the range to quiet her jaded nerves. Joe accidentally overhears Pike and Cooper, the men who killed the prospector, talking about their plan to dynamite the water supply, but they kill him before he can tell anybody and then plant evidence indicating that John Grant was the killer. Later, after Jordan rides after Pike to take him a briefcase he had left at the ranch, he trails Pike and Cooper to the hidden mine. The villains, after cutting the telephone wires, send their henchmen to attack Jordan and Joan at the ranch.
- A naive young woman gets caught up in a loan-shark racket.
- Millionaire shipbuilder Freddie Gates decides to publicize his ships by hiring Jack Hylton and his orchestra to broadcast from his yacht. Brian Gates, Freddie's son, has a low-approval-rating and a high dislike for jazz music and refuses to board the ship with the band on board. His father enters a conspiracy with singer Dorothy Drew to get him on the yacht, where the broadcasts will be made. Brian falls in love with Dorothy, but calls off the romance when he sees her dancing and singing with Hylton's band in Paris. Dorothy induces three members of the band to shanghai Brian when the yacht sails. A rival shipowner, determined to stop the broadcasts, bribes the crew to desert the ship and all hands are left stranded in mid-ocean on the yacht. The band-members manage to extricate them from their predicament and they get back to London, where Hylton is acclaimed and Brian marries Dorothy.
- A cowboy comes to the aid of a young woman and her brother being terrorized by outlaws who keep raiding their ranch searching for a mysterious map.
- The Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is accused of spying for Germany during the First World War.
- A combination of footage from World War I and re-enactments by actors playing The Unknown Soldier from each participating country marks this documentary that takes an anti-war point of view.
- An expedition is sent into the rugged Australian outback to search for a lost white woman.
- Films shot by newsreel companies and army cameramen are featured to tell the story of what it was like for soldiers during World War I.
- Filmed before the MPPDA production code was instituted (1934), and this one is filled with dialogue and situations that go beyond innuendo and cut right to the chase on a couple of trails the B-western genre seldom rode. Cowhand Bob Blake visits Sally Thompson and her kid brother Jimmy on their hardscrabble homestead adjoining the Steele Ranch where Bob works. He learns that their father just died, and he plans to see if he can make things easier for them. He rides to the Steele ranch to talk to his boss; he isn't there at the moment, but Mrs. Steele is--and she stands very close to Bob and tells him that they should be better friends. She moves even closer and Bob tells her he needs to tend to his cow-punching and makes a quick exit. Mr. Steele shows up and asks Mrs. Steele to go to town with him, but she declines on the basis she has some house-chores to do, and Mr. Steele also exits. Then Burke, town banker and saloon owner, shows up, and since he and Mrs. Steele are already good friends, he is ready to help her with the chores but Mr. Steele comes back and objects to this, which offends Burke to the point that he shoots Mr. Steele dead. The pair then plants evidence here and there and Mrs. Steele rides to town and tells the sheriff that Bob Blake has just killed her husband. But Blake escapes from jail and heads for Mexico. There, he meets saloon girl Rosita, who also thinks she and Bob should be better friends, but her sweetheart--Lopez the Famous Mexican Bandit--shows up and objects but Rosita explains that she thought Blake was Lopez, because Lopez and Blake look exactly alike and she just thought he was Lopez showing up without his sombrero or his accent. And they do look exactly alike. Some time passes, and Blake comes back to Arizona posing as Lopez, the Famous Mexican Bandit, with the plan of clearing his name and extracting some revenge from Mrs. Steele and Burke. In his absence, Burke has hired a gunman named Butch Devlin to kill Mrs. Blake because he now has his eyes on Sally and the Thompson spread on which he holds the mortgage, and Mrs. Steele has now become a liability and bankers don't care much for liabilities, especially liabilities that can talk and might tell the Sheriff just who knocked off the late Mr. Steele. Lopez and Butch, kindred spirits, meet and become partners, even though Butch didn't know he needed a partner. Burke gives Butch the money to kill Mrs. Steele...Blake/Lopez holds him up and takes it away from him... then gives the money to Sally to payoff the mortgage...she pays Burke...Blake/Lopez holds up Burke and takes the money again...and gives it back to Butch, who, while grateful to get the money back, is somewhat confused as to why Blake/Lopez just didn't let him keep it in the first place. But it is all part of the plan.
- This narration-driven travelogue begins with scenes of Manila Bay and the city's harbor. From there, it visits Fort Santiago, watches the delivery of an orphaned baby to Hospicio De San Jose, and explores other parts of the city, as the narration waxes condescending about the various aspects of Philippine life.
- Neglected by her moneyed parents and disillusioned with her boyfriend (Buddie Larkins, a bootlegger and philanderer), aspiring vocalist Ruth King joins a school for stage and fancy dancing, thus playing into the hand of DeLeon, its owner, who encourages students to live on the premises hoping to lure them into compromising situations. Buddie delivers a liquor order to the school hotel and discovers Ruth there. King, a lawyer, learns that DeLeon is responsible for the suicide of the daughter of one of his clients, Mrs. Blane. He and Buddie effect DeLeon's arrest and bring Ruth back home.
- American engineer Charles Stuart travels through Soviet Russia, showing not just the political but the everyday life of the country.
- A police chief and two security agencies work to find out who is behind a recent rash of hijackings.
- A cattleman's son stops his men from busting up a herd of sheep when he sees that they're owned by a pretty young woman.
- A highway patrolman who has been thrown off of the force sets out to redeem himself by capturing and bringing in a gang of kidnappers.
- Wellington Pike (Russell Gleason), author of 'Wild and Bloody Tales of the West', has never been away from the sedate and civilized East, so he takes a vacation to see the land he knows nothing about. Rancher Ann Keith (Virginia Carroll) and her cowhands, who have read and laughed at Pike's "wild" west, decide to give him a shock impression that is even wilder than depicted in his imaginative literary flights. Gang leader "Killer" Madden (Jack La Rue) and his bandits decide to make the staged robberies real ones and Pike is arrested for the crimes Madden has pulled.
- In New York City, nightclub singer Nina Malone is sought after by wealthy patron Clinton, who offers her a ride home, but when she rejects his advances in the taxi, he accuses her of stealing his money. At the police station, Nina is charged with theft, but another nightclub patron, Stevens, who also desires Nina, has followed them, and he pays her bail. Stevens is actually Stephen Collier, the son of the owner of the nation's largest newspaper chain. Stevens' father has expressed doubt at his son's ability to ferret out a story, and Stevens is out to prove him wrong. Tampa, the owner of the nightclub Nina works in, fires her because of the bad publicity, but she gives Nina some money and suggests she try to get a job at Barney Mack's, a nightclub with a notorious reputation. Barney hires Nina and her show becomes so successful that he asks another singer, Helen "Boots" Brian, to become her stage manager. Boots introduces Nina to her boyfriend, Jack Gold, and his fellow henchman, Spike Fagan. Soon, Nina fears that Boots's and Jack's lives are in danger, and she confides in Stevens. One evening, Boots arrives at Nina's apartment terrified, having seen two gangsters shoot Jack. Nina again turns to Stevens, which frightens Boots into fleeing. The district attorney visits Nina and accuses her of trying to cover for Boots, when in fact, Nina knows nothing. Boots is arrested for shooting Jack, and after Nina visits her at the jail, she receives a note meant for Spike, which warns him to get out of town before he is killed. Nina assumes the note is for her and confides in Spike, who suggests that they leave town together. After another singer, Marian, informs Nina that Barney's is a gangster hideout, Nina leaves and finds Spike shot and wounded. Stevens warns Nina that her life is in danger because the gangsters believe that she knows more than she is admitting. Stevens buys Nina a new wardrobe and sends her to hide in France. A year later Nina, working in a Paris nightclub as "Ninon Collette," waits for Stevens, but only Monsieur Drenier arrives. Despite her incredible success and Drenier's proposal, when Stevens calls, Nina immediately heads back to the States. In New York, Stevens tells Nina who he is, and after he tells his father that Spike killed Jack, Nina tells him he is wrong. Nina believes that Barney killed Jack, and they plan for her to get proof of his guilt that night. That evening, disguised as "Ninon," Nina asks around for Marian; she gives herself away in doing so, and Barney plans to kill her. Spike asks Nina to dance and takes the bullet which was meant for her. As the police take Barney away, Mr. Collier has the newspaper print the story of Spike's heroism.
- A young man and his trusty dog go up against a gang of crooks that are building a dam out of shoddy materials, which could collapse and flood the entire valley.
- Undercover government man Wally Bradley (Wally Wales) and his pal Chuck (Jim Sheridan) come to the aid of ranch owner Jean Simmons (Peggy Djarling) when a gang of outlaws try to take over her ranch.
- Big-city gangsters run out of gas in the middle of the desert. A local cowboy gives them a tow back to his ranch, and the gangsters decide his ranch would be the perfect hide-out.
- A cowboy takes on a gang of gold mine swindlers.
- The owner of a stagecoach line is about to lose his mail contract after 30 years because he's been underbid. His competitor is actually a crook who's planning to hijack the stagecoach and rob the mail--and, for good measure, have a go at his rival's pretty young daughter.
- Famed singing star Andy Rance is stood up by his bride-to-be at the altar. Rejected by the world, he takes his dog Flash and escapes to the wilderness of the High Sierras. Finding peace communing with nature, Andy is content until a female aviatrix, Celeste, crashes her biplane near his camp. Despite having sworn off humanity, the former celebrity finds himself intrigued by this mysterious woman, particularly with her tendency towards late night skinny dipping. When Celeste is threatened by a pack of bloodthirsty wolverines, Andy puts aside his isolationist ways to save the woman he loves.
- A secretary finds herself being romanced by a "ladies man". What she doesn't know is that it's her boss who really loves her.
- Sheriff Ed Dawson (Franklyn Farnum)asks Texas Rangers Wally Wallace (Hal Taliaferro) and Bill (Al Hoxie), to go into an outlaw stronghold, where his daughter Ann (Dorothy Crittin)is being held prisoner, and capture the gang led by Larkin (Yakima Canutt). But Wally's identity is revealed and they are taken prisoner.
- A cowboy comes to the aid of a banker and his daughter who are fighting outlaws.
- Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem "Boywood," the scenes are in New England with three boys enacting the (then) activities of childhood. They wander through the woods, over the fields, and down to the old swimming hole. Norman Brokenshire narrates the poems and the activities, while Al Shayne sings a special song written around the poem called "Down the Lane to Yesterday."
- A slightly different version of the audience-singalong shorts in which there was no bouncing ball above the lyrics printed at the bottom of the screen. Famed radio announcer Norman Brokenshire sets it up with an invitation and then introduces the singer, Harry Richman,who prompts the audience to sing-a-long on "I Love a Parade." Stock footage of various types of parades is used as background, while Lew White pumps away on the organ. (Yes, there was a Merrie Melodies cartoon with the same title released in 1932.)
- Two cowboys get involved with a pretty ranch owner, her crooked fiancé and a robbery.
- It is the height of the fashionable season and the world-famous singer, Anita Stella, comes to Cannes on the Riviera, where she has been engaged to perform at a Charity Ball sponsored by society leaders. John Egan, a distinguished British diplomat, traveling incognito as Baron Dupont, for reasons of State, falls in love with Stella and resolves to make her acquaintance.
- Prof. Dyhrenfurth of Switzerland leads an international expedition heading into the Himalayan Mountains.
- Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is a camera panorama of the American South, featuring scenes of everglade forests,babbling brooks and silvery glades. Mendolssohn's "Spring Song" is the musical theme throughout, and Al Shayne vocalizes with an original song based on Guest's poem. At the close, narrator Norman Brokenshire delivers a philosophical talk that ties up the pictorial themes.
- Short film based on the poem "The Prospector" by Edgar A. Guest which follows a prospector from the Old West searching for gold. Al Shayne sing "Take Me Back To The Mountains" while Norman Brokenshire narrates.