Riachuelo 1934
A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.
A thief ends up in the Riachuelo zone and after a revealing event, he stops stealing and starts working.
A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship.
Young Mary Lou tries to help her brother Sonny raise money so that he can attend a military academy.
When her husband, who founded the town's crusading local newspaper, doesn't come back from the French battlefields of World War I, a woman struggles to raise her two sons and keep the newspaper going. Matters are complicated by the fact that, several years later, one of the sons wants to turn the paper from its position as a hard-fighting champion of the working-class into an upscale society paper catering to the rich and powerful. Matters are complicated even further by rumors that their father was in fact NOT killed in France during the war but took another man's identity and is still living there.
Harry Gribbon is Horace, a man with one passion in life: Mushrooms.
Adémaï is forcibly engaged to the farmer's daughter. He tries in vain to get rid of it and, weary of the struggle, flees in a plane with his comrade Michelet whom he believes to be an instructor. For three days and three nights, the unfortunates turn in a closed circuit, thus beating the world record.
Rogers plays a small town banker in the 1890s whose chief rival is the deacon (Middleton) with whom he has traded horse flesh. Taylor is a bank teller who places a winning $4,500 bet on a 10-1 harness racing horse, making him Rogers' bank partner.
Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.
Two partners in a clothing store decide they want to become radio performers.
Ruth Etting is the star attraction on the Albertson Travel Agency radio show. When her producers learn that her recordings are on another program at the same time, they devise a contest, based on the words in a song she sings, in which the winner gets Etting's services at a banquet.
Expatriates and foreign correspondents mix in a Paris bistro...
A radio station's janitor is sent to the Kentucky Hills to round-up some hillbilly talent. He poses as a hillbilly (from the Minnesota sector) to gain their confidence.
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.
The girls find a pair of steamship tickets, not knowing that the cabin the tickets are for is inhabited by a gorilla.
Jerry Randolph is an inveterate and obnoxious practical joker. Things take a serious turn when it looks as though Jerry's latest prank has resulted in the death of his best friend.
Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems.
'Suburban beautician almost elopes with rich client's husband.' (British Film Catalogue)