The zany plot follows nitwit Gracie Allen trying to help master sleuth Philo Vance solve a murder.

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A DUMBELLE…who knew too much about MURDER!
Super-sleuth Philo Vance faces the zaniest case of his career when Gracie Allen “helps” him try to solve the murder of an escaped convict. As she attempts to clear the name of a friend accused of the killing, her wacky, scatterbrained ways constantly impede the investigation.

Director: Alfred E. Green
Writers: S.S. Van Dine, Nat Perrin, C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast: Gracie Allen, Warren William, Ellen Drew
Producer: George M. Arthur, Alfred E. Green
Cinematography: Charles Lang
Music: Matty Malneck
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Country: United States
Language: English
Runtime: 1h 18mn

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Subtitles:English

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Short hype film for the 1936 Olympics. Through dialogue-free montage we first travel around Germany, taking in the sights and getting plenty of Heimat vibes. Tradition and the contemporary go side-by-side: the sights and possibilities of the budding Reichsautobahn are evoked — Fanget an!, to quote the Führer.

A tour of the Olympic venues is next: the alpine Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the waters of Kiel, the action of Berlin, the Olympic village, and various sporting arenas. Athletes of all kind are also on display. It may not be Leni’s Olympia but it’s stylish enough.

Director: Hans Barkhausen
Cinematography: Walter Frentz, Hans Ertl
Country: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 28mn

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Subtitles:English

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The captain of a battleship of a small Balkan country is fed up with following strange orders from the country’s queen, who wants to make a cruise to the Med inspite of the fact that the country is broke and the crew didn’t get its salary. So he decides to disobey orders and commands his ship to Monte Carlo, but the queen decides to go there too. He loses his money there at the casino, but the queen falls in love with him. Written by Stephan Eichenberg {eichenbe}

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This peppy little fantasy with songs is like Weimar Germany’s answer to the Jeanette MacDonald-Maurice Chevalier musicals (the story actually bears similarities to “The Love Parade.”) It’s easy to see from this why Anna Sten was brought to Hollywood as a Marlene Dietrich clone, as the resemblance is truly uncanny. Peter Lorre (fresh from “M”) is adorable in his little sailor costume, and there’s even a glimpse of the Comedian Harmonists! “

Director:  Hanns Schwarz
Writers: Fritz Reck-Malleczewen, Jenö Heltai, Hans Müller, Franz Schulz
Cast: Hans Albers, Anna Sten, Heinz Rühmann
Producer: Erich Pommer
Cinematography: Konstantin Irmen-Tschet, Günther Rittau
Music: Werner R. Heymann
Production Company: Ufa, Erich Pommer
Country: Germany
Language: German
Runtime: 1h 51mn

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Language(s):German
Subtitles:English German muxed

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A very nervous man named Cartwright comes into Perry’s office to have the neighbor arrested for his howling dog. He states that the howling is a sign that there is a death in the neighborhood. He also wants a will written giving his estate to the lady living at the neighbors house. It is all very mysterious and by the next day, his will is changed and Cartwright is missing, as is the lady of the house next door. Perry has a will and a retainer and must find out whether he has a client or a beneficiary.

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This tragicomedy from 1939, directed by Martin Frič, is among the most popular Czech films of all time. The reason behind this is the intriguing protagonist – Alois Novák, the seemingly banal married office clerk. Novák works in a travel agency, but once a month he spends an evening in the luxurious Orient Bar playing the seducer Kristian, always to disappear for ever at the key moment when his enticed female prey is about to fall for his charms. Alois/Kristian has become an integral part of Czech popculture and one iconic depiction of the country’s national character. The film was inspired by a play from 1936 by French author Yvan Noé – in the Czech staging of this play, the part of the beauty who refuses to be left behind by Kristian is played by Nataša Gollová. In Frič’s outstanding film, on the other hand, Gollová is given the part of Mařenka, the principal character’s diffident wife. The mondaine but somewhat embittered Zuzana is performed by Adina Mandlová, while an ideal rendering of Alois/Kristian is given by Oldřich Nový.

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Language(s):Czech
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Czech

The post Martin Fric – Kristian (1939) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Based on a novel by Phil (State Fair) Stong, The Stranger’s Return is one of the most accomplished projects of director King Vidor, and one of the few MGM films of its period to display anything like a “personal touch.” Miriam Hopkins stars as a bored Manhattanite who visits her family farm in Iowa. Her grandfather Lionel Barrymore, an irascible Civil War vet, rules over the farm with the help of a drunken but reliable handyman (Stu Erwin). Barrymore’s stepdaughter Beulah Bondi and her lazy husband Grant Mitchell are hostile towards Hopkins, a state of affairs not helped when Miriam strikes up a friendship with the farmer husband (Franchot Tone) of a popular local girl (Irene Hervey).

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Robert Shaw slaughters his wife’s lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.

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Subtitles:French

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