Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the legend of a supernatural hound, a beast that may be stalking a young heir on the fog-shrouded moorland that makes up his estate.

‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ (1939) is the most well-known cinematic adaptation of the book, and is often regarded as one of the better film versions of it. It differs somewhat, but not as much as the 1959 film version.

The film stars Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes, Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson and Richard Greene as Henry Baskerville. Because the studio apparently had no idea that the film would be such a hit, and that Rathbone and Bruce would make many more Sherlock Holmes films and be forever linked with Holmes and Watson, top billing went to Richard Greene, who was the film’s romantic lead. Rathbone was billed second. Wendy Barrie, who played Beryl Stapleton, the woman with whom Greene falls in love, received third billing, and Nigel Bruce, the film’s Dr. Watson, was billed fourth. In all other Holmes films, Rathbone and Bruce would receive first and second billing.

The Hound of the Baskervilles also marks the first of the fourteen Sherlock Holmes movies starring Rathbone and Bruce as the detective duo.

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Synopsis
A man and a woman fight over the last bottle of champagne left in San Francisco–she wants it for a wedding, and he wants to use it to christen a ship.

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Synopsis:
Built around the publicity “feud” between newspaper-radio-gossip spreader Walter Winchell and band leader Ben Bernie, a radio star, Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who does an advice-and-inspiration program, helps a mike-shy singer, Eddie Kane (Jack Haley) to success by tricking him into singing with Bernie’s orchestra. Winchell uses it to expose Bernie as the trickster. But Kane becomes a great hit with the radio public, and falls in love with Alice. And Bernie and Winchell shake hands to show there’s no business like show business and fabricated feuds.

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Richard Clarke (Benny), a small town lawyer, is not making enough money to marry Janie Brown (Lane), his fiancée. To improve himself, Richard moves to New York City. Although he does not have any clients, Richard tells Janie that he is doing well. She expects to move to New York and marry him.

His assistant Shufro (Anderson) suggests that he could make some money if he became hard and ruthless. The ultimate test of his meanness is ‘stealing candy from a baby’. He is photographed as he pulls a sucker away from a small boy. The picture is printed in the paper under the caption, “Meanest Man in the World.” He is hired to evict an old woman, Mrs. Frances H. Leggitt (Margaret Seddon), from her apartment and more pictures appear in the paper.

Actually, he has taken Leggitt into his own apartment. Janie visits and, believing what she has read about how “mean” Richard has become, leaves angrily. A misunderstanding about the lady living in his apartment leads to a headline about Richard’s “love nest.” Janie’s father Arthur (Briggs), thinking that his daughter is living with Richard, arrives to protect his daughter. A shotgun marriage follows. Arthur declares that his new son-in-law will return to their small town and become the respectable attorney for the local bank.

The Meanest Man in the World is, for the most part, a pleasant vehicle for Jack Benny which conforms to his established persona. The plot and the comedy develop slowly. The film becomes laugh-out-loud funny about halfway through when “hard-hearted” Benny struggles with a boy over a lollipop and evicts the old lady. The comedy declines after these hilarious scenes, particularly during an unfortunate scene with Benny in blackface, and the film ends abruptly with the forced marriage. (For a high-budget production, intended for a well-advertised and important release, the film is quite short at 57 minutes. The paucity of story content is probably the result of several major script revisions and scene deletions that occurred during filming.) The droll exchanges between Benny and Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson would have been familiar to audiences due to the popular The Jack Benny Program radio show, which aired from 1932-55. Priscilla Lane, pretty and appealing, pairs easily with Benny, although the twenty-year age difference is obvious.

Benny had a three film deal with 20th Century Fox, appearing in one film per year. A film based on a 1920 play The Meanest Man in the World was suggested for Benny in early 1942, who approved of the concept. Morrie Ryskind, comedy writer for theater and film, was hired to write the screenplay. Filming was scheduled to start in July 1942, but Benny had objections to the script, which he thought was not funny enough and did not fit his brand of comedy. Production was suspended for fifteen hours because Benny refused to go ahead. Producer William Perlberg and Darryl Zanuck, head of 20th Century Fox, discussed the situation with Benny and agreed to make changes. George Seaton was brought in to revise the script. Several sequences were cut out. Filming resumed under the direction of Lanfield and was completed by early September 1942. In November retakes and more script revisions, including added scenes, were directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Morrie Ryskind wrote some of the new material. On screen, only George Seaton and Allan House are credited with the screenplay; Ryskind does not receive a credit.

Reviews for The Meanest Man in the World were tepid. Variety dismissed the film as “short, careless, and hashed-up with a sudden ending on a shotgun wedding.” The New York Times described the film “as a featherweight comedy” and notes that “Jack Benny and the trusty Rochester…put the piece across by sheer dint of personality.”

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Damon Runyon’s Broadway fable The Lemon Drop Kid was filmed twice by Paramount Pictures, but only the 1934 version with Lee Tracy paid more than lip service to the original Runyon story. The second version, filmed in 1951, was completely retooled to accommodate the talents of Bob Hope. Known far and wide as the Lemon Drop Kid because of his fondness for that particular round, yellow confection, Hope is a bookie who finds himself deeply in debt to Florida gangster Fred Clark. Magnanimously, Clark permits Hope to head to New York to raise the money–but he’d better have the dough ready by Christmas, or else. Ever on the lookout for Number One, Hope decides to exploit the Christmas spirit in order to get the money together. With the help of unsuspecting nightclub-singer Marilyn Maxwell, Hope sets up a charity fund to raise money for an “Old Doll’s Home”–that is, a home for down-and-out little old ladies. He claims to be doing this on behalf of big-hearted Jane Darwell, but he has every intention of double-crossing Darwell and all the other elderly women by skipping town with the charity funds and leaving them at the mercy of the authorities. By the time Hope has seen the error of his ways and tries to do right by the old dolls, Maxwell’s boss Lloyd Nolan has decided to muscle into the racket by using the ladies’ home as a front for a gambling casino. To set things right, Hope finds it necessary to disguise himself as a fussy old spinster at one point. The best line in the film goes to William Frawley, playing one of many Broadway toughs who are being pressed into service as street-corner Santas. “Will you bring me a doll for Christmas?” asks a little girl. “Naw, my doll’s workin’ Christmas Eve” is Frawley’s salty reply. The Lemon Drop Kid is the film in which Bob Hope and Marilyn Maxwell introduced the enduring Yuletide ballad “Silver Bells”, written (reportedly in a real hurry) by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Bob Hope. After reluctantly traveling to his father’s homeland, Bob is not happy with becoming the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

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TCM Synopsis:

In varying degrees of undress, the chorus girls of the “Frolics of 1929” gossip that the show’s rich backer, brokerage head Craig Cutting, has “given the gate” to his mistress Aileen, one of the dancers, in preference to Antoinette “Tony” Landers, a dancer described as “a nice kid from a nice home.” As the girls chat, Tony is being seduced by her boyfriend, Bob North, the scion of a wealthy family, in the empty stadium at Yale, where he goes to college. Sometime later, as Tony prepares to go to her social debut at Craig’s party, Aileen confuses and upsets her with taunts about Craig’s “dividend checks” and “technique.” At the party, Tony learns that the dividend checks Craig has been giving her have not come, as she supposed, from the bonds her mother left her, but instead directly from Craig. She rebukes him for putting her in a position of obligation to him and refuses to succumb to his “technique” after he denies that he expects anything in return. Just then, Bob, whose suspicions have been fueled by Aileen, arrives and, after revealing that Tony is his wife, slaps her face with the cancelled checks, calls her a “dirty little tramp” and leaves. Tony confesses to Craig that she kept the marriage secret so that Bob would not be kicked out of college. When she asks Craig to help straighten out the situation, he refuses to interfere.
Craig is named as a corespondent in the divorce proceedings, and when he offers Tony a lawyer to contest the suit so that he can avoid a scandal, she coldly refuses, having become convinced by the show’s producer and press agent that she should cash in on the publicity. Over the next four years, Tony becomes the star of the “Frolics.” One night after a show, she meets Craig and after dining with him, lets him think she is heading off for a weekend rendezvous with a mysterious stranger called “Big Fella,” with whom gossip has connected her. After leaving Craig, Tony takes a taxi to a modest uptown apartment where she gets into bed with Big Fella, her four-year-old son. Later, Bob, who needs $15,000 to cover a phony check, sees Tony at a club. After she refuses to give him any money, he and an underworld colleague follow her to the uptown apartment and see the child. Terrified that Bob’s intolerant father will start court proceedings to take the child, Tony goes for help to Craig, for whom she has developed a fondness. He arranges to send her and her son to Europe, but Bob gets the boy first. At the trial, Bob’s lawyer convinces the judge to award the boy to Bob because of Tony’s unsavory reputation, but Tony blurts out that Bob is not the father. After a nod from Craig, she testifies untruthfully that he is the father. The trial ends as Bob’s lawyer asks for a dismissal, and Craig tells Tony, who embraces her son, that he understands.

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