Scattergood Pulls the Strings

Small-town store owner Scattergood Baines helps a runaway boy find his father, who has escaped after being unjustly imprisoned, and a young chemist who is trying to invent a color television but is being opposed by his girlfriend's father, who wants the girl to marry a pharmacist like himself instead of some crazy inventor.

1941-05-23 | en

Scattergood Rides High

When Martin Knox, a friend of Scattergood's who owns a horse-breeding farm, is killed in a harness race Scattergood tells Martin's son Dan that he will send him to college if he forgets about taking over his father's business, which was heavily mortgaged and has been put up for auction after Knox's death. The boy reluctantly agrees, but when he discovers that his favorite horse Starlight is sick, he decides to bring the animal back to health and then enter him in the Governor's Race, whose $5000 prize would enable Dan to pay off his father's mortgage and keep the business in the family.

1942-05-08 | en

Cinderella Swings It

Scattergood Baines, Coldriver's most popular citizen, neighborly counselor and sly old fox, entices a Broadway producer to Coldriver to see the gay musical extravaganza Baines is staging for the benefit of the U.S.O. He is also promoting the singing career of his latest local protégé, Betty Palmer. There are a few problems but the Sage of Coldriver manages to keep pulling the right strings.

1943-01-22 | en

Scattergood Survives a Murder

Rural sage Scattergood Baines (Guy Kibbee) shows big-city newsman how to solve a mystery.

1942-10-01 | en

Dresden

A film about Dresden - before, during, and after the war.

1946-09-14 | de

Fine, with Occasional Murders

Kanako returns from the USA to a troubled mother who witnessed a man leaving a murder scene and is consequently under persistent threat. For the time being.

1984-05-26 | ja

The Gentlemen’s Alliance

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

1986-12-13 | ja

Vir Das: Abroad Understanding

Comedian Vir Das tackles nationalism, globalism, good food and bad politics in two cleverly crosscut performances in New York and New Delhi.

2017-04-25 | en

Mi adorable esclava

1962-02-21 | es

Unloved

The story of the tumultuous relationship between a Jewish girl called Noemi and a Polish art student named Kamil is set at the outbreak of World War II.

1966-05-02 | pl

Wounded in the Forest

While hiding from the Germans in the forest, young Polish corporal tries hard to fulfill his order to take care of a wounded lieutenant and wait for the doctor and transportation to come.

1964-04-14 | pl

Mi fantástica esposa

1944-04-25 | es

What a Smile You Got

Sergey Savinov, a yesterday's schoolboy, who failed at his entry exams, is at the crossroads. Where to go to work? After working as a stand-by in a local recreation-and-entertainment park, he tries himself as a proof-reader in typography, a laboratory assistant in a plant and exhausts all his stock of photos for passes. To replenish it, he heads for a nearest photo saloon, and makes a conclusion, that his calling, which he long considered as a hobby, is photography. A work which brings so much happiness both to him and to other people.

1974-12-25 | ru

Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre

When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Growth Centre with a difference - offering sex, drugs and personalised water births.

1995-05-21 | en

El turista

1963-04-04 | es