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- Two window cleaners help a girl who is trying to get to Hollywood.
- A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
- When Easter Hicks, a Kentucky mountain girl, becomes infatuated with Clayton, a civil engineer from the city, her father Pap Hicks vows to kill Clayton. Sherd Raines, a young mountaineer who loves Easter, prevails upon Pap to reconsider, but Sherd is finally overcome by jealousy and begins to mold a bullet to kill his rival. As he prepares the mold, Sherd hears a preacher's voice denounce him for his evil intentions and he spills the hot metal.
- A runaway groom's amnesiac fiancée proves a detective framed him for stabbing an actress.
- Jack Banning, a Secret Service operative, is assigned to thwart the activities of a gang of silk smugglers. Disguised as a motorcycle officer, Banning patrols their rendezvous by day, and at night he poses as a crook, "Strongarm Samson." He soon is attracted to Marion Macy, a banker's daughter, also sought after by Courtney, who heads the smugglers; but she recognizes him and informs Courtney that he is a policeman. Banning is captured by Courtney's henchman, Spanish Joe, but escapes; Marion is lured to the hideout, and Dorina, also an undercover agent, awaits the officers while Banning returns to rescue Marion from Courtney's clutches after a desperate battle. The smugglers are captured, and Banning is united with Marion.
- Made in Germany, set in France and pitched to attract international markets, this frothy drama features Korda's first wife María Corda, star of the Austrian silent screen, as Toinette, a shop-girl who rises to success in a fashionable dress salon.
- Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
- On her mother's death a circus girl flees to her aunt, pursued by her drunken father.
- A young writer, John Hale, inherits a fortune and moves into an alleged-haunted castle with his servant "Rusty." He discovers the 'hauntee' to be Countess von Baden, hiding in a secret chamber with her son, whom the court has awarded to her divorced husband.
- An idle, wealthy playboy foolishly joins the Navy when the father of the girl he wants to marry tells him to get a job to prove himself worthy.
- The young Tony will travel from Budapest to the countryside to marry his cousin Katinka, the oldest of the seven sisters Gyurkovics. Because Tony is already secretly married to another, the situation is problematic.
- A strange collection of "adventurers" set out in the South Seas in search of buried treasure.
- A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris Fashions - For Men".
- A rich man's son has an affair with a vamp but returns to his street-singer sweetheart.
- Cyrus Braidwood has a secret. His daughter Helen isn't actually his daughter--her father is a murderer, and Braidwood has been raising her as his own because he has her father's written confession hidden. One day her father manages to get ahold of the confession. Helen shows up at his apartment looking for it, which culminates in her and a young man she meets there being taken prisoner by a criminal gang.
- Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
- Angela threatens divorce after her husband Richard meets up with the drunk Mackintosh at their club.
- A princess visiting the US is saved from being arrested in an illegal speakeasy by a prizefighter. They fall in love, but she must go back to her nation to become queen, and can't marry a commoner. Complications ensue.
- Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.
- When a boxer is murdered a newspaper reporter tries to frame the boxer's sister, a nightclub owner, for the crime.
- melodramatic survey of human life seen through the eyes of a horse.
- Robert is a college student who doesn't want his parents to know that he's gotten married. Unfortunately, his wife and newborn child die and Robert finds himself being blackmailed by his wife's sister, with whom he previously had an affair and who now claims that he is the father of her daughter Rosalind. Robert gives in and pays her off. Ten years later, however, when Robert is about to marry again, the sister decides to show up at the wedding and publicly humiliate Robert.
- Songs of the 1914-18 war performed by His Majesty's Coldstream Guards and Welsh Guards and a male voice choir.
- 18-year-old Rosie Kaplan O'Grady was found as an abandoned baby by O'Grady, an Irish policeman and Kaplan, a Jewish pawnbroker, and raised by them as their own. She is being courted by two men; prizefighter Terry Callahan and a rich socialite, Tommy Sinclair and has to choose between them.
- An ex-convict butler helps a bankrupt horse-owner prove that he did not deliberately lose a race.
- A British officer is falsely accused of murder by a rival officer, and is dishonorably discharged from the army. He rejoins as an enlisted man and is posted as a cavalryman to the siege of Sebastopol during the Crimean War. He discovers that there is a Russian spy masquerading as a British soldier.
- An Italian operatic tenor is dominated by his female business manager.
- A girl goes out in a snowstorm to find a rose to fulfill her little brother's dying request. From the ballad by George Robert Sim.
- A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
- A cowboy and a wild horse find they have some things in common: both have enemies out to get them and both must save their mates from danger.
- A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
- A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
- Chewing gum magnate Leander Hicks tries to marry off his daughter to the son of a wealthy food producer, but she has her heart set on a handsome entomologist.
- A boatload of 413 women is shipped to then underpopulated colonial Australia, so they can get busy with the men there to do some propagating.
- When the road-show that Ted Howard, a singer, and Mary, a chorus-dancer, goes broke and the company is stranded in the sticks, Ted Uses his own savings to get them all back to New York. Ted and Mary form a team and are doing well when Valenska, a musical comedy queen, asks Ted to join her as an act. Since the offer doesn't include Mary, Ted refuses. But, Mary, who loves Ted, knows this is Ted's big chance, and she instigates a situation that leads to the break-up of their team. Ted does do well, but is also used by Valenska as her boy-toy. When they open a big show, Mary is there as a member of the chorus. This does not set well with Valenska. There are some problems.
- The Canaries of the title is an allusion to the protagonists, caged by marriage. There are two unhappy, incompatible couples, one is a simple-living playwright and his sophisticated, bohemian wife, the other, a stuffy Eton and Oxford type whose spouse is a bored but fun-loving onetime tiller girl. They all spend a week-end holiday at the playwright's cottage, where he falls in love with the jolly chorine, and his friend falls for the playwright's highbrow wife.
- A woman meets a conceited young novelist aboard a yacht, and decides to teach him a lesson he won't forget.
- Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.
- The title is a word-play on the "check and double check" line from the "Amos 'n Andy" radio program (and also the title of their 1930 feature film.)Eddie Buzzell (Edward Buzzell) is a broke businessman who intends to marry his stenographer as soon as he gets on his financial feet again. One of Eddie's creditors offers to bail him out if he will marry the man's daughter. Eddie agrees but the man's check bounces.
- Tambourini, a circus hypnotist, puts a beautiful young trapeze performer under his spell. A young army officer tries to set her free, but Tambourini isn't going to let her go without a fight.
- Carlos Lopez is a handsome Argentine sportsman. Many women love him and he toys with them all. His days are filled with romance and intrigue and he manages to get himself feared and hated by most of the married men in Buenos Aires. He also aspires to become a world-acclaimed brilliant violinist and, to do so, he needs financial independence, such as can be gained by sleeping with pretty (or ugly) rich women, or women who have rich husbands. So he hangs out at the Argentina Cafe while Narita, whom he professes to love, pimps for him. But hanging out in one locale is not a good idea, as the husbands know where to find him. So does the fiery Narita in the event she realizes she is just being used.
- An actor who is the lookalike for a prince travels to a neighbouring country to woo its princess and save his own country through a strategic alliance.