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Leon Errol plans to buy a doll as a gift for his wife; misunderstandings ensue.
Two yokels try to crash royal society by posing as the King's physicians.
An 11-year-old radio star decides to throw in her scripts and go undercover to get a better feel for her roles, but when she is kidnapped, trouble soon follows in this comedy.
Leon hires a lookalike to take his place at home every night while he goes out partying.
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he mistakes for a maid.
This entry of Universal's Sporting Youth series goes to the racetrack. The father of Cudgie (Sumner Getchell) has a horse entered in the Big Steeplechase. Judy (Ann Christy, Cudgie's girlfriend, learns that the jockey has taken a bride to throw the race, so she replaces him and wins the stock-footage race from a Universal feature film.
Edgar Kennedy, in order to attend a prizefight without his brother-in-law, pretends to be sick with intentions of sneaking off later. As usual, his best-laid plan takes another direction. His mother-in-law gives him a foot bath in a tub with what turns out to be quick-setting cement. His pal Sam drills a hole in the cement to blow the cement off with explosives, with a typical-Kennedy result... disaster.
An early example of the merging of silent and sound film, known as a "part-talkie", at a time when film-going audiences couldn't get enough of the new talking pictures. FLYING HIGH is part of the fourth series in a continuing film serial about The Collegians, college students who find their way in and out of adventures on campus. This short features a mishap during a flying contest in which an inexperienced pilot assumes the roll of his professional friend.
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
The future of a group of strangely connected lives is determined on one crucial night at a dinky motel in the desert.
A bachelor millionaire on a cruise is protected by a friend from the avid attentions of a crowd of husband (and fortune) seeking girls.
The last short in The Blondes and the Redheads series.
This short features two women who run around in their nighties. Paul McCullough spends most of the picture in a dress, and Bobby Clark does an extended riff on the word "Alright!" which Lou Costello later stole verbatim. There is a political frameup, a nearsighted hotel house detective, and the ever-popular upstairs motorcycle chase.
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through unorthodox methods. Templar sets his sights on individual crimes bosses, and after bringing down two vicious leaders through disguise and deception, discovers that there is a mastermind behind all the city's crime.
The story, if you want to call it that is about a husband who tells his wife he's going hunting but actually sneaks off to fool around in Atlantic City. While the wife, says she's going to Washington D.C. but is also sneaking off the Atlantic City. once there the husband goes to a scenic photographer who fakes pictures to cover for straying spouses. Later the pictures are delivered to the hotel where all parties literally run into each other!
Edgar mistakenly believes that his family wants to kill him to collect his life insurance.
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns from a trip. His solution to pass them off as his uncle and niece from Alaska doesn't work out very well.
An Iowa farmer's wife makes him move to Hollywood so their daughter can become a star.
Edgar Kennedy comedy short.
