Kay Denham is off for a 'fling' in Paris, leaving her staid suitor Berk behind. There, she meets two new suitors, Gene and George. Gene smooth-talks her into a junket to Switzerland, but George (with no illusions about his friend) appoints himself chaperone. Through a series of slapstick winter sports, Kay remains puzzled about George's disapproval of Gene...but there's a reason.
Real Cute Movie on Last Night!
Saturday, March 22, 2025
Friday, March 21, 2025
Thursday, March 20 - The Lady Refuses
The Lady Refuses (1931)
A wealthy London nobleman hires a pretty but poor young girl to distract his playboy son from marrying a golddigger. Complications ensue when the girl and the father begin to fall for each other, and things get even more complicated when the son declares his love for her, too.
Thursday, March 20, 2025
Wednesday, March 19 - A Lion Is in the Streets
A Lion Is in the Streets (1953)
Colorful bayou peddler Hank Martin marries pretty teacher Verity, who finds that the rural poor all love Hank. Gradually, she realizes that Hank's popularity is the fruit of his expert manipulation of everyone he knows. She's further taken aback when she meets sexy swamp girl Flamingo, who considered Hank hers and is murderously jealous. Now Hank starts crusading against a crooked cotton buyer, and swiftly rises toward political power. Is there no stopping him?
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Tuesday, March 18 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Could You Recognise the Man Again?
Jeff recognises racketeer George Roden as being the man who killed rival gangster Jennings and Roden is duly arrested. However his mother has Jeannie abducted as a security against Jeff testifying when her son appears in court. Marty uses his telepathy to locate where Jean is being held and she is saved just in time for her and Jeff to make a dash to the courtroom and see that Roden is punished.
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Monday, March 17 - Show Girl in Hollywood
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth-talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural and promises her a movie contract, so she goes to Hollywood, but there is no contract for her.
She meets washed-up actress Donny (Blanche Sweet) on the lot and they become friends. Frank is fired from his studio and the new director finds that Frank's storyline is actually a copy of 'Rainbow Girls,' the Broadway stage play. They call Jimmy, the author and Dixie's boyfriend, for the rights and he goes to Hollywood to produce it as a movie.
Dixie gets the lead, but things start going wrong when dizzy Dixie, spurred on by the fired Director Buelow, thinks that she is better than the picture or the studio and starts to make demands.
Monday, March 17, 2025
Sunday, March 16 - Decoy: The Sound of Tears
After a man is shot to death in the park, it is determined the bullets came from a gun he had given to his fiancée. Her pet Daschund was also seen at the crime scene. An employee of the victim picks her out of a line up as well, but Casey suspects a frame up.
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Saturday, March 15 - Twentieth Century
Twentieth Century (1934)
Broadway director Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) is a bigger ham than most actors, but through sheer drive and talent he has been able to build a successful career. When one of his discoveries, Lily Garland (Carole Lombard), rises to stardom and heeds the call of Hollywood, Oscar begins a career slide. He hits the skids and seems on his way out, until he chances to meet Lily again, on a train ride aboard the Twentieth Century Limited. Oscar pulls out all the stops to re-sign his former star, but it's a battle - because Lily, who is as temperamental as Oscar is, wants nothing to do with her former mentor.
Saturday, March 15, 2025
Friday, March 14 - Big Business Girl
Big Business Girl (1931)
College graduate Claire McIntyre plans to conquer the business world, while her dropout boyfriend Johnny takes his swing band to Paris. Eventually, Claire catches the eye (in more ways than one) of ad executive Robert Clayton. Between her ability and her legs, she soon rises in the hierarchy. But the unexpected return of Johnny brings on an era of romantic misunderstandings.
Friday, March 14, 2025
Thursday, March 13 - Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
Millionaire Michael Brandon (Gary Cooper) becomes smitten with French mademoiselle Nicole de Loiselle (Claudette Colbert) while vacationing on the Riviera. Michael asks her father, the titled but destitute Marquis de Loiselle (Edward Everett Horton), for his daughter's hand, but Nicole balks when she learns that the mercurial millionaire has already been married and divorced seven times. With the help of her platonic friend, Albert (David Niven), Nicole endeavors to change Michael's ways.
Thursday, March 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 12 - Crime Traveller: Fashion Shoot
Fashion designer Sonia Duvall has been receiving death threats and despite all the efforts of Slade and the team, is shot on the catwalk.
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
Tuesday, March 11 - Fast Life
Fast Life (1932)
Two sailors are leaving the US Navy after 10 years. In their spare time, one of them (Haines) invents a carburetor that should increase the speed that powered boats will run, but all that they succeed in doing is to sink the Admiral's launch. After discharge, broke and out of work, they find work with a boat builder who wants the fastest race boat in the World. They design the boat, carburetor and the engine but lack of money and the foreclosure of the business hinders their efforts to prove the new design.
Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Monday, March 10 - The Big Shot
The Big Shot (1942)
Three time loser Duke Berne risks life in prison with one more armored car robbery. His attorney's wife Lorna, Berne's old sweetheart, keeps him from it but he goes to jail anyway. Duke and Lorna get some time together again after he stages a prison break, but if he stays with her his old friend George will have to take the rap for killing one of the guards.
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