Direction: Leo McCarey

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast The Marx Brothers · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx

Synopsis The small state of Freedonia is in a financial mess, borrowing a huge sum of cash from wealthy widow Mrs. Teasdale. She insists on replacing the current president with crazy Rufus T. Firefly and mayhem erupts. To make matters worse,...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Victor Moore · Beulah Bondi · Fay Bainter · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis An elderly couple has lived together for 50 years but they have just lost their home to a bank. Their five children are sorry to hear that, but they don't want to get their hands too dirty helping them, so...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Deborah Kerr · Richard Denning · Neva Patterson

Synopsis In this legendary tearjerker, the world's most eligible bachelor (Cary Grant) is set to marry an heiress. But unfortunately for his bride-to-be, while he's traveling alone on a luxury liner he meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) and realizes he's engaged...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Cary Grant · Irene Dunne · Ralph Bellamy · Alexander D'Arcy

Synopsis Jerry and Lucy Warriner lead madcap screwball high society lives in New York City. Despite being very happy, they start to doubt each other's fidelity. Finally they decide to divorce. Lucy wins custody of the dog but Jerry secures visitation...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Irene Dunne · Charles Boyer · Maria Ouspenskaya · Maurice Moscovitch

Synopsis While in a cruise from Europe to New York to get married with his fiancée and heir of a great fortune in USA, the bachelor sportsman Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer) meets the gorgeous former night-club singer Terry McKay (Irene Dunne),...

Direction James W. Horne · Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · James Finlayson · Charlie Hall

Synopsis Stan and Ollie are Christmas tree salesmen in California. Business is slow and a simple argument with one grumpy prospective customer (James Finlayson) escalates from a simple argument into full scale mutual destruction with Stan & Ollie destroying the customers...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charley Chase · Katherine Grant · Gale Henry · John Cossar

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Laughton · Mary Boland · Charles Ruggles · ZaSu Pitts

Synopsis While visiting Paris in 1908, upper class Lord Burnstead loses his butler playing poker. Egbert and Effie Floud bring Ruggles back to Red Gap, Washington. Effie wants to take advantage of Ruggles' upper class background to influence Egbert's hick lifestyle....

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Tom Kennedy · Sam Lufkin

Synopsis Two escaped convicts (Laurel & Hardy) change clothes in the getaway car, but wind up wearing each other's pants. The rest of the film involves their trying to exchange pants, in alleys, in cabs and finally high above the street...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charley Chase · Vivien Oakland · Ann Howe · Charles Clary

Synopsis Mr. and Mrs. Moose are not pretty. But after he has his teeth fixed and she has her nose done they look great. They meet by accident and don't recognize each other. They make plans for an illicit rendezvous, both...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Harry Bernard · Sam Lufkin

Synopsis Among the horses stable hands Stanley and Oliver are tending is a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a 5000 US dollars reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Barry Fitzgerald · Rise Stevens · Gene Lockhart

Synopsis A new priest shows up at the parish of a crusty old priest named Father Fitzgibbon. The new man, Father O'Malley, must ingratiate himself with both the old man and his congregation. There are various ups and downs in their...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Bing Crosby · Ingrid Bergman · Henry Travers · William Gargan

Synopsis Father O'Malley the unconventional priest from 'Going My Way' continues his work for the Catholic Church. This time he is sent to St. Mary's, a run-down parochial school on the verge of condemnation. He and Sister Benedict work together in...

Direction Clyde Bruckman · Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Dorothy Coburn · Edgar Kennedy

Synopsis The boys are contracted to build a house in one day. Upon completion, a bird lands on the chimney and the house collapses, bit by bit. When the owner demands his money back, mayhem ensues.

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Vivien Oakland · Bess Flowers

Synopsis The Boys tell their wives they have a business engagement, then sneak off to a poker game. En route, they stop to help two young ladies with a flat tire, and wind up splattered with mud. The girls invite them...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charles Ruggles · Mary Boland · W.C. Fields · George Burns

Synopsis The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. A clerk in Whinney's bank has put fifty thousand dollars in a suitcase, hoping to rob Whinney on the road, but instead Whinney...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Gary Cooper · Ann Sheridan · Ray Collins · Edmund Lowe

Synopsis Sam Clayton has a good heart and likes to help out people in need. In fact, he likes to help them out so much that he often finds himself broke and unable to help his own family buy the things...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Charley Chase · William V. Mong · Martha Sleeper · Milla Davenport

Synopsis "Crazy like a Fox is a 1926 short film starring Charley Chase. The two-reel silent comedy stars Chase as a young man who feigns insanity in order to get out of an arranged marriage, only to find out that his...

Direction Leo McCarey

Cast Harold Lloyd · Adolphe Menjou · Helen Mack · Verree Teasdale

Synopsis Director Leo McCarey's charmingly funny THE MILKY WAY stars the fabulous silent-film comedian Harold Lloyd in one of his first talkies. Softie milkman Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd) ducks at just the right moment during a brawl, and the avoided punch knocks...

Direction Leo McCarey · James Parrott

Cast Stan Laurel · Oliver Hardy · Edgar Kennedy · Kay Deslys

Synopsis Ollie and his wife are enjoying a quiet Sunday at home until Stan shows up, eager to play some golf. After Stan breaks the Hardys' Victrola and nearly sets fire to their house, Mrs. Hardy chases the boys out. At...