When a woman accidentally kills her detested husband, a selfless young man takes the blame and goes to prison. Complications ensue when he is provisionally released.
Eddie is conned into fronting a speakeasy for a local gangster who intends to frame him for the murder of a cop.
Young kids face off in a dance competition.
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer. Written by Tony Fontana
A planter's wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.
Millionaire's son Duke wants to be a champion boxer but takes time out to enroll in college when he sees co-ed Susie. The students wonder about his having a chauffeur and house full of servants. Susie likes him but, to get rid of her, his manager tells her Duke already has a New York chorus girl. As the students listen to a radio broadcast of his victorious fight from San Francisco, she learns that the student Duke is the boxer Duke and that there is no chorus girl.
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until Stella proves she is decent by shielding an innocent girl and winning the professor's respect.
An escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him.
Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman Grant complicate her plans.
A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
Ko-Ko the Clown thinks being a hero is easy, but his animator tries to prove him otherwise
In dieser Geschichte reisen Stan und Ollie als Musiker mit dem Zug nach Pottsville. Nachdem sie fast den Zug verpassen und ihre Noten verlieren, versuchen sie in einem Schlafwagenabteil „in einem Bett“ Platz zu finden. Dies ist erst der zweite Tonfilm von Stan und Ollie, und es wurde eine Stummfilmversion produziert für Kinos, die zu der Zeit noch nicht für Tonfilme ausgerüstet waren.
Eine New Yorkerin trennt sich von einem Gangsterkönig und wendet sich einem Bankangestellten zu. Weil er sich "sein" Mädchen nicht wegnehmen lassen will, inszeniert der inzwischen zum Tode verurteilte Gangster einen Bankraub mit Totschlag, der zur Verurteilung des unschuldigen Nebenbuhlers führt. Beide begegnen sich in den Todeszellen, und nach herzzerreißenden Szenen verzichtet der Gangster auf seine Rache.
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Dee is a naive chorus girl living in a boarding house full of low-paid actors. Dee and Billy are in love and he helps her to move from chorus girl to star. Things run afoul when jealousy, misunderstandings and sleazy men enter the picture.
Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each should be allowed perfect freedom in personal contacts. Complications arise when these ideals are put into practice.
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York's Upper East Side.
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts. In order to save money on the road, they get married. Soon their act begins to catch on, and they find themselves booked onto Broadway. They also realize that they actually are in love with each other, but just when things are starting to look up, the comic starts to let success go to his head.