A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Den otroliga och sanna historien om amatörseglaren Donald Crowhurst och hans försök att vinna världens första solokappsegling jorden runt 1968. Med stöd av sin älskade familj, lättar Crowhurst ankar och ger sig av mot en våg av oöverstigliga utmaningar. Det blir början på en osannolik resa, som än idag är ett olöst mysterium.
Sportjournalisten Eddie Willis slår sig ihop med boxningspromotorn Benko. Tillsammans lyckas de övertyga både publiken och Toro Moreno själv att den jättelika och klumpiga boxaren faktiskt skulle kunna vinna världsmästerskapet i tungvikt. Genom en rad arrangerade matcher växer Toros dröm om att erövra bältet. Men hans dröm krossas brutalt i samma ögonblick som han träffas av mästarens nävar.
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
Lulu Monahan, the press agent for John Barrymore, is attempting to get a sponsor for a radio program. To that end, she and the agent for bandleader Kay Kyser, plant a story that the great Shakespearean actor, over his heartfelt objections, will teach Kyser how to play Shakespeare, which isn't the same as playing Paducah, which soon becomes evident.
A satire about the power of publicity. Robert Montgomery plays Jeff Bidwell, a dashing Broadway press agent who has his own private club where he cultivates the rich and powerful. With the help of his selfless ex-wife (Madge Evans), Jeff molds an illiterate, suicidal young woman (Sally Eilers) into a celebrity socialite.
A press agent for a Broadway actress whose career is going downhill, attempts to get her some publicity by having her adopt two orphans, without her knowledge.
In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
The Andrews Sisters headline this musical. They play the lead act at a popular nightclub. The trouble begins when they hire a few students from a financially foundering dance school for their newest production. One of the dancers, a rich young socialite, desperately wants to be in it too, but her prurient maiden aunts refuse to allow her to disgrace their family by becoming a common chorine. She and the club owner (who must have the aunt's permission because the girl is underage) try to convince them, but it's not easy.