A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
Eliza Doolittle este o tanara care isi castiga existenta vanzand flori pe strada. Accentul stricat si pronuntia defectuoasa a fetei atrage atentia unui trecator- profesorul de fonetica Henry Higgins, un lingvist cunoscut. Increzator in metodele sale, Higgins se lauda ca poate sa faca, la nivelul vocabularului, ca Eliza sa para ducesa. Intaratata, Eliza merge la casa profesorului, dorind sa invete, si ajunge subiectul unui pariu intre Higgins si prietenul sau Pickering. In sase luni fata trebuie sa apara la Balul Ambasadei asa ca, imediat, este supusa la epuizante exercitii fonetice zilnice. In acest timp, Eliza este cautata de tatal ei, om simplu si fara capatai care reuseste sa scoata bani de la Higgins contra educatiei fiicei sale.
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
A rich businessman makes a bet he can survive on the streets of a rough Los Angeles neighborhood for 30 days completely penniless. During his stay he discovers another side of life and falls in love with a homeless woman.
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
After a childhood of abuse by his evangelistic father, misfit Oscar Hopkins becomes an Anglican minister and develops a divine obsession with gambling. Lucinda Leplastrier is a rich Australian heiress shopping in London for materials for her newly acquired glass factory back home. Deciding to travel to Australia as a missionary, Oscar meets Lucinda aboard ship, and a mutual obsession blossoms. They make a wager that will alter each of their destinies.
Some of the boys from South Park Elementary find themselves on a balloon ride to an imaginary land. Upon their arrival they're faced with an unimaginable threat.
Bickering husband and wife Tim and Sally Willows mutter a few angry words to a statue of Buddha and wind up living each other's life.
A young woman is torn between a wealthy suitor who wants her body and the honest young man who wants what's best for her.
An unemployed loafer who spends his time playing pool decides he's ready to look for a job so he can secure his girlfriend's parents' approval for their marriage.
A feisty Irish woman turns a truck driver into a championship boxer.
Spendthrift Willie Hale again returns penniless to the family home in London. His father is none too pleased, but Willie smooth-talks him into letting him stay. At the same time he turns the charm on Dorothy Hope, whose father is big in linoleum and who, before Willie's arrival, was about to become engaged to a Russian aristocrat.
Two Marine pilots vie for romance and glory.
In this comedy, two men make an extravagant $50,000 dollar bet that one of them will be able to successfully court a lovely woman without spending any money. To foil his scheme, the other bettor hires two henchmen to stop him.
A man who believes that love is more animal and chemical than spiritual, bets that by controlling the circumstances, he can get any man and woman to fall for with each other and get engaged within a month.
A young man bets $10,000 that for 24 hour he can tell nothing but the truth.
A small-town blowhard runs for water commissioner while fighting to win custody of his niece and nephew.
The jeweler Edmond gets a competitor, Mr. Snyder, who specializes in imitations. Snyder challenges him and claims he can make a perfect imitation of a pearl Edmond chooses.