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.
Claire i Donald Crowhurst to szczęśliwe i zakochane w sobie małżeństwo z trójką dzieci. Gdy rodzinny biznes plajtuje Donald decyduje się na ryzykowny krok, by zapewnić byt rodzinie. Pomysłowy wynalazca, weekendowy żeglarz postanawia wziąć udział w żeglarskim wyścigu dookoła świata - Sunday Times Golden Globe. Bez doświadczenia, bez przygotowania, nie zbaczając z trasy musi przetrwać samotną podróż i wygrać wyścig. Donald za wszelką cenę chce osiągnąć sukces, którym zasłuży na podziw najbliższych. Wspierany przez ukochaną żonę i kibicujące mu dzieci wyrusza w niebezpieczną podróż. Na co zdobędzie, by wygrać z żywiołem i nie zawieść tych, na którym najbardziej mu zależy?
Bogart wciela się w rolę Eddiego Willisa, dziennikarza sportowego, który zaprzyjaźnia się ze skorumpowanym sponsorem o imieniu Benko. Wspólnie postanawiają oszukać Toro Morena, niezdarnego, ponad dwumetrowego osiłka, wmawiając mu, że ma szansę zdobyć tytuł mistrza wagi lekkiej w boksie.
A glamorous film star rebels against the studio, her pushy press agent and a family of hangers-on.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.