Turkish en zijn partner-in-crime Tommy raken door de beruchte crimineel Brick Top betrokken bij de wereld van de illegale bokswedstrijden. Er valt grof geld te verdienen. Wanneer de door hen ingezette bokser direct in de eerste ronde knock-out geslagen wordt door de onverstaanbare Ierse zigeuner One Punch Mickey, breekt de hel los.
Ashtray keert terug naar de plek waar hij is opgegroeid, waar hij z'n vader en vrienden weer ontmoet. Echt kloppen doet het allemaal niet, aangezien Ashtray ouder is dan zijn vader, en de oma van zijn beste vriend Loc Dog een schietgrage oude vrouw is. De film is een parodie op de "hood"-films als Menace II Society en Boyz N The Hood.
Op zijn sterfbed, laat Louis 'de Mexicaan' zijn jeugdvriend Fernand Naudin hem beloven dat hij zijn zaken zal behartigen en dat hij zal waken over zijn dochter Patricia. Fernand ontdekt al gauw dat zijn vriend zich bezighield met louche zaakjes en verschillende ex-werknemers willen graag wraak nemen... Tegelijkertijd krijgt Fernand het druk met Patricia, die enkel met de 'liefde' bezig is en op wie hij maar geen vat krijgt.
Een musichall-zangeres, die tevens de vriendin van een gangster is, wordt door de politie achtervolgd omdat ze tegen haar verliefde moet getuigen. Ze vindt een schuilplaats: een huis waarin acht geleerden (waarvan zeven oud) een encyclopedie moeten samenstellen.
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is unique, as is each experience... some are much more comfortable with the word than others.
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.
At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.