George Marshall
1) Fancy Pants
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Well, fancy that! Bob Hope and Lucille Ball join forces and let loose a stampede of laughs in this classic screwball comedy. Wise-cracking Bob Hope plays Humphrey, a British valet brought to the Old West to teach Old World charms to a certain redheaded tomboy named Agatha Floud (Lucille Ball). Of course, Humphrey's not really a valet. He's an out-of-work actor who's stumbled across the role of his life... but will proper etiquette protect Humphrey...
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Made for each other: Newlyweds in Hollywood's Golden Age must overcome poverty, career pressures, and illness. The power of their love sees them through. Pot o' gold: An idle young rich man signs on with a struggling swing band, and convinces his uncle to put the band on the air.
3) The gazebo
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
What would you do if a blackmailer showed up peddling nudie pictures of your sweet wife? Why, plug the scoundrel and bury him under the backyard gazebo, of course!
5) Pot o'gold
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A music mad young man tries to get a struggling orchestra on his uncle's radio program.
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Larry Lawrence (Hope), a Manhattan radio commentator sought in connection with a murder he did not commit, eludes New York police by hiding in a steamer trunk. Soon the trunk and Larry are aboard a ship bound for Cuba, where the trunk's owner, pretty Mary Carter (Goddard), is sailing to take possession of a recent inheritance: a haunted castle.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Trotter Polling Company employee Pete Marshall is sent down the back roads and into the backwoods in search of a missing fellow employee. The city slicker soon finds himself mixed up with a family of homicidal hillbillies who are looking for stolen loot hidden on their property.
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
No sex, please, we're on our honeymoon! After a showgirl and an Air Force sergeant head to the altar on the basis of one torrid smooch, the bride begins having second thoughts. After all, marriage can't be based on sexual chemistry alone. So she decrees a month of connubial celibacy to test if the newlyweds are really meant for each other.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1024
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a glorious career comeback, while Stewart cemented his amiable everyman persona with a charming turn as a gun-abhorring deputy sheriff who uses his wits to bring law and order to the frontier town of Bottleneck. A sparkling script, a supporting cast of virtuoso character actors, and rollicking musical numbers come together to create an...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
My favorite blonde: It's all aboard for intrigue, laughs and romance as Bob Hope and Madeleine Carroll contend with German spies during a daffy but dangerous cross-country chase. Star spangled rhythm: A young sailor thinks his dad is a studio boss, when in fact his father is a gatekeeper.
12) In old Kentucky
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Rogers, with help from tap-dancing Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, carries this story of two opposing clans residing in the hills.
13) The sheepman
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Easygoing Jason Sweet won a trainload of sheep in a poker game and aims to graze them. Powder Valley looks like the perfect place. A cattle baron and a woman try to come between Jason and his sheep.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When Kenesaw H. Clark hires a young ex-con to work at his paper, the townś rich banker, Colonel Abercrombie, shuts down Clarkś operation. Undaunted, Clark starts a new paper in direct opposition to Abercrombie and recruits the town bum to run against Abercrombie for mayor.
16) The mating game
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
An IRS investigator comes to check on an unpredictable businessman who hasn't paid his taxes, and ends up falling in love with the man's pretty daughter.
18) Destry
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ruthless gambler Decker and his cronies are causing unrest in the sleepy frontier town of Restful. After the local sheriff dies under mysterious circumstances, Decker arranges to have the town drunk appointed sheriff, thinking he will be easily controlled. But the new sheriff sends for Tom Destry, son of a famous two-fisted lawman, to be his deputy. When Tom arrives, he isn't exactly the swaggering hero the sheriff had in mind. In fact, Destry doesn't...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Singin' in the rain: With fame, fortune and fans galore, silent screen idol Don Lockwood thought he had it all. But one look at aspiring actress Kathy Seldon, and he knew exactly what he was missing. Now he's swinging from lampposts, singing in the raindrops and ready for love. With talking pictures on the rise, Don sets out to make musical with the woman of his dreams, but one thing stands in his way, his jealous co-star who wants Don - and the leading...