Margaret Dumont – MRQE

Animal Crackers

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The well-known explorer and hunter Captain Spaulding has just returned from Africa, and is being welcomed home with a lavish party at the estate of influential society matron Mrs. Rittenhouse when a valuable painting goes missing. The intrepid Captain Spaulding attempts to solve the crime with the help of his silly secretary Horatio Jamison, while sparring with the anarchic Signor Emanuel Ravelli and his nutty sidekick The Professor.

Shake, Rattle & Rock!

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock ‘n’ roll palace for teens.

Zotz!

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three powers: to inflict pain, slow down time or kill. Soon, he’s pursued by enemy spies who have learned about the magic coin.

Three for Bedroom C

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After beginning their train trip to California, a famous film actress and her daughter discover their compartment has also been assigned to a handsome biology professor. Comedy.

Diamond Horseshoe

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Joe Davis Sr., headliner at a big nightclub, is visited by medical student son Joe Jr., who to Dad’s chagrin wants to be a crooner, and soon comes between Dad and his girlfriend Claire. So glamorous dancer Bonnie is enlisted to distract Junior. Which does Bonnie want more, the fur coat or true love? Plot is a framework for numerous Ziegfeld style stage productions.

The Dancing Masters

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The Dancing Masters is a 1943 Laurel and Hardy feature film. The plot involves the team running a ballet school, and getting involved with an inventor. A young Robert Mitchum has an uncredited cameo role as a fraudulent insurance salesman.

Sing Your Worries Away

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

This package for comedy and the musical numbers has Luke Brown being drugged by the gangster operators of the swank Boathouse Inn; most notably Roxie a sexy pickpocket. Brown has information that Chow Brewster and his cousin have inherited $3,000,000. The owner of the Inn intends to keep Brown under wraps until they can drive Chow to suicide. He will then marry Chow’s cousin before she finds out about her inheritance.

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break is a 1941 film about a man who wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beaten up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. W. C. Fields’ last starring role in a feature-length film.

The Big Store

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A detective is hired to protect the life of a singer, who has recently inherited a department store, from the store’s crooked manager.

High Flyers

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Two men running a carnival airplane ride are hired to fly to retrieve what they think are photos for a reporter. Actually, they are retrieving diamonds stolen from a noted gem dealer. As it turns out, their plane crashes on the very estate of the dealer. Thinking the duo are police officers, the dealer offers his home for their convalescence from the accident. Meanwhile, the diamonds have been snatched by a kleptomaniac dog and buried on the estate. When the smugglers track down the pair, they try to convince the dealer that they are officials from an institution from which the two have escaped. Before long, the carnival fellows, the crooks, the gem dealer and his family, along with a platoon of cops, are tearing up the grounds to find where the dog has buried the diamonds.