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- The career of a waitress takes off when she meets an amiable drunken Hollywood director.
- A wealthy, proper society girl finds that she's much more popular with men when she pretends to be a "bad" girl.
- Young Valerie models for an American painter who tries to make a future in Paris and they fall in love.
- A woman travels to a French penal colony in Indochina to be with her fiancé, the commander, but when she arrives she discovers that he is now an alcoholic.
- Honey, a young entertainer on a carnival boat, is in love with Buck but Buck's father is against the romance.
- The body of a Jane Doe turns up in an abandoned car in New York and the police's only clue revolves around the tattoo she has on her arm, and the fact that someone tried to destroy the corpse to erase the fingerprints.
- The poor, downtrodden (beautiful, of course) "dutiful" daughter of a London society family falls for a barrister, disguises herself, and takes a job as governess to his son. Adapted from the novel, "A Little Flat in the Temple"
- Story of a girl's unhappiness after her marriage to a man just jilted, and the manner in which she finally wins his affection.
- A struggling writer divorces his wife to pursue his career without interference, but they meet in Europe years later after she has remarried.
- A New York chorus girl is coerced into keeping house for an oil man in South America to pay off a debt. Her boyfriend comes to get her but she finds out that he is only out for the oil man's money.
- A shy, naive New York children's librarian must become stronger and wiser after she discovers that her new husband is a liar, a cheat, and a fraud.
- Four battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
- A rash go-getter is duped by would-be swindlers into buying swamp land which turns out to be worth a fortune.
- A war officer who is thought dead returns to the woman he loves, only to find she has remarried.
- A Masquers' Club spoof short. Newly-weds spend their wedding night in a run-down hotel, watched over by an under-employed house detective. When the bride goes missing, the groom (Horton) is chief suspect number one. Fortunately, the cops are completely incompetent.
- Unable to repay a substantial gambling debt to mob boss North, Alan Beckwith concocts a last-ditch scheme. Allowing North to take out a $100,000 insurance policy on his life, Alan agrees to commit suicide after the mandantory one-year moratorium has elapsed. To make things legal, North forces Alan to marry Beverly (Whose brother is also indebted to North) as the beneficiary-of-record. He also assigns "hitman wannabe" Squint to both keep an eye on Alan and "do the deed" when the time comes. But as the year progresses, Alan falls in love with Beverly, befriends Squint and decides he doesn't want to die. But how can he convince North to allow a 100 grand to slip through his fingers?
- Three US sailors fight German U-boats in World War I aboard a decoy ship and try to win Ginger Rogers who works on the Coney Island midway.
- In 1915 Vienna, the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa decides to answer the patriotic appeals and help by working in the hospital, but her reputation causes her to be rejected. Because of her past, military intelligence wants her to find out whether an army major is spying for the allies. She meets the major at a dinner and they agree to meet later, but before she can keep the date, she is courted by a young naval officer named Karl. Falling in love, she ignores her spying assignment, but knows that she can never tell her new love about her life. When Karl has a chance to go on a heroic mission, Elsa sends him away with a "Dear Karl" letter. However, the paths of these three people cross again and she decides what she must do.
- Ricardo Cortez plays a ruthless, near-psychotic gangster who withal follows his own code of honor. Helen Twelvetrees co-stars as a trusting young woman who marries mob lawyer John Garrick, never dreaming that both her husband and her brother Frank Conroy are involved in the rackets. When she does learn the horrible truth, it is she who determines to "cleanse" her family of the tinge of crime by dealing directly with Cortez--and she means directly.
- A mad scientist creates a time travel pill, which two goofballs volunteer to test, transporting them to ancient Egypt as Marc Antony and Julius Caesar vying for the beautiful Cleopatra's love in a chariot race.
- Eddie Quillan falls in love with a gangster's girlfriend but avoids trouble when he becomes friends with Robert Armstrong and his girlfriend
- Randolph Carter is after Macey's freight franchise. He has his gang raid all of Macey's wagon trains so supplies will not reach town. In his latest raid Macey is killed. His son Steve attempts to take over but finds himself in trouble when he pays off his men with money Rough and Ready accidentally found in Carter's safe.
- This Masquers short (the first of the series) is a parody of every old-time melodrama that trod the stages or graced the silver screen...Our Nell...the Old Folks at Home...the Old Homestead...the Villain holding the Mortgage...the pure-as-snow Hero with IDEALs...and the Old Saw Mill with the Heroine tied to a log rapidly approaching the the Old (but sharp) Buzz Saw. All with the Keystone Kops thrown in.
- A jockey is influenced to throw a race.
- A true film account of a three-month safari in the big game hunting areas of the Dark Continent, undoctored with any faked plot or contrivance.
- Three girls try to evade the landlady while trying to find work.
- A Catholic Church-sponsored film about the life of Frances Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who established schools, orphanages and hospitals in the United States. Primarily booked into schools or churches, or a local church would rent a theatre for a roadshow one-night viewing by members of the local congregation.
- A short film which documents the siege of Warsaw at the beginning of World War II.
- This RKO short, part of the "This is America" series, details (as much as possible in a 20-minute short) the transformation, following World War II, of the Philippine Islands, from a divided country of six languages and 80 dialects, into a unified democracy-loving nation. The story is told largely through the experience of Thomas Briggs, an Ohio school teacher, who, years before the Japanese invasion of WWII, began his efforts of bringing unity and the story of democracy to the Islands.
- This short film examines the role in mid-20th century America of superstitions, personal rituals, taboos, talismans, and the black arts.
- Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy 'B' ranch to read her late father's will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch for 5 years. If she does not, everything goes to Buck, who is the manager. She does not like Buck, so she makes a deal with the wrong people for cattle and then the outlaws go to the ranch to get the $10,000 from her. But Buck is on the job.
- Noted gunman Black Jack and his friends arrive and take jobs on the Allen ranch. Allen's hands have quit and his cattle are being rustled. When one of Black Jack's friends is killed by the rustlers, he finds the killer and when they fight his Marshal's badge drops out and Ruby, the leader of the rustlers, picks it up. With his identity now known she sets a trap for him.
- King Bool returns to Bulvania to claim his throne and his girl.
- A veteran swamp hunter tracks wild boar in the Florida Everglades with a .22-caliber pistol as his only weapon. An air-boat carries the hunting party at mile-a-minute speed over land and water.
- Mabel, a college co-ed, wants to make her senior boyfriend--the strongest man on campus--jealous by two-timing him with Bob. Let the hazing begin.
- The Kennedys move into a "modern" bungalow, which gives them nothng but trouble.
- June MacCloy, Marion Shilling and Gertrude Short are three gold-diggers trying to raise enough money to take a vacation in Europe. June works the hardest by getting a great many sugar-daddy prospects to shower her with jewelry while promising to marry each one on June 1, the day the girl's ship sails for Europe.
- The first in RKO Pathe's series of "Traveling Salesman Comedies" has Louis John Bartels traveling to Mexico to sell his line of underwear. He garners the attention of a fair senorita which does not set well with the chief of a gang of bandits, and Bartels is soon seeking the USA/Mexico borderline.
- Edgar finds champagne stashed in the attic, inspiring his wife and in-laws to buy a yacht to christen with the bubbly. Will the bottle survive until the boat launches?
- A pair of newlyweds discover his Uncle/her Aunt were once engaged to be married and are now enemies. Both are coming over to visit and spend the night.
- This entry in the Simple Simon series is about a young newlywed couple who take in a boarder to help them meet their mortgage payments. The latter, played by writer Rube Welch, proceeds to make life miserable for the inoffensive husband, played by Louis Simon'.
- A husband fakes imaginary illnesses to avoid conflicts and troubles. His giddy wife decides to test his love for her by making him jealous.
- A Wild West spoof by The Masquers Comedy Club of Hollywood
- This Cold War era documentary describes the building of the Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line, a string of radar stations across Alaska and Canada north of the Arctic Circle meant to protect against air attacks coming over the North Pole.
- A fired reporter seeking a speakeasy to drown his sorrows in stumbles upon the secret lair of a medium and a hypnotist, who offer him a different form of spirits than the kind he is trying to find.
- Jerry Long and Jane Worth are heirs to an abandoned mining town. Judge Drake knows there is gold there and wants them to sell. He plans to scare Jane and has hired Jerry, not knowing his true identity, to impersonate the other heir. Jane is quickly scared and is ready to leave, but Jerry doesn't want to and sets out to find the truth.