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In this comedy, a group of ex-husbands rally together to protest having to pay exorbitant amounts of alimony and wind up in “alimony-jail.”
- January 29, 2021
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Alice Kendall is the darling of her social set, the sons and daughters of millionaires, although Alice’s mother has impoverished herself to provide Alice with the luxuries she expects as her right. Mom blows what’s left of her fortune to provide the best trousseau that money can buy when Alice marries Fred Garlan, and then wishes Fred lots of luck. Now, Alice is trying to coax Fred into buying her a new sable coat – all of her friends are sporting them – while Fred is busily trying to borrow enough money to keep his business afloat. This marriage business certainly isn’t working out like living-with-Mom, and Alice just doesn’t know how she can be seen if she isn’t wearing a new sable coat. But, help is lurking just around the corner in the form of a sleaze-ball named Morrell. He’s a stock-broker and he is a bachelor and he enjoys the benefits of married [...]
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Complications arise when a young women becomes a housekeeper for three men.
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A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening “beat” gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complicatins ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman’s daughter.
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The experiences of a disparate group of young men as they make their way through Navy boot camp.
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Charlie searches for a murderer amidst numerous ghosts conjured up by a strange variety of spiritualists and occultists.
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An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
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In this film, Suwanee Collier is the boyfriend and mentor of aspiring vocalist Elanda Lee. A classical singer, Elanda refuses to lower herself to perform “swing” music until Collier shows her the way.
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In despair after breaking up with his girlfriend, a man hires a thug he has never seen to kill him. However, he changes his mind when he falls in love with another woman–but he can’t stop the man trying to kill him because he doesn’t know who he is.