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- DirectorFrank WoodruffStarsGene RaymondWendy BarrieHedda HopperLarry Smith is a young bacteriologist on his way from New York to San Francisco to work under an eminent scientist in China. He stops along the way at the North house to deliver a scroll appointing socialite Mrs. North an honorary trustee of the hospital in recognition of her charity work. His visit interrupts the wedding of Mrs. North's spoiled daughter Diane to the stuffy Walter Corbett, and Diane, seizing the opportunity to dodge her nuptials, stows away in Larry's trailer, wearing nothing but her slip. On the road, Larry discovers that he has acquired a passenger and refuses to believe Diane's story that she is the daughter of the prominent North family. To placate him, Diane concocts a phony name and story and decides to win his heart while he determines to rid himself of her as soon as possible. As they venture across the country, however, the two fall in love and are married. Meanwhile, Mrs. North's offer of a reward for the return of her missing daughter triggers a nationwide search, and when Larry learns that he has married publicity hungry heiress Diane North, he throws her out and boards an airplane to fly to his boat in San Francisco. Diane follows him aboard, and the couple are reconciled as they voyage to China. This romantic comedy from RKO Radio Pictures is directed by Frank Woodruff, starring Gene Raymond, Wendy Barrie, Hedda Hopper and Billy Gilbert, with a screenplay written by Jerome Cady and Bert Granet, based on the novel by Eleanor Brown.
- DirectorIrving ReisStarsBillie SewardWilliam HaadeAnne RevereCrucial events in the lives of many people occur on the same night in the same place.
- DirectorRay McCareyStarsLucille BallJames EllisonRobert CooteThe marriage of college sweethearts Andrew and Clara is going stale after 5 years. Andrew is a hard worker at the firm, but it seems that all he does is work. When Mr. Battincourt from London must be entertained, Andrew gets stuck entertaining him--and Battincourt likes to party. Andrew is only doing his job, but Clara thinks differently and tosses him out. Andrew tries to reason with Clara, but Mother is against him. So Battincourt tries to get them back together by giving Clara the beauty treatment and having a costume party. But Mercedes Vasquez is an identical twin at the same party.
- DirectorJack HivelyStarsAnne ShirleyJames EllisonHenry TraversAnne Shirley, now betrothed to her childhood sweetheart Gilbert Blythe, takes a teaching position in a prestigious school far from her home on Prince Edward Island. While she is quickly accepted by her host family, the rest of the town, headed by the clannish Pringle family, refuses to accept her, on the orders of the head of the Pringle tribe, Hester Pringle.
- DirectorDavid HowardStarsGeorge O'BrienVirginia ValeHerbert HeywoodIn the 13th film of the 17 B-westerns George O'Brien made in 1937-1940 for RKO (who would remake "Legion of the Lawless" two years later as "Pirates of the Prairie" with Tim Holt), O'Brien, as lawyer Jeff Toland, hangs out his shingle in Ivestown, but is ordered out by a vigilante group headed by Les Harper. The vigilantes are merely a cloak under which the band of outlaws headed by Harper operate to terrorize and control the town. When it is learned that the new railroad survey takes the tracks through East Ivestown instead of Ivestown, the gang plans to drive out the homesteaders and ranchers along the right-of-way and file on the land themselves. Jeff leads the fight for the intended victims against the gang.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsStarsRichard DixKent TaylorEdmund LoweAlcoholic pilot struggles to turn his life around.
- DirectorDavid ButlerStarsKay KyserPeter LorreBoris KarloffThe manager of Kay Kyser's band books them for a birthday party bash for an heiress at a spooky mansion, where sinister forces try to kill her.
- DirectorLeslie GoodwinsCharles E. RobertsStarsLeon ErrolDennis O'KeefePamela BlakeA girl's (Adele Pearce) father (Leon Errol) refuses to let her marry her boyfriend (Dennis O'Keefe) until he has $1,000 in the bank.
- DirectorFrank WoodruffStarsFay WrayCharles LangPaul GuilfoyleA small bus company run by a father/daughter team comes under attack by a group of "wildcatters" who want to put the company out of business so they can take over the profitable Los Angeles-to-San Francisco route.
- DirectorEdward KillyStarsTim HoltRay WhitleyEmmett LynnFollows the Fargo Kid as he rides into town on an outlaw's horse and is mistaken for him. He then gets hired to kill a man.