Hits and Bits of 1938

¡Joropo!

First bilingual Venezuelan film, directed by Héctor Cabrera Sifontes.

Say It with Sables

In this silent film, now considered lost, Doug Caswell falls for Irene, his wealthy father's mistress. It's up to Doug's stepmother Helen to put things right.

The Alarm

A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedy short. The film is considered lost.

A Gambling Rube

A comedy short that revolves around a poker game, both above and underneath the table. This is considered to be a lost film.

A Glimpse of Los Angeles

A Mabel Normand comedy short. It is considered a lost film.

Lovers' Post Office

A short comedy in which two lovers post their letters in a box in a tree. The old man gets wise and sets a snare, by which he catches Fatty's hand. The girl releases the snare and Fatty hooks the old man by the leg.

Mabel’s Stormy Love Affair

Mabel Normand stars in this comedy short in which she has a world of trouble with her rival lovers.

Mabel’s Latest Prank

Mabel meets a masher in the park while en route to get a position as maid. Later she finds the man was the husband of her new mistress. There is an exciting chase scene, and the picture winds up with everyone in the lake.

Mabel’s Nerve

Mabel attempts to master a bucking horse as it speeds towards a cliff with Mack hot on her trail!

You Vs. Wildgnorance

Lonesome Ladies

Released on July 3, 1927

Dry Martini

Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.

Closet Space: The Movie

A romantic comedy about a man's wife that has a closet secret literally. When James begins to work for the company that rents Closet Spaces, he finds out what his wife has going on behind his back.

Back to the Woods

Daughter of an Eastern lumber king, Stephanie Trent travels in the guise of a schoolteacher to the logging village of Trentsville to search for "a real man." There she meets Jimmy Raymond, a young novelist posing as a local while writing his story. When Stephanie comes to Jimmy's cabin to report a supposed plot against him, he acts as though he intends to assault her. She nearly throws herself out the window but is stopped by Jimmy, who explains that he is working on a novel and merely wanted to determine a young girl's reactions. In retaliation, she orders that he be kidnapped and held in a nearby cabin, but remorsefully nurses him back to health when he is shot trying to escape.

Mind Your Business

A real estate salesman who loses both his job and his girl, masquerades as a female singer at a dance for prospective customers in order to win them both back.

Bright Lights

The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities. His effort is ludicrous because of the fact that his talent is all recruited from the help in the hotel. Roscoe, the cook, is forced to appear in a dress suit and when Al St. John appears from the bar there is a lively rivalry between the two for the applause of the crowd. Mabel, the waitress, vies with a professional dancer from the city. Into this setting comes William Jefferson, a polished sharper, who takes the innocent Mabel by storm.

Society Secrets

Amos Kerran and his wife live a traditional, old-fashioned life on a Connecticut farm, while their son and daughter, Arthur and Maybelle, are successes in New York society. The children want to invite their parents to the city at Christmastime but are ashamed of their unrefined appearance.

Beauty and the Rogue

Humanitarian Roberta induces her father to hire former convict, Bill, as his gardener. When she leaves on vacation, Bill steals her jewelry and eventually sells a brooch to her boyfriend, Richard, who unknowingly gives it to her as a present.

Tear the Roof Off: The Untold Story of Parliament Funkadelic

The untold true story: The rise and fall of the greatest funk band ever, Parliament Funkadelic.

Lucky Fool

Scion of a distinguished family J. Anthony Bowden is considered unworthy by his father, a feeling he discovers is shared by his fiancée Elma. His father sets up an elaborate ruse involving Anthony’s arrest and Elma’s kidnapping to make him prove his worth which he eventually does.