, 1h38 Directed byClarence Brown OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy ThemesFilms based on plays ActorsWallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, Mickey Rooney, Aline MacMahon, Eric Linden, Cecilia Parker Rating68% En 1906, le jeune Richard Miller est sélectionné pour prononcer le discours d'entrée au lycée. Idéaliste, il tente d'y glisser quelques idées anticapitalistes, mais c'est compter sans son père, Nat, qui l'en empêche rudement. Plus tard, lors de la fête nationale, le 4 juillet, Richard s'éprend de Muriel McComber. Il lui écrit des lettres d'amour enflammées, qui ne laissent indifférents ni Muriel, ni, hélas, son père, lorsqu'il les découvre. Celui-ci oblige les jeunes gens à se séparer. Richard se saoule alors en compagnie d'une inconnue avant de trouver refuge chez son oncle Sid, un alcoolique invétéré, qui lui prodigue les conseils que lui inspira son expérience de la vie...
, 1h25 Directed byJohn Waters, John Waters, John Waters OriginUSA GenresDrama, Comedy, Action, Adventure ThemesFilms about children ActorsWallace Beery, Dean Stockwell, Edward Arnold, Aline MacMahon, Cameron Mitchell, Dorothy Patrick Rating62% Roy "Slag" McGurk (Beery), the former heavyweight boxing champion, ekes out a living as a bouncer in Mike Glenson's (Edward Arnold) saloon in the rough Bowery district of New York City. Mike has to meet two brewers for an important deal, so he sends Slag to pick up his daughter Caroline (Dorothy Patrick), returning by ship from Europe. Despite his estrangement from Johnny Burden (Cameron Mitchell), his boxing protege who joined the Salvation Army after putting one opponent in a wheelchair, Slag tells the young man. Mike had sent Caroline away to try to break up her relationship with Johnny.
A band of crooks, headed by Harry Gribbon, are on a train when they learn of a telegram sent to a fellow passenger, who is a police commissioner. The wire identifies him as official collector for the Old Cops' Home. A little chloroform does for him and when the train pulls out of his destination he is still on board while Gribbon is posing as the commissioner-collector. Great preparations have been made to receive the distinguished visitor. The only drawback to the welcome is the sour music dispensed by the police band. The musicians are sent upstairs in the police station to practice some more, and here they are found by Gribbon's associates. A quart of chloroform poured while they are asleep the crooks exchange clothing with them.