The Samaritans
A man gets into a terrible traffic accident in the middle of nowhere, and two religious zealots try their best to "save" him.
A man gets into a terrible traffic accident in the middle of nowhere, and two religious zealots try their best to "save" him.
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
The nerves are on edge. No wonder: this heat, the cigarette smoke, the mess on the dashboard and then this raging headache. No, two jobs in one day are just too much even for the best professional killer duo...
Years after their last encounter, two disparate killers must work together again. But the scars from the past run deep. Before the job can get their full attention, the films must first be returned to the video store. The after-fee would otherwise be too high...
Dummy Ache is a 1936 American short comedy film directed by Leslie Goodwins. An assuming husband, suspicious of his wife, follows her for the day. Misunderstandings, mishaps, and hijinks ensue. It was nominated for an Academy Award at the 9th Academy Awards in 1936 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division in 2013.
Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother. His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age (the rest of Our Gang) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby. Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sells to Joe. The rest of the gang has set an assembly-line system that washes, dries, rocks, and feeds male and female babies.
A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.
It's the Fourth of July and the mother of Our Gang member Joe Cobb is doing a brisk business at her fireworks stand. Briefly left in charge of the stand, Joe does his best not to blow up himself or his friends, but a poorly-aimed skyrocket owned by Allen "Farina" Hoskins triggers a somewhat premature but undeniably spectacular display of pyrotechnics.
The Foy Family performs a vaudeville act.
Ko-Ko and Fitz emerge from an inkwell into the sultan's harem.
Fourteen year old Leander is being teased by the other boys at school because he thinks his willy is too small. The teasing gets worse when he falls in love with Martina who is helping him with his geometry homework. As a result the boys play a game in the changing room and use their protractor triangle from geometry to measure completely different things...
A mother and son attend a funeral for someone they really don't know, and intend to leave right after, but end up leading the procession to the burial.
A little entry from the RKO shorts department serving also as an audition-type (stick 'em in one of these and see if they appeal to a real audience, and make a buck or two at the same time)film for studio contractees and budding starlets. And, surrounded and supported by veteran character actors, such as Jack Norton, Jack Rice and Harrison Green, the likes of Tony Martin, Phyllis Brooks and Lucille Ball usually looked pretty good. And soon made for themselves, with studio help, rather nice Hollywood careers.
Balding advertising executive Mr. Baum spends more time on a new ad campaign for purple sunglasses than he does with his own family. But suddenly he is forced to reexamine his life after a doctor tells him that he has an 'aggressive' brain tumor and will die in 90 minutes.
First timer Aaron goes to buy from a sketchy dealer, when he's invited inside a weird friendship starts to blossom. Until everything begins to spiral out of control.
A withdrawn mid-twenties man attends a New Year's Eve party roiling with hidden tensions and some particularly ambitious resolutions.
After a historic Texas winter storm leaves three twenty-somethings isolated without reliable food, water, and electricity, they must use their ingenuity to cook their final food source, a frozen burrito.
A family lives in a house that teeters precariously on the very tip of a mountain. The balance of the house is affected not only by the family that lives inside, but also their cow, dog, cat, a passing bird, and a man with a couple of sheep who returns in a car. The slopes of the hill themselves also seem rather slippery at times.
While robbing a house, Julio asks Ricardo to pretend to be the house's owners. Both of them take advantage of the solitude of their surroundings to express what they truly feel for each other.
Former policeman Lenny Nero has moved into a more lucrative trade: the illegal sale of virtual reality-like recordings that allow users to experience the emotions and past experiences of others. While they typically contain tawdry incidents, Nero is shocked when he receives one showing a murder.