All Films

Rookie Revue

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

Random gags around military life, set on an army base. A bugler uses a jukebox to play reveille. In formation, one private has a great deal of trouble remembering what comes after "3"; after he gets it, he decides not to go for the $32 question. In the mess hall, the machine gunners machine gun their food while the bombers catch falling biscuits. The infantry marches for miles - past a "next time, take the train" billboard.

Uncle Joe

1941 • 51 min • United States of America

A pretty Chicago teenager (Gale Storm), who's being courted by an older man, is sent by her worried parents to live with her uncle on his Iowa farm.

Wedding Worries

1941 • 12 min • United States of America

The Our Gang kids worry that Darla's new stepmother will be an evil stepmother like of fairy tale fame.

Under Age

1941 • 60 min • United States of America

Fresh out of reform school, a bunch of delinquent girls fall in with a gang of crooks and are put to work as "hostesses" in a number of mob-controlled bars and cafes. The girls are expected to string along male customers so that the latter will squander their money on watered-down drinks and fixed poker games. When one gullible New Yorker is clipped to the tune of $18,000 worth of diamonds, the Law closes in.

Old MacDonald Duck

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

Farmer Donald goes through his farmer day until a fly causes him to lose control while milking a cow.

A Shot in the Dark

1941 • 57 min • United States of America

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.

Hideko the Bus Conductress

1941 • 54 min • Japan

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert the dwindling number of passengers when her job and the bus company itself are at stake.

Yes, Indeed!

1941 • 3 min

A Soundie with Dorothy Dandridge and Four Spirits of Rhythm

La Prière aux étoiles

1941 • 1 min • France

Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: before meeting Pierre she was a kept woman. Her chivalrous lover, Dominique, chooses to set her free. But Pierre is an uncompromising man and, furious with Florence, threatens to leave her...

Horror Island

1941 • 60 min • United States of America

A down-on-his luck businessman organizes an excursion to Sir Henry Morgan's Island for a treasure hunt only to encounter a mysterious phantom and murder.

Fiesta

1941 • 45 min • United States of America

Cholita, after a long absence in Mexico City, is returning home to take up her duties as head of the rancho and, as everyone expects, to marry her childhood sweetheart José. Expectations are somewhat dashed as she shows up with Fernando to whom she is engaged. This makes José and Cholita's uncle more than a little bit put out as Fernando is not only not a Mexican, he is also a city slicker afraid of the country.

Wyoming Wildcat

1941 • 56 min • United States of America

A former outlaw becomes a Wells Fargo guard, but when the stagecoach is robbed, he becomes a wanted man once again.

Street Serenade

1941 • 32 min

Chronicle about how a song came about. Three young people and an orchestra leader visit restaurants and reviews where music, dance and song numbers are performed by Evert Taube, Ulla Billquist, Gustav Wally, and Britt Nilsson.

Verbena

1941 • 33 min • Spain

In Madrid, during a popular festival, Don Paco, the owner of a freak show called The Palace of Wonders, has to deal with the demands of Levinsky, a sinister character who apparently has something to hide…

Golden Eggs

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald reads in his newspaper that eggs are really going up in value and the price is skyrocketing. Donald realizes that if he had some eggs, he would be quite the wealthy duck so he breaks into a nearby hen-house and collects as many eggs as possible putting them all in a huge basket. Unfortunately, a rooster standing guard makes his presence known and ejects Donald. The inventive duck is able to get back in disguised as a female chicken who the rooster falls for and dances with. Unfortunately, with the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, he is ever at the risk of being discovered.

Nevada City

1941 • 58 min • United States of America

The conflict between a railroader and a stage line owner is being aggravated by bad guys who are sabotaging both sides. Roy and Gabby mediate the conflict and expose the bad guys.

Lazybones

1941 • 3 min

Hoagy Carmichael at the piano sings the title song (lyrics by Johnny Mercer). Dancing by Dorothy Dandridge and Peter Ray.

Orphans' Benefit

1941 • 10 min • United States of America

Mickey and friends put on a revue for the orphans. Donald recites nursery rhymes, but the orphans torment him. Horace, Goofy, and Clarabelle do a dance number. Donald tries again. Clara clucks a song while Mickey plays piano (with support from an unseen orchestra). Donald returns, and the orphans finally send a parade of bricks and eggs on balloons over him and use slingshots to drop them on his head.

Silver Stallion

1941 • 60 min • United States of America

The Kid and his pals are horse thieves wanted by the law. As he takes a horse from Jan Walton she makes him promise to bring it back.

Rawhide Rangers

1941 • 56 min • United States of America

A group of frontier businessmen set up a protective organization for the purpose of extorting money from the local ranchers.

Timber

1941 • 8 min • United States of America

Hobo Donald steals dinner off Pegleg Pete's table. Pete gives Donald a stick of dynamite. Then he puts Donald to work chopping trees. To say Donald is an inept lumberjack is understating the case. After several mishaps, Pete/Pierre chases Donald on railroad handcars.

Roaring Frontiers

1941 • 58 min • United States of America

U.S. Marshal Wild Bill Hickok arrives in Goldfield to arrest Tex Martin, who has been accused of murdering the sheriff. "Hawk" Hammond, the man behind the sheriff's killing, sends his legions of henchmen to lynch Tex before the trail. Wild Bill and Tex escape to a stagecoach rest station run by Reba Bailey. There is a showdown battle at Hammond's saloon but not before Tex gets to sing two songs followed by a third one after the battle.

Pan-Americonga

1941 • 3 min

A Soundie featuring Rita Rio with Allan Baldwin and Theodore.

Arizona Bound

1941 • 57 min • United States of America

The Rough Riders are called in to help save Master's stage line. Taggart has his gang robbing the stages and shooting the drivers. When Buck drives the next stage, Taggart's men rob it and then make it look like Roberts is part of the gang. Written by Maurice Van Auken