All Films

Pluto's Quin-puplets

1937 • 9 min • United States of America

Pluto wants to chase the sausage man, but Fifi convinces him to look after their five rambunctious puppies instead. The puppies end up in the basement, where they tangle with a compressed air tank, paint, a jug of hooch, and other hazards. Fifi returns and finds a drunk Pluto, paint on everyone, and gets very angry.

Penny Wisdom

1937 • 10 min • United States of America

A Pete Smith Specialty short on saving an important dinner after the household's cook suddenly quits.

Paradise Express

1937 • 60 min • United States of America

A small railroad is being squeezed out of business by the tactics of a trucking company owned by gangsters.

The Man Without a Country

1937 • 21 min • United States of America

This short film tells the story of a disgraced U.S. army officer who is charged with treason. At his court martial he is sentenced to lifetime exile aboard American ships at sea, no crew member can mention anything about the United States within his hearing, and in the books he is allowed to read all references to the United States are removed.

Black Aces

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

When Len Stoddard wins Ted Ames ranch in a poker game he sends his brother Jake along with Ted to take over the ranch. When Jake is found murdered he offers a reward for the capture of Ted who now is believed to be a member of the Black Aces gang. Ted finds the probable location of the gang's hideout and sets out to clear himself.

The King Without a Crown

1937 • 10 min • United States of America

This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.

A Dangerous Adventure

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

This drama chronicles the education of a naive, rich young woman who inherits a steel mill. To help her keep it running she unites with a man. Meanwhile two crooks try to destroy her production in order to force her to sell it to them for very little money. They are thwarted at the last moment.

Hollywood Picnic

1937 • 8 min

Caricatures of many of the stars in Hollywood from the 1930's all playing and eating as best suits their public image.

Copenhagen

1937 • 9 min • United States of America

This Traveltalk series short visits Copenhagen.

The Mystery of the Hooded Horsemen

1937 • 60 min • United States of America

Tex is up against a group of hooded outlaws. When he shoots one, he uses the hood to infiltrate the gang. Almost caught by them, he escapes only to be arrested by the Sheriff who thinks he's one of the gang.

Danger Patrol

1937 • 59 min • United States of America

An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.

Cat Across the Road

1937 • 14 min • Sweden

An actress is happy when she is finally contacted by a famous director, but the director is more interested in her cat.

Avalanche

1937 • 59 min • Japan

The study of a one-year marriage that begins to crumble. A married man is torn between the love of his wife, and the attraction to a cousin of his wife.

Little Pioneer

1937 • 19 min

In 1880 South Africa, young Betsy has an adventure involving Zulu Tribesmen, Dutch Settlers, The Vortrekkers, and her older brother's romance of Katie Snee.

Paid to Dance

1937 • 55 min • United States of America

Government undercover agents William Dennis and Joan Barclay are working to solve the disappearances of girls working as "taxi-dancers" from dance halls operated by Jack Miranda and his henchman Nifty.

Galloping Dynamite

1937 • 57 min • United States of America

When Bob Dillon finds gold, Reed kills him. Bob's brother Jim arrives to investigate his death. Avoiding the attempt on his life by Reed's gang, Jim confronts Reed's partner Jenkins. When Jenkins flees on Jim's horse, Reed mistakenly shoots his partner. Unable to get Jim with bullets, Reed blames the murder on him and when the Sheriff jails Jim it looks like he will soon be be hung.

Lightnin' Crandall

1937 • 59 min • United States of America

Cowboy with a reputation as the fastest gun in Texas heads to Arizona to leave his past behind, but it keeps catching up to him.

Sandflow

1937 • 58 min • United States of America

Director Leslie Selander exhibits the sure-handed expertise that would endear him to latter-day western cultists in his 1937 formula western Sandflow. Buck Jones plays the son of a crooked land dealer. Seeking redemption, Jones rides through the west to compensate every rancher who was cheated by his dad.

White Bondage

1937 • 60 min • United States of America

A reporter risks lynching to prove that share croppers are being cheated.

Duck Hunt

1937 • 6 min • United States of America

An Oswald Rabbit cartoon.

Island Captives

1937 • 53 min • United States of America

A murdered businessman's daughter is shipwrecked on a jungle island with the son of the man who killed her father. Both are threatened by a smuggling ring that uses the island as its headquarters.

Racing Lady

1937 • 59 min • United States of America

A shrewd millionaire who owns races horses for publicity for his automobile business, claims ownership of a female horse trainer's thoroughbred in order to get the trainer.

The Californian

1937 • 59 min • United States of America

Native son returns from school in Spain to California in 1855 and finds corrupt politicians stealing land from old California families. He becomes a sort of Robin Hood in order to fight them.

Don Donald

1937 • 8 min • United States of America

Donald is courting Daisy (called Donna, here in her first appearance) Duck in Mexico. He arrives on a burro, which doesn't get along at all well with her; she convinces him to buy a car. They head through the desert, but the car breaks down, and throws Donald out, then takes off on its own with Daisy trapped inside the rumble seat. The car hits a rock, throwing Daisy into a mud puddle, to Donald's excessive amusement. Daisy pulls a unicycle from her purse, and rides off.