80% (1) Ali Baba Goes to Town 81 min, APPROVED, [Comedy, Fantasy, Musical] [David Butler] [29 Oct 1937]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 80%, External Reviews
Actors: Eddie Cantor, June Lang, Roland Young, Tony Martin
Writer: Harry Tugend (screen play), Jack Yellen (screen play), Gene Towne (based on a story by), C. Graham Baker (based on a story by), Gene Fowler (based on a story by)
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Plot: A movie company is doing the Arabian Nights when a hobo enters their camp, falls asleep and dreams he's back in Baghdad as advisor to the Sultan. In a spoof of Rosevelt's New Deal, he organizes work programs, taxes the rich and abolishes the army.
Rotten Tomatoes: Autograph hound Al Babson (Eddie Cantor) accidentally disrupts the filming of a movie about Ali Baba, and is injured in the process. The filmmakers try to buy him off, but nurse Dinah (Virginia Field) suggests he be hired as an extra. He takes an overdose of painkillers, and his Arabian Nights dreams combine with the plot of the movie. His name leads the populace to think he's the son of Ali Baba, and he's taken to the palace of Sultan Abdullah (Roland Young), who's so impressed by Al that he makes him prime minister. Princess Miriam (June Lang) is in love with Yusuf (Tony Martin), the leader of the peasants, while Al has fallen for Deenah (also Virginia Field), whose father Omar (Maurice Cass) is trying to make a carpet fly. Meanwhile, the evil Prince Musah (Douglas Dumbrille) is conspiring with Sultana (Louise Hovick), one of Abdullah's many wives, to capture the princess, take over Bagdad, and kill Abdullah and Al as well. Miriam and Yusuf are unhappy because royalty and commoners cannot marry, so Al comes up with a plan to help his friends, but the plan spectacularly backfires, and Abdullah orders him to be boiled in oil. ~ Bill Warren, Rovi
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71% (1) Wee Willie Winkie 100 min, Approved, [Adventure, Family] [John Ford] [30 Jul 1937]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 71%, External Reviews
Actors: C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen
Writer: Ernest Pascal (screen play), Julien Josephson (screen play), Rudyard Kipling (based upon the story by)
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Plot: Priscilla Williams is a young girl traveling with her mother, Joyce, to join her paternal grandfather, a British army colonel, at the post he commands in northern India. Upon arrival, they witness the capture of Khoda Khan, leader of the rebel Indian faction. Priscilla plays at being a soldier and is even given a uniform and allowed to drill by the genial Sergeant MacDuff, but her gruff grandfather disapproves and insists she remain apart from the troops. She eventually charms him, along with everyone else on the post, including Khoda Khan, whom she wins over by returning a talisman he's dropped. When the attractive Lieutenant Brandes deserts his post to take Joyce to a dance, Khan escapes, and Brandes is arrested. As hostilities with the rebels mount, Priscilla and servant Mohammet Dihn --actually an Indian spy--take off for Khoda Khan's stronghold.
Rotten Tomatoes: In this lovely John Ford film, Joyce Williams (June Lang) and her young daughter, Priscilla (Shirley Temple), travel to India to live on a British Army base with Joyce's father, Colonel Williams, Aubrey C. Smith). Once there, sweet, young Priscilla manages to win the love and affection of the soldiers and her curmudgeonly grandfather, and she plays an important role in easing a local rebellion. One of the best Shirley Temple movies, Ford allows her to be sweet without being cloying and moves the action at a good pace. A wonderful cast of some of Hollywood's best supporting actors add charm to this film which is appealing to both children and adults.
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70% (1) The Road to Glory 103 min, Approved, [Drama, War] [Howard Hawks] [04 Sep 1936]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: Fredric March, June Lang, Lionel Barrymore, Warner Baxter
Writer: Joel Sayre (screenplay), William Faulkner (screenplay)
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Plot: In 1916, somewhere in the front in France in World War I, the 5th Company in the 2nd Battalion of the 39th Regiment created by Napoleon Bonaparte and leaded by the tough Captain Paul La Roche receives among the replacements, Lieutenant Michel Denet and private Moran. When Lt. Denet meets the nurse Monique La Coste, who is Capt. La Roche's mistress but he doe not know, they fall in love for each other. When Capt. La Roche sees the old Pvt. Moran in his inspection, he identifies his father using a fake identity. Meanwhile, the 39th Regiment receives order to go to the trenches, attack the German lines and install a telephone in the front to guide the artillery.
Rotten Tomatoes: Set in France during WWI, this tale centers on the love triangle between a ruthless alcoholic French commander who cares more for strategy than human life, a free-thinking young officer who is appalled by his superior's decisions, and the lovely nurse with whom both men fall in love.
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69% (1) Bonnie Scotland 80 min, Passed, [Comedy] [James W. Horne] [23 Aug 1935]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: June Lang, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, William Janney
Writer: Frank Butler (screen play), Jefferson Moffitt (screen play)
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Plot: Stan and Ollie stowaway to Scotland expecting to inherit the MacLaurel estate. However Stan's inheritance amounts to a set of bagpipes and a snuff box. The boys are tricked into enlisting in the army and are posted to India where the heiress to the MacLaurel estate has moved to be near her guardian. Her Scottish sweetheart Allan also enlists. The boys are "volunteered" by the Sergeant (Finlayson) to impersonate officers at the palace of Mir Jutra and foil a plot to murder the officers by overturning several beehives.
Rotten Tomatoes: Stanley MacLaurel (Stan Laurel), the American "black sheep" of the MacLaurel clan, stows away on a cattle boat to Scotland in the company of his pal Ollie (Oliver Hardy) so that he can claim his share of his late uncle Angus Ian MacLaurel's fortune. Alas, Stan's inheritance consists of a snuffbox and a pair of bagpipes, while the bulk of the estate goes to Angus' granddaughter Lorna MacLaurel (June Lang) -- provided she move from Scotland to India, where she and her aunt Lady Vi Ormsby (Anne Grey) will reside with Vi's handsome brother, Colonel Gregor MacGregor (Vernon Steele) of His Majesty's Service. After nearly setting fire to their lodgings while trying to cook a fish, the penniless Stan and Ollie are booted out into the street, with Ollie rendered pants-less by a previous misadventure. Heading to a tailor shop to get a new suit of clothes on approval, the boys inadvertently join the British Army, and soon they're shipped off to Colonel MacGregor's regiment in India. Accompanying our heroes is Lorna's sweetheart, law clerk Alan Douglas (William Janney), who has joined the army to be reunited with his lady love. This could prove disadvantageous to Lady Vi, who has been scheming to separate Alan from Lorna and marry off the girl to Col. MacGregor, thereby gaining control of Lorna's fortune. Meanwhile, Stan and Ollie get off on the wrong foot with their grouchy Sergeant (James Finalyson), redeeming themselves only when they help put down a native uprising (with the assistance of several fully-occupied beehives!) Though it proved to be their biggest moneymaker to date, Bonnie Scotland was one of the weaker Laurel & Hardy features, with far too much time devoted to the supporting characters. Too, the picture was rather raggedly re-edited after several unsatisfactory previews: as it now stands, the film stops cold after 80 minutes, without even bothering to wrap up the plotline. Still, it contains two of the team's funniest sequences: the boys' impromptu dance to the tune of "A Hundred Pipers", and the classic marching scene, wherein an out-of-step Stan manages to convince everyone in the regiment that they're out of step! Bonnie Scotland was later reissued theatrically as Heroes of the Regiment, and was distributed to TV in four abridged versions, each running approximately 20 minutes: All Wet, In a Mess, The Rookies and Bang! Bang!
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68% (1) Nancy Steele Is Missing! 84 min, APPROVED, [Drama] [George Marshall, Otto Preminger] [12 Mar 1937]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, External Reviews
Actors: June Lang, Peter Lorre, Victor McLaglen, Walter Connolly
Writer: Charles Francis Coe (story "Ransom"), Gene Fowler, Hal Long
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Plot: After being in jail for seventeen years a crook is met by the girl he kidnapped as a baby. She now thinks he's her father. When he returns her to her real father there's a job and a reward, but an old prisonmate gets in the way.
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65% (1) Convicted Woman 65 min, APPROVED, [Action, Crime, Drama] [Nick Grinde] [31 Jan 1940]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane, Rochelle Hudson
Writer: Joseph Carole (screenplay), Martin Mooney (story), Alex Gottlieb (story)
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Plot: Jobless Betty Andrews, although innocent, is convicted of a department store theft and, despite the best efforts of her lawyer and noted social worker Mary Ellis and a reporter, Jim Brent on her behalf, is sentenced to a year in the Curtiss House of Correction. Chief Matron Brackett rules with an iron hand with the aid of inmates Frankie Mason, "The Duchess" and Nita Lavore. One of the inmates commits suicide and a subsequent story by Jim on the prison conditions leads to Mary Ellis being made the supervisor of the prison. When ten girls are allowed to go home for Thanksgiving under the promise of returning by eleven p.m., Frankie and "The Duchess", angry over losing the privileges given them by the departed Matron Brackett, arrange to have Betty kidnapped so she can not return at the appointed time. Another of the girls telephones Jim and he finds Betty a prisoner at a deserted roadhouse...
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65% (1) International Settlement 75 min, [Adventure, Drama, Romance] [Eugene Forde] [04 Feb 1938]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Dick Baldwin, Dolores del Rio, George Sanders, June Lang
Writer: Lou Breslow, Frank Fenton (story), John Patrick, Lynn Root (story)
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Plot: In Shanghai amidst Sino-Japanese warfare an adventurer (Sanders) collecting money from gun suppliers falls in loves with a French singer (Del Rio).
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