In the Mohave Desert, Olga runs a gas station, lunch counter, and auto camp with her younger sister Myra. In a 24-hour period, Olga must deal with Myra's desire to go to a town dance with a cad, the appearance by happenstance of George, an old boyfriend whose conduct is never above suspicion, and the overnight presence of two women recently divorced in Reno, who, with a chauffeur, are carrying valuable jewels. George gets wind of the jewels and plays with Olga's heartstrings to set up a robbery. Myra arranges to sneak off with her beau. It's hot, and the heat lightening is crackling on the horizon. Is Olga's life of peace and hard work in the desert about to change for the worse?

　　埃伦·安德鲁斯（克劳黛·考尔白 饰）与飞行员金·韦斯特利（詹姆森·托马斯 饰）的婚事遭到了富豪父亲（沃尔特·康诺利 饰）的极力反对。被困在游艇上的埃伦绝食无效，竟跳海逃走去找金。心急如焚的父亲派出侦探对女儿围追堵截，不料聪明的埃伦托人（艾玛·坦西 饰）在侦探眼皮底下买了去纽约的长途车票。旅行计划很完美，可是不谙世事的埃伦不仅行李被偷，还落下车票，错过了班车。而捡到车票的前记者彼得·沃恩（克拉克·盖博 饰）为了把票还给埃伦，选择留在车站等待。失去财富的埃伦与失去工作的彼得之间，会擦出怎样的火花？

　　舞女伊迪和好朋友离开小镇到大城市谋求发展，吸取母亲的人生教训，伊迪认为金钱比爱情重要，立志要嫁个有钱人，某次舞会上，大富豪TR老先生无意间帮助伊迪摆脱一场命案的谋杀嫌疑，于是她决心追求这位老先生把他钓上钩，与此同时，一个年轻的服务员也盯上了这个美丽又有趣的年轻女郎……

　　比利·怀德导演的第一部电影

　　Nick和Nora 这对搞笑侦探夫妻档总是连手出击调查案件。这回他们要着手的是一位发明家失踪的案子，要找出为何会失踪，且失踪到哪里去了……？　　　　相当成功地将喜剧和悬疑元素交融在一起。William Powell和Myrna Loy 饰演的夫妻档，是影史上第一对塑造成功的屏幕情侣组合！本片导演就是影坛上有『一次OK』之封号的 W.S. Van Dyke，本片他只花了两礼拜就拍摄完毕！由华人黄宗沾担纲摄影指导。本片独有的喜剧悬疑风，也成往后这类型电影的祖师爷。Albert Hackett和Frances Goodrich 根据 Dashiell Hammett 的小说改编成剧本。后来还拍摄了五部续集。

　　劉別謙初嚐美高梅大製作的派頭，一切筆法更神采飛揚。開敞的場景、空前的排場讓人物裏裏外外恣意張開：寡婦的心更顯孤獨，男女的愛更加沒處安放。坐擁小國大部分財富的寡婦忽然要搬到巴黎重新尋找生活色彩，國王唯恐國祚不保來一招美男計，派出風流種子色誘寡婦。本來一個用情一個求性，幾番邂逅與折騰，改寫了男男女女的基本需要。歌與舞沒有賣弄甜膩，反而放在愛情的沉重中換來了歌頌。歌與影無間交流，劉別謙輕歌劇巔峰之作，亦成了荷里活極有代表性的一章。司花利亞與珍娜．麥當奴最後一次合作，後者散發從未有過的成熟韻味。堪稱最性感的音樂劇。　　Rated "the sexiest musical in the thirties", The Merry Widow could well be the sexiest musical ever. Jeannette MacDonald, sensual and majestic as a Persian cat, is the wealthiest widow in the kingdom of Marschovia. On a visit to Paris, she attracts a flurry of gold-diggers. To prevent her fortune from passing to foreign hands, the king sends a romantic envoy to court her. He chooses Captain Donilo, whose cavalier attitude to women is not limited to his rapport with Maxim's "girls, girls, girls". Osé but not blasé, this elegant adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta out-classed von Stroheim's silent in opulence, culminating in the grandest of grand balls.　　Source: 28th HKIFF

《放荡的女皇》年轻的德国公主索非亚与俄国与皇的儿子公爵彼得结婚。跋扈的女皇希望改进皇家血液。索非亚不喜欢她的丈夫，但她喜欢俄国，并且喜欢俄国的战士。她尽职地生产一个儿子——可疑的父权，但没人似乎介意这个。在老女皇死之后，索非亚设计一次政变，在军事的帮助下，废除彼得，并且成为卡特琳娜女王。

BanditsledbyMatttheMuteenterabarandkillmultiplepeople.RandyBowerscomestotownandisframedbyMatttheMute,whoisworkingwiththesheriff,whodoesn'tknowthatMattisreallyacriminal.MatttheMutewritesouteverythinghewantstosay.RandyescapeswiththehelpofSallyRogers,thenieceofthedeadownerofthebar.Bowersrunsfromthesheriff,andendsupinthecaveinwhichthebanditshavetheirhideout.TheykidnapSally,whoescapeswiththehelpofBowers.MatttheMuteiskilledwhenheentersthebar,whichisfilledwithexplosives,andtheniecemarriesRandy.

活泼的小女孩秀兰•布雷克（ShirleyTemple秀兰•邓波饰）生在一个普通的家庭，虽然家境平平，但充满了快乐和幸福。秀兰平日随妈妈（LoisWilson饰）在苛刻、尖酸的史密斯家里帮佣，闲暇时便和飞行员爸爸及其教父詹姆斯（JamesDunn饰）一起玩耍。\r　　然而，这样渺小的幸福也稍纵即逝。爸爸在执行任务时死于空难，妈妈也被车祸夺去了生命。原本快乐的秀兰转眼之间成为孤儿。史密斯家打算将她送进孤儿院，而詹姆斯决定收养这名可怜无助的小女孩……

影片描写的是一对孪生姊妹（胡蝶兼饰）的不同遭遇，妹妹二宝自幼跟随私贩洋枪的父亲逃往城市，长大以后被父亲送给了军阀钱督办做姨太太。姐姐大宝则和母亲（宣景琳饰）一起住在乡下，后来嫁给一个穷苦的木匠桃哥（郑小秋饰），父母姊妹不通音讯，彼此不知下落。

一个女孩子出身于富裕家庭，在乡间长大，后来上了体育学校。很快被老师发现她短跑成绩突出，于是她成了体育场上的高手。

寻莉的父亲艾迪曾经因偷窃入狱，重新获得自由的艾迪改过自新，但警长威尔治固守他的原则：一日为贼，终身为贼，由于威尔治的偏见给艾迪的生活带来了很多麻烦，可爱、聪明的小雪莉给艾迪与凯带来生活的快乐，在一起失窃安全中机警与盗贼周旋……一幕幕滑稽场面给影片带来更大的吸引力，更受观众欢迎!

当约巴是被通缉的强盗，他有一半白人血统，一半印第安人血统，讲流利的墨西哥语，他们一伙来到波尔卡城外，见山脚下有好马、水和房屋，还有漂亮的鲁比小姐和她的父亲达西斯，心中产生了邪念，他们要将这里的一切据为已有。达西斯为了鲁比的安全，将她送往镇上，当约巴一路追踪而至，约翰帮助父女俩逃离了他们的魔掌。并赢得了美丽鲁比的爱，他留在了这个城市，并成了保卫这个城市的警长。

摄影：董克毅，王士珍，严秉衡，周诗穆，陈晨　　胡瑛在家举办一个宴会，邀请许多以前的女同学来参加。宴会上，每个人讲述着自己的故事。宣淑被无情的丈夫抛弃。严素认为宣淑太软弱缺乏手段，向众人讲述自己怎样制服丈夫。校长向大家讲了来了一会就回去的高华的虚伪, 她边鼓吹“妇女运动”边过着奢侈糜烂的生活。朱雯因为拒绝股东少爷的侮辱而失去工作。徐玲丈夫的来信, 信中告诉大家徐玲已经去世。老校长又讲了徐玲因赌博导致悲惨结局的经过。夏云是个电台的播音员，丈夫因患肺病而死，孩子也不见了……夏云受不了打击，精神崩溃了。胡瑛向众人讲了已走的交际花徐莉和别人争风吃醋的事之后，胡瑛自己讲述了在北伐时期救了一个革命者的过程。

　　纽约百老汇，戏剧导演Oscar Jaffe（约翰·巴里摩尔 John Barrymore 饰）捧红了女演员Lily Garland（卡洛·朗白 Carole Lombard 饰），两人成为百老汇票房保证，同时也是一对情侣。合作三年后，Lily因为受不了Oscar对她私人生活的过度干预，偷偷跑去了好莱坞演电影。Oscar一怒之下起用了新的女演员，可惜票房很差，还在芝加哥欠下了债。在从芝加哥回纽约的二十世纪列车上，Oscar机缘巧合又和Lily在同一列火车上。Oscar试图挽回Lily，不管是爱情还是演戏，但Lily已经有了另外的恋人，也对重新和Oscar合作不感兴趣。这列火车上碰巧有一位脑子不大好使的大富翁，Oscar利用这个富翁给他开了张支票，试图以这张支票来让Lily签了演戏的合约。然而这位所谓“大富翁”原来不过是个精神病人，Oscar手中的支票毫无价值。心灰意冷的Oscar决定开枪自尽......

　　Because I could not stop for Death, he kindly stopped for me; the carriage held but just ourselves and immortality” – Emily Dickinson　　If Death took a holiday, the guns would go silent in Iraq, the slaughter on our nation’s highways would cease, and the news media would be compelled to cover positive events in the humanities, arts, and sciences. Unfortunately, Death has not had a vacation in recorded history, but Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy, Death Takes a Holiday, allows us to consider the possibility. Co-written by Maxwell Anderson and Gladys Lehman and based on the play "La Morte in Vacanza" by Alberto Casella, Death Takes a Holiday stars Frederic March as the Grim Reaper who takes on human form in an attempt to discover why men fear him so much. Why he has waited 5,000 years to satisfy this curiosity is not explained.　　[Spoiler] After a brief tryout as a shadowy figure who scares the daylights out of those that cross his path, Death shows up at, of all places, an upscale party at an Italian villa, posing as the mysterious Prince Sirki. Only one person knows who he really is, the host Duke Lambert (Guy Standing), and he is sworn to secrecy. Sirki proceeds to fascinate the guests. Given to bursts of wit and poetry, he can just as quickly turn sullen and threatening, and some soon find out that it is better not to look too deeply into his eyes. During the three days in which the Prince is at the villa, however, people all over the world miraculously escape death and potential suicides are doomed to frustration.　　To see what’s behind all the conversation about love, the suave but naïve Prince Sirki falls for the irresistible Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of one of Duke’s friends. Grazia knows who Death is but does not fear him, much to the chagrin of her fiancé, Corrado (Kent Taylor) who has developed a strong disdain for Prince Charming.　　More sinister than Brad Pitt in the 1998 remake Meet Joe Black, March turns in a very convincing performance as the creepy yet strangely appealing guest. Although the ending is melodramatic, the emotions are very real and the suggestion that Death may in reality be a friend disguised as a foe is quite touching.　　(Howard Schumann, talkingpix.co.uk)　　In this wearisome and predictable plot line, Death falls in love and bores us to death talking about it.　　(Dennis Schwartz, homepages.sover.net)　　I've heard DRACULA was advertised with the tag line "The Weirdest Love Story ever told!" (this is probably a paraphrase), but at heart, I've never felt that you could honestly call that movie a love story. The tag line would be much more appropriate for this one, since it ultimately boils down to what amounts to a love story. This movie is very good indeed, particularly if you consider that it is built around a concept that could have easily been handled in a cute or facile manner. Instead, it is handled as seriously as possible, with some real thought put into how death would try to come to terms with a life and an outlook that was to that point totally unfamiliar to him; much of the credit does go to Fredric March in the title role. It's quite scary when it needs to be, particularly during the first twenty minutes. From then on, it deals with its themes with subtlety, a quiet wit, an enduring sadness, and an everpresent tension on how Death might react if crossed. It's not perfect; some of the dialogue is self-conscious and artificial, as if the writers knew they were dealing with weighty issues and were trying to be profound. But I am certainly glad they didn't try to turn it into a musical comedy of sorts.　　(Dave Sindelar, scifilm.org)　　See also the remake: Death Takes A Holiday (1971)