We are invited to the waterworks at Brno, Czechoslovakia, where they have installed a "Finnish Sauna", similar to Turkish bath. Various nude visitors are observed.
This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship.
In this short directed by Pietro Francisci, later known for hit swords-and-sandals titles such as 1958’s “Hercules” starring Steve Reeves, Lollobrigida appears to sing (she may have been dubbed) Italian folk song “Stornellata Romana.
Paris, 1857. While on trial for moral outrage, French writer G. Flaubert tells the court and the audience the true story of the heroine of his novel Madame Bovary, a sensitive but capricious woman whose desperate efforts to overcome the bourgeois conventions of a dull, provincial life led her family first to ruin and disrepute and finally to the abyss of tragedy.
Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy's following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade.
The third of the Monogram series based on Ham Fisher's "Joe Palooka" comic strip, opens with Knobby Walsh, the manager of Joe Palooka trying to talk his way out of a traffic citation, and the story leading to that point is told in flashback as narrated by Walsh.
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