Frank McHugh

Lieutenant Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) spends his lat day on active duty in the Navy disarming an underwater mine. While disarming the explosive he sees what appears to be a sunken ship. Overcome with curiousity, he investigates and finds a treasure chest filled with what he thinks are Spanish gold coins. He decides to investigate the vessel by asking Jo Symongton ( Dodie Marshall), the granddaughter of the ships owner, to show him the manifest. After Ted reviews the sunken ship's manifest, he is convinced that the ship was indeed carrying a treasure. Ted gets his release from active duty in the Navy, then convinces his former business partner Judd Whitman ( Pat Harrington) to help salvage the treasure. Ted finally persuades Judd to chip in a thousand dollars to pay for equipment, but the still lacked some of the necessary equipment. They offered a local shop keeper Captain Jack (Frank Mc Hugh) a share of the treasure if he agreed to let them use his equipment and agree to help them during the salvaging opperation. Jack agrees, but as soon as he gets on board the boat Ted rented, he breaks down because he is afraid of the sea. Ted is disappointed at first because they need three people to salvage the treasure. Judd decides to solve the problem by inviting Jo to come along and help them. Judd's decision did not please Ted because he didn't want Jo to know the reason he had for asking her to show him the ship's manifest. When Ted told Jo that his real reason for wanting the manifest was to confirm that the ship was carrying treasure she became upset with Ted for being "greedy". Ted became frustrated with jo for not wanting to co-operate, but soon found that he had other problems too. Two adventure seekers Dina ( Pat Priest ) and Gil ( Skip Ward ) had followed the small boat and became curious about what the trio was up to. Gil quickly figures out what Ted and the others were up to, so he pretends that their engine's power cable burned out so Ted will have to tow them into port. Once back in port, Gil finds Captain Jack and convinces him that Ted is trying to steal a salvage that really belongs to Gil and Dina. Jack was taken in by Gil and decided to take the salvage equipment away from Ted and instead rents it to Gil. When Ted found out what happened, he tried to tell jack the truth, but Jack decided that the best way to handle the situation was to refuse to let either one of the men use the equipment. Discouraged, Ted drives out to Jo's house to ask her to help him convince Jack that he is the not a greedy thief. Judd had already convinced Jo to help them salvage the treasure so Jo agreed to try to explain everything to Jack. While Ted, Judd, and Jo were on their way back into town, Gil and Dina kidnapped Captain Jack and steal his equipment. When Ted reaches town and finds Jack, the equipment, and Gil and Dina's boat gone he pursued them along with Judd and Jo. When they reach the boat, Dina and Gil are diving for the treasure. Jack apologized for not believing Ted and agrees to help him. Ted manages to defeat Gil in an underwater scuffle then brings the treasure up himself. Ted, Jo, Judd, and Jack take the treasure to a coin collector to find out how much it is worth. They are disappointed to find that the coins aren't actually gold, but copper and only worth 30 cents each. They sell the coins to the collector for $3900, then agree to use the money as a down payment on an art center for Jo and her friends. Ted and Judd throw a benefit show at the end to raise more money for the building project. Ted ends the movie singing "I'll Take Love".

Parish life at Saint Dominic's includes gossip, youth mischief, and a rather shady landlord, but new curate Father Charles "Chuck" O'Malley (Bing Crosby) seems to land on his feet. As older Father Fitzgibbon (Barry Fitzgerald) watches Father O'Malley in action, he feels his days as pastor of his flock may be numbered. The two priests must find "modern" ways to deal with an age-old problem ministering to the people in an economically disadvantaged neighborhood. O'Malley, for his part, must deal with an interrupted romantic relationship from his past with opera star Genevieve Linden (Rise Stevens) and Carol James (Jean Heather), a "wayward" aspiring singer. Father O'Malley and his friend Father Timothy O'Dowd (Frank McHugh) take the elderly Fitzgibbon to play golf. The old priest calls a golf course "a pool room outdoors." Father Fitzgibbon goes to ask the bishop if he is being replaced. He becomes ill and speaks to Chuck of the 45 years since he was in the "old country." Father Fitzgibbon says his mother in Ireland is over 90. O'Malley makes the neighborhood boys into a choir. He gives the youth leader, Tony Scaponi, (Stanley Clements) his St. Louis Browns baseball jacket. Just as all the pieces of the plot seem to have fallen into place, the parish church is damaged in a massive fire. On Christmas Eve the people gather in a temporary church. Father O'Malley transferred to a new assignment, the new assistant is Father O'Dowd. Prior to the Mass, Mrs. Fitzgibbon totters in the embrace her beloved son. Father O'Malley quietly slips away.

A Texas cattle agent witnesses firsthand the brutal lawlessness of Dodge City and takes the job of sheriff to clean the town up. Dodge City. A wide-open cattle town run by Jeff Surrett. Even going on a children's Sunday outing is not a safe thing to do. What the place needs is a fearless honest Marshal. A guy like Wade Hatton, who helped bring the railroad in. It may not help that he fancies Abbie Irving, who won't have anything to do with him since he had to shoot her brother. But that's the West. —Jeremy Perkins {J-26} In 1866, Kansas, the American civil war has just finished and the armies disbanded. The building of the West begins, and in 1872, the new city of Dodge City is ruled by violence and shootings. The Irishman Wade Hatton is a man adapted to these days and presently is conducting a group of pioneers, including Abbie Irving and her reckless brother, to Dodge City. Once in the city, Wade is invited to be the local sheriff, and an incident makes him accept the position. He tries to clean up the cattle town, ruled by the powerful outlaw Jeff Surrett and his gang, with the support of the decent local people. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Chester Kent struggles against time, romance, and a rival's spy to produce spectacular live "prologues" for movie houses. Chester Kent produces musical comedies on the stage. With the beginning of the talkies era he changes to producing short musical prologues for movies. This is stressful to him, because he always needs new units and his rival is stealing his ideas. He can get an contract with a producer if he is able to stage in three days three new prologues. In spite of great problems, he does it. —Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de> With the introduction of talkies, many theater owners are closing down their live productions in favor of the new format. Even those theaters that had live performances between films are getting rid of them. Producer Chester Kent comes up with an idea: if the live acts could be packaged and sold to theater owners, they should be able to reduce costs and make money. He's not the only one who's come up with the idea however and competition is tough. Kent soon realizes that they should try developing 40 minute prologues, live musical numbers to be shown before the movie. His ideas are continually being leaked to his competition. Throughout, his very capable secretary Nan keeps everything going in the office. —garykmcd Chester Kent, Broadway producer, is out of business because of talking pictures, so he starts producing musical "prologues" for movie theatres. Soon the search for new ideas is driving him crazy; his secretary pines with love for him; another secretary is pursued by his juvenile lead; and things get even worse when a spy sells Kent's ideas to a competitor. With some of Busby Berkeley's biggest dance numbers. —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>

Millie's life begins to crumble when she finds out her husband is having an affair. Millie Blake has a love affair that goes wrong, so from that point on, she recklessly plays the field. When she finds out that one of the reckless players from her past has now cast his spell on her daughter, she takes matters into her own hands and finds herself in a courtroom trying to find a better defense plea than mother-love and honor-protection. —Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>