The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn’t have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who’s the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
An elderly couple’s lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
Romance sentimentale is a 1930 French film directed by Grigori Aleksandrov and Sergei M. Eisenstein.
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
