Movies and TvShows featuring "ditch-digger" theme.

After falling into a vat of pickles in 1919, a Jewish immigrant named Herschel Greenbaum is preserved for 100 years. He wakes up in present-day Brooklyn and seeks to reconnect with his great-grandson, Ben. Through their contrasting values and experiences, they learn valuable lessons about family, heritage, and the importance of embracing change.

The stooges go to criminology school and graduate with the lowest possible honors. The boys join the police force and are assigned to track down a crook called the "Eel", who disguises himself as a woman. The stooges track the Eel to a hotel, but he slips through their hands after a wild chase. The stooges are booted off the force and wind up as ditch diggers. This was Shemp's last completed film.

Heiress Nancy Crocker Fleming will only receive her inheritance if she marries a "plain American." Her late father was afraid a foreign gigolo would steal her heart and money. So Nancy pays Tony Anthony, working on a WPA road project, to marry, then divorce her. When Nancy inadvertently drives off with Tony's dog, Tony seemingly kidnaps her to retrieve the pooch, which leads to a cross-country race between the two to reach Reno and the divorce court since neither one wants to be the second to file papers.