Movies and TvShows featuring "patent-medicine" theme.

A woman who believes she has been chosen by God to heal people is taken in by a greedy promoter and his shrewish wife to make the rounds of the rural South.

On the Western frontier, the Pink Panther is a traveling vendor of pep pills. He unwittingly sells some pills to a frail criminal, who gains the strength to rob every bank in a nearby town! Thus, the panther is in as much trouble with the law as the robber and must act to apprehend the scoundrel.

Jo March and her husband Professor Bhaer operate the Plumfield School for poor boys. When Dan, a tough street kid, comes to the school, he wins Jo's heart despite his hard edge, and she defends him when he is falsely accused. Dan's foster father, Major Burdle, is a swindler in cahoots with another crook called Willie the Fox. When the Plumfield School becomes in danger of foreclosure, the two con men cook up a scheme to save the home.

Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) is a comedy drama romance film that tells the story of a riverboat captain who finds himself in the middle of a conflict between a governor and a con man. With elements of family relationships, drunkenness, false accusation, and more, this movie takes place in the 1890s and explores the themes of justice, redemption, and the power of forgiveness.

The farm is suffering through a terrible drought. Porky's father sends him to the store to buy some feed with their last dollar...

A medicine show singer finds her love.

Self-made man Emerson Boyd of Every-town owns the Boyd Mills, which uses child labor and disregards health regulations, and the Boyd Chemical Company, which manufactures harmful patent medicines. Crooked politician David Duncan, the mills's general manager, misinforms Boyd about factory conditions. After Boyd's beloved daughter postpones accepting the proposal of Matthew Brand, an unambitious rich young man, until he does something for humanity, Matthew reads an exposé of the mills by editor Clifford Cole. He buys Cole's newspaper when Boyd attempts to stifle it and supports the National Tuberculosis Society's proposal to build a sanitarium in Every-town to combat the rise of tuberculosis.

The story is that of Heza Gobbler and his wife, Ima Gobbler. Both were of normal size in their more youthful days, but a few years after they have “settled down” the extra fat has settled down on them so heavily that when they receive an invitation to a banquet neither can get Into the “glad rags” which have laid unused in their trunks for several years. When Mrs. Eaton Growthin, who was bridesmaid at their wedding, calls, Mrs. Ima Gobbler is moved to envy by her slender, graceful figure. Mrs. Gobbler is introduced to a specialist by her more slender friend, and in a few minutes receives his brief outline of the simple home method which she is to follow to lose weight. She follows the easy method for five months, and when she returns to the specialist’s office, his scales show that she has lost forty pounds. An entertaining story and clever comedy have been combined In "How to Grow' Thin” with a vital lesson to the great number of people who have a tendency to “grow fat.”