Movies and TvShows featuring "quandry" theme.
In this pre-code film, a bankrupt hotel becomes a setting for a real estate scam orchestrated by schemers and bootleggers. As despair and desperation unfold, determination and anguish collide in a hilarious musical farce filled with song and comedic chaos.
Kitty Foyle, a salesclerk in New York City, navigates through various challenges, including the loss of her father, a difficult relationship with her Irish-American husband, and the discovery of her pregnancy. As she struggles with decisions and betrayal, Kitty finds strength in her friendships and ultimately finds love and happiness.
When a murder occurs in New York City, a socialite forms a group of amateur detectives to solve the case, leading to unexpected twists and turns.
In 'Ghosts on the Loose,' a quartet of friends find themselves in a hilarious quandary when they accidentally end up in the wrong house on their wedding day. Mass confusion and a series of comedic events ensue as they try to resolve the situation. The film takes place in New York City and showcases the misadventures of the group as they navigate through various challenges and obstacles.
In Du Barry was a Lady, a man named Louis dreams of being a king and a lady named May dreams of being a famous singer. They get caught up in a world of deception, reprisal, and treachery as they navigate a dual-role quandary. With a touch of greed, desperation, and havoc, this slapstick comedy takes you on a hilarious journey of love, rivalry, and determination.
The Wild Party is a pre-code film set in the roaring 20s during the prohibition era. A college professor finds himself entangled in the wild party scene of a group of party girls. The film explores themes of trauma, false accusation, and self-sacrifice.
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
An actor becomes a suspect in the murders of four New Yorkers injected with rattlesnake venom.
Henry Aldrich finds himself in a heated election for high-school class president.
With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can the show be saved?
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
Radio singer Joan Abbott, known as the "Crunchy-Wunchy Thrush", does not want to renew her contract with the cereal sponsor, as she wants to go to college. But her guardian, her Uncle Willie signs the contract in order to pay off his own debts. But this time Joan won't take no for an answer and enrolls under an assumed name. When Joan goes missing, the radio institutes a search for Joan via a publicity stunt.
Chorus girl and rich playboy want to marry but he'll lose his fortune unless his trustee approves of his mate. So she goes to work in the trustee's brokerage firm under an assumed name to get on his good side but complications ensue.
A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.
A young woman's murder sheds light on a crooked talent agency.
For those, if any, who have wondered why so many Paramount contractees appeared in United Artists' films during the war years, this is another one of the Paramount productions that was sold to United Artists in the early-40's when U.A. was having trouble meeting their exhibitor contracts because of lack of product, mainly due to their loss of production in England. A group of starving, but young and willing, actors band together to share finances and an apartment. Norman Reese (William Holden) orders no love nonsense between the boys and girls till they are set on broadway, but Marge Benson (Barbara Britton) and Tony Dennison (James Beown) are already secretly married. A friend drops in to see Dottie Coburn (Martha O'Driscoll) and is shocked to find the boys and girls sharing the same apartment and insists it is her duty to inform Dottie's father (Jay Fassett.)
A young songwriter leaves his Kentucky home to try to make it in New Orleans. Eventually he winds up in New York, where he sells his songs to a music publisher, but refuses to sell his most treasured composition: "Dixie." The film is based on the life of Daniel Decatur Emmett, who wrote the classic song "Dixie."
During WWII, the publisher of the isolationist New York Gazette is murdered just as he was about to change the paper's policy and support the US war effort. His friend, a small town patriotic editor, is brought in to find the culprits.
A farmer from Vermont travels to New York and becomes a successful singer in a nightclub.