Movies and TvShows featuring "rope-trick" theme.

In 1950s Hollywood, Eddie Mannix, a studio fixer, deals with various issues involving the studio's actors, including a kidnapping, a pregnant actress, and a communist conspiracy. As he struggles to handle these challenges, Eddie realizes the importance of doing what is right for the sake of his job.

Stolen Kisses follows Antoine Doinel, a young man in Paris who struggles with love, relationships, and finding his place in the world. He bounces from job to job, gets involved in various romantic entanglements, and navigates the complexities of life in the city of love.

Road to Bali follows the hilarious exploits of two friends as they journey to Bali, encountering a romantic triangle, musical performances, and outrageous situations along the way.

Chandu, a scientist and magician, must save his sister from a mad scientist who plans to take over the world. Along the way, he encounters white slavery, vultures, turbans, and skeletons.

In 'Prest-O Change-O,' a stage magician's magic tricks continually backfire, leading to hilarious shenanigans. From transformation mishaps to an enchanted trunk, this surrealistic cartoon is filled with comic chaos and anthropomorphic animals.

A man buys a magic set for his son, but the tricks worked better in the store than they do at home.

An American ambassador arrives in a small country that is being convulsed by political intrigue and civil unrest. He befriends the young boy who is to be the country's king, to ensure that the boy is prepared to take on the role and also to see that he lives long enough to assume the crown.

In the summer of 1955, an army of cameramen, lighting techs and movie stars descended on the small, west Texas town of Marfa to film what has become, "the national movie of Texas."

A young monarch, bored with responsibility and craving excitement, invites a traveling rodeo show to perform at his palace.

In this short, Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys perform popular western musical numbers.

A Terrytoons cartoon released 22 September 1944. Gandy Goose and Sour Puss are a couple of prospectors looking for a place to stay overnight. When a ghostly vulture eats their horse, they hole up in Ghost Town, named for its occupants, in this funny and scary Halloween cartoon.

Slow-motion, reverse-motion, and trick photography adds extra amusement to scenes of galloping horses, leaping dogs, and various rodeo acts.

A UPA adaptation of the television series (1947-1960) dummy-cowboy, Howdy Doody. Filmed in both 35 and 16mm (for immediate television use in the event theatre exhibitors balked at showcasing a television character,) the plot has Howdy Doody in quest of a magic cowboy hat that will make him invincible. Filled with predominant variations of colors and designs and abstract-color designs as Howdy chases the elusive hat. Finally capturing it, he uses the hat's magical powers to become a rodeo star.