喜剧片

　　Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland

　　埃伦·安德鲁斯（克劳黛·考尔白 饰）与飞行员金·韦斯特利（詹姆森·托马斯 饰）的婚事遭到了富豪父亲（沃尔特·康诺利 饰）的极力反对。被困在游艇上的埃伦绝食无效，竟跳海逃走去找金。心急如焚的父亲派出侦探对女儿围追堵截，不料聪明的埃伦托人（艾玛·坦西 饰）在侦探眼皮底下买了去纽约的长途车票。旅行计划很完美，可是不谙世事的埃伦不仅行李被偷，还落下车票，错过了班车。而捡到车票的前记者彼得·沃恩（克拉克·盖博 饰）为了把票还给埃伦，选择留在车站等待。失去财富的埃伦与失去工作的彼得之间，会擦出怎样的火花？

　　Nick和Nora 这对搞笑侦探夫妻档总是连手出击调查案件。这回他们要着手的是一位发明家失踪的案子，要找出为何会失踪，且失踪到哪里去了……？　　　　相当成功地将喜剧和悬疑元素交融在一起。William Powell和Myrna Loy 饰演的夫妻档，是影史上第一对塑造成功的屏幕情侣组合！本片导演就是影坛上有『一次OK』之封号的 W.S. Van Dyke，本片他只花了两礼拜就拍摄完毕！由华人黄宗沾担纲摄影指导。本片独有的喜剧悬疑风，也成往后这类型电影的祖师爷。Albert Hackett和Frances Goodrich 根据 Dashiell Hammett 的小说改编成剧本。后来还拍摄了五部续集。

　　比利·怀德导演的第一部电影

　　舞女伊迪和好朋友离开小镇到大城市谋求发展，吸取母亲的人生教训，伊迪认为金钱比爱情重要，立志要嫁个有钱人，某次舞会上，大富豪TR老先生无意间帮助伊迪摆脱一场命案的谋杀嫌疑，于是她决心追求这位老先生把他钓上钩，与此同时，一个年轻的服务员也盯上了这个美丽又有趣的年轻女郎……

　　Judge William "Billy" Priest lives in a very patriotic (Confederate) southern town. Priest plays a laid-back, widowed judge who helps uphold the law in his toughest court case yet. In the meantime, he plays matchmaker for his young nephew.

　　劉別謙初嚐美高梅大製作的派頭，一切筆法更神采飛揚。開敞的場景、空前的排場讓人物裏裏外外恣意張開：寡婦的心更顯孤獨，男女的愛更加沒處安放。坐擁小國大部分財富的寡婦忽然要搬到巴黎重新尋找生活色彩，國王唯恐國祚不保來一招美男計，派出風流種子色誘寡婦。本來一個用情一個求性，幾番邂逅與折騰，改寫了男男女女的基本需要。歌與舞沒有賣弄甜膩，反而放在愛情的沉重中換來了歌頌。歌與影無間交流，劉別謙輕歌劇巔峰之作，亦成了荷里活極有代表性的一章。司花利亞與珍娜．麥當奴最後一次合作，後者散發從未有過的成熟韻味。堪稱最性感的音樂劇。　　Rated "the sexiest musical in the thirties", The Merry Widow could well be the sexiest musical ever. Jeannette MacDonald, sensual and majestic as a Persian cat, is the wealthiest widow in the kingdom of Marschovia. On a visit to Paris, she attracts a flurry of gold-diggers. To prevent her fortune from passing to foreign hands, the king sends a romantic envoy to court her. He chooses Captain Donilo, whose cavalier attitude to women is not limited to his rapport with Maxim's "girls, girls, girls". Osé but not blasé, this elegant adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta out-classed von Stroheim's silent in opulence, culminating in the grandest of grand balls.　　Source: 28th HKIFF