The Spirit of Culver

A charismatic cowboy journeys down to Mexico with his loyal sidekick. They must track down cunning con artists and retrieve the stolen funds of innocent townsfolk.

A young man inherits a valuable piece of Texas land that an oil man plots to steal away.

This musical comedy stars radio star Al Pearce has a double role playing himself and Elmer Blurt, the leader of a small-town band that struggles toward stardom in the big city. Their journey begins when Elmer decides to eject their female singer because she isn't really right. Unfortunately, her angry father is their sponsor and when he finds out, he withdraws all support.

When You're Smiling is distinguished by the presence of several top recording artists of 1950. The wafer-thin plotline concerns the misadventures of Texan Gerald Durham (Jerome Courtland), who arrives in the Big City to learn the ropes of the music business. Durham not only ends up with a recording contract, but also wins heroine Peggy Martin (Lola Albright) in the bargain. So much for the story. The principal selling card of When You're Smiling consists of the guest-star turns by Frankie Laine, Bob Crosby, The Modernaires, The Mills Brothers, Kay Starr and Billy Daniels.

As California gubernatorial candidate Burton is about to cast his vote a truck crashes into the polling booth, critically injuring him and his opponent. A flashback traces his career from unemployed veteran to dockworker to lawyer. A side thread traces his tortured relationship with his wife.

A radio saleswoman helps a singing cattleman trap a shady meat buyer with a bogus broadcast.

A telephone operator gives up her job to try to be a nightclub singer.

A man tries to redeem himself after ducking out on his comrades before the fatal attack.

Liza Lee, fast-talking press agent for Al Jarvis, persuades Jarvis to stage a Musical Mystery Contest, with a $5000 prize to the person who can first name the most musical numbers and their performers. Lots of musicians perform.

Two female song-pluggers decide to become ruthless gold-diggers, with comic results.

A young woman engaged to a millionaire falls for the understudy in a Broadway musical.

Liz lives with her mother and stepfather in a boarding house on the "wrong side of the tracks"

Besieged by his adoring female fans, radio celebrity Ned "The Fireside Troubadour" Farrar hides out at the home of his wife Queena's imperious Aunt Min. Pretending to be Aunt Min's handyman, he performs his tasks so well that she refuses to let him leave.

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

An unsophisticated farm girl enrolls in college and stars in the campus musical.

A strong-willed young woman hires a student to impersonate a boorish French count and brings him home to meet her parents.