The Amorous Garrison

Simultaneously made French version of "Ihre Hoheit Befiehlt": An officer, posing as a deli clerk, and a princess, posing as a manicurist, meet at a ball. The court especially the prime minister oppose a marriage, for political reasons.

Edwige, a rich American divorcee, goes to Morocco to look up an amazing pilot she once knew. The young woman's secretary, also an aviator, won't fly a plane because he was in a terrible accident. As he is in love with Edwige, the secretary does everything in his power to thwart her romance with the other pilot. He finally supplants his rival and wins the heart of his boss.

Expressing post-war cultural internationalism, this silent film follows the mysterious Orchid and the man who loves her.

For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu, Harry Baur, Louis Salou and Marguerite Moreno. Francois Perier's narration links the various vignettes together. In its own way, Les Etoiles ne Maurent Jamais can be seen as a precursor to those now-ubiquitous "tributes" on such cable services as American Movie Classics and Turner Classic Movies.

Pierre is timid while his wife is ambitious and suffers from his mediocrity. She pawns everything she owns, rents a sumptuous apartment in a palace, and through bluffing, Pierre is appointed director of a perfume factory and the enterprising Arlette sees all her desires come true.

A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his father might not approve of their union.

Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.

Arlette Morand, a rich and pretty young widow, would like to remarry. She hesitates between Henri, the athlete, and Serge, the artist. She grants her favors to Henri, for whom it is only an adventure. She realizes that she doesn't love him and goes to join Serge on the boat that takes him to England...

Willy, Jean and Guy are broke, so they sell their car and open a filling station. Then they all fall in love for the same girl. Simultaneously filmed French version of the German musical "Die Drei von der Tankstelle".

A silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them footage of a Dutch jewel dealer they want to steal from. The head gangster's sister helps foil their plan.

The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte Carlo unless his loss is restored.

Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The film actress, Margot Fontane, forgets her bag in the taxi and Alexis thus meets her. He goes to see the great actress shoot, he is hired for a small role as an aviator, and to simulate a take-off, he flies to Tokyo. It is the signal of happiness for the two lovers.

A Parisian painter working in the Basque country succeeds in keeping together a young woman and her smuggler boyfriend, even though the artist has feelings for the intended bride himself, and then he completes a painting on the subject of the wedding.