Movies by Polly Moran

Down to Their Last Yacht

Down to Their Last Yacht

Left only with their yacht after going broke in the Great Depression, a high-society family sets sail for the South Seas. Screwball comedy, with songs.

It's a Wise Child

It's a Wise Child

In this comedy, a conservative family becomes alarmed when they begin believing their daughter is pregnant.

The Callahans and the Murphys

The Callahans and the Murphys

The story of two feuding Irish immigrant families living in a tenement.

While the City Sleeps

While the City Sleeps

A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.

The Girl Said No

The Girl Said No

A comedy romance in which breezy Haines, as a young lady killer, tries to capture the heart of Hyams who has turned him down for Bushman. Haines plots dozens of extreme measures to win her over, and finally goes so far as to drag her from the altar, bound and gagged.

Reducing

Reducing

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

London After Midnight

London After Midnight

The abandoned Balfour House, the owner of which was found dead five years earlier, comes back to life with the arrival of two suspicious sinister-looking tenants. This film was lost in the 1965 MGM vault fire; only a few stills exist.

The Unholy Night

The Unholy Night

When a rash of murders depletes their number, a billionaire's employees are brought together at an Englishman's estate.

Remote Control

Remote Control

A radio announcer gets caught up with a fake clairvoyant and his gang of thieves.

Prosperity

Prosperity

Longtime friends become feuding mothers-in-law when their children marry.

Came the Dawn

Came the Dawn

Papa, Mama, Daughter and Son Gimplewort move into their new house. Two movers are talking to each other about the murder of a saxophone player that took place in the house. They say his ghost still roams the house. Night comes and every noise and creak in the house scares the papa, mama and son (the daughter is out on a date). The Mover gives the daughter a parrot saying "It's a religious parrot – I bought it from a sailor". At any rate, the parrot gets into the act by yelling scaring Papa and Son who have come down looking for the source of...

Red River Range

Red River Range

The Cattlemen's Association has called in the Mesquiteers to find cattle rustlers. They get Tex Riley to pose as Stony so Stony can arrive posing as a wanted outlaw. This gets Stony into the gang of rustlers and he alerts Tucson and Lullaby as to the next raid. But Hartley is on hand and unknown to anyone is the rustler's boss and he joins the posse with a plan that will do away with the Mesquiteers.

Chasing Rainbows

Chasing Rainbows

The road-show troupe of a top Broadway show go cross-country while taking the audience along on the on-stage scenes as well as what happens and is happening back stage of the production. The spectacular dancing ensembles and colorful costumes and pulchritude on-stage offers a contrasting background to the drabness of the backstage, where joy, sorrow, tragedies, deception, and romance are intertwined.

Crazy House

Crazy House

Benny Rubin takes a tour of the Lame Brain Sanitarium and meets some of its strange patients.

Luck

Luck

A young man is bet $100,000 that his famous luck can hold out and he can make that sum in one year's time, literally starting with nothing. He proceeds to Pennsylvania, where prize fight winnings are used to build a new town.

Telling the World

Telling the World

The journalist Don Davis becomes involved in a murder case, where Chrystal Malone is part of it. Davis follows Chrystal to China. When Chrystal arrives in China, Davis has to save her from an execution.

Hollywood Party

Hollywood Party

Jimmy Durante is jungle movie star Schnarzan the Conqueror, but the public is tiring of his fake lions. When Baron Munchausen comes to town with real man-eating lions, Durante throws him a big Hollywood star-studded party so that he might use the lions in his next movie. But, his film rival sneaks into the party to buy the lions before Durante.

Two Weeks with Pay

Two Weeks with Pay

Pansy O'Donnell, a salesgirl, is given a two-week vacation at a summer resort, where she advertises clothing made by her company. The hotel clerk mistakes her for movie actress Marie La Tour, and gossip spreads that she is staying incognito.

A Lady of Chance

A Lady of Chance

A con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.

Buttons

Buttons

Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...