Sailor's Holiday

Sep 14, 1929

0h 59m

★ 5.2

Here's a riot of mirth-aboard ship and ashore!

Overview

Sailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Pathé Exchange

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Cast

Adam Pike

Alan Hale

Molly Jones

Sally Eilers

Shorty

George Cooper

Jimmylegs

Paul Hurst

Mrs. Pike

Mary Carr

Captain

Charles Clary

Captain

Jack Richardson

The Fast Worker

Natalie Joyce

Her Secretary

Philip Sleeman

Sailor in Cafe (uncredited)

Ray Cooke

Midway Customer (uncredited)

Russ Powell

(uncredited)

Randolph Scott

Thief Gaston Monescu and pickpocket Lily are partners in crime and love. Working for perfume company executive Mariette Colet, the two crooks decide to combine their criminal talents to rob their employer. Under the alias of Monsieur Laval, Gaston uses his position as Mariette's personal secretary to become closer to her. However, he takes things too far when he actually falls in love with Mariette, and has to choose between her and Lily.

0.0

Six Cylinder Love

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Troubles begin for the Sterlings when they buy an expensive car and friends start pressing them for rides.

7.0

Along Came Youth

Dec 20, 1930

Broke and stranded in England, American sportsman Larry Brooks and his pal Ambrose take increasingly odd jobs to remain in proximity to the aristocratic lady that Larry would woo.

4.7

Children of Pleasure

Apr 26, 1930

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

6.2

Flying Down to Rio

Dec 22, 1933

A dance band leader finds love and success in Brazil.

6.4

The Bat Whispers

Nov 13, 1930

Infamous burglar "The Bat" commits a daring jewelry theft despite heavy police presence. Soon after, a bank theft occurs, which may be the work of the criminal as well. Meanwhile, Cornelia Van Gorder has various people arrive at her old mansion, including her niece, Dale, a bank employee, and police detective Anderson. When guests start turning up dead, Cornelia begins to suspect that The Bat may be lurking around the estate.

0.0

Dames Ahoy

Feb 9, 1930

Three sailors go searching for a girl who swindled one of them out of half his pay.

5.0

A Cuckoo in the Nest

Nov 11, 1933

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.

6.1

Mr. Robinson Crusoe

Aug 19, 1932

Steve Drexel voluntarily strands himself on a deserted island on a bet. He intends to re-create civilization and carves a miniature city of 52nd Street and Park Avenue out of the jungle. Drexel is befriended by his dog, a native monkey, and a wild goat that is captured in one of his traps. He attempts to cultivate a native as his Man Friday from Robinson Crusoe, but fails as the native escape.

3.0

Palooka

Jan 26, 1934

Joe Palooka is a naive young man whose father Pete was a champion boxer, but his lifestyle caused Joe's mother Mayme to leave him and to take young Joe to the country to raise him.

6.7

Platinum Blonde

Oct 31, 1931

Anne Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.

0.0

The First Year

Jul 30, 1932

Grace Livingston is leading a happy life in her small town, with her mother and father, being courted by two men, the steady but predictable Tommy Tucker and the more ambitious, flashy, and worldly Dick Loring, who seems closer to Grace in his desire for travel and adventure.

4.0

Goldie

Jun 27, 1931

Sailor Spike dates girls whose names he finds in an address book. Each girl has the same tatoo, placed there by another sailor Bill. When Spike meets Bill they become friends. In Calais Spike meets Goldie. Bill warns him against her, but Spike ignores the warning until he finds Bill's tatoo on Goldie as well.

5.3

The Devil Is Driving

Dec 9, 1932

Gabby Denton, a hard-drinking, down-on-his-luck drifter, seems to get a chance at redemption when his brother-in-law helps get him a job as a mechanic. Not realizing the garage he works for is actually a front for a stolen car ring, Gabby soon finds himself mixed up in both murder and a liaison with the boss's girl.

4.5

Scarlet River

Mar 10, 1933

Unable to find open range near Hollywood, western actor Tom Baxter and his troop head to Judy Blake's ranch to shoot their film.

6.4

The Cocoanuts

May 23, 1929

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

6.8

Twentieth Century

May 11, 1934

A temperamental Broadway producer trains an untutored actress, but when she becomes a star, she proves a match for him.

6.6

We're Not Dressing

Apr 27, 1934

Beautiful high society type Doris Worthington is entertaining guests on her yacht in the Pacific when it hits a reef and sinks. She makes her way to an island with the help of singing sailor Stephen Jones. Her friend Edith, Uncle Hubert, and Princes Michael and Alexander make it to the same island but all prove to be useless in the art of survival. The sailor is the only one with the practical knowhow to survive but Doris and the others snub his leadership offer. That is until he starts a clam bake and wafts the fumes in their starving faces. The group gradually gives into his leadership, the only question now is if Doris will give into his charms.

5.5

Going Hollywood

Dec 22, 1933

The film tells the story of Sylvia, a French teacher at an all-girl school, who wants to find love. When she hears Bill Williams on the radio, she decides to go visit and thank him. However, difficult problems lay ahead when Lili gets in the way.

7.2

Gold Diggers of 1933

May 27, 1933

During the Great Depression, all Broadway shows are closed down. A group of desperate unemployed showgirls find hope when a wealthy songwriter invests in a musical starring them, against the wishes of his high society brother. Thus start Carol, Trixie and Polly's schemes to bilk his money and keep the show going.