Broken Lullaby 1932  N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: The Man I Killed
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Nancy Carroll, Phillips Holmes, Louise Carter, Tom Douglas, Emma Dunn, Lucien Littlefield, Tully Marshall, Zasu Pitts, Frank Sheridan, George Bickel, George Irving, Lillian Elliott
A French soldier Paul Renaud (Phillip Holmes) kills enemy soldier Walter Holderlin (Tom Douglas) during a World War I battle. While trying to make it up to the dead man's parents (Lionel Barrymore and Loiuse Carter), he meets Walter's fiancee Elsa (Nancy Carroll) and falls in love with her. Well-told tale.
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Soup to Nuts 1930  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Benjamin Stoloff
Cast: Ted Healy, Frances McCoy, Charles Winninger, George Bickel, Lucile Browne, Stanley Smith, Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Hallam Cooley, Freddie Sanborn, Larry Fine, William H. Tooker
In this slapstick comedy–which marks the movie debut of The Three Stooges–Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, and Larry Fine play firemen who are friends of Ted (Ted Healy) who is an employee of Otto Schmidt's (Charles Winninger) costume store is then told not to tell Otto's niece, Louise (Lucile Browne), that the store is going bankrupt. Meanwhile, Richard Carlson (Stanley Smith) arrives to manage the store and falls for Louise who is not at all interested in him. Ted invites Queenie (Frances McCoy) and Louise to the Firemen's Ball during which Ted and Richard will wear identical costumes in an attempt to fool Louise, but she catches on. Matters come to a head when fires break out, and the zany firemen arrive in time to rescue both Richard and Louise.
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| 1. Broken Lullaby (1932)
aka: The Man I Killed
2. Soup to Nuts (1930)
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