Seven Chances

Plot summary

Financial broker Jimmie Shannon is nearly bankrupt when an attorney presents grandfather's will leaving him seven million dollars. In order to inherit the money Jimmie must marry before 7 pm on his 27th birthday - today! Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}

Cast of Seven Chances

	Buster Keaton	...	James "Jimmy" Shannon
	T. Roy Barnes	...	His partner Billy Meekin
	Snitz Edwards	...	His lawyer
	Ruth Dwyer	...	His girl Mary Jones
	Frances Raymond	...	Her mother Mrs Jones (as Frankie Raymond)
	Erwin Connelly	...	The clergyman
	Jules Cowles	...	The hired hand

Our Hospitality

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This is a costume-period piece set in 1830s Kentucky. The Canfields and the McKays are feuding clans (essentially the real life Hatfields and McCoys renamed). In New York Willie boards a train (an exact recreation of the original "Stephenson Rocket"); on board he meets Virginia Canfield (the actress is Buster's real life wife). The dramatic waterfall rescue near the end is performed by Buster himself. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}

The Canfields and McKays are locked in a bitter feud, which Willie McKay has avoided while living in the city. During a trip to his old family home he meets Virginia and falls in love. However, after coming into her house he realizes she is a Canfield. Virginia's family wants to kill Willie, but their rigid social code prevents them from doing it while he's a guest in their home. Once he steps outside, however, it's a different story! Written by rmlohner

In the Nineteenth Century, there is a feud between the McKay and Canfield families in the country of the United States of America. When John McKay is killed, his wife sends their one years old baby Willie to New York to be raised by her sister. Twenty years later, Willie McKay (Buster Keaton) returns to claim for his family state. Along the train travels, he meets a young lady and they fall in love for each other. However, she is the youngest Canfield and her family has not forgotten the quarrel against the McKays. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cast of Our Hospitality

	Joe Roberts	...	Joseph Canfield
	Ralph Bushman	...	Clayton Canfield
	Craig Ward	...	Lee Canfield
	Monte Collins	...	The Parson
	Joe Keaton	...	The Engineer
	Kitty Bradbury	...	Aunt Mary
	Natalie Talmadge	...	Virginia Canfield
	Buster Keaton Jr.	...	Willie McKay (1 year old)
	Buster Keaton	...	Willie McKay (21 years old)

Miracle on 34th Street

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At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy's outlet. While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle's doctor that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas amidst the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberates fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment. All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gaily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a bizarre hearing in which people's beliefs are reexamined and put to the test, but even so, it's going to take a miracle for Kris to win. Written by Kenneth Chisholm {kchishol@rogers.com}

Doris Walker a no-nonsense Macy's executive, desperately searches for a new store Santa. She hires Kris Kringle who insists that he's the real Santa Claus. But, he has many skeptics like Doris and her six year old daughter, Susan. So Kris goes to court to try and prove it. Is he the real Santa Claus? Written by Kelly

Cast of Miracle on 34th Street

	Maureen O'Hara	...	Doris Walker
	John Payne	...	Fred Gailey
	Edmund Gwenn	...	Kris Kringle
	Gene Lockhart	...	Judge Henry X. Harper
	Natalie Wood	...	Susan Walker
	Porter Hall	...	Granville Sawyer
	William Frawley	...	Charlie Halloran
	Jerome Cowan	...	Dist. Atty. Thomas Mara
	Philip Tonge	...	Julian Shellhammer

Ko to tamo peva

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On April 5, 1941, a date Serbs will recognize, men on a country road board Krstic's bus for Belgrade: two Gypsies who occasionally sing about misery, an aging war vet, a Nazi sympathizer, a dapper singer, a consumptive, and a man with a shotgun. Krstic is a world-weary cynic, out for a buck; the driver is his son, the simple, cheerful Misko. En route they pick up a priest and young newlyweds going to the seaside. Along the way, mis-adventure strikes: a flat tire, a rickety bridge, a farmer who's plowed the road, a funeral, two feuding families, an army detail, and a lost wallet slow the bus and expose rifts among the travelers. On April 6, amid rumors of war, they reach Belgrade... Written by {jhailey@hotmail.com}

Cast of Ko to tamo peva

	Pavle Vujisic	...	Kondukter
	Dragan Nikolic	...	Pevac
	Danilo 'Bata' Stojkovic	...	Brka (as Danilo Stojkovic)
	Aleksandar Bercek	...	Misko Krstic
	Neda Arneric	...	Mlada
	Milivoje Tomic	...	Aleksa Simic
	Tasko Nacic	...	Lovac
	Boro Stjepanovic	...	Celavi (as Borislav Stjepanovic)
	Slavko Stimac	...	Mladozenja
	Miodrag Kostic	...	Muzikant I
	Nenad Kostic	...	Muzikant II
	Bora Todorovic	...	Ozalosceni
	Slobodan Aligrudic	...	Porucnik
	Petar Lupa	...	Pop
	Stanojlo Milinkovic	...	Orac

The Lady Eve

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Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him. Written by John Oswalt {jao@jao.com}

Cast of The Lady Eve

	Barbara Stanwyck	...	Jean Harrington
	Henry Fonda	...	Charles Pike
	Charles Coburn	...	'Colonel' Harrington
	Eugene Pallette	...	Horace Pike
	William Demarest	...	Muggsy
	Eric Blore	...	Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith
	Melville Cooper	...	Gerald
	Martha O'Driscoll	...	Martha
	Janet Beecher	...	Janet Pike
	Robert Greig	...	Burrows
	Dora Clement	...	Gertrude
	Luis Alberni	...	Emile, Pike's chef