When Ashtray moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog, who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?
鑽石大盜法蘭基原本應奉老闆艾維之命，將搶奪到手的一顆大鑽石從倫敦運送至紐約，但卻被一位軍火商柏瑞斯夥同一家當舖老闆們在拳擊場裏設下陷阱，利用法蘭基愛賭的天性，引誘他至賭場以搶奪鑽石。拳擊場的老闆巴瑞克陰錯陽差也得知鑽石的消息，而加入搶奪鑽石的行列。同時間，吉普賽青年米基因汽車買賣紛爭和一位拳擊手發生衝突，米基憑著高超的打擊技巧和爆發力，一拳擊倒原本將在晚上出賽的拳擊手，拳擊經理人只好情商米基參加一場作弊的拳賽，米基卻未按照原定的計劃作弊認輸，因此遭到巴瑞克無情的報復。為了生存，米基必須再度披掛上陣為自己和族人而戰。 此時，法蘭基遠在紐約的老闆艾維也抵達倫敦並聘請一位當地兇惡的傳奇人物湯尼，尋找法蘭基和鑽石的下落。於是這群黑幫人物為了一顆價值連城的鑽石，開始展開了一場黑吃黑、怪招奇出、圈套重重、混亂又有趣的鑽石爭奪戰。
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
The relatives of a rich old woman unsuccessfully try to have her declared insane, so they can divide up her money. To show them that there are no hard feelings, she invites them to her estate for the weekend so she can decide to whom she actually will leave her money when she dies. Soon, however, family members begin turning up dead.
Prizefighter Jimmy Nolan, facing an opportunity to get a championship fight, is knocked out when he sustains what is apparently a permanent injury to his arm. From there, Nolan's path leads downhill. He is drawn into a romance with a nightclub entertainer, then is framed on a theft charge by a jealous suitor. After his prison term, Nolan makes a spectacular comeback in a fight which proves his courage and integrity, while disproving the fallacy about the old sports adage that "they never come back."
A man who has a talking mule gets a job on a newspaper, and both get mixed up in a murder trial.
A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Marivaux's play of the same name. Krimo is determined not to take part, but after developing feelings for Lydia, he quickly assumes the main role and love interest in the play.
On the night express train from Los Angeles to San Francisco everyone’s a suspect when a jewelry magnate is found stabbed to death and an escaped killer is feared on board. It’s up to newspaper reporter Jimmy Hawley (Ben Lyon) to unravel the secrets of the motley group of passengers and find the killer before he strikes again in this tense and atmospheric whodunit.
The film explores the history of the word throughout its inception to present day. Woven into the narrative are poetry, music, and commentary from celebrities about their personal experiences with the word and their viewpoints. Each perspective is unique, as is each experience... some are much more comfortable with the word than others.
This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short takes a look at the origins of North American slang.
At the gates of Heaven, the admitting officials have a hard time understanding a newcomer's life story with all his contemporary slang.
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra. Conspiring with his daughter Sue and her friends, Marvo the Great, the Andrews Sisters, Anne Payne and bandleader Woody Herman, they devise a sabotage plot that gets rid of Professor Bistell, and a new sound is soon heard on the program.