Tres jóvenes que acaban de terminar la secundaria deciden hacer el viaje de sus vidas. Viajarán a Nueva Orleans, para vivir y celebrar el Mardi Gras, donde las mujeres se desnudan por collares y el alcohol fluye por las calles como si de las aguas de Venecia se tratara. Allí buscarán cumplir todos sus deseos y fantasías, pero las cosas no saldrán como habían previsto.
Robert Schumann (Robert Stack), un piloto que combatió en la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918), sobrevive haciendo acrobacias con su avioneta en las ferias de los pueblos. Burke Devlin (Rock Hudson), un periodista local que se interesa por la familia de Schumann, es testigo de la decadencia del piloto, de la frustración de su mujer (Dorothy Malone) y también del sufrimiento de su hijo a causa de las bromas que mecánicos y pilotos hacen a costa de su padre. Schumann, sin embargo, no ceja en la búsqueda de una oportunidad que le permita, además de recuperar el amor propio, demostrar a su familia que los antiguos sueños aún son posibles.
It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, is on his yacht and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage.
Haitian history is presented through an explosion of colour, dance and music, as the country prepares for its legendary carnival.
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul to the devil for invulnerability and immortality.
A military school cadet romances a visiting French actress during Mardi Gras. With songs, kissing and New Orleans locations.
A geologist (John Corbett) investigates a sinkhole under New Orleans that might engulf the city during Mardi Gras.
Three old friends reunite during Mardi Gras and try to forget their problems.
A gunman whose best friend has been murdered enacts a plan to blackmail the corrupt labor union leader responsible but finds he isn't the only one after his money.
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters, parades, and parties across an enduring color line, we see that beneath the surface of pageantry lies something else altogether.
In this horror-drama the festive fun of the annual Mardi Gras celebration is brought to a halt when a swarm of African killer bees escape from a foreign freighter.
A WWII tale of romance that begins during New Orlean's "Mardi Gras" celebration when a soldier and a girl meet and fall in love. He asks her to marry him but she decides to wait until his next leave. He is sent overseas and she does not receive his letter and feels abandoned, but she does find out she is pregnant. She gives the child to her married sister and does not see her child again for three years. She returns to her sister's home to reclaim the child, and the soldier, who has been searching for her, also turns up. The sister is not interested in giving up the child. Written by Les Adams
A bumbling senator investigating graft in Louisiana is the target of a scheme involving a Viennese beauty.
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later life.
GlitterBomb is a fantastic 32-minute documentary that showcases the best of the 2015 Mardi Gras season. It features interviews with Courtney Act, Bianca Del Rio, Nick Jonas, Alex Greenwich, Dan Murphy and Jake Shears, as well as local identities and international tourists, each sharing their experiences and perspectives on our fabulous Festival celebrations including Harbour Party, Pool Party, Parade and MG Party.
Wastrel New York millionaire Roland Van Dam travels to New Orleans during Mardi Gras, looking for adventure and romance. Because the costume he is wearing includes a red gardenia, he is mistaken for escaped prisoner Emile Le Duc by a woman (who turns out to be a long-lost cousin) who was to meet Le Duc, who was to be wearing a red gardenia. It turns out that Le Duc is the head of a vicious gang of counterfeiters, and Roland winds up getting in more adventures than he had hoped for.
A group of college girls go to Mardi Gras but as some of them start to go missing one by one, the remaining girls begin to suspect the handiwork of a dangerous voodoo cult.
When young MacGuffin is left wheelchair bound by a horde of drunken Mardi Gras revelers, he devotes his remaining years to one final act of twisted revenge. By performing a ritual that raises Zombie! from his grave to wreak vengeance upon unsuspecting Mardi Gras revelers 23 years later, the adult MacGuffin unwittingly unleashes forces beyond his control and aids a pair of renegade aliens in their own sinister agenda.
Documentary portrait of Tootie Montana, Mardis Gras Indian chief.