Lot Of 4 Sealed RKO Laserdiscs Bad Company Diplomaniacs Berlin Express Hook W31

Still sealed, but some covers have hole punch, ringwear, cornerwear and creasing

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Diplomaniacs is a 1933 American pre-Code comedy film starring Wheeler and Woolsey. The film in noted for its absurdist political satire, somewhat in the manner of Million Dollar Legs or Duck Soup, both of which were released within a year of Diplomaniacs.

Plot

Willy Nilly (Bert Wheeler) and Hercules Glub (Robert Woolsey) are barbers with next to no customers: their shop is on an Indian reservation (an opening text states that the Indians do not grow facial hair). The tribe, newly rich from oil drilling, pays them to represent their Nation at a peace conference in Switzerland. Unbeknownst to them, an armaments manufacturer producing highly explosive bullets wants to ensure that the peace conference is a failure, and do everything they can to sabotage it: the general manager, Winkelreid (Louis Calhern), assisted by Wise Gai Chow-Chow (Hugh Herbert, playing a yellow peril Chinese character common to the era), hires a vamp, Dolores (Marjorie White), to distract Willy and Hercules and steal their secret documents.

Willy and Hercules, unaware of the intrigue surrounding them, persist in carrying out their mission, delayed by 8 months after the captain of their steamship gets drunk and steers wildly off course. In Europe, Winkelreid is joined by four directors of the firm, Schmerzenpuppen, Puppenschmerzen, Schmerzenschmerzen and Puppenpuppen; they go to a dive bar, the Dead Rat, and hire a second femme fatale, Fifi (Phyllis Barry). Once in Geneva, Willy and Hercules find the peace conference delegates at each other's throats. They attempt to mollify the crowd with some vaudeville routines; after withdrawing to another room between acts, Winkelreid throws a bomb into the delegates' chamber, causing everyone in the room to be in blackface when Willy and Hercules return. In response, they also don blackface and sing a minstrel spiritual about peace. Chow-Chow gives up and returns to China in a rowboat. Winkelreid and the four directors forge a letter from the prime ministers of the world powers promising to end all war, and slips it under the door of Willy and Hercules's hotel room; one of the directors then accidentally drops a sample bullet, which explodes and vaporizes the four directors and Winkelreid (leaving only their shoes and hats).

Elated, Willy and Hercules return to the reservation by airplane; as they fly, the world leaders, incensed at their names being forged to a peace treaty, start a world war. Willy and Hercules land, expecting a heroes' welcome, only to find themselves drafted into the army to fight in the new war.

Cast

Bert Wheeler as Willy Nilly

Robert Woolsey as Hercules Glub

Marjorie White as Dolores

Phyllis Barry as Fifi

Louis Calhern as Winkelreid

Hugh Herbert as Wise Gai Chow-Chow, the Chinaman

Edgar Kennedy as Chairman of the Peace Conference

Richard Carle as Ship's Captain

William Irving as Schmerzenpuppen

Neely Edwards as Puppenschmerzen

Billy Bletcher as Schmerzenschmerzen

Teddy Hart as Puppenpuppen

Edward Cooper as Indian Chief

Dewey Robinson as Luke the Hermit

Charles Coleman as Marie, Parisian butler

Grace Hayle as Countess

Charlie Hall as Shaffner, Winkelreid's valet

Richard Alexander as Peace Conference Sergeant-at-Arms

Hook, Line and Sinker is a 1930 American pre-Code slapstick comedy directed by Edward F. Cline from a screenplay by Ralph Spence and Tim Whelan. It was the third starring vehicle for the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey (Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey), and also featured Dorothy Lee. It would be one of the largest financial successes for RKO Pictures in 1930.

Plot

Two fast-talking insurance salesmen — Wilbur Boswell and J. Addington Ganzy — help penniless socialite Mary Marsh to turn a dilapidated hotel, which was willed to her, into a thriving success. They soon run into trouble, however, in the form of two sets of rival gangsters who want to break into the hotel safe; also, Mary's mother, Rebecca Marsh, wants her to marry wealthy lawyer John Blackwell, although Mary has fallen in love with Wilbur. And while she takes an instant dislike to Wilbur, Rebecca falls for Ganzy. Adding to the complications is the fact that Blackwell is actually in league with the gangsters. The finale involves nighttime runarounds and a shoot-out in the hotel. During the pitched battle between the rival gangs and the police, Boswell and Ganzy save the jewels, after which Ganzy marries Rebecca, and then gives away Mary at her marriage to Wilbur.

Cast

Bert Wheeler as Wilbur Boswell

Robert Woolsey as Addington Ganzy

Dorothy Lee as Mary Marsh

Jobyna Howland as Rebecca Marsh

Ralf Harolde as John Blackwell (Buffalo Blackie)

William B. Davidson as Frank Dukette (Duke of Winchester)

Natalie Moorhead as Duchess Bessie Von Essie

George F. Marion as Ritz De La Rivera Bellboy

Hugh Herbert as Hotel House Detective

Stanley Fields as McKay

Berlin Express is a 1948 American drama film starring Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin, and Paul Lukas, and directed by Jacques Tourneur.

Thrown together by chance, a group of people search post-World War II Frankfurt for a kidnapped German peace activist. Set in Allied-occupied Germany, it was shot on location in Frankfurt (with exterior and interior shots of the IG Farben Building and its paternoster elevators) and Berlin.[2] One of a small handful of American-made Trümmerfilms (rubble films), it features a full-screen notice during the opening credits reading: "Actual scenes in Frankfurt and Berlin were photographed by authorization of the United States Army of Occupation, the British Army of Occupation, and the Soviet Army of Occupation."

Plot

In post World War II Paris, various passengers board a secure U.S. Army train to Frankfurt. They include American, Russian, British, French, and German diplomats, scientists, military personnel, and others cleared to make the passage.

A German tries to become better acquainted with the other passengers, but they all rebuff his overtures because of his nationality. When a British man on board, Sterling, comes to believe he is Dr. Heinrich Bernhardt, a prominent diplomat working to restore a peaceful Germany, the atmosphere immediately changes for most. After retiring to his compartment, the man is killed by a bomb. While the others are questioned upon arrival in Frankfurt, they learn that the dead man was actually one of the doctor's bodyguards. The real Bernhardt had been posing as anonymous passenger, traveling with his secretary, Lucienne, an attractive, younger French woman.

At the busy Frankfurt railway station Bernhardt greets Walther, an old, trusted friend. Before anybody realizes what has happened, he is kidnapped. The U.S. Army quickly institutes a search of the city, but when Lucienne begs her fellow travelers to help look for him, they initially decline. One by one, however, they reconsider.

Lucienne suggests they find Walther, unaware that he has betrayed Bernhardt in order to secure his detained wife's return. When they get to his home, they discover Walther has hanged himself in the trauma of having learned his wife had been dead all along.

The group splits up to cover the city. Lindley accompanies Lucienne to various German-only nightclubs. At one, Lindley notices a woman smoking an unusually long cigarette, just like the ones Bernhardt has made specially for him. He picks up a discarded butt and shows Lucienne that it has Bernhardt’s monogram on it. When the woman turns out to be an entertainer, a “mind-reader”, Lindley asks her where Bernhardt is. She flees, and her assistant prevents Lindley from following her. When Lindley and Lucienne question the American soldier who had been with the woman beforehand, Sergeant Barnes, he reluctantly agrees to lead them to her home.

When they arrive at an abandoned brewery, Barnes turns out to be working with the kidnappers. Bernhardt is being held prisoner, and Lindley and Lucienne are taken captive. An undercover agent assigned to protecting Bernhard had trailed the others to the hideout. He is shot when he is discovered but manages to get away and inform authorities of the location of the hideout. American soldiers break in just as Bernhardt and Lucienne are about to be shot and free the three unharmed. Kessler, the ringleader, is chased by Perrot, a Frenchman from the train and part of the search party. In a room alone together, Perrot shoots him dead after revealing that he is actually a German collaborator usurping Kessler's position.

The passengers board the connecting train for Berlin. Perrot suggests that each of them take turns guarding Bernhardt in his compartment. He volunteers to be first. Uneasy, Lindley pieces together various clues suspecting Perrot, but they are dismissed by the others. At a stop Lindley sees a reflection of Perrot strangling Bernhardt in the window of an adjacent train and saves his life. Perrot is gunned down as he tries to escape.

The rest of the group are driven to the Brandenburg Gate for transit to their respective destinations in Berlin. Seeing them depart, Bernhardt wonders if there can be cooperation between nations, and after despairing observes camaraderie between the once fractious British, American, and Russian men as they say their goodbyes. His hope is restored.

Cast

Merle Oberon as Lucienne Mirbeau

Robert Ryan as Robert Lindley

Charles Korvin as Henri Perrot

Paul Lukas as Dr. Heinrich Bernhardt

Robert Coote as James Sterling

Reinhold Schünzel as Walther

Roman Toporow as Lt. Maxim Viroshilov

Peter von Zerneck as Hans Schmidt

Otto Waldis as Kessler

Fritz Kortner as Franzen

Michael Harvey as Sgt. Barnes

Tom Keene as Major

Charles McGraw as USFET Col. Johns

Marle Hayden as Maja the Mind Reader

Paul Stewart as Narrator (uncredited)

Bad Company is a 1931 American pre-Code gangster film directed and co-written by Tay Garnett with Tom Buckingham based on Jack Lait's 1930 novel Put on the Spot. It stars Helen Twelvetrees and Ricardo Cortez. Told from the view of a woman, the working titles of this film were The Gangster's Wife and The Mad Marriage.[2] Unlike many static early sound films, Garnett includes several scenes using a moving camera climaxing in a gigantic assault on an office building with both sides using heavy machine guns. The film adapts a novel by Jack Lait.[3]

Plot

Rich and beautiful Helen King is about to marry Steve Carlyle, a wealthy young professional. Unknown to Helen and her family, Steve is a legal advisor to a megalomaniac gangster Goldie Gorio.

Steve wishes to leave the rackets but Goldie reintroduces him to his future father-in-law, a rival gangster where both parties see the marriage as a symbol of peace and an end of violence in their transactions. Steve remains with Goldie and fills in for him to a visit to a rival gangster's boat where he is ambushed and nearly killed by their machine gun. Helen vows revenge on Goldie.

Cast

Helen Twelvetrees as Helen King

Ricardo Cortez as Goldie Gorio

John Garrick as Steve Carlyle

Paul Hurst as Goldie's Butler

Frank Conroy as Markham King

Harry Carey as McBaine

Frank McHugh as Doc

Kenneth Thomson as Barnes

Arthur Stone as Dummy

Emma Dunn as Emma

William V. Mong as Henry

Edgar Kennedy as Buffington

This lot includes 4 sealed RKO Laserdiscs of classic Western film "Bad Company" directed by Tay Garnett and starring Helen Twelvetrees. The edition is an extended CLV with black and white special features, making it a collector's item for fans of film-noir and Western genres. The Laserdiscs offer high-quality viewing experience of this iconic movie from the United States. Perfect for enthusiasts looking to add a rare and unique piece to their collection.