Paramount Pictures Corporation

Roughnecker stoker Bill Roberts gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for Mae, a wise and weary dance-hall girl, in Josef von Sternberg's evocative portrait of working-class waterfront folk.

Elmer Finch is a meek accountant nagged by his wife, harassed by his children, and awed by his boss. After he accidentally throws a horseshoe through a window, the cops are on his tail, and a suitably ridiculous chain of events puts him under the thrall of hypnosis where he believes himself to be a lion. With newly leonine strength, he visits all those who shamed and bullied him, and tries to get a raise in the process.

Jenny Hagen is a diner waitress who fantasizes about a life on stage. Her heart belongs to Orme Wilson, an expert pancake flipper, who only has eyes for the women in movie magazines. When a river showboat comes to town, its star performer Lillian Lyons entrances him. Inflamed with jealousy, Jenny is determined to get on stage herself, by any means necessary.

Four films that address the immigrant experience in the United States in the early twentieth century.