Clarence Wilson

An ex-U.S. naval officer is hired to perform a dangerous underwater salvage operation with the German U-boat captain whose escape ended his career.

Dartmouth football heroes Johnny Baker (William Gargan) and Sandy Brown (Joel McCrea) – famed for their Baker-to-Brown passing game – go their separate ways after graduation: Johnny to the editor's desk of a newspaper sports page and Sandy to the promotional schemes of a wrestling manager nicknamed Shifty. The friends' paths merge again when Johnny helps Sandy out of tough economic times, but their renewed friendship teeters toward permanent collapse when both men woo a lovely newspaper illustrator (Marian Marsh). David O. Selznick is executive producer of this pre-Code programmer, overseeing the array of visual flourishes conjured by Dudley Murphy (director of the following year's The Emperor Jones and a co director of the earlier avant-garde Ballet mécanique). Algonquin Round Table wit Robert Benchley makes his feature debut as an always-befuddled sportscaster.

An aspiring teenage reporter teams up with the girl he has a crush on to prove the innocence of a friend who has been wrongfully accused of murder.

When a landslide diverts water away from a ranch, and cattle are dying, an aimless man finds purpose by taking a job and hatching an ingenious plan.