Kinema 1939 (INT)

A wanted gangster is both king and prisoner of the Casbah. He's protected from arrest by his friends, but is torn by his desire for freedom. A visiting Parisian beauty may determine his fate.

In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education. On a private level Yvonne is secretly engaged to Guy Maréchal, the doctor serving the institute. Unfortunately for her, the latter starts flirting with Nelly, a beautiful but rebellious inmate. Another prisoner, Renée, who has discovered the romance, blackmails Nelly...

Friedrich Mitterer is the eccentric and basically socio-phobic star of the Viennese Burg Theater. His prompter takes care of his social interactions. When Mitterer meets the young Leni he relies on the prompter to establish contact.

The son of a snobbish Wall Street banker becomes engaged to a woman from a good-natured but decidedly eccentric family not realizing that his father is trying to force her family from their home for a real estate development.

The lives of a young man, a young woman, a notorious gangster, and a group of street kids converge one day in a volatile New York City slum.

A young man in love with a girl from a rich family finds his unorthodox plan to go on holiday for the early years of his life met with skepticism by everyone except for his fiancée's eccentric sister and long-suffering brother.

Helene Wilfur is a brilliant student at a medical school devoted to research, and the outstanding student of Professor Amboise. Pierre Rguier, another student, is in love with Helene but, after learning he has an incurable disease, commits suicide. Helene returns to her work and studies, and devotes herself to Amboise, who has been disconsolate over his faithless wife.

A charming scoundrel reflects on his exploits, from childhood through to manhood.