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TheSenator Was Indiscreet is a 1947 American comedy film, the only movie directed by playwright, theatrical director/producer, humorist, and drama critic George S. Kaufman. Produced by Universal Pictures it starred William Powell as a dim-witted U.S. senator who decides to run for president, with Ella Raines as a reporter interested in the detailed diary he has kept about all the political misdeeds of his colleagues. Powell won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performances in this film and in Life with Father.[1]

The inept, slow-witted U.S. Senator Melvin G. Ashton wants to run for President of the United States. His eager publicist, Lew Gibson, encourages him with various attention-gaining stunts, disappointing his girlfriend Poppy McNaughton, a reporter for a local newspaper. When Ashton arrives at his hotel in New York City, Gibson asks him to accept membership into the Cherokee tribe, purely for publicity. Ashton eagerly agrees.

Fred Houlihan, a political boss, asks Ashton to step down as a presidential candidate. Ashton refuses, but in a long speech publicly and consistently denies he is running for president. The stunning Valerie Shepherd arrives and decides to join the campaign. Lew becomes attracted to her.

Appalled by Ashton's baffling incompetence, Poppy breaks up with Lew. Articles about Ashton's road to the presidency are published in the newspapers. Houlihan again tries to persuade him not to run. However, Ashton blackmails Houlihan into silence, telling him he has kept a diary of scandalous party activity for the past thirty years. Ashton embarks on a cross-country tour to court voters, becomes a popular candidate, and returns to speak at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Ashton discovers his diary is missing, and suspects the communist hotel room service clerk Karl has stolen it. However, Lew suspects the thief was Poppy. Ashton's former secretary, Robert Oakes, is soon found with the diary, but he insists someone else stole it before he got hold of it. Lew finds out that Valerie's beau Bill Fisher is Ashton's political enemy and has started a petition to investigate the senator in his home state. From various clues, Poppy deduces that Valerie stole the diary.

Aware that the explosive diary is missing, Houlihan again asks Ashton to step down, at which point Ashton agrees to do so if they find him another job. They offer to get him appointed commissioner of a professional sports league, a job that pays twice the salary of the President of the U.S.

Poppy manages to retrieve the diary from Valerie, but loses it to Lew, who tells Ashton the good news. Houlihan then tries to convince Ashton to get back into the race, but Ashton hesitates. Lew then decides that the truth should be revealed and gives the diary back to Poppy. When it is published, both Ashton and his bosses are forced to flee to a South Sea island, where Ashton soon becomes chief of the native population.

A contemporary review in The New York Times by film critic Bosley Crowther opined that "Mr. MacArthur, who wrote the irreverent script, keeps things snapping and cracking in clever and hilarious style. And Mr. Kaufman, the director [...] pictures and paces them likewise," additionally noting that "William Powell as the Senator does about everything that a competent actor of farce comedy could do to make him a joke."[2] Variety reported that Kaufman "manifests pace and polish in a fast-moving bit of fluff," that Powell "does a fine job as the stuffy dimwit of a senator," and that the casting "is good down the line."[3] Writing in AllMovie, critic Craig Butler described the film as having "quite a few [funny moments], some drawn from some decent wordplay and verbal sparring, others from the expert comic pomposity of William Powell, as well as a sterling supporting cast."[4]

Belle of the Yukon is a 1944 American comedy musical Western film produced and directed by William A. Seiter and starring Randolph Scott, Gypsy Rose Lee, Dinah Shore and Bob Burns.[2] Based on a story by Houston Branch and set in the days of the great Canadian Gold Rush, the film is about a "reformed" con artist-turned-dance hall owner whose girlfriend, played by Gypsy Rose Lee, tries to keep him on the straight and narrow.

In a Yukon town called Malemute, a saloon owned by "Honest" John Calhoun gets a new star performer, Belle De Valle, while he is away. A stranger in town, Sam Slade, offers to keep an eye on things until the boss returns, while saloon manager Pop Candless and crooked town marshal Maitland keep a suspicious eye on him.

As soon as Honest John gets back, Belle hits him with a vase. They knew each other in Seattle, where according to Belle, he was actually a con man known as Gentleman Jack who ditched her after becoming wanted by the law for his dishonest ways.

Pop's attractive daughter Lettie is attracted to Steve Atterbury, the piano player. Pop is leery and finds a letter indicating that Steve is already married with children. Steve is ambushed and put on a boat to Nome, giving the impression that he has coldly left Lettie behind.

Honest John is secretly plotting a gold theft. He gains the town's trust and is named bank president. Belle discovers the scheme and starts a run of the bank, making Honest John pay off customers with money he had planned to steal.

Everything turns out for the best, though, because Steve jumps ship and makes it back to Malemute to win Lettie back, helped by the arrival of his sister, Cherie, and their wealthy father, C.V. Atterbury, who vouches that Steve is unmarried and, as a gesture of good faith, places $100,000 in the bank. Honest John promises to actually be honest from now on.

Any Number Can Play is a 1949 melodrama film starring Clark Gable and Alexis Smith, with Wendell Corey and Audrey Totter in support. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy, it is based on Edward Harris Heth's novel of the same name.

Casino owner Charley Enley Kyng is advised by his physician to slow down, after being diagnosed with a serious heart problem. Charley supports his own family - his wife Lon and teenage son Paul - as well as Lon's sister Alice and her weak and duplicitous husband, Robbin Elcott. Charley quits drinking and smoking and vows to spend more time with his wife and son.

Elcott, a dealer at Charley's casino, cannot pay a $2,000 gambling debt he owes to a gangster, who sends goons Debretti and Sistina to collect. Elcott provides loaded dice to let them win the gangster's marker back at craps.

Ashamed of his father's line of work, Paul vents to his mother. Charley tries to take him on a fishing trip in the mountains, but the boy refuses. A disgruntled gambling couple, Mr. and Mrs. Lorgan, claim they have lost their entire savings at Charley's casino and seek their money back. As Charley sees it, they lost fair and square and will not budge; Lon feels bad about the way her husband makes his living.

Charley is depressed by the breakdown of his family life, but still rejects the wiles of a former girlfriend, Ada, seeking to rekindle their relationship. Paul gets into a brawl at his high school prom because of his father's business and is arrested. Charley arranges to get him out of jail, but his son will not speak to him. Paul leaves with his mother when she shows up.

Lon goes straight to the casino, Paul in tow. A big-time gambler, Jim Kurstyn, is on a winning streak and is threatening to bankrupt the place. Committed to a fair shake, Charley refuses to shut the game down and lifts the house limit to let the man bet as much as he dares. Kurstyn repeatedly taunts Charley that he is going to break him but Charley will not back down, earning Kurstyn's respect. Kurstyn rolls the dice once too often and loses everything. Instead of being able to roll him on his way home with a massive pile of cash as planned, the goons try to rob Kyng.

He squares off on them, calling their bluff: either shoot him and take the money, or leave. Before they can, Paul walks up and stands next to him, announcing they will have to shoot them both. With only one gun between two goons, nothing is guaranteed. A willful dowager who is long carried a torch for Charley (but only that) makes it three targets. Then another steps up. And more yet. In the chaos, Charley swings at the armed goon and drops him. Paul leaps upon the other one and knocks him to the ground, pummeling him. The goons and Elcott are all run out the club.

Recognizing when he has had enough, Charley then wagers his casino and everything in it against his staff, $5,000 against the whole works. They draw cards; the top kick[clarification needed] turns over a 6 but smiles, already on to Charley's ploy. Rather than show his hole card, Charley simply says "You beat me," and walks away. Outside Lon reaches into Charley's pocket and pulls out a jack, then hands it to Paul. He beams admiringly at his father as the threesome walks off arm-in-arm.

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