Aubrey Scotto

Aubrey Scotto
Total Credits at Criticker: 28 (Director), 2 (Writer)
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I Was a Convict
Millionaire John B. Harrison is finishing a two-year sentence in prison for income-tax evasion. Two convicts, "Rocks" Henry and Matty are planning an escape and going to kidnap Harrison. But Harrison's cell-mate, "Ace" King and his pay "Missouri" quell the attempted escape, and are granted paroles. Harrison decides to reward "Ace" with a high-paying job in the Harrison Food Productions Company. (imdb)
The Babbling Book
Burns and Allen have a dizzy conversation in a bookstore. (imdb)
Your Hat
Your Hat (1932) - Short Film
George, working in a hat shop, gets tricky with the customers. Then Gracie comes in and drives him batty. (imdb)
A Rhapsody in Black and Blue
A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'. (imdb)
Taxi Tangle
Taxi Tangle (1931) - Short Film
Caught in a 5th Avenue traffic jam, as they are riding in side-by-side taxicab and limousine, Jack Benny (Jack Benny) and Helen Hunt (Francetta Malloy), engage in conversation that leads to a hasty marriage. It isn't long before Benny is calling on the justice-of-peace again to sever the marriage. (imdb)
Musical Justice
Rudy Vallee and His Connecticut Yankees, as judge and jury, try three musical misdemeanors; the last defendant is a live-action Betty Boop, who sings a duet with Rudy. (imdb)
Walking the Baby
Street-sweeper George flirts with a pretty, but dizzy, nursemaid in the park. Incorporates Burns & Allen's vaudeville "dizzy" routine. (imdb)
Ticket to Paradise
A man on his way to closing a million dollar deal has an accident and gets amnesia.
Follow Your Heart
An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions. (imdb)
Happy Go Lucky
A singer in Shanghi looks exactly like a missing flyer who went missing, and is feared to have sold the experimental airplane that he was flying. Foreign gangsters, the missing flyers girlfriend, and the U.S. military wants him, dead or alive. (imdb)
1,000 Dollars a Minute
A down-on-his luck newspaperman finds himself the center of an experiment being conducted by two daffy millionaires--to see if someone can spend $1000 a minute, every minute, for 12 solid hours. If he can do it, he gets $10,000. If he can't do it, he gets nothing. (imdb)
Framed for Murder
A misogynistic reporter finds himself taking up the cause of a young women he believes is falsely accused of killing her husband. (imdb)
Hitch Hike Lady
In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin. (imdb)
Blazing Barriers
Two young hoods from the city are sent to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp in the mountains to try to turn them away from the life of crime they're headed for. (imdb)
Little Miss Roughneck
A talented 10-year-old singing prodigy, Foxine LaRue, who is only slightly less artificial and theatrical than her name, is pushed into vaudeville by her stage-mother mama, Gert LaRue, who is even more artificial and theatrical than her name. Foxine's pretty and older sister, Mary LaRue makes sacrifices to support the trio. Al Partridge, a Hollywood agent becomes interested in Mary and takes the family trio to Hollywood in the hopes of Foxine getting into the movies. (imdb)
Palm Springs
A notorious gambler who is short of money want his daughter to marry a British young man, who has plenty of money. At first she obeys, but then she falls in love to a poor, young American. (imdb)
Be Like Me
Be Like Me (1931) - Short Film
Ethel runs a run down saloon in Nicaragua. Word arrives that the soldiers are pulling out, and most of the American miners and all of the women must ship out on a vessel bound for San Francisco, but her boyfriend has been ordered to remain. (imdb)
Old Man Blues
A woman sundered from her sweetheart sings the title song as a duet with a personified Old Man Blues, in fog-shrouded woodland. (imdb)
Ireno
Ireno (1932) - Short Film
Singer Irene is in Reno for a divorce, though her friend Bob tries to convince her it's all a mistake. Then husband Cliff shows up... (imdb)
Smart Girl
Socialite Pat Reynolds (Ida Lupino) is forced to become the "smart girl" of the title when her wealthy father commits suicide, leaving nothing but a pile of debts. Pat sets up a successful hat-designing business, providing the sole support for herself and her sister Kay (Gail Patrick). So devoted is Pat to Kay's welfare that she stands by in stoic silence as Kay begins romancing Pat's sweetie Nick Graham (Kent Taylor).
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Let's Dance (1933) - Short Film
Sailor George and his pals visit the Roseland Dance Hall, where funny things happen between conversations with dizzy hostess Gracie.
Breaking Even
Vaudeville comic Tom Howard meets a man about to shoot himself and takes him into his store to try and talk him out of it. But Tom may prove to be crazier than the guy he's trying to help.
The Acid Test
George Shelton asks Tom Howard to help him impress his girl as a he-man. Howard is to insult him, and then Shelton comes up and punches out Howard. The gag works, so Howard tries to use the same gag, recruiting Donald MacBride as his foil.
Aces Wild
Aces Wild (1933) - Short Film
Tom Howard gets into a poker game on the train with some guys who make up their own rules.
Gambling Ship
A gambler uses his winnings to help support an orphanage.
Uncle Moses
Wealthy, powerful sweatshop owner falls in love with employee's teenage daughter, who feels obligated to marry him after he shares his wealth with her parents, though she actually loves a young Marxist unionizer.
Close Farm-ony
The Boswell sisters are trying to improve agricultural production on a farm by singing.
The Vest with a Tale
This Educational short features Tom Howard teamed with George Shelton.