Plot Summary

The film consists of six short stories about a black coat, allegedly bearing the curse. The first story is about a love triangle between the characters of Charles Boyer, Thomas Mitchell and Rita Hayworth. Boyer plays an actor who played his best role, but not before the audience, and when shot him an offended husband, and wounded the tragedian played a show. The second tale is a comic book of stories about the character of the heroine, ginger Rogers, which comes to the conclusion that a friend of her fiance, who is forced to take the blame for writing a hot love letter that she accidentally found in the pocket of his coat, far more decent and more romantic feelings for him. This tuxedo her fiance bought at a reasonable price the day before. The third story is represented by Charles Laughton. He plays a poor but brilliant musician, who fell a single chance to be recognized as head of the concert. But, alas! Damn coat begins to break during the concert and the audience erupts in laughter. The fourth story told by star Edward j. Robinson. Drunken loser, it gets on to the twenty-fifth anniversary of graduating College. This time the damn coat he got and he put it on, trying to prove to former classmates its worth. The fifth story of Phil silver and Margaret Dumont on how the lecturer gave a lecture about the dangers of alcohol to the temperance society, but in the coconut "accidentally" hit this notorious alcohol. The final story leads to the conclusion that bad for some, good for others. A thief steals a Tux from the shop "sekond-HEND" and it commits a robbery. When he tries to escape, coat with the money falls straight on the head of a poor family from the black community, which plays Paul Robinson and Ethel waters. They understand that the money fell from the sky, sent them over and share with fellow sufferers so everyone can buy what prayed to the Lord. When asked last hermit (which I forgot in the distribution), and what he asked, he said that about the Scarecrow. So found a coat, finally, a worthy place in the field.

Did You Know?

The full version of the movie has a duration 127 minutes.

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