Café Split

The Yanks Are Coming(en)

A popular band joins the army with the idea of putting on shows for troops overseas. During rehearsals, a battle erupts and the musicians must exchange their musical instruments for guns and fight.

Men on Her Mind(en)

A famous singer reflects on her life, including her journey from being an orphan to her fame as a singer, as she tries to decide which of her three suitors she will choose.

Sweetheart of Sigma Chi(en)

A couple of gamblers pressure the local night club owner to rig things so the local college rowing crew will lose their upcoming race.

Édith Piaf : L'Hymne à la môme(fr)

Jean-Jacques Goldman - Souvenirs de Tournées(fr)

Swing Out, Sister(en)

Universal cowboy star Rod Cameron plays Geoffrey, conductor of a high-toned symphony orchestra. Secretly harboring the desire to become a swingin' jazz trumpeter, Geoffrey takes a job at a "hot" Broadway nightclub. Here he meets and falls in love with café songstress Donna (Frances Raeburn), who has led her family to believe that she's studying for a classical-music career. Meanwhile, a comedy-relief romance develops between Geoffrey's snooty valet Chumley (Arthur Treacher) and Donna's best pal Pat (Jacqueline De Wit). For those not interested in the plot (what there is of it), Swing Out, Sister includes specialty numbers by organist Selika Pettiford and the Lou Diamond Quintet.

One Sunday Afternoon(en)

The third film version of James Hagan's play, this time with songs added, starring Dennis Morgan as a dentist who marries patient and loyal Dorothy Malone despite his constant infatuation with sexy flirt Janis Paige. Filmed previously in 1933 ("One Sunday Afternoon") and 1941 ("The Strawberry Blonde").

Is Everybody Happy?(en)

This is the story of Ted Lewis, popular band leader and clarinettist.

Lisbon Story(en)

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.

Rhythm Parade(en)

A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.

Sweethearts of the U.S.A.(en)

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

Kaiser Chiefs - Baloise Session(en)

1. We Stay Together 2. Everyday I Love You Less and Less 3. Everything Is Average Nowadays 4. Ruffians on Parade 5. Why Do You Do It to Me? 6. Never Miss a Beat 7. Modern Way 8. Good Clean Fun 9. Hole in My Soul 10. The Angry Mob 11. I Predict a Riot 12. Parachute 13. Press Rewind 14. Coming Home 15. Oh My God

Chuck Chuck Baby(en)

Helen's mundane life at the chicken factory takes an unexpected turn with Joanne's return. They were each other's secret teenage passion. As they fall in love, Helen's zest for life returns but Joanne faces something darker from her past.

Wieners and Buns Musical(en)

A musical about an unhappy couple and the man that stands between them. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Aero(en)

A pair of beautiful eyes, shot in high-definition cinemascope, gazing out at the listener and reacting emotionally to the music...for the entire 75 minutes of the album.

Atlantic Garden(pt)

The film is a narrative starting from the story of Pierre and Syl, a couple that experiences the conflict between possession and freedom in a troubled relationship. Pierre is insecure and jealous, while Syl can’t even imagine that spending time with her friends will affect her boyfriend’s emotions – and also her own in a tragic way. A musical in tribute to Brazil, the garden of the Atlantic Ocean.

When Johnny Comes Marching Home(en)

By popular consensus, Allan Jones' best Universal mini-musical of the 1940s was the timely When Johnny Comes Marching Home. Jones is cast as war hero Johnny Kovacs, who wearies of the adulation heaped upon him and takes refuge under an assumed name in a theatrical boarding house. Here he befriends orchestra leader Phil Spitalny and his all-girl aggregation, including the inimitable Evelyn and Her Magic Violin. When Army officials trace Johnny to the boarding house, his new friends assume that he's a deserter and try to convince him to return to duty.

Hi, Buddy(en)

Dick Foran and Harriet Hilliard (aka Harriet Nelson) top the cast of the Universal musical quickie Hi, Buddy. Foran plays GI Dave O'Connor, who comes to the rescue when a boy's club is threatened with foreclosure. Upon learning that the money targetted for the club has been appropriated by a crooked manager, O'Connor calls upon his army buddies to stage a big, fundraising show.

Hi'ya, Sailor(en)

Bob Jackson and his three Merchant Marine shipmates have each invested $50 in a song Bob has written and which he thinks will be published for a fee of $200. In a taxicab driven by Pat Rogers, they search for the publisher's office but finally realize they have been swindled. Plus, they now owe Pat a large taxi-bill.

Rhythm of the Islands(en)

Rhythm of the Islands is set in the South Seas, presumably far away from the shooting war. The nonsensical plotline finds hero Tommy (Allan Jones) posing as a native chief. Joan Holton (Jane Frazee), daughter of a millionaire (Ernest Truex), falls in love with Tommy, unaware that he's a charlatan.