Jack Coffey

Deux soldats en congé passent trois nuits dans un club offrant gratuitement de la nourriture, de la danse et des divertissements aux militaires en route vers l'étranger. Les fondateurs du club, Bette Davis et John Garfield, donnent des conférences sur l'histoire du lieu.

In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house. A ham actor and his bumbling sidekick try to devise a way to help the captain regain ownership of the vessel.

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy. At a royal hunting lodge there, in 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf--desperate over his father's command to put away his teenage mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera--shot her to death and killed himself. The misfortune may indeed have been a murder-suicide, but perhaps it was a political assassination, or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta: scholarship is still catching up with the facts.