Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critics’ acclaim was “The Cop and the Anthem”. Soapy tells fellow bum Horace that he is going to get…

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook – all while falling in love with the politician’s daughter.

An Air Force washout and his buddy room with a pretty young lady. Desperate for jobs during the Depression, they finally land employment with the mob.

A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life,…

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to…

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he’s gotten off was really guilty.

A cop framed for a murder he did not commit hunts the San Francisco waterfront for the Mob racketeers who are responsible.

An intense love affair develops between a married concert violinist (Gösta Ekman) and his daughter’s music teacher (Ingrid Bergman).

A sensitive, educated black man’s World War II-time problems. This is essentially the duplicate of his peace-time problems which are pointed up in a flashback of his life, and primarily…

Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the…