A pair of lovers plot to kill the woman’s rich husband.

Young Matt Matthews, an Ozark Mountains moonshiner, hates the father he has never seen, who apparently deserted Matt’s mother and left her to die. His obsession contributes to the hatred…

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn’t know is a crook.

Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man’s blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His…

On trial for murdering his girlfriend, philandering stockbroker Larry Ballentine takes the stand to claim his innocence and describe the actual, but improbable sounding, sequence of events that led to…

A happily married couple has been trying to have a baby with no luck. They discover that the husband is sterile. Their family doctor suggests that they think about artificial…

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.

A devoted family man tries to help a beautiful alcoholic showgirl with her life, and becomes the the only suspect when someone else murders her.

A pastor with a shady past moves into a rural town just after the Civil War.

A drunken ex-cop gets a shot at redemption when his young son is kidnapped after a smuggling deal goes belly up.

A small-town piano teacher is shocked by the arrival of her foster daughter’s biological mother, whose young lover soon follows and causes further disruption.

The complicated relationship between an ambitious, ruthless nightclub dancer and the woman he loves.

An orphan girl melts the hearts of three crusty old men.

Tom “Wolf” Lowry confronts new settlers in his valley but has a change of heart when he sees Mary Davis.

A condemned murderer named Clement is “liberated” when the Nazis bomb the French jail that holds him. During his escape, Clement comes across the body of a French soldier; he…

A proud black man and his school-teacher wife face discriminatory challenges in 1960s America.

After saving himself from hanging, Laramie Nelson saves Tracks Williams from the same fate. They then travel to Lindsay’s ranch where they get jobs. There they run into Adams who…

Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.

A political hack becomes President during the height of the Depression and undergoes a metamorphosis into an incorruptible statesman after a near-fatal accident.

A young woman at a girl’s school in Switzerland makes up stories about and writes herself letters from an imaginary explorer-adventurer father; and is eventually put in a position where…

A retired prizefighter becomes the unlikely guardian of a young orphan boy recently arrived from England to New York’s Bowery District.

The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner “Yoshiwara”. Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini,…

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by…