Ladies of the Big House
A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn’t commit.
The Man in Search of His Murderer
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too…
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer turned against his will to light music, who together wrote fifteen comic operas between…
Baal
An exploration of the cult of the genius, an anti-heroic figure who chooses to be a social outcast and live on the fringe of bourgeois morality.
The Mark
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
The Stratton Story
Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.
The Bugle Sounds
An old-time cavalry sergeant’s resistance to change could cost him his post.
Escape Me Never
A penniless composer marries a young widow with a baby—even though he is in love with his brother’s fiancée.
The Lion Has Seven Heads
A white-robed preacher wanders and sermonizes across African lands; European communists and CIA spies conspire out of mutual self-interest to engineer the appointment of an African bourgeois to a puppet…
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