An orphan is provisionally adopted by the manager of a hotel populated by show business people. The hotel’s owner doesn’t like the entertainers and wants the girl returned to the orphanage.
Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out “clients” by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is…
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called “Mamba” by the locals, which is the name of…
A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an…
A cavalcade of English life from New Year’s Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are…
Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent to jail, Stefano…
A paroled convict’s efforts to improve conditions at a boys’ reform school alarm the school’s corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to…
Tells the story of one day in the lives of the various people who populate a police detective squad. An embittered cop, Det. Jim McLeod, leads a precinct of characters…