Fred MacMurray and Joan Crawford are American honeymooners in pre-war Europe who are asked by British intelligence to help track down a missing agent.

Susan Hayward and Dean Martin throw a wrench into Wilfred Hyde-White's political machine in this Depression-era tale of corruption and power.

Swashbuckling screen legends Stewart Granger and Robert Taylor star as feuding New England whaling brothers. Their fraternal loyalties are tested when Granger leads Taylor's crew to mutiny in an effort to steal sacred pearls from island natives.

The U.S. Cavalry knows that traveling the unmapped Arizona Territory canyons and trails in search of a woman kidnapped by Apaches could mean riding into a trap. So they ask the help of Ward Kinman, a prospector and scout who knows both the terrain and the ways of the warring tribesmen.

Frank's a regular guy with a steady girl and a dream of owning his own garage when he crosses paths with Diane. She wants him. Or does she want a fall guy to blame when Diane's stepmother plunges off a cliff and leaves her fortune to Diane? Alibis, betrayals, courtroom thrills and the fire of a woman too dangerous to trust and too alluring to resist make Angel Face a film-noir classic.

Billy, Huntz, Leo and other scrappy kids of slum-ridden Beale Street have won the Boys Week competition and the right to hold honorary offices as mayor, police chief and the like. With the help of an earnest deputy D.A., the gang aims to use their symbolic powers to free a wrongly jailed pal and bring down an arson racket that's blighting the neighborhood.

It's all for one and fun for all as Maureen O'Hara wields a blade as sharp as her wits in this rollicking adventure. With the power-hungry Duc de Lavalle threatening to usurp the throne, the queen summons the Four Musketeers to come to her aid. But too many years have passed and they're no longer able to heed the call, so their grown children decide to fight for their fathers instead.

An Attorney and a singer romance two sisters who live with and are strongly influenced by eccentric, health oriented and star gazing grandparents.

Barbara Stanwyck portrays Polly Fulton, a tycoon's daughter, in this glossy screen tale of the clash between haves and have-nots. She weds a left-wing professor who disdains her privileged lifestyle. When he meets professional failure, Polly secretly buys him a career.

Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson and things really spin out of control.

Eleven people crash-land in the jungle, but only five can make it out alive! John Farrow directs this tense thriller, based on his 1939 hit Five Came Back, about airline passengers downed in a South American rainforest. The survivors face hunger, fear and something even grislier: a tribe of headhunters. Their only hope of escape is the partially repaired airliner, so damaged it can only carry five people. But which five?

An outlaw's heart is stolen by a cute little moppet in this captivating Western. When Lawmen foil his gang's latest heist, Zeb Bascomb escapes by taking refuge in a Mormon caravan. Assigned to work for Abbey Hanks and bonding with her granddaughter Emmy, Zeb plans to run off with the wagon train's gold, until the head elder appoints him their leader. Caught between the threat of an Indian attack and capture by the law, Zeb can't decide whose neck to save.

A lazy but lovable deadbeat, skipper Bill Johansen spends his days fishing on his ramshackle boat when he's not sweet-talking spinster Marge Cavendish, the shopkeeper to whom he owes money. Bill's fortunes soon change, however, when he's reunited with the young daughter he hasn't seen in years. Borrowing from Marge to buy a large schooner, Bill decides to compete with a crooked ship owner who'll do whatever it takes to sink Bill's boat along with his dreams.

Reenlisting to serve in Korea, Master Sgt. Danny Young launches a second front when he discovers the Red Cross nurse he once dated is engaged to fellow combat photographer Sgt. Mitch Turner. Their rivalry, however, is soon put aside when they volunteer to gather intelligence from deep behind enemy lines. Accompanied by a squad of Marines, Young and Turner infiltrate the north as they battle the Reds on a perilous mission from which they may never return.

Film icon Peter Lorre turns in yet another memorable performance in this eerie classic set in a small town in Italy. Hilary Cummins (Lorre), the devoted secretary to wheelchair-bound piano virtuoso Francis Ingram, has a passion for the occult. Poring through every book on the supernatural he can find in Ingram's vast library, Hilary begins to imagine strange and terrifying things. But after Ingram's tragic death, the line between reality and unimaginable terror is blurred as the severed hand from Ingram's corpse begins killing everyone in the villa!

Board the Berlin Express and speed into danger, mystery and intrigue! Four postwar heroes – a veritable United Nations from Britain, France, Russia and the U.S. – battle a cadre of diehard Nazis to rescue an anti-fascist German statesman in this tense espionage thriller.

Double trouble: Winsocki Military Institute cadet Bud Hooper has two dates for the prom: his best girl – and publicity-seeking glamour girl Lucille Ball, who unexpectedly says yes to starstruck Buds invitation. Comedy puts its Best Foot Forward in this snappy frolic based on the Broadway smash.

In this chilling, iconic film noir, Robert Mitchum plays a new bride's (Kim Hunter) former beau, who provides a strong shoulder to lean on when his ex suspects the mysterious man she married (Dean Jagger) may be a killer. Also knows as When Strangers Marry.

A novelist (Dana Andrews), working with a newspaper publisher out to expose the injustices of capital punishment, frames himself for murder, intending to produce exonerating evidence at the last moment. But the publisher suddenly dies, the evidence is lost – and that's only the first twist in a brilliantly layered plot ideally suited to Fritz Lang's talents.

An outlaw insists on making a grave robber his personal physician in this black comedy set in the American backwoods of 1802.

When Chad Morgan rides home to Texas after the Civil War, he finds another enemy to battle: Brog, a corrupt cattle buyer who forces honest ranchers into financial ruin.

In Adam Polachuk, baseball manager John Lobert thinks he has found his next great prospect. But Adam's father has spent years saving money to put his son through college and doesn't want him to play baseball for a living. Lobert's daughter, Christy, comes to the rescue and at last Adam wins his father's consent – and goes on to the big leagues, becoming a national home-run hero.

Who wants to hire a three-time loser? No one, so Duke Berne falls in with crooks planning an armored car heist. Then an ex-flame – and the gun she levels at this heart – persuades him not to take part. But once a con, always a suspect: the law frames him for the crime and sends him to the Big House. Just don't expect Duke Berne to be on the inside long.

A broadway nightclub waiter falls in love with a crippled singer who selfishly accepts his help without loving him in return.

Johnny Columbo was just a boy in 1900 New York when a gang of extortionists known as the Black Hand murdered his father. Now Johnny's a grown man eager for vengeance.

A smooth-talking hood rakes in the dough selling unwanted babies to childless couples in this searing exposé that's lost none of its power to shock.

A railroad crossing. A stranded car. A beautiful blonde – unconscious. Moody scientist Jim Grayam rescues the lovely Lorrie, only to learn that she's his boss' wife! She wants out of the marriage, but her cruel, controlling husband Cort won't let her go. After Grayam and Lorrie embark on a torrid affair, he hatches the perfect plan: kill Cort while faking insanity to avoid a murder rap!

The Bribe starts with a storm and ends with fireworks – fitting bookends for a crime thriller full of passion, greed and double crosses. The story revolves around a war-surplus racket operated from an island off the Central American coast, where federal agent Robert Taylor runs into the only thing steamier than the weather: Ava Gardner.

When a young wife accustomed to champagne and caviar finds married life means weenies and beans, The Bride Walks Out. This brisk, engaging comedy asks "Can love conquer all – especially on a $35-a-week budget?" And, of course, through bills and battles, quarrels and quirks, the answer is "yes."

When the 19th Cavalry Regiment trades in its horses for tanks, no one is more upset than First Sgt. Hap Doan, who loves his mount more than he does his gal Susie. Promising to retire and take the horse with him, Hap goes AWOL after a runaway tank fatally injures his steed. Dishonorably discharged, a disgruntled Hap soon finds himself mixed up with spies in a sinister plot to blow up his units new tanks.

In this remake of Bachelor Mother, Debbie Reynolds is warmly appealing in the role originated by Ginger Rogers, playing a salesgirl who picks up a foundling, is mistaken for its unwed mother and must keep up the charade.

When Trace Jordan discovers his brother dead – shot in the back – Jordan devotes himself to a quest for revenge against the ruthless cattle baron who murdered his brother...which becomes a desperate flight for survival as he changes from hunter to hunted. But Jordan finds love – and a reason to live – in a girl named Maria.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. But when in WWII-era Cairo, do as the spies do! Into that teeming viper's nest stumbles affable American Homer Smith, a reporter who aims to get the story, get it right and, above all, get it first. Trouble is, some folks are out to get Homer first! Cairo is the movie – and the place – for songs, cloak-and-dagger fun and great movie in-jokes.

Where in blazes is "Smoky" Callaway? The onetime B-Western singing star is riding high via TV airings of his old flicks, but he's been missing for a decade. If he doesn't turn up soon, promotional whiz kids Mike and Deborah will lose their meal ticket. So they turn up the next best thing, Colorado cowpoke "Stretch" Barnes, an uncanny lookalike who fills Smoky's boots surprisingly well. But the humble hick could be headed for a fall when the real Smoky returns.

One brave act and the spell is broken! The specter of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted Canterville Castle for 300 years, ever since he was walled up alive for cowardice. A daring deed by a kinsman will free his spirit. Unfortunately, the Cantervilles are a timorous lot and Simon is out of luck. Then World War II GIs are billeted at the castle and among them is Canterville descendent Cuffy Williams. But could Cuffy be cursed with the family lily liver?

James Cagney stars in this WWII adventure about mail flyer who joins the Canadian Air Force for fun but finds himself having to prove his worth when he goes to war.

John Garfield plays a hardened crook behind bars who comes up against a reform minded warden. Trouble erupts when John's character encounters the man responsible for his imprisonment.

Aggie Hurley is making up for a lifetime of making do. Her daughter Jane is going to have a lavish wedding – even if Jane wants a simple ceremony. And even if Aggie's husband Tom must give up his dream of owning his own taxi to finance the extravaganza.

Lauren Bacall, Richard Widmark and silent screen legend Lillian Gish star in this searing drama about life inside a psychiatric hospital. A simple disagreement over a choice of drapes in the hospital library sparks long-held tensions between staff members into a crisis that spreads to patients of the hospital.

Beautiful Austrian political refugee "Johnny" Jones is about to be deported, leaving the loving arms of a married Manhattan publisher for the waiting arms of the Nazis. The solution: instant citizenship via a marriage of convenience with flat-broke writer Bill Smith, in which the only thing they'll share is the same last name.

7th cavalry doctor Capt. Robert MacClaw is unexpectedly handed the reins of his battered troop's command. Unfamiliar with by-the-book military tactics, MacClaw nevertheless knows how to take charge. He keeps the book closed and his mind open as he leads his men and a settlers' wagon train on a desperate journey besieged by waves of Indian attacks.

Two-fisted mercenary Vincent Price descends deep into the bowels of Chinatown in a daring attempt to break up a human trafficking ring in this delirious pulp action adventure.

Charles Boyer and Lauren Bacall star as an anti-Fascist agent in the Spanish Civil War and the woman with whom he falls in love as she helps defend him from murderous undercover Fascists in London.

Richard Mason is married to nagging Katherine, but in love with her sunny sister. Shortly after a fifth-year wedding celebration at the home of a friend, Richard decides to remove the obstacle to his happiness. He kills Katherine, carefully leaving no evidence of his guilt. Or at least he thinks he killed her – until mysterious events cause Richard to fear Katherine is very much alive.

After committing an act of sabotage against the Nazis, Vincent Van Der Lyn escapes to neutral Portugal, where he enlists in the underground resistance under the leadership of Ricardo Quintanilla. Tasked by Quitanilla with uncovering a traitor, Vincent soon finds himself being fitted for a frame while falling for the secretive Irene. And the Nazis are closing in...

Joan Fontaine delivers one of her finest performances playing Tessa, a teenaged free spirit locked in battle with her complicated, sophisticated cousin Florence (Alexis Smith) over the love of Lewis (Charles Boyer), an impoverished, gifted composer.

Bette Davis stars as a schoolteacher determined to help the people of a turn-of-the-century Welsh mining town. Discouraged by students who don't believe knowledge will help them, a mine owner who wants to keep his workers illiterate and a local squire who doubts the villagers can improve their lives, the teacher begins to doubt that she can help. But then she discovers a young miner with a talent for writing and thirst for knowledge.

A wife discovers her husband has spent his war years serving his country and girlfriends in this spirited romantic comedy.

A killer escapes from prison and will stop at nothing to pull off a massive counterfeiting scheme, including blackmailing a reformed forger into resuming his criminal career.

After a train wreck sends art critic George Steele into a mental tailspin, he's fired from his job at a New York art museum. Seems unjust – until you learn there was no train wreck. This relentless, nervy film noir explores the sinister world of violence and the monied world of aesthetics as Steele's attempt to reconstruct what really happened leads him to murder, mania and an international conspiracy that threatens the museum's masterpieces.

Robert Ryan and Stewart Granger clash over a secret too dangerous to keep in this breathless tale of corruption and intrigue based on the novel by Morris L. West.

One of the first Hollywood films to explore bigotry follows the story of three World War II soldiers who become suspects in the murder of a Jewish hotel guest.

With a lovely new bride and a diplomatic appointment imminent, David Talbot sees his life on an upswing – if he is really David Talbot. Blackmailers say he is actually a murderer and thief named Jean Pelletier.

Boxer Tommy "Killer" McCoy can duck from a punch but one thing he can't dodge is bookies rigging matches. On the night of his biggest fight, he's supposed to take a dive. If he doesn't, he may never again see his father or the woman he loves alive.

A tale of courage and camaraderie featuring an all-female credited cast. Margaret Sullavan portrays an overworked head nurse guiding an inexperienced staff of civilian volunteers: a burlesque queen, a waitress, a Southern belle, a socialite and more.

A sudden death. Cries in the night. A locked laboratory in a windswept mansion. Sandra, a recent widow, visits her husband's family for the first time and finds herself drawn to a man she knows she should fear: her husband's remote, controlling uncle. He seems to know secrets about the eerie cries, the laboratory and why his nephew was buried in a closed coffin. Can Sandra uncover the truth before a second death occurs?

The stars and director of Four Daughters reunite for another tender Golden Era classic about love, loyalty and the sustaining strength of family. This time, the story revolves around a father who returns 20 years after abandoning his wife and daughters, just in time to warn his youngest against throwing her happiness away on a footloose charmer just like Dad.

Gregory Peck began his rapid rise to stardom playing a steely guerrilla leader preparing for a desperate mission he knows he and his band of fighters cannot survive. Acclaimed dancer Tamara Toumanova also makes her film debut, portraying a beautiful ballerina who joins the resistance, igniting a poignant love story in the midst of action, suspense and heroic sacrifice.

Shoshone tribesman and Civil War hero Lance Poole returns home with a Congressional Medal of Honor on his chest and a saddlebag full of dreams about prospering as a cattleman on his family's land. But American Indians have no citizenship or property rights. The courts, despite the efforts of Lance's attorney, offer no remedy. Lance and his people must fight to keep their land.

Michael Corday has his medical degree from Harvard and is ready to begin his internship at NYC's Bellevue. His proud father, a noted surgeon, counsels him to make his own career a priority. "Be impersonal and aloof," he says. "Your patients are merely cases." The advice sticks...for a while. Michael's transition from cold professional to caring physician provides the compassionate core of this tale accented with vivid location filming.

Tuberculosis. Diphtheria. Syphilis. Ehrlich's work led to medical breakthroughs in each. But other foes blocked his battle against the last of these plagues: scientists who naysayed his progressive formulations. Edward G. Robinson stars in this true story of the German scientist who devoted his life to research.

Glenn Ford, stars as a lieutenant with a knack for PR activities like placating big shots, calming romantic waters, deflating puffed-up journalists and puffing a profane-mouthed gob into the public's idea of the perfect enlisted man.

Yul Brynner brings a commanding presence and a brooding resolve to the role of CIA agent Dan Slater. The action unfolds in the scenic Tyrolean Alps, where Slater shows up after the reported skiing-accident death of his son.

Appointed peace commissioner by President Grant, Indian fighter Johnny MacKay is sent to the south Oregon border to deal with the renegade Modoc Indian chief, Captain Jack. A warrior who honors no treaties, Jack is determined to drive out the settlers, a decision that leads to ambushes, massacres and Johnny`s new orders: Bring in the Captain, dead or alive.

After doing time for a crime he didn't commit and busting rock on a work farm after he's picked up for vagrancy, young Joe Bell figures the cards are stacked against him. Then a showdown with his sadistic foreman ends in the older man's accidental death. So Joe makes a run for it with the foreman's pretty stepdaughter. And waits for Fate to deal the cards one last time.

Mama Lorenzo's boys grew up tough on the bustling New York streets. Nick (William Lundigan) set his course for a decent life and got a summa cum laude degree. Joe (John Garfield), mixed up in crime, got three years in a penitentiary. Now Joe has come back to Mama and the old neighborhood. He has his check-kiting girlfriend Laurie with him and some scores to settle – and he never imagines his girl will soon be drawn to the decent life and to Nick.

In 1936, Mark Preysing comes to Germany in search of his mother, a famed actress who, unknown to him, lies ill in a concentration camp awaiting execution. During his desperate hunt, Mark meets an American-born countess, who slowly grows aware of the great evil corrupting her adopted country. Together they attempt to rescue Mark's mother, even though doing so could cost them their lives.

Music is everything to composer Sebastian Dubrok – until two women enter his life: the spirited, penniless single mother who stirs his conscience, and his brother's beautiful fiancée, who captures his heart.

Director Jacques Tourneur brings his celebrated mastery of shadowy menace to this absorbing tale of madness and murder in an outwardly genteel world of wealth. Follow Dr. Bailey as he searches for the truth, but don't believe everything you're told.

Gunman gone good George and his wife Dora are trying to live a peaceful life. But George's gunslinging ways are legendary – and attract the attention of other gunmen who feel up for a challenge. The couple moves to a new town in the hopes of finally finding a normal life. When George gets drunk and spills the beans, can he and Dora trust the townfolk to keep their secret?

A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway moves with his wife, Julie, to New York where he plans to publish a book on the subject. Meeting with publisher Elliott Morgan, who falls head over heels for Julie, John is assigned to his assistant Nellie, who only has eyes for her boss. Working closely with Nellie, who Julie thinks is after her husband, John continues his high-minded ways while his angry spouse schemes to make him so jealous he'll knock Elliott's block clean off.

Tonie Carter, a competitive aviatrix loosely modeled after Amelia Earhart, indomitably pushes the aerial envelope, winging from champion racer to distance record-breaker with the ambitious goal of around-the-world solo flight. Fred MacMurray and Herbert Marshall play the men whose devotion to Tonie is overshadowed by her love of the skies. That love will lead to perilous espionage and a then-timely scenario to explain one of history's most mysterious vanishings.

Surrounded by hostile Comanches, frontier widow Celia Gray knows the only hope she and her little boy have is to escape to Fort Dobbs. Their escort is Gar Davis, a strapping stranger who clearly has something to hide. Celia fears she knows his secret: he's the man who murdered her husband.

Four Daughters. Four Wives. Four Mothers. The popular film series comes to an end with this laughter-touched melodrama that welcomes fans to one last visit with the Lemp family. The four Lemp sisters have faced triumph and tragedy together. Now the years of struggle seem to be over – until a real estate investment brings financial disaster to them and their town.

In 1938 the Lemps won hearts as a family that shares an unshakeable bond in Four Daughters. In 1939 they were back for another tender drama of everyday life. This time, all the sisters wed and joyfully prepare for tears and laughter of motherhood.

The gangster grew up tough, got tougher with the years. Now slicker, smarter criminals are moving in. He prided himself on his control of any situation but realizes he may not be tough enough as self-confidence becomes the unfamiliar emotion of fear.

Errol Flynn stars in this fun-filled biography of 19th-century boxing champion Jim Corbett.

Money and privilege have paved life's path for frat boy Andy. But Andy's pinned sweetie Susan, weary of his irresponsible ways, calls off their romance. Andy goes into a funk, flunks out of college and ends up in the arms of Uncle Sam. Will the double impact of Susan and boot camp make a man out of him?

Don't call her Miss...call her Doctor. The early career of New York's first female hospital intern is the compelling subject of this biopic from the screenwriters of Johnny Belinda based on Emily Dunning Barringer's memoir.

Six P-40 fighters come shrieking out of the sun, guns blazing. They're outnumbered and outgunned by the 18 enemy Zeros below them. But they won't be outfought. Wartime history and action entertainment soar in this high-flying and enormously popular World War II-era spirit-lifter based on the bestseller by fighter pilot Col. Robert Lee Scott, Jr.

What is that strange animal 12-year-old Skeeter spied in the Mississippi swamp? It looks like a dog. But it laughs – even cries real tears – instead of barking. Skeeter brings it home – and into the best adventure a boy could ever have.

Who killed showgirl Mida King in a private railway car in New York's Grand Central Station? The suspect list is plenty: Marc, the rich boy who loved her? His spurned fiancée? Her gangster ex-boyfriend Turk? In this witty and fun mystery, it is up to private eye "Rocky" Custer (Van Heflin) to piece together the puzzle of who went far enough in their anger to murder Mida.

Set in 19th-century Europe and New Zealand, this sweeping romance tells the story of two beautiful sisters, one headstrong and one gentle, and of the man who marries one even though he loves the other.

Adventurer Rian Mitchell finds a vein of emeralds – which could lead to riches beyond his dreams – and discovers love when he meets the woman who owns the coffee plantation on the slopes of the mountain that holds the gems. But when mining operations threaten to destroy her coffee plantation, Mitchell must choose between the woman he loves and the wealth he craves.

When an esteemed but aging surgeon makes a fatal mistake in the operating room, an idealistic young physician – moved by the older man's torment – takes the blame. It is a decision that will change his life forever.

Live by the gun, die by the gun? "Depends on what kind of shot you are," fast-drawing Tom Early says. Folks in an emerging frontier community in 1880s Wyoming Territory want nothing to do with Early's kind of six-shooter justice. But he may be the only one who can stop cattlemen from destroying the town.

Jim Hadley has a government grant to cut timber near the high-country town of Deep Well, and that's what he and his callous lumbermen insist they'll do. But the townspeople, knowing the ruinous watershed destruction that follows such clear-cutting, resist Hadley setting in motion a clash of wills and force.

Astronomer Bill Whitley is so absorbed by his discovery of a comet that he scarcely notices the heavenly body close at hand, the one that belongs to his gorgeous wife Vicky. When an astrologer tells Vicky she'll meet her dream man in two weeks, the neglected wife greets the news with eager anticipation. Bill scoffs – until a handsome air raid warden shows about just before midnight on day 14!

Once friendly rivals, Naval airmen Windy Riker and Steve Nelson are now the bitterest of enemies. Stationed on the USS Saratoga, the two battle over planes, dames and who's top gun in their squad. But when Steve crashes on a rocky island and badly shatters his leg, Windy risks his life to save his ex-friend, a rescue mission from which they may never return.

"You must stay between him and me always. Always!" Love-struck Consuelo Croyden can't trust herself around dashing Tony Barling. So she hires songwriter Terry Trindale, who's just as nuts about her as she is about Tony, to pose as her beau – and step in when Tony's charms make Consuelo forget she's a lady.

Adrift in the Pacific after their plane is shot down, WWII airmen Alec Brooke and Joe Moore battle thirst and increasing desperation. To keep their spirits up, Alec weaves a story for Joe, his own story of daring boyhood adventures, of the pretty girl he left behind and of his ne`er-do-well uncle's tall tales of the uncharted island of High Barbaree.

Steven Kenet says he killed his wife, but even he doesn't really know. A wartime head trauma has left him subject to disorientations and blackouts. So Kenet enters a psych ward where, the DA asserts, he'll hide behind the wall of an insanity plea. But truth cannot hide. And Kenet – assisted by ward doctor Ann Lorrison – is driven to find that truth.

Need a vacation? Then head south of the border for a Holiday in Mexico and say hola! to love, comedy, brilliant color and glorious music. This tale of an ambassador's teenage daughter smitten with a world-renowned and much older musician features couples young and not so young, music hot and haute and a cascade of romantic complications as everyone is confused by exactly who loves whom.

Robert Taylor and Nicole Maurey set a course for intrigue and romance in this mystery-adventure about a charter boat captain entangled in a murder investigation and a search for buried treasure!

A heartwarming look at family and friendship, The Human Comedy is the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley (Mickey Rooney) and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II.

Laura Mead insists she didn't do the crime. But she did the time, swearing she would murder the incompetent attorney who represented her at her jewel-theft trial. Not long after her release from prison, the attorney's gunned-down body is found. Laura flees. Tracking her is a detective Laura had also threatened with death: Johnny Saxon, who years back had arrested her for the jewel theft and who once loved – perhaps even still loves – her.

Something is driving beautiful women into grotesque acts of self-mutilation and the police investigation leads to a debonair stage hypnotist and his glamorous assistant.

Melvin Hoover is a bumbler (except when he's dancing on skates), a workaday go-fer for Look magazine (except when he fakes being a big-time photog) and in love (without exception) with Broadway chorine Judy LeRoy. Melvin convinces Judy he can send her star aloft by putting her on the cover of Look. Now he has to make it happen!

With a lilting "Tira Lira La," a bevy of Budapest beauties show up for the birthday celebration of the town's most eligible bachelor, Count Palaffi (Nelson Eddy). Weary of their scheming attentions, the wealthy playboy slips away and dreams the fanciful escape of I Married An Angel. That angel is Jeanette MacDonald, starring with Eddy for the eighth time. The two stars are delightful as ever, harmonizing the Rodgers and Hart title tune and more in heavenly fashion.

Dr. Karl Decker is devoted to the poor patients who fill his East Side clinic – until he saves Georgi Gragore from flinging herself into the sea. He falls in love with the well-bred beauty, and takes up an unfulfilling practice among Manhattan's elite to support her in style. Georgi is grateful for his sacrifice and his love – but can't help longing for the man whose betrayal drove her to attempt suicide.

Knuckles Morgan is not the kind of goon you want to meet on a dark street after midnight. But that's just what happens to law-abiding citizen Joe Downey. Mistaken for one of Knuckles' gangland rivals, Joe is beaten and left for the cops to pick up. Afterward, Joe and his girlfriend begin a perilous hunt to find his look-alike – a hunt that crosses paths with a predatory blonde who has a penchant for stolen fur coats and a connection to murder.

No more loneliness. Shy, plain Ellen Bowker has found unexpected fulfillment as the bride of handsome Dan Pierce. What she doesn't know is that Dan was bought and paid for by Ellen's wealthy father, who wants his fatally ill daughter to experience romance before she dies.

Debbie Reynolds stars with Glenn Ford as a beautiful, impetuous New York showgirl who dreams of marrying a rich man, but who marries a virtually penniless Air Force officer on a whim, then puts their love to the test in this romantic comedy.

When Broadway star Georgia Drake heads for Honolulu to prepare for her latest show, her daughter Pam wins the lead in the same production, unaware the role was also assigned to her mother. Setting sail to Hawaii, where the teenager hopes Georgia will coach her, Pam meets John Arlen, a millionaire she mistakenly believes is in love with her. Pam decides to give up the stage for John, a man who's twice her age and madly in love with her mom.

Gene Kelly, Dan Dailey, and Michael Kidd star as three WWII comrades who meet again during a ten-year reunion only to discover they have nothing in common.

A simple barmaid named Joan (Michele Morgan) sacrifices her own safety to help five fugitive British airmen escape from France.

The city prosecutor's daughter knows Johnny is bad news – and, oh, how she'd love to be bad. Johnny uses everybody in a scheme to secure his crime empire and revenge himself against the city prosecutor who once put him behind bars.

War correspondent John Davis faces drama every day: London aflame from German bombs and the personal sorrow that he and his wife can never have a child of their own. Then John meets Margaret and Peter, two traumatized war orphans who need him as much as he needs something to make his life whole.

When ambitious attorney Jerry Ladimer (Lee Bowman) makes a deal with a gangster for future political favors, his first order of business is to kill the DA, a reformer who vowed to wipe out the rackets.

The boy Kim knows how to scrounge up a hot meal in India's bustling cities, how to scamper catlike across rooftops, and disguise himself as a local and conceal his Anglo heritage. To Kim, these are just ways to be free. To colonial British intelligence, they're skills it knows will be useful when it makes Kim a spy.

Hafiz, the King of Beggars, dons new garments and slips into the royal palace to woo his regal Lady while Bagdad's new Caliph posing as a gardener's son roams the city – and falls in love with a peasant girl who happens to be Hafiz's daughter.

Vincente Minnelli directs this musical film version of the acclaimed Broadway production about a Baghdad poet who charms his way into the Wazir's harem.

A perky tenant (Jane Wyman) shows the uptight new owner of her apartment house (David Niven) that both the building and his personal life are badly in need of repair.

Ginger Rogers won an Academy Award for her dramatic portrayal of a white collar woman whose life is beset by troubles, including an affair with a married man and the death of her child.

When a Cuban man is killed on a New York street, the investigation leads to Havana and the man running an alien smuggling ring. The immigration detective assigned to the case in Havana poses as a Hungarian refugee to infiltrate the ring.

The fastest man with a handgun this side of Abilene, middle-aged marshal Dan Blaine is about to have his reputation tested...again. Riding into town is Lot McGuire, a young gunman of blinding speed who doesn't want to live his life thinking he's second best. And while Blaine's girlfriend would rather he avoid a showdown, the marshal refuses to back down, knowing a gunslinger who's not the best at what he does is a dead man anyway.

Like father like son. Gang kingpin Joe Krozac looks forward to the day his now-infant son will walk in his bloody footsteps and run his crime racket. The Feds have other ideas. They convict Joe of tax evasion and put him behind triple-steel bars for 10 years. During that time, Joe's wife divorces him, builds a reputable new life in another city with a new husband, raises her son and fears the day Joe may find them. He does.

While Cliff and Laurie Henderson are enjoying an ocean cruise with their daughter, Jill, one of the main boilers in the aging liner explodes. Over the chief engineer's recommendation to shut down and inspect for damage, the captain orders his crew to keep the vessel moving – an order that will doom his ship and cost his life and the lives of his passengers and crew.

Why should the rich have all the wealth? From London to Monte Carlo to San Remo to Shanghai, lady's maid Jane Hoskins is out to grab her share of the good life. Passing herself off as noblewoman Lady Loverly and teaming with an accomplice who sometimes poses as a butler, she uses beauty and guile to fleece the well-to-do. But during a stay at the home of a prominent San Francisco doyenne, the lady's feelings for a Spanish royal may cause her scheme's silken strings to unravel.

When a naïve young actress is chosen to star in a biopic of film goddess Lylah Clare, who died under mysterious circumstances on her wedding night, she becomes consumed by the identity of the dead star.

Lily James, an ambitious young woman from the Midwest comes to New York to make it as a model. On her first day in town, she's befriended by Mary Ashlon, an aging former cover girl whose despair haunts Lily as she struggles to the top. Once she's made it, Lily believes she's transcended her friend's fate – but then she falls hard for a married man and her path begins to look much like Mary's.

Meg Johnson is eager to discover the glories of Italy with her beautiful daughter Clara, who was mentally impaired in a childhood accident. But Clara discovers love – with an ardent Italian who mistakes her limitations for charming naiveté.

A woman who was denied the locket in childhood now turns her charms on man after man as she plots jewel theft after jewel theft – and theft ultimately leads to murder. The film's intricate use of flashbacks has earned it cult status.

Ex-President Andrew Jackson recruits cattleman Devereaux Burke to travel through hostile Indian land, find Texas hero Sam Houston and persuade him to support annexation.

She plays the cello. He plays the field. She's coltishly young. He's worldly and mature. Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane knows she's not like millionaire American playboy Frank Flanagan. But if she pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as he is, maybe the magic of l'amour will take hold.

The young daughter of a small-town physician, who is already under suspicion for the deaths of his wife and sister-in-law, mysteriously disappears.

Melodrama expert Frank Borzage directs, composing glamorous close-ups of his femme star in this heart-tuggger about a Hester Street girl, her con-artist hubby and the shipping magnate smitten by the slum girl. It's a rags-to-riches-to-love's-truer-riches tale.

When quiet, Midwesterner Orfamy Quest (Sharon Farrell) hires Marlowe (James Garner) to find her brother, what should be a simple case for the detective quickly becomes a dangerous game of cat and mouse pulling Marlowe into Los Angeles' seamy gangster underworld.

Tony Randall plays a stuffy tax auditor who comes to ferret out wealth on a small farm before falling for the owner's daughter who changes his mind about his mission there.

A slick nightclub owner (King Kong veteran Robert Armstrong) discovers the giant ape frolicking in Africa as the beloved pet of a young girl (Terry Moore). He brings both to Hollywood as a floor-show sensation, until some no-goods ply Joe with booze and the blitzed behemoth goes bonkers.

Robert Mitchum and Ava Gardner are star-crossed lovers in this steamy tale of a woman scorned, set in 1890s New Orleans.

Seven-year-old Phillippa "Flip" Gayley wants a family – her own. So she plots to get her divorced parents, who love her (and secretly each other), back to the altar. Will she succeed? Never underestimate the power of a precocious seven-year-old!

That voice on the radio, claiming to be God? Must be a prank by a kid on his ham radio. Or maybe it's something by Orson Welles. Or perhaps the Russkies have a secret transmitter. The Smiths of suburban Los Angeles – husband Joe, wife Mary and son Johnny find their lives challenged by the mysterious radio encounters in this movie parable.

In a bleak mansion on a cliff above the sea on Florida's east coast, two people meet: a scientist haunted by incurable illness and a beautiful woman haunted by the voice of her dead husband. An eerie drama steeped in faith, fear, jealousy and love.

Down-and-out Londoner Ernie Mott makes the best of things – finding love here, dabbling in crime there. Still, there's a core of decency in Ernie. But a world of poverty and despair has little use for decency.

A respected doctor fakes his death, deserts his family, throws away his career and drives himself to the edge of madness – all for the love of saloon singer Nora Prentiss.

Oscar-nominated film about American paratroopers who land in Burma and attempt to take out a strategic Japanese outpost. Errol Flynn, stars in this moving and explosive World War II production.

Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney star as two men on opposite sides of the law – the villainous Whip McCord and the man who's come to clean up the town, The Oklahoma Kid.

An endearing and quietly rhapsodic slice of Americana about a single year among the Norwegian immigrants in a Wisconsin farm town. Told from the viewpoint of little Selma, the film explores grand childhood adventures: making friends, a pet calf, Christmas, a terrifying trip down a flood-swollen river, a barn fire and a ride on a circus elephant's trunk.

Working-class dreamers Jonah and Olaf fish the Brooklyn waters and ponder their glorious plan: buy a big boat and head for sunny Cuba. Then an amoral gangster puts the squeeze on the few bucks they've saved and puts the moves on Jonah's daughter, a restless good girl who'd just as soon be bad. And the two friends, the two gentle souls, begin a new plan: murder.

Folks headed from Santa Fe to St. Louis by wagon train trust the riders escorting them, tough hombres who fought off an Indian attack. Yet they are really Confederate soldiers leading the wagon train and its cargo of Union gold into a Rebel ambush.

Set in 1930s Chicago, Party Girl follows a bum-legged mouthpiece for the mob (Robert Taylor) and a gorgeous, wised-up vamp (Cyd Charisse) who fall in love, try to go straight – and head straight for trouble.

In 1620, a group of religious outcasts boarded the Mayflower in England and set sail for the New World, where they founded a tiny wilderness outpost that was the genesis for what would become the United States of America. This is their thrilling story, a tale of hardship and devotion, of storms, hunger and disease faced and defied.

Who has the power to control minds, move objects, and murder by telekinesis? Scientists at a space lab want to know when they realize they are targeted by one of their own – someone who possesses a superhuman power and a terrifying secret agenda.

Oscar-nominated story based upon the real-life U.S. Marine Al Schmid who was blinded while fighting the Japanese and struggled to adapt to civilian life.

Top writers, scientists and leaders converge annually on Stockholm to take part in the awarding of the prestigious Nobel Prizes. This year, however, some honorees will find the great event eclipsed by a greater challenge: staying alive.

During the reign of 15th century France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf. The plan goes awry when the young man falls in love with her.

Robert Montgomery and George Sanders team-up to play against type in this probing psychological thriller that features Ingrid Bergman as the object of their obsessions.

World-renowned big game trapper Harry Stanton is commissioned by a German zoo to capture The Enchantress; a mythical Malaysian beast purported to be half-tiger/half-leopard, and finds himself teamed with the venerable but aging hunter Otto Abbott and his seductive young mistress Anna.

When self-made millionaire David Stannard's son is kidnapped, the industrialist makes novel, controversial and violent use of the ransom. To Stannard the money is irrelevant, but when he realizes that paying the kidnappers will not guarantee his son's safety, he goes on nationwide television to announce that he will not pay the men who have taken his son; instead, he offers millions to anyone who can return his son unharmed and help capture the kidnappers.

In this action-packed Western, a cattleman is swindled out of his ranch by his conniving wife. While organizing homesteaders against her, however, he finds a new romance.

Real war hero Audie Murphy stars as a young Union soldier who fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War.

Real-life marrieds Dick Powell and June Allyson get tangled up with love, politics and two lions in a fast-paced farce written and directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.

It's social season in London, and amid the swirl of coming-out balls the aristocratic Broadbents are intent on giving their American-educated 17-year-old daughter Jane the right entry into society and a proper upper-class beau. One complication: flighty Mabel Claremont is eager to match that same beau with her daughter. And another: Jane, of course, has her own ideas about these matters – and an eye for a guy who's a drummer in the dance band.

Elizabeth Taylor strives for sweet harmony as a privileged woman who must choose between the two musicians she loves. As events and emotions unfold the inevitable conflict arises: which man does she truly love?

A mysterious map holds the key to billions of dollars' worth of crude oil, and some men will stop at nothing to possess it. Pat O'Brien stars as the hard-boiled, Panama-based private eye Dan Hammer, caught in the middle of a dangerous web of murder and intrigue.

World champion boxer Johnny Monterez has had 84 fights – never knocked out, knocked down only once – but he's begun to worry. A hand injury has him thinking his championship days are numbered. And he's resentful and concerned about making his way in what he calls the "gringo world." So Johnny makes a rash move, dumping his longtime promoter for another's promise of a secure future.

This poignant love story is set in the post-Civil War Ozarks, where folks are still divided blue versus gray. When an ex-soldier comes to the troubled town wearing military britches so faded no one can tell the original color, he gets the locals all riled up – especially when he courts the daughter of an ex-Johnny Reb who reckons he may be a damned Yankee!

What do you call a cowboy with his brains kicked out? A bronc rider. Ben Jones and Howdy Lewis, heaven help them, are bronc riders. Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda portray the pair who are cowboy enough to do just about any job, except for the one at hand.

An all-star cast brings the dramatic story of Joan of Arc to the big screen. A French teenage girl is inspired by divine intervention to lead the King's armies to victory.

Wallace Beery stars in this patriotic World War II drama about a tough retired Marine who is caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign, experiencing action, heroics, and tragedy. Gruff Sergeant Bailey has never actually been in combat, but when the Japanese invade, the untested leader finally sees battle, ironically as a civilian in charge of organizing the citizens' withdrawal.

Legendary Hollywood screen pair Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon team for the ninth and last time in this heart-tugging Technicolor drama. Set in Ontario, Canada, the story centers on Victoria and Patrick McChesney, whose decision to adopt an orphaned Catholic girl ignites controversy in their Protestant community.

It takes a spy to catch a spy in this rousing Revolutionary War adventure. When top-secret military information is recovered from the body of a spy, American counter-intelligence officer Major John Bolton realizes there's a highly placed turncoat in the ranks. Posing as a deserter, Bolton plays a dangerous game as he pretends to work for the British while attempting to ferret out the traitor's name.

A hard-bitten plainclothes policeman will stop at nothing to find the murderer of a fellow policeman. Lieutenant Mike Conovan disobeys his by-the-book superiors and risks destroying his marriage in his one-man quest to bring a killer to justice.

In post-WW II Germany, a small boy who survived Auschwitz wanders alone – feral, mute and terrified. He finds a makeshift home with a big-hearted GI, while the mother he does not remember searches desperately for him. The Search vividly captures the horrifying human cost of war.

Widow Lee Addams is concerned about her stepdaughter Penny. She knows Penny hides a secret heart, twisted by her fixation with her dead father. At a family holiday at the Addams' farm Penny finds a new obsession: her stepmother's devoted beau.

Respected newspaperman Haven D. Allridge goes after the vicious petty Napoleon who holds a small town in his corrupt grasp. In the midst of his campaign to expose the crook, Allridge suddenly skips town. Is he a sellout, or has his crusade led him into a sinister trap?

In one of the finest performances of his career, Tony Randall plays the part of a mysterious Chinese doctor named Lao who rides into a small western town with his circus and changes the lives of all who come to see it. Lao assumes many disguises, some so extraordinary that Mr. Randall is completely unrecognizable.

Hoping to leave the daily bump 'n' grind behind, gorgeous Gertie (Mayo) enrolls at Midwest State, where she proceeds to complicate the lives of a handsome theater arts professor (Reagan), Midwest's star quarterback (Gene Nelson) and jealous rival "Poison" Ivy Williams (Patrice Wymore). It takes a smash-hit student musical, featuring tunes by Sammy Cahn and Vernon Duke, to put everything right.

An ocean of adventure awaits as Sinbad (Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.) seeks the fabled lost treasure of Alexander the Great.

Louise is a most appealing type of person, a warm, intelligent woman who loses her heart to a charming ne'er-do-well who marries, then deserts her. It takes the pandemonium of the San Francisco earthquake and two years of heartache to reunite them.

When Peggy Evans of Hotchkiss Falls gets a makeover, she does more than change from brunette to blonde. She gets a whole new life, resurfacing in New York City, and passing herself off as Carole Burden, long-lost amnesiac child of a millionaire.

Pearl Harbor is about to be bombed and crack reporter Jonny Davis has just returned from the Pacific. At his old rooming house, Davis meets fellow reporter Paula Lane, a girl he once knew who never got over him. Now, she's involved with Davis's clean-cut younger brother Kirk. But Paula wasn't meant to settle, and Jonny's passion for her is equally fervent. Hoping he'll forget her, Jonny persuades Paula to take an assignment in Indochina. But she disappears there – and Jonny and Kirk are sent to search for her. What they find changes everything.

The music, composed long ago, still speaks to us. It reaches out to tell us of profound struggles and great genius, of aching setbacks and glorious triumphs, of three people whose names, like their music, echo across the years: Clara Wieck, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms. The intertwined lives of the three musical legends form A Song of Love, a sumptuously produced and skillfully played biopic set to 11 musical pieces that include Schumann's poignant Arabeske, Brahms' tender Lullaby and the Mephisto Waltz of Franz Liszt.

When phony $10 bills flood the country, the Treasury Department recognizes the work of imprisoned counterfeiter Eugene Deane, a master engraver who smuggled the plates out of his San Quentin cell. Assigned to take down the ring, undercover agent John Riggs follows the money trail to a Los Angeles hotel, where he romances manager Nora Craig, the next link in the chain.

The scourge of the seas! After escaping unjust imprisonment, a Dutch trader transforms himself into the feared pirate the "Barracuda."

A minister and his small-town Southern congregation find the inner strength to lay down arms and rebuild their lives and their town after the devastation of the United States Civil War.

A bank worker (Joseph Cotten) steals cash from the bank on Friday and, to keep his wife (Teresa Wright) from leaving must return the money before it is discovered missing on Monday.

Bette Davis portrays twin sisters Kate and Pat: the first good and the other, if not exactly evil, a vain vixen who's landed the husband Kate wanted. When Pat drowns, Kate grabs her chance to steal her sister's identity – and husband.

It doesn't take Boston physician Julia Garth long to experience the genuine West after she arrives in dusty Santa Fe to set up practice.

A reporter discovers a murder but via his well-meaning testimony in the corrupt legal system ends up condemning an innocent ex-con. While guiltily investigating the crime further on his own, the journalist eventually finds himself suspected in a second killing.

James Cagney stars as a dentist in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn who marries out of spite when his childhood sweetheart is betrothed to his rival. Believing he married the wrong woman, he changes his mind when he discovers his true feelings for his wife.

Prince Karl is in love – with a barmaid! The ways of the heart clash with the mandates of state-arranged marriage. Ann Blyth is the Heidelberg sweetheart the prince meets during what is supposed to be a final revelry before his royal wedding.

Grace Kelly is gloriously, glamorously regal in this retelling of Ferenc Molnar's romantic fable about a shy princess whose head tells her to wed a worldly Crown Prince, but whose heart is drawn to a dashing commoner.

Young screen talents and actual wartime footage combine in this saga of thundering tanks and determined Yanks in the World War II push across France, from a story by the master of war movie realism, Samuel Fuller.

To trace the history of naval aviation and the development of the aircraft carrier, writer/director Delmer Daves expertly weaves drama with documentary. The resulting film superbly captures both the human story and the real, harrowing experience of war. Told in flashback, Task Force stars Gary Cooper in a wide-ranging performance taking him from brash young aviator to command of an aircraft carrier.

A race-against-time thriller! Glenn Ford plays a bomb disposal expert called on to find an incendiary device hidden on a train carrying military explosives.

When Mary Connell the innocent young wife of a notorious gangster suddenly becomes a young widow, she tries to improve herself but finds her past hard to escape.

Gerald Meldrick (Clark Gable) and Anya Von Duren (Rosalind Russell) have a lot in common. They're both jewel thieves. And they're both after the same rock, the fabulous Star of Asia. So they team up – in crime, in love, and in comic adventure.

A pretty schoolgirl is murdered. An ambitious prosecutor wants publicity. And an outsider – a Northern teacher in a sleepy Southern town – makes a handy defendant, someone the locals will happily convict, innocent or guilty. Based on the infamous Leo Frank case, They Won't Forget is an explosive, acclaimed indictment of bigotry that's rich in deceptive motives, sudden violence and courtroom suspense.

Anne Leeds is a schoolteacher looking for part-time work. She lands a job as a secretary at a nightclub, working for two partners: Rocco, a nice, decent type of guy who has Anne's best interests at heart, and Tony, a handsome swinger for whom Anne falls, much to Rocco's chagrin.

According to a legend, if three strangers gather before the fabled idol of Kwan Yin and make a common wish, the wish shall be granted. Spurned spouse Crystal Shackleford has the idol and enlists a sleazy solicitor and a drunken thief in her plans for riches and revenge. But the two strangers have dreams of their own that collide with hers when the idol's powers prove to be real.

World War II is over, and millions of Gls forever changed by the war return to a nation far different from the one they left. Among them are three Marines: Bill, an easygoing cowpoke with a silver plate in his head and a dream of buying a ranch; Perry, a once-promising boxer who lost his legs in combat; and the youngest, Cliff, who went to war a boy and came back a man. Once home, Cliff meets a gentle war widow as profoundly altered by the conflict as any of the men.

Plots within plots, schemes within schemes and vengeful personal demons seem to be conspiring to destroy an ex-patriot American when he's tricked into smuggling narcotics in this high-flying adventure.

Concert pianist Cynthia Potter has impeccable musicianship, yet the chance of her gaining the attention of busy impresario Eric Wainwright hovers somewhere between none and never. But circumstances change – and comedy complications follow – when she adds bobby-sox and bows to her attire and innocence to her manner, and passes herself off as a 12-year-old prodigy.

Free-spirited Danny lives near seaside Monterey. He becomes a man of property, the heir to two modest houses and a watch from his grandfather. Not a worthwhile inheritance, but to newly arrived cannery worker Sweets he's worthwhile – and marriageable.

Tortured into a false confession while a POW in Korea, Major Lincoln Bond returns to active service as a test pilot. Determined to clear his name, Bond battles a hard-nosed base commander, prejudiced officers and his own insecurities.

Jeremy Rodock makes his living by raising horses in the Rocky Mountain valley that bears his name. Anyone foolish enough to steal those horses makes his own dyin'. But that's not the way of Jeremy's companion Jo, a former honky-tonk queen. She wants him to change, and there's a greener valley somewhere for her if he won't. Swayed by Jo and a recently arrived tenderfoot from the East, Rodock will finally realize that justice requires mercy.

A remake of 1929's The Broadway Melody, Two Girls on Broadway follows the heart-tugging adventures of a dancer who loses both her shot at the big time and her stage-partner fiancé to her talented kid sister.

Matrimony means different things to different people. For temperamental artist Geoffrey Carroll, it means he's in his element. And out of his mind. In their only screen pairing, two of film's all-time greats star in a psychological thriller rife with pelting rain and pealing bells, blackmail and murder, calculated dread and an unnerving finale.

Ace Connors is a con man on the run, chased by determined cop Bob Simms who is trying to convince Ace to turn in the bonds he has stolen in exchange for a reduced sentence. Entering into the fray is Ricki Woodner, who is looking to con the con man out of his bonds, while falling for him and Fly Feletti, a snarling trigger man hot on Ace's trail. The tension builds to an exciting climax during Mardi Gras.

Jack Andrus rode a meteoric rise to stardom, but he now seems to be in an equally dramatic tailspin in both his life and his career after a bout of alcoholism, a bitter divorce and a stay in a mental hospital. Now, when asked to work on a film in Rome by a director whose career is also on the skids, Andrus quickly accepts – without realizing how much this film will change his life.

Young Meg Merlin, who hero-worships a dancer at her elite ballet school, is heartbroken when prima ballerina La Darina arrives to rival her idol. So Meg devises a plan. One little tug on a light switch while La Darina dances Swan Lake will ruin the performance. But Meg pulls the wrong switch – the one that opens a stage trapdoor – and sends the prima ballerina into a career-ending plunge to the floor below.