A local handyman saves a child in a fire, but the burns he receives disfigure his face so much that the townspeople avoid him.

West Point cadet Dick Thorpe falls in love with a girl, who turns out to be a princess from an European kingdom.

Rosa, the self-serving wife of a small-town doctor, gets a better offer when a wealthy big-city man insists she get a divorce and marry him instead. Soon she demonstrates she…

The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.

In the Korean war, the commander of an Air Rescue helicopter team must show a hot-shot former jet pilot how important helicopter rescue work is and turn him into a…

An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant…

While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King Louis XVI, who will know how…

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.

A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby…

In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.

a group of British pioneers seek a new life in New Zealand.