Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she’s spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes…

In the rugged mountain gorges and ravines of southeastern Poland, a new boss and his wife become a catalyst for violence.

A woman travels to Hawaii to find out if a man in prison there is actually her missing husband.

Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but…

The third form of a boarding school and the students of a neighboring school do not get along. Each side dreams up the craziest pranks to defeat the other. And…

Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no…

A mobster’s daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man’s murder and the rape of his wife.

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

A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing…