The Hellcats are an all-female gang bent on bucking authority and terrorizing the schools by doing things like having a bad attitude toward their teachers and parents. When Joyce, a new student, moves into the neighborhood, she draws the attention of The Hellcats. Desperate for acceptance and unhappy with her homelife, Joyce goes along with the gang, and is soon drinking, dancing and meeting boys. Can her parents stop her descent into depravity?
Elvis interpreta a Deke Rivers un empleado de una gasolinera que es descubierto por Glenda, una publicista, y Tex, un músico country. Ambos andan a la búsqueda de nuevos talentos ofreciendo fama y fortuna.
Tony Rivers (Michael Landon) es un adolescente con muchos problemas que acude a la consulta del doctor Brandon (Whit Bissell) para hallar una solución. Éste dice que le ayudará con sesiones de hipnosis, pero en realidad su propósito es experimentar con Tony, transformándolo en un hombre lobo las noches de luna llena.
Sisters Jane and Penny are arrested for hitchhiking on their way to Los Angeles when they stop for a quick skinny dip in a rural town. Local agricultural magnate Tropp is a sponsor for a local prison work program and the women get put in the fields to work off their sentence. Tropp is dating the widowed judge in order to ensure a stable supply of cheap labor in order to undercut his competition. The prisoners suffer ill treatment, but the judge's son has signed on as a hired hand and begins to figure out the scam as he begins falling in love with Jane, and Penny dreams of making it big in showbiz.
Starbuck (Burt Lancaster) es un timador que engaña a la gente haciéndole creer que los molinillos de viento que vende son artefactos que alejan los tornados. Buscado en varios condados, llega a un tranquilo pueblo asolado por la sequía y decide engañar a una familia formada por un anciano (Cameron Prud'Homme) y sus tres hijos: Lizzie (Katharine Hepburn), una solterona a la que su padre y hermanos tratan desesperadamente de buscar novio; Noah (Lloyd Bridges), un joven demasiado duro y riguroso con sus hermanos, y Jim (Earl Holliman), un chaval inocente y bobalicón que dice lo primero que se le ocurre sin pensar.
