A dramatization about a nine-year-old girl Missy who is persuaded by her peers to throw a stone at an old lady. She later discovers that the old lady is dying and a personal awareness of having done an unloving act weighs heavily upon her. Her mother’s loving response to her torment and instinctive gestures of consolation even as she lets Missy know the seriousness of her action, frees Missy and she finds her own special way to express her sorrow. The dramatic tension traces the dynamics of the sacrament of Penance, as Missy experiences sorrow, guilt and the peace that comes with forgiveness.
Inspirada en una novela de Jacqueline Susan. Despiadado retrato del mundo del espectáculo. Las protagonistas son tres jóvenes aspirantes a la fama. Una de ellas (Sharon Tate) averigua que tiene cáncer y que no podrá seguir haciendo películas pornográficas. Otra es una ambiciosa cantante (Patty Duke) que, incapaz de asimilar el éxito, se convierte en una adicta a las pastillas. La tercera, una remilgada joven de Nueva Inglaterra (Barbara Parkins), tiene que conformarse con hacer spots publicitarios y acaba también enganchada a las drogas.
Un cohete espacial del ejército norteamericano, que regresa de una exploración a Venus, se estrella en el mar delante de la costa siciliana. El coronel Calder no es el único superviviente, y de los restos del cohete se recupera un recipiente que guarda una masa gelatinosa. Al abrirlo la masa se convierte en un monstruo que dobla su tamaño cada vez que se hace de noche...
Change comes slowly to a small New Hampshire town in the early 20th century. People grow up, get married, live, and die. Milk and the newspaper get delivered every morning, and nobody locks their front doors. This musicalization of Thornton Wilder's classic play stars Frank Sinatra who introduces the song, "Love and Marriage," which would go on to be immortalized as the theme song to the sitcom Married with Children.
A greedy King Midas is visited one day by a mysterious visitor who grants him the ability to turn all things he touches to gold. He learns his lesson when the food he tries to eat and his own daughter are turned to gold as well. The visitor reappears and offers him the opportunity to return to his old self, which he gladly does.
This is one of four fairy tales master animator Ray Harryhausen made between 1949 and 1953 by hand, using stop-motion photography perfected as an apprentice under mentor Willis H. O'Brien of "King Kong" fame.
