Marguerite Roberts

Un expresidiario tiene que hacerse cargo de la hija de un amigo que ha sido asesinado. Además de convertirse en padre adoptivo de la niña, intentará vengar la muerte de su amigo.

Before going off to World War II, Frank Arnold (Richard Crenna) relocates his wife, Ann (Claire Bloom), and son, Joshua (Richard Thomas), to New Mexico. Joshua has a difficult time fitting in, finding himself a minority in a predominantly Latino community, and his mother doesn't fare much better, treating her loneliness with increasing quantities of alcohol. At length, Joshua makes some friends and begins to adjust, but bad news from overseas threatens to spoil what he's accomplished.

A Vietnam veteran returns to his Texas home but feels restless and decides to become a radio singer.

Un viejo agente del Gobierno, alcohólico y tuerto (John Wayne), es contratado por Mattie Ross (Kim Darby), una valerosa y obstinada joven, que se propone capturar al asesino de su padre. Contarán además con la colaboración de La Boeuf (Campbell), un ránger de Tejas.

En una partida de póquer, un jugador es sorprendido haciendo trampas; Van Morgen (Dean Martin) intenta salvarlo, pero los demás jugadores acaban linchándolo. Mientras tanto, llegan al pueblo el predicador Jonathan Rudd (Robert Mitchum) y Lily Langford (Inger Stevens) con sus chicas. Cuando dos ciudadanos son asesinados, Van recuerda que ambos se encontraban en aquella fatídica partida de cartas.

La muerte en extrañas circunstancias de un conocido playboy, no sólo moviliza a la policía de Acapulco, sino que inquieta e incluso alarma al amplio círculo de amistades y conocidos del muerto. entre ellas se encuentra el matrimonio Yordan, unos millonarios sobre los que corre el rumor de que ella era la amante del fallecido, y que él solamente se casó por dinero.

Un famoso y apuesto trampero, Harry Stanton, es contratado por un zoo alemán para capturar a un raro ejemplar, mitad tigre mitad leopardo, que habita en Malasia. Lo acompañan en la expedición un veterano y experto cazador, Otto Abbot, y su joven amante, Anna. Durante el viaje, Harry y Anna se enamoran, y a pesar de las sospechas de Otto, éstos no dan rienda suelta a su amor hasta su regreso a Alemania. Anna confiesa al viejo cazador sus sentimientos por Stanton y, ciego de ira, no se le ocurre mejor venganza que soltar al exótico ejemplar, provocando una tragedia.

Hawaii, año 1959. Richard 'El Rey' (Charlton Heston) es un rico terrateniente que se ha dejado convencer por personas influyentes para presentarse a las próximas elecciones. La principal dificultad para conseguir el voto de los nativos es su oposición a que su hermana se case con uno de ellos, pues no quiere tener un herdero mestizo. Lo que ignora es que él va a tener un hijo de su relación con una hawaiana.

A su vuelta de las Cruzadas, el Rey Ricardo Corazón de León es apresado en Austria. Su hermano Juan se niega a pagar la elevada suma de dinero que exigen a cambio de su libertad, ya que así puede seguir usurpando el trono de Inglaterra. El caballero Ivanhoe, uno de los partidarios de Ricardo, intentará por todos los medios conseguir el dinero del rescate.

La India, siglo XIX. Relata las aventuras de tres camaradas que sirven en la Marina Británica.

Una atractiva y joven aventurera convence a un explorador para que la ayude a encontrar a su hermana, que ha desaparecido en territorio apache. A la expedición se une también el Capitán Lorrison que está enamorado de ella.

Un agente federal viaja hasta un país de Sudamérica para localizar a un peligroso grupo de contrabandistas dirigidos por un acaudalado y mujeriego norteamericano. Una vez allí se sentirá irremediablemente atraído por la esposa de uno de los jefes de la organización criminal.

It's 1939 in the small English town of Penny Green and events in Poland are about to change lives. Mark Sabre, a writer of school textbooks, has married Mabel "on the rebound", after his real love Nona marries someone else. Just as war is about to break out, Nona returns home with her husband Tony. Mabel is sure she can hold onto Mark, though. But misunderstood good deeds on Mark's part turn life for him upside down when his relationship with a young girl starts tongues wagging. Soon, wartime casualties take their toll in Penny Green as well as on the front, as the death of fighting men affects lives back home.

Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Los soldados Paul y Jean son prisioneros en un campo de concentración alemán. Durante un intento de fuga, Paul recibe un balazo, pero Jean consigue escapar y va a ver a Marise, la mujer de Paul, para comunicarle la muerte de su marido. Jean está enamorado de Marise por todo lo que Paul le ha contado de ella mientras estaban presos.

El coronel Jim Brewton (Spencer Tracy) es un hombre que dirige sus prósperas propiedades de Nuevo México con mano de hierro. En cambio, su matrimonio con Lutie Cameron (Katharine Hepburn), apenas iniciado, resulta un completo fracaso.

Segunda Guerra Mundial. Los valores y principios de una familia china se desmoronan tras la invasión japonesa. Los occidentales se alían con los chinos para luchar contra el enemigo común. En estas circunstancias, una heroica mujer china se pone al frente de una revuelta contra los invasores nipones.

Los hermanos Johnny y Kirk Davis trabajan en uno de los diarios más grandes del país como corresponsales de guerra. Están unidos por una gran amistad hasta el momento en que aparece una antigua compañera de trabajo que está comprometida con Kirk.

Candy Johnson es un estafador y timador de lengua viperina. Candy Johnson prospera hasta ser el jefe mafioso de Yellow Creek, pero el padre alcohólico de su esposa tratará de poner las cosas en su sitio.

Tres mujeres sueñan con actuar en los musicales de Broadway de Florence Ziegfeld. Susan teme que su éxito apene a su padre, actor de vodevil en declive. Sheila se debate entre el amor a su novio y las atenciones de un millonario. Sandra está casada con un virtuoso del violín que no soporta que su mujer consiga el éxito en el mundo de las lentejuelas.

1938. Un joven llega a la Alemania de Hitler, busca frenéticamente información acerca de su madre alemana y descubre que está pendiente de ejecución en un campo de concentración.

Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

A tightwad accountant for a newspaper becomes friends with a reporter. The bookkeeper goes on vacation, and while there he learns of a kidnapping conspiracy. He quickly phones the paper and they order him to follow up on the story and stay off the phone so the reporter (whom he secretly has a crush on) can use it.

Department store owner J. Elliott Dinwiddy has waited ten years for the perfect astrological moment to propose to his secretary, Myrtle Tweep. His astrological advisor, Dr. Wakefield, has told him that if he can unite a boy and a girl in true love before midnight, he can propose to Myrtle the following night at 3:15 a.m. and she will accept. Fate brings unemployed dancer Caroline Wilson into the music department of Dinwiddy's, where she meets handsome songwriter Terry Keith. Keith has been writing music for Dinwiddy's Silver Jubilee show and has allowed Dinwiddy's nephew, Truelove Spencer, to take all the credit. That night, Terry comes into Dinwiddy's to work on the music and finds Caroline asleep in the Honeymoon Cottage, the section of the department store Spencer supervises. Posing as a man named "Pinky," Dinwiddy promises Caroline that Spencer will hire her as the bride of the Honeymoon Cottage and invites her to live there.

Paddy O'Riley and Ossie Merrill, Bellport high school football heroes, enroll in distant colleges; Paddy at a small school in the East, where he is barely a substitute, and Ossie at a powerhouse-football school, where he is an instant star and all-American candidate. They leave behind Cheers Reynolds, who is fond of Paddy, who works in her family's drugstore, but she loves Ossie almost as much as he loves himself. Paddy makes friends with team fullback Dutch Schultz, who accompanies him on vacation, and they arrive back in Bellport just as Ossie is also coming home on break. Florence Taylor is also in town on a film junket. Unknown to any of the others, Paddy and Florence had gone to high school together. Back at school and three years later, Paddy and Dutch learn that their football team could get invited to the coveted Rose Bowl to play against Ossie's team, if it could get enough publicity (pre-BCS days) that would attract a large crowd...

With a full Hollywood background and settings but more an expose of scandal-and-gossip magazines of the era, has-been actor John Blakeford agrees to write his memoirs for magazine-publisher Jordan Winston. When Blakeford's daughter, Patricia, ask him to desist for the sake of his ex-wife, Carlotta Blakeford, he attempts to break his contract with Winston.

A Florida-bound train is filled with romance and intrigue in this comedy. Among the passengers is a millionaire bon vivant carrying $1 million in diamonds.

A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory.

Julie Fresnel is a co-ed at Redgate University and her father, Dr. Henri Fresnel, is the new French professor. Julie attraction from the make students drops a bit when two of her admirers are found murdered. When an attempt on the life of a third one is made. Seth Dunlap, an instructor at the school, decides to turn detective and find the killer. Assisted by his sister, who is in love with the third student, Dunlap begins to follow the the small trail of clues left by the killer.

Young boy Bill Peck adores his father and tries to be good, but the arrival of Bill's cousin Horace upsets Bill's plans. Horace's brattish ways result in Bill rather than Horace getting in trouble.

Jimmy is a wiseguy press agent whose efforts to promote a meat-packing firm come to naught. Our hero is fired from his job, whereupon his sweetheart Sally steps in, immediately succeeding where Jimmy had failed.

U.S. sailor Jimmy Harrigan, on shore leave in San Pedro, meets and falls for Sally Brent She promises to wait for him when he ships out to San Francisco, but Jimmy becomes jealous and tells her off when he learns Sally has entered a marathon dance contest sponsored by a lecherous snake named Baron Portola. Along with several of his Navy pals, Jimmy goes to the ballroom the night of the dance marathon, to try to change Sally's mind and win her back.