17세기 영국, 제임스 왕의 폭정에 반란이 일어난다. 모든 시민이 대항하지만 의사인 블러드는 겁쟁이라는 주변의 질타에도 나름의 신념을 굳게 믿으며 동참하지 않는다. 그러다 블러드에게 심한 부상을 당한 반란군이 찾아오고 그를 치료해주다 투옥되어 결국 노예로 팔려가는 신세가 된다. 이 사건을 통해 그는 현실을 바꾸고자 결심하고 권력자 비숍 대령과 맞서지만 실패하고 악명 높은 탄광으로 팔려나갈 찰라에 비숍의 조카 애나벨라가 그를 사겠다고 나서는데...
A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Harry and Inez are a dance team at the Wonder Bar. Inez loves Harry, but he is in love with Liane, the wife of a wealthy business man. Al Wonder and the conductor/singer Tommy are in love with Inez. When Inez finds out that Harry wants to leave Paris and is going to the USA with Liane, she kills him.
Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.
Ann, a young woman with outrageously advanced ideas, has been living in sin with Dick, her lover, because of her conviction that marriage would destroy their love; but social pressure ends up paying off, so Ann and Dick get married.
A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When the young man's stepmother objects to the wedding, the couple break apart and go their separate ways for a time. Also in the mix are two circus comics who feud over the heart of another Southern belle.
