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.
Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins) é uma jovem formidável, brilhante e impetuosa que acaba de se formar na New England College e decide deixar sua cidade para tentar a vida na Broadway. Ela vai para Manhattan e espera encontrar um trabalho emocionante e homens sofisticados, mas lá ela vai descobrir que não é a única com esse sonho e que nem sempre a vida é justa.
Quando uma espaçonave americana cai na costa da Sicília, o time de resgate descobre que a tripulação trouxe consigo uma massa gelatinosa que logo se transforma em uma estranha criatura bípede que aumenta de tamanho. Ao atingir sete metros a criatura invade Roma e procura refúgio no Coliseu.
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.
