Philip Ober

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred 20 years earlier. After the editor assigns Luther to spend one night alone in the mansion, Heggs has a number of supernatural encounters and writes a front page story that makes him a hometown hero...until the nephew of the deceased sues him for libel.

Gênio saido de uma lâmpada tenta ajudar o seu amo, apenas o colocando em muitas confusões.

An energetic newspaper copyboy in 1889 wants to become a reporter, and he is soon more deeply involved in his stories than he had expected. When he discovers a bank robbery, he helps the reporter, Brownie, to apprehend the four-fingered culprit. Later he helps the police chief who has been framed, and tries to convince the authorities that he has discovered a wanted felon in town.

An intelligent, articulate scholar, Harrison MacWhite, survives a hostile Senate confirmation hearing at the hands of conservatives to become ambassador to Sarkan, a southeast Asian country where civil war threatens a tense peace. Despite his knowledge, once he's there, MacWhite sees only a dichotomy between the U.S. and Communism. He can't accept that anti-American sentiment might be a longing for self-determination and nationalism. So, he breaks from his friend Deong, a local opposition leader, ignores a foreman's advice about slowing the building of a road, and tries to muscle ahead. What price must the country and his friends pay for him to get some sense?

A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son's romance with a high-priced hooker.

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other's manner grating, they fall in love when thrown together--without their spouses--on vacation. On returning home they try to break things off, only to grow closer. A holiday together will finally settle whether they should end their marriages.

Nick Romano lives in a poor tenement building on the south side of Chicago with his well-meaning but drug-addicted mother, Nellie. She encourages him to pursue his piano-playing talent in hopes that it will bring him a better life. Nellie's neighbors, like the alcoholic ex-lawyer who secretly loves her, help her in keeping Nick away from Louie, the resident drug dealer. But a chance meeting between Nick and Louie could change things forever.

Elmer Gantry (Burt Lancaster) é um caixeiro-viajante oportunista, imoral e alcoólatra que é convertido pela Irmã Sharon Falconer (Jean Simmons) e passa a viajar em sua companhia pelos Estados Unidos pregando e explorando novos fiéis. Ricos e famosos, eles constroem um templo, mas Gantry é abalado pelo reencontro com um antigo amor.

Com sua esposa internada e já lutando contra o alcoolismo, o escritor F. Scott Fitzgerald passa a escrever roteiros de filmes para os estúdios de Hollywood para pagar os custos do tratamento dela. Porém, ele encontra em outra mulher o apoio e a inspiração necessária para realizar uma nova obra.

O executivo publicitário Roger O. Thornhill é confundido como um agente do governo por um grupo de espiões. A partir daí, envolve-se numa série de desventuras incríveis e passa a ser perseguido tanto pelo governo quanto pelos espiões por todo os Estados Unidos.

Lorenzo Charlton, um fiscal do governo, é enviado à fazenda da família Larkins para averiguar o porquê eles têm sonegado impostos. Ao perceber que a família mantém um confuso sistema econômico, ele decide ajudá-los a pôr a casa em ordem.

Em 1942, o comandante do submarino USS Grayfish, Barney Doyle, é um capitão capaz, respeitado por seus homens e eficaz no mar. Seu alvo principal é o porta aviões japonês Akagi, que liderou o ataque a Pearl Harbor. Doyle é atormentado pelo fato de que sua esposa e filha foram presos quando os japoneses invadiram as Filipinas e ele não tem noticias deles por quase 10 meses. Ele fica aliviado quando fontes confiáveis ​​confirmam que eles estão vivos. Mas havia uma boa razão para os japoneses permitirem que ele soubesse que sua família estava a salvo. Todos os civis estão sendo transportados para o Japão no Akagi e portanto usados como um escudo humano, forçando Doyle a tomar uma decisão terrível.

A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter's roommate.

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he doesn't receive an invitation to an important luncheon being held by the new company president. Convinced that he's about to lose his job, Jim begins to mull over his limited prospects when his wife confirms that she's pregnant.

Um avião a caminho do Japão é forçado a pousar no mar perto da costa japonesa. Um pequeno menino americano sobrevive à escavação, mas é separado do resto dos passageiros e da tripulação e é levado por um pescador japonês, que leva o menino de volta à sua aldeia. O menino é ajudado pelo filho do pescador, mas quando vê a polícia japonesa invadindo a vila, eles temem que tenham feito algo errado e fugido, embora a polícia esteja apenas procurando pelo menino desaparecido. Juntos, os dois rapazes viajam pelo interior do Japão, tentando evitar que a polícia os procure e se encontre com muitos tipos diferentes de pessoas ao longo do caminho.

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

Spencer Tracy, é o patriarca de uma família de criadores de gado que vê tudo desmoronar quando seu filho mais novo é preso por defender as terras da família contra um grupo de mineiros que polui a região.

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

O filme relata histórias de vidas em um campo do exército americano no Havaí, às vésperas do ataque japonês à Pearl Harbor. Centraliza as ações acompanhando os conflitos de três militares da base. Roteiro baseado num livro de James Jones.

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his three daughters, Gloria, Hester and Violet, along with the housekeeper, Thelma, who has raised the girls since childhood. Other than their father, the girls have never seen another man. Halyard is informed that 1500 U.S. Marines will soon arrive to establish an air base on the island. Halyard is rather apprehensive over the prospect of his daughters, who have never met another man, being thrown together with 1500 Marines who haven't seen a woman in months.

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn, is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback. He persuades "Uncle" Goldie, Dodo's agent in the good old days, to find a booking for Dodo. He can't, and Dink is sent to live with his remarried-and-wealthy mother, Paula. The unhappy Dink runs back to his father. His welcome return gives Dodo the courage needed to try a knockabout TV show offered by Goldie

A mismatched couple's marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

A reporter (Patricia Neal) suspects the "nice guy" image of a respected Congressman (Van Johnson) is all a facade and sets out to uncover the truth.

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

Biography of celebrated American jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the Madison Square Garden Rodeo and they get married, and leave for his ranch in the west. Her friends warn her of an early disillusionment with life on a ranch, far away from the glitter and bright lights of Broadway. Kay makes one difficulty adjustment after another, as the ranch is presided over by Chris's kids, and an incident occurs with a neighbor that prompts Kay to return to her glamorous life in New York. But she soon finds her heart is with Chris and his children.

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted Ellen denies the charge, the interloper produces enough evidence that his accusation must be investigated. Ellen and David travel to the small coastal town where her first wedding allegedly occurred. There, they meet a number of individuals whose stories make Ellen question her own sanity.

A black voodoo priestess comes out of the Louisians swamps to take revenge on the white plantation owner she believes killed her husband. The old conjure woman Mandy returns with her daughter Chloe to their bayou home after fifteen years. Chloe was too young to remember much about the bayou, but once Mandy had been a famous voodoo priestess in these parts. But after the whites lynched her husband Sam, she took her little girl & moved away into the Everglades. She seems to have gone a little mad in the intervening years & has returned swearing a belated vengeance against the murdering white folks.