Alfred Hayes

Duas crianças camponesas, Mytyl e seu irmão Tyltyl, embarcam na busca pelo pássaro azul da felicidade da fada Berylune. Em sua jornada, eles têm a companhia da presença humanizada de um Cachorro, um Gato, Luz e Fogo e outras entidades.

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

A woman and her stepdaughter attempt to sneak a few souvenirs past customs and inadvertently become the couriers for an international smuggling ring.

In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.

Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while he's at college, they have many difficulties, including a college Dean that frowns upon married couples, Carl's angry parents, Carl's jealousy, and Annie's own problems with her sexuality.

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

Vaqueiro, tem rápida ascensão, política e social, e se esquece daqueles que lhe foram fiéis no passado.

A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.

Em uma missão católica na China, o muito aguardado "padre O'Shea" prova ser um cara durão, perturbadoramente atraente para a enfermeira-missionária Anne. Um homem em vestes sacerdotais, aparentemente o muito aguardado padre O'Shea, chega a uma missão católica pouco frequentada em 1947 na China. Embora o homem pareça curiosamente desconfortável com seus deveres sacerdotais, suas táticas duras revelam-se muito bem-sucedidas nas Sete Aldeias, à medida que a China se desintegra na guerra civil e na revolução. Mas ele tem um segredo, e sua amizade com a enfermeira de missão Anne (uma atraente viúva de guerra) parece estar assumindo um tom peculiar.

Jeff Warren, a Korean War vet just returning to his railroad engineer's job, boards at the home of co-worker Alec Simmons and is charmed by Alec's beautiful daughter. He becomes attracted immediately to Vicki Buckley, the sultry wife of brutish railroad supervisor Carl Buckley, an alcoholic wife beater with a hair-trigger temper and penchant for explosive violence. Jeff becomes reluctantly drawn into a sordid affair by the compulsively seductive Vicki. After Buckley is fired for insubordination, he begs her to intercede on his behalf with John Owens, a rich and powerful businessman whose influence can get him reinstated.

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.

"Paisà" retrata, em 6 episódios, a progressão das tropas americanas de libertação, desde o desembarque na Sicília até aos pântanos do vale do rio Pó. A descrição da realidade imediata, na linha de "Roma Città Aperta", a utilização de não profissionais, o aspecto de documentário da fotografia, tudo faz de "Paisà" uma obra em completa ruptura com o cinema italiano da década anterior. - Uma mulher leva uma patrulha aliada através de um campo de minas. Ela morre protegendo um GI, mas os ianques acham que ela o matou. - Um menino de rua rouba os sapatos de um GI. - Um GI conhece uma mulher no dia que Roma é libertada. 6 meses depois eles se reencontram. Ele é um cínico, ela é uma prostituta. - Uma enfermeira americana se arrisca cruzar o rio Arno, em meio ao fogo alemão, em busca do Partisan que ama. - 3 capelães, incluindo um judeu, se abrigam num mosteiro ao norte dos Apeninos. - Soldados aliados e partisans tentam escapar pelos pântanos do rio Pó.