After the American Civil War, former Union Major John Garth marries pretty settler Valerie but tragedy strikes and the two spouses end up in court where they give two different conflicting accounts of their marriage.
After serving a year for a killing in self-defense, gunfighter Brock Mitchell tries to help his younger brother save his ranch but a crooked lawyer has other ideas.
A murderous thief on the run with stolen loot forces a poor rancher to guide him across the desert into Mexico. Accompanying them is the rancher's wife, who happens to be the killer's former girlfriend.
After being shown what hypnotism can do, a doctor starts to study it in depth. When he experiments on a friend's wife, she regresses into an early life, that of Bridey Murphy.
Tom Lee is more interested in the arts than in sports, something that sits uneasily with both his father and his classmates. Tom's school housemaster Bill Reynolds even gives him a hard time for his "effeminate" interests. However, Bill's wife Laura sympathizes with Tom and tries to help him with her own overtures.
Учитель Ричард Дэдьер получает назначение в школу, где учится очень много трудных подростков, а учителя смирились с тем, что потеряли контроль над учениками. Ричард пытается завоевать авторитет среди своих учеников, однако наталкивается на враждебность. Ситуация доходит до того, что начинают угрожать беременной жене Дэдьера. В ярости он обвиняет во всем чернокожего ученика Грегори Миллера, которого он считает главным зачинщиком в классе. Но не ошибается ли Дэдьер, подозревая Грегори только из-за его цвета кожи?
