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

An adulterous couple is accused of murder after the woman’s husband is shot and killed during a scuffle. A high-profile court case tells the story.

Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

To earn extra money, a prim schoolteacher takes a second job as secretary to the uncouth owner of a boisterous nightclub.

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah…