The coquettish granddaughter of a respected small-town judge is stranded at a bootleggers’ hide-out, subjected to an act of nightmarish sexual violence, and plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens…

The setting is a city block during a sweltering summer, where the residents serve as representatives of the not-very-idealized American melting pot. There is idle chitchat, gossip, jealousy, racism, adultery,…

Culture shock bombards a woman and her family when they leave their hick town to help her sister out in her big-city beauty parlor.

When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A…

Jack’s father lowers the boom when his irresponsible rich-kid ends up in jail after a night of debauchery. The father appoints Ossie, Jack’s cousin, as guardian, not realizing that Ossie…

Young Mary Rainey takes the reins of her deceased father’s failing circus. With the help of the Inimitable Smiley Johnson, she hopes to bring fortune back to her ragtag band…

A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp….

Bound for Africa the next day, Captain Ferréol visits Gilberte Boismartel, his former sweetheart who is now married to Rochemore, a French magistrate, to return her love letters. Leaving he…

Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it’s up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.