Laura Ellsworth, a successful Broadway actress, is about to divorce her workaholic doctor husband. Her feelings are divided when she learns that her son, on a Midwestern car trip with his grandparents, may be in the path of a tornado.
A frontiersman who is asked to lead a wagon train across the vast western prairie, is reticent to agree due to his grief over the loss of his son, who was killed by Indians.
During the Civil War, a Yankee corporal from New Hampshire, embittered by the death of his brother in the war, fights with his own conscience as he holds the life of a Rebel soldier in his hands.
When the town bum awakes to find everyone else in his small Western village has left in fear of an imminent Indian attack, the fighting Irishman single-handedly takes on the entire Apache tribe.
An American merchant ship captain, sent to rescue seven Japanese soldiers stranded on a Pacific atoll, must deal with the men who refuse to believe the War is over and try to take his ship.
The lives and friendship of two Marines in the South Pacific are endangered by an old wooden cross they find in the ruins of a missionary church - and both want as a souvenir.
When the vicious Cole brothers steal Johnny Hecker's money, they also take a red satin pillow he carried from Kansas to Texas for his wife. The young cowboy is willing to risk his life to recover his property.
An old man, Bill Compton, pretends to have embezzled $65,000 so his three successful sons will "replace" the money to keep his lumber business on its feet.
Parental disapproval, on both sides of the Atlantic, threatens a rooming arrangement of a freshman college co-ed and a glamorous French exchange student.
A mild-mannered bank clerk becomes involved in embezzlement and believes he murdered loan shark John Harrington, although a gambler faces the death sentence for the crime. On the eve of the execution, the clerk feels he must confess.