Dennis Strong

Lors d'un séjour en Suisse, Adam, un professeur d'université américain, rencontre Patricia, une secrétaire britannique divorcée, où qu'ils aillent. D'abord, leurs voitures entrent en collision. Puis ils se percutent sur une piste de ski, se cassant chacun une jambe. Entre leurs nombreuses querelles, ils développent le désir et l'amour. Ils se marient à la hâte, mais les désaccords persistent. Patricia décide de partir, alors Adam décide de simuler un suicide. Ils se perdent et se retrouvent, encore et encore.

La police du sergent Boyd cherche un tireur d'élite qui a tiré sur des prostituées.

Lily and her son John live alone in a small town as her husband has been killed fighting the war in France. Or at least that is what she told John, but the arrival of Frank back in the town leads him to find out that she not only has been lying about that but also about the fact that she never married him. When Frank tussles with Lily in her yard she applies for a restraining order, calling on the help of her father (the esteemed judge Stoddard Bell) and his partner (lawyer Harmon Cobb). The case fails and when Frank is found murdered later that night Stoddard is arrested and Cobb has a defence case on his hands.

Comment Stewart McBain, entrepreneur en démolition, père de famille autoritaire et riche, expulse sa progéniture qui se la coule douce dans sa maison pour qu'elle se coltine un peu a la vie. Daphné, Chloé et Jimmy se réfugient dans une maison décrépite de Brooklyn promise a la destruction et sont vite rejoints par un groupe d'excentriques sympathiques. Pendant ce temps McBain essuie une série de revers et se voit accule a la ruine. Mais ses enfants veillent et vont lui démontrer que eux aussi savent vivre...

Burt, a clever ex-con, has changed his identity and has managed to land a job as a deputy in small town in upstate New York. On the 4th of July, while the drunken Sheriff Paisley is busy with the local parade and festivities, Burt quietly steals a million dollars in cash from the cellar safe in the local rich old widow's house. Unsuspected, Burt makes plans to live the rest of his life in the lap of luxury in a far off place with his attractive girlfriend, local hash house waitress Jeanette. But when a crisis of conscience hits him like a wave of ice cold water, he starts to think twice about his dastardly deed, and how that purloining of the old lady's money is wrongly affecting his friends as well as innocent locals. But will Burt do the right thing?