is a farce about a woman who wins a $10,000 silver blue mink coat in a radio contest. Because of the coat, the woman acquires champagne tastes, pushes her worker-bee husband into debt, becomes the envy of another woman who covets the coat, becomes the victim of theft, temporarily separates from her husband, and pleads her ownership rights in a wild courtroom finale.
is about a University of Arizona student, whose grades slip when he becomes preoccupied with an intercollegiate rodeo. In addition, the student feels distracted because he’s in love with a young blond woman. When his lack of focus nearly blinds a fellow student in a tragic chemistry lab accident, the student decides to hunker down and study.
the story of a stray puppy taken in by a sheepherder, then trained to be a sheep dog and companion. After robbers kill the master, the dog keeps vigil over the man’s grave and refuses to let anyone else own her. But local law requires that all dogs be leashed and licensed by a legal guardian. Without a master, Lassie is a stray that must be euthanized. When Lassie goes on trial, the local pub owner and townspeople come to her rescue. The court pronounces her a free citizen of Edinburgh, thereby allowed to reside in the Church graveyard and keep vigil by her master’s grave.
is about an accident-prone inventor who creates unbreakable glass that could revolutionize the car industry. The inventor works as a taxicab driver to prove that “Elastiglass” makes the perfect windshield. Unscrupulous people try to steal his formula, resulting in some elaborate slapstick that includes a revolving model home, a hypodermic-shooting toaster, a helium-filled balloon and a Tarzan-like swing from the rafters of an empty warehouse.
is about a Civil War veteran who comes to a Tennessee town to be its gospel minister. The minister’s faith is shaken when he unthinkingly spreads typhoid in the community. And his skills are tested when one parishioner, a mine owner, resents clerical protection of an old sharecropper whose small plot of land blocks continued mining.
is about a little girl who witnesses the murder of her mother, then goes into shock and suffers amnesia about the event. A psychiatrist treats the girl and becomes convinced the amnesia is treatable and the wrong person was convicted of the crime. As the girl shows progress the real killer plots to murder her.
follows a typical suburban family that listens to their radio and hears the voice of God, a voice that broadcasts worldwide at precisely 8:30pm for more than a week. The father is an aircraft mechanic, the wife is pregnant with her second child and the son is exceptionally cute. The father is unsatisfied with life and short-tempered about little things that go wrong. But hearing the voice of God changes his life.
The Skipper Surprises His Wife
is about a Navy Commander who runs his household like a military unit after his wife breaks her leg. The officer goes door-to-door asking housewives how they do things, then applies their advice to his home. Things don’t go quite right, and the wife feels relief when she returns to her job and her husband returns to sea.
follows two marketing people who resurrect some old westerns and create public demand for the lead actor, Smoky Callaway, unseen for 10 years. The marketers track down Callaway and discover he’s a drunken womanizer in Mexico, a tough sell to an adoring public. When a lookalike sends in a photo, the marketing team hires him to impersonate Callaway. Things get complicated when the real Callaway shows up and wants a piece of the action.
follows a lonely farm kid, who saves up money for a dog, finds a stray, then begins to blossom. After finding his dog dead, the boy presumes a strange newcomer in the neighborhood deliberately poisoned his dog. In retaliation, the boy initiates a smear campaign against the odd neighbor. He even commits an act of vandalism that endangers area crops. Eventually, he learns the truth about his dog’s death.
is about a pretty nurse in danger of losing her job because she was rude to a millionaire playboy, hospitalized after being accidentally shot. Soon, the playboy falls head-over-heels in love with the nurse, who uses womanly wiles to keep him donating generously to the hospital. The nurse is in love with a less flashy doctor. A love triangle develops and the nurse’s choice of husband is a toss-up until the very end.
follows two young children of divorced parents who shuttle between their attentive father in the Canadian north and their indifferent mother in San Francisco. The boy and girl are flying to San Francisco on a plane from their father’s charter service when the aircraft crashes, killing all aboard except the two kids. The parents, both pilots, race against time to find the children, facing hunger, harsh weather, and mountain lions.
