During the Korean War former prisoner of war, Major Harry Cargill (Richard Basehart) admits to having collaborated with the enemy but military investigator Colonel William Edwards (Richard Widmark) wants the details

Tessa (Anne Baxter), Michael (Billy Cummings) and Mary Osborne (Connie Marshall) are three young orphans living with their grandfather, Dudley (Charles Winninger) after their parents' death. They've arranged to invite a visiting soldier to a lavish Sunday dinner they'll be hosting for homefront support. When Sgt. Eric Moore (John Hodiak) arrives in town, he's whisked off to the Osbornes' home, where he's especially taken with the kindness of Tessa, but he's not the only one with eyes for her.

A con woman (Lucille Ball) and a detective (Lloyd Nolan) follow a prison-bound swindler (John Hodiak) on his five-day gourmet binge.

An undercover U.S. immigration agent (John Hodiak) sets a trap for smugglers with a woman (Hedy Lamarr) stranded in Cuba

Joe (Glenn Ford), a clerk in New York City, hits the road to claim the land he bought in Arizona. But having spent all of his savings on the land, he must hitchhike. He meets a drifter named Tony (Nicholas Conte) and then Spanish refugee Anita (Jean Rogers). Together the three run into the "Professor" (Raymond Walburn), an erudite hobo. The quartet travel across the country, getting into scrapes, avoiding the police and encountering others hit hard by the Great Depression.

In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on Carlotta, a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer. He is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore feet. Rigby knows he's on the right track when Bealer offers him money to leave Carlotta.

An American flight commander wrestles with the fact that in order to win the war against Germany he must sacrifice men

In June 1941, famed American symphony conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) is touring Soviet Russia with his manager Hank (Robert Benchley)

Once a famous Ziegfeld star, Dodo Delwyn, is reduced to playing clowns in burlesque and amusement parks as a result of his drinking. His son Little Dink idolizes Dodo and faithfully believes in a comeback.

Austrian Emperor Franz Josef has arranged a marriage for his nephew, the Archduke Paul Gustave - nicknamed Gustl - to the suitable Princess Matilda, a woman Gustl can't even remember.

Grandfather is sick and the family and his lawyer gather around waiting for him to die. When he receives a telegram from his disinherited son, Charles, he passes out and a nurse, Sarah, comes to the house to attend to him

A harried daughter tries to keep her wacky family together while trying to sell her eccentric father's latest invention, a collapsible life raft.

A detective falls in love with the diamonds--and the girlfriend--of a thief he's pursuing.

A Parisian courtesan must choose between the young man who loves her and the callous baron who wants her, even as her own health begins to fail.

Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.

Julie, a young mother, tries all means to keep her newborn daughter happy and in a good environment. She gets a divorce and relocates to a new place to start a new life.

The daughter of a war profiteer gets involved with the Ku Klux Klan along with her brother Oscar and John Bagtry, a man belonging to the upper class.

Chaos descends upon a pudding manufacturer's family after laboratory results uncover the astounding nutritive value of one of his products

Preparing for the wedding of his sister, Betty (Ava Gardner), to engineer Jack (Rick Vallin), Glimpy (Huntz Hall) receives help from his gang -- especially leader Mugs (Leo Gorcey), who helps them lie their way into getting a tuxedo and flowers. Prior to the wedding, Jack learns the neighboring house to the one he's purchased is haunted and reluctantly decides to sell. Unaware, the boys hope to surprise the couple by decorating the home -- only to discover very strange happenings next door.

In Austria, German Ludwig Kern (Glenn Ford) is stripped of his passport and jailed for 40 days when he admits he is a Jew. Befriended by German political dissident Josef Steiner (Fredric March), the men travel to Czechoslovakia together upon their release. As the German army closes in on first Czechoslovakia, then Austria and ultimately France as war begins, Ludwig, Josef and fellow refugee Ruth Holland (Margaret Sullavan), without passports, desperately try to keep one step ahead of them.