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Beggar Apple Annie (Bette Davis) learns that her daughter, escorted by an aristocratic suitor, plans to visit. It's great news -- except that she has tricked her daughter into believing she is a wealthy socialite. Fearing her true identity will disappoint, Annie petitions a superstitious mobster (Glenn Ford), who thinks the apples she sells are lucky, for help. Hesitant at first, the mafioso is pe

To save on expenses, advertising man Roddy Peter (Robin Phillips) takes in Jamaican lawyer Andrew (Hal Frederick) as a roommate, and the two men become friends. Andrew and his girlfriend, who is also black, are determined to break into British high society, while Roddy drifts through an unsatisfactory relationship with Ethne Burrows (Hilary Heath). As Roddy pursues a new romance with Jane (Judy Gr

A clown's (Don Keefer) orphaned son (Mike McGreevey) unwittingly helps a convict (John Lupton) escape police with his father's makeup.

When college girl Mary Ann Robinson (Carroll Baker) is attacked and raped, her world is shattered. Unable to carry on a normal routine with her critical mother, Mary Ann takes a room in a New York City hovel and accepts a job at a dime store as she struggles to come to grips with her ordeal. Sinking into isolation, she attempts suicide and is saved by a concerned bystander, lonely auto mechanic Mi

Based on Rebecca Miller's recently published book of short stories, "Personal Velocity" tells three tales of women as they escape their current situations. Segmented into three parts, Greta (Parker Posey), Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Paula (Fairuza Balk) have one thing in common, each struggle to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom.

When drifter Valentine Xavier (Marlon Brando) arrives in a southern town, he catches the eye of the married Lady Torrance (Anna Magnani) and the oversexed alcoholic, Carol Cutrere (Joanne Woodward). Both vie for his attention, with Lady Torrance emerging victorious, offering Xavier employment in her general store, while her cancer-stricken husband is bedridden upstairs. After impregnating Lady Tor

Ambitious medical student Lucas Marsh (Robert Mitchum) aspires to being a doctor with his own practice. Unable to fund his studies himself, he woos the warm, supportive nurse Kristina (Olivia de Havilland), who has the financial resources he needs for him to realize his dreams. The couple marries and moves to a small town, where Lucas works as an assistant to Dr. Runkleman (Charles Bickford). Howe

Walter Whitney is a successful executive who resides in an upscale Southern California suburb. Like all of his friends and neighbors, Walter is white, and he is shocked when he learns he has a son he never knew about -- black teen Roger Porter (Denzel Washington). Despite his surprise, Walter welcomes Roger into his home; unfortunately, the less accepting Mrs. Whitney (Susan Saint James) boots bot

Free spirit and prostitute Ilya (Melina Mercouri) lives in a Greek port city. Open and amiable, she makes friends often and easily. She encounters Homer Thrace (Jules Dassin), a vacationing American who is obsessed with ancient Greek culture. Homer feels that modern Greece is a shadow of its former self, and he believes that Ilya is a prime example of contemporary decadence. He makes it his goal t

Casanova Brown (Gary Cooper) is about to marry Madge (Anita Louise) when he learns that his former wife, Isabel (Teresa Wright), has just had a baby that belongs to him, and plans to put the child up for adoption. Casanova runs out on the wedding, disguises himself as a doctor, visits the hospital where his infant daughter is being held and runs off with her to a hotel, where he does his best to c

To distance herself from her strict Amish family, naïve Rachel Schpitendavel (Britt Ekland) escapes to New York City to become a dancer. While Rachel's dances based on Biblical stories are too innocent for Minsky's Burlesque House, club-owner Billy Minsky (Elliott Gould) plans on using Rachel's routine to humiliate critics of his business. But trouble arises when partners in a comedy duo (Jason Ro

Teenager Joan Abbott (Gale Storm) is a sensation after singing the jingle for Crunchy-Wunchy cereal, and she's primed for big success. But Abbott has her heart set on attending college. Much to the horror of her uncle/agent, J.P. (Herbert Heyes), she breaks her contract and disappears, changing her name to Susie Smith and enrolling in a university in the Midwest. Meanwhile, the ad agency behind th