The relationship between two lost, lonely figures is told in this episode. One is an 11-year-old girl, neglected by her glamourous actress mother; the other is a confused though talented young man.
For seperate stories by Ambrose Bierce are woven together. Included is the story of a southerner who joins the Union Army wanting to since his wife left him.
The foreman at a mine shaft must make a difficult decision when there is an explosion at the mine. He must either seal off a shaft and leave men to die or leave the shaft open and endanger everyone else.
Set in the nightclub world of cool jazz, a pianist gets involved with a society woman who fancies herself a patron of the arts. Murder and complications follow.
Police in a resort town are keeping their eyes peeled for an escaped murderer. A stranger who meets his description is seen flirting with a clueless girl at the local drugstore.
According to local legend, someone once tied a bell onto a buzzard's foot and whenever evil is afoot, the mythical bird returns to hover over the town. After a brutal justice of the peace commits a murder, he constantly hears the bell.
Based on a true story, Captain Jan Cwiklinski abandons the Polish liner Batory when he learns that notorious Communist Gerhardt Eisler has stowed away on his ship and escaped to East Germany.
A new social worker finds gang trouble at a girl's reformatory. Its incompetent superintendent has allowed a girl to gain power of the others and instigate murder and mutiny.
A bookworm of a young man is taken by his uncle to a backwoods lodge on a hunting trip. The pair's safety is placed in jeopardy when the boy uncovers a murder plot by trappers.
In this documentary, produced with the co-operation of the U.S. Air Force, a new aircraft that is able to cut through the military's radar systems is profiled.
Fulfilling his lifelong dream of owning a ship, an old captain buys one from the Civil War and opens it as a bar. The boat carried gold bullion during the war and, according to legend, there's still some hidden aboard. Suddenly, the captain is doing battle with a gang of thieves.moreless
Prison inmate Jeff had his best friend murdered by the sadistic Willie. Jeff tells the warden he doesn't know who killed his friend because he fears Willie's retribution and is soon due for parole. Eventually his guilt for remaining quiet get the best of him, and Jeff confronts Willie in front of the other inmates. Jeff has reason to be afraid; Willie has a butcher knife.moreless
Though a homicidal maniac is wandering in the streets with a loaded rifle, one woman had rather risk being home alone than staying with her hateful mother-in-law.
In this story of the Massachusetts State Police, officers try to save the lives of a woman and her ten-month-old baby. The two are being used as hostages by an armed reform school ecapee who's barricaded himself in their home.
An American fashion writer working in Paris becomes the witness to a murder. The next several days are full of terror as the killer menacingly stalks her.
Inch, the small-sized member of a fur stealing racket, is considered harmless by the rest of the gang members. That all changes when lovely Laura pushes him a too far.