Warner Bros. Entertainment

"Vic Norman is an advertising executive, a snappily suited huckster who dreams up ways of singing his clients' praises and selling their wares. Principles? That's something the ad biz isn't selling this year. [He] struggles to preserve his integrity while hustling to serve the whims and demands of a deep-pocketed client who, 'thinks America as a blank space between New York and Hollywood where people buy soap.' An often funny look at Madison Avenue:...

"Bowling? Nope. Another round of beers? Yawn. Three married men and their divorced buddy want to try something more intriguing on their boys' night out: a boy's night in with a blonde tootsie in a secret love pad. Unknown to them, the tootsie is really a doctoral student researching the love life of the suburban male. And she proves her smarts by keeping all four relationships strictly platonic, despite the boys' boasting to the contrary"--Container....

"The pride off Gentryville, Indiana, small town slugger Elmer Kane is the king of batters, celebrated for his ego, appetite and game-winning home runs. So when the Chicago Cubs attempt to sign him to a contract, Elmer refuses if it means leaving Nellie, the woman he loves. So when she pretends to spurn him, a forlorn Elmer packs his bat and heads to the Windy City. Taking the city by storm, Elmer leads the Cubs to the pennant. But when gamblers try...

Wealthy, impulsive Susan Trexel undergoes a religious conversion, one undoubtedly destined to last as long as this season's hemline length. In the meantime, Susan insists everyone around her - including her neglected husband and child - alter their lives (and loves) to conform to her latest whim.

A forbidding French chateau and its surrounding vineyards are the settings for Gothic thrills in this haunting excursion into the occult. In a chiller reminiscent of the later The Wicker Man (1973), in which an innocent outsider to an enclosed world peels back layers of mystery to reveal a shocking truth.

The story unfolds in China, where Katrin's marriage to busy Dr. Walter Fane is in trouble. Lonely and neglected, she falls in love with diplomatic attaché Jack Townsend. When Walter discovers their affair, he takes Katrin inland to fight a cholera epidemic, maliciously thinking the disease will kill them both. But working together helps rebuild their marriage, until Townsend resurfaces. Now Katrin must choose.

He's the lone survivor of a lost civilization thrust into ours and soon begins helping with undersea research. "Go deeper below the surface than ever before with the adventures of the being who is both human and aquatic. Atlantis survivor Mark Harris breathes underwater, withstands extreme depth pressures and wields superhuman strength"--Container.

"Society girl Margaret Richards, in full snit, has roared off in the family valet's car without a cent in her pocket. But now there's the matter of $3.48 to be paid at the gas station and the attendant isn't buying her promise of payment tomorrow. He insists she pay by cleaning rooms in the station's adjoining motel. The gas jockey [is] a college grad who plans to put his engineering degree to use by someday establishing a chain of auto courts. Meanwhile,...

The manner and cowardice of Albert Lory, a mother-fixated, slovenly school teacher in an unnamed country in Europe, are the subjects of his students' cruel jokes. Yet Lory's true inner courage is brought to light when the Nazis try to bribe him to keep his mouth shut in a court where he is being tried for a murder he did not commit. Instead, in the face of Nazi threats, he stands and delivers an impassioned speech on the preciousness of liberty.

A German man and an American woman are discriminated against as a couple as anti-German sentiment runs rampant.