Comedy western in which a traveler bets more money than he can afford in a poker game, and unusual events follow.
Tommy Wilhelm is a good honest man who's fallen on hard times after losing his job, but what really gets to Tommy is seeing both his friends and family turning their backs on him one after the other. He tries to seize the day - in vain.
When a carefree bachelor tries to get his best friend to drop his mistress and return to his wife, he finds himself with romantic problems as well.
Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
1815. A soldier becomes the governor of St. Helena and jailer of Napoleon. High brow.