Philip Ober

Middle-aged middle-manager Jim Fry, with the same company for fifteen years, is in a comfortable rut. But life becomes less predictable when he ...

A lonely, unhappy owner of a Beverly Hills boarding house reflects on her lonely, unhappy life and the lonely, unhappy man she once loved.

Tax collector Lorenzo Charlton comes to the Larkins’ farm to ask why Pop Larkins hasn’t paid his back taxes. Charlton has to stay for ...

A domineering San Francisco businessman is determined to put an end to his son’s romance with a high-priced hooker.

A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the ...

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he’s gotten off was really guilty.

The wedding of Ellen and David is halted by a stranger who insists that the bride is already married to someone else. Though the flabbergasted ...

An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman.

A wealthy, aging businessman with political ambitions conducts an adulturous affair with his daughter’s roommate.

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is ...

In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with ...

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 ...

A mismatched couple’s marital problems come to the surface when the husband develops an interest in their pretty boarder.

Kay Kingsley, a sophisticated and successful songwriter in New York City. falls in love with a widowed rancher, Chris Heyward, she meets at the ...

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and ...

A genie tends to get his master into more predicaments than he gets him out of.

A submarine commander is on a relentless pursuit of a Japanese aircraft carrier in the South Seas during World War II.

Middle-class suburbanites Larry and Kitty grow bored with their lives and respective marriages. Although each always found the other’s ...

Luther Heggs, a typesetter for the town newspaper, pitches an idea for a story about a local haunted house where a famous murder/suicide occurred ...

In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit’s team, while his captain’s wife and second in command are ...

Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.