A hard-living salesman becomes a quadriplegic after an accident.

Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous...

Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.

A small-town doctor helps a deaf-mute farm girl learn to communicate.

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.

A daughter seeks to restore the reputation of her disgraced father, a wronged college professor. With help of a professional student, she must...

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect...

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and...

A businessman kills his adulterous wife and is sent to prison. After his release, he opens a barbershop and meets new people, talking to almost no...

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court.