A dramatic re-creation of an attempted prison break at the Massachusetts State Prison at Walpole. Six desperate prisoners seize guards and other prisoners and threaten to make them human torches unless the prison gate is opened.
A documentary drama that recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imposed task: providing homes for European D.P.'s.
Dr. Jan Larvik is asked to work on a top-secret defense project. He seems to have a clean record, but after his security check both he and the Army get letters accusing him of being a Communist.
A primer in stock market investing, this is a frank and fact-filled tour of the "bucket shops" and "boiler rooms" where too many market amateurs are separated from their cash.
The story of the loss of a B-24D Liberator heavy bomber on an April 1943 mission to Naples with the wreck of the plane found in 1958 in the Libyan Desert hundreds of miles south of their base.
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service gets word that a smuggling ring is planning to bring four Italians to New York from Genoa and goes to work to prevent it
A schoolteacher serving a six-month prison term for narcotics possession notices that the teenage inmates have no constructive outlet for their youthful energy. He hits upon the idea of setting up a school inside the prison walls. Based on a true story.