The Crooked Web
Following WWII, ex-G.I. Stan opened up a drive-in restaurant. His girlfriend, Joanie, is one of the car hops. They want to get married someday, but the less-than-stellar business the restaurant takes in puts a hold on that plan. One day, Joanie's ne’er-do-well brother Frank blows into town with a money-making scheme. She's against it, but Stan - an inveterate gambler - finds the promise of riches too seductive to resist…
The Great McGinty
Told in flashback, Depression-era bum Dan McGinty is recruited by the city's political machine to help with vote fraud. His great aptitude for this brings rapid promotion from "the boss," who finally decides he'd be ideal as a new, nominally "reform" mayor; but this candidacy requires marriage. His in-name-only marriage to honest Catherine proves the beginning of the end for dishonest Dan...
Born Reckless
Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. One night he rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous rodeo promoter and they form a team and hit the circuit along with sidekick Cool Man.
Call of the Wild
Jack Thornton has trouble winning enough at cards for the stake he needs to get to the Alaska gold fields. His luck changes when he pays $250 for Buck, a sled dog that is part wolf to keep him from being shot by an arrogant Englishman also headed for the Yukon. En route to the Yukon with Shorty Houlihan -- who spent time in jail for opening someone else's letter with a map of where gold is to be found -- Jack rescues a woman whose husband was the addressee of that letter. Buck helps Jack win a $1,000 bet to get the supplies he needs. And when Jack and Claire Blake pet Buck one night, fingers touch.
The Square Jungle
Grocery clerk Eddie Quaid, in danger of losing his father to alcoholism and his girl Julie through lack of career prospects, goes into boxing.
The Music Man
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
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Nathan Juran
Director
Carl Sklover
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Ballistics Expert
Duke Green
as
Bar Patron
Frank Lovejoy
as
Stanley E. 'Stan' Fabian
Richard Carle
as
Dr. Jonas J. Jarvis - Card Player in Cantina
Paul Newlan
as
Prisoner Demanding Quiet
Louis Jean Heydt
as
Tommy Thompson
Howard W. Koch
Director
Michael Dante
as
Cowboy Dancing with Jackie
Carol Ohmart
as
Liz
William A. Wellman
Director
Theodore Lorch
as
Dawson Townsman
Reginald Owen
as
Mr. Smith
John T. Murray
as
Stage Heavy
John Marley
as
Tommy Dillon - Referee
Barbara Pepper
as
Feril Hawkes
Hank Worden
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Undertaker
Ron Howard
as
Winthrop Paroo
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