A naive man is appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. His plans promptly collide with political corruption, but he doesn't back down.

An FBI agent teams with a town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.

An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.

A self-conscious bride is tormented by the memory of her husband's dead first wife.

A manipulative woman and a roguish man conduct a turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods.

Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

A man tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue.

A bank robber finds himself unable to evade those who are looking for him.

A poor Midwest family is forced off their land. They travel to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

An insurance representative lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

Fred Dobbs and Bob Curtin, two Americans searching for work in Mexico, convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.