Gabby, the waitress in an isolated Arizona diner, dreams of a bigger and better life. One day penniless intellectual Alan drifts into the joint and the two strike up a rapport. Soon enough, notorious killer Duke Mantee takes the diner's inhabitants hostage. Surrounded by miles of desert, the patrons and staff are forced to sit tight with Mantee and his gang overnight.

Film on presidential campaigns and the right to vote. Used as educational material in American classrooms.

In the second screen version of The Maltese Falcon, a detective is caught between a lying seductress and a lady jewel thief.

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

A gypsy loves a married farmer who is blinded blowing up a tree.