During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for...

Orphaned shoeshine boy Spanky is working on a Mississippi riverboat during the Civil War. There he befriends young runaway slave Buckwheat. After...

En route to Normandy, an American and a British officer reminisce in flashback about their romances with the same woman.

An Edinburgh professor and assorted colleagues follow an explorer's trail down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the earth's center.

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.