Joan Lorring

From stylish auteur Joseph Losey comes this intense drama about awkward teen Georgie La Main (John Drew Barrymore), whose turbulent relationship with his emotionally repressed father, Andy (Preston Foster), is strained even more when Andy suffers a humiliating beating by writer Al Judge (Howard St. John). Emboldened by a stolen pistol, Georgie comes of age as he searches for Al during the long night and uncovers a dark secret about his own past.

When he travels to Italy to search for a famous 19th-century poet's lost love letters, New York publisher Lewis Venable (Robert Cummings) becomes drawn into the unhealthy world of the poet's now elderly lover, Juliana Bordereau (Agnes Moorehead), and her unstable niece, Tina (Susan Hayward). Venable soon realizes all is not well in this household, which hides a terrible secret. The film is based on Henry James's novel &NFi;The Aspern Papers&NFi_;.

Concert pianist Karen Duncan (Barbara Stanwyck) is admitted to a Swiss sanatorium to recover from a serious illness. There she feels the romantic magnetism of Dr. Anthony Stanton (David Niven), who warns her of the potentially fatal dangers of not resting completely. Despite these warnings, Duncan flees to Monte Carlo in the company of playboy racecar driver Paul Clermont (Richard Conte), who just might be all the medicine she needs.