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Tex Benton, riding across the country, sees a turtle, catches a jack rabbit and tests out the old fable of the tortoise and the hare; when the rabbit wins, Tex vows to model his behavior on that style. In a border town, he rescues an Indian, "Bat," and the two become friends. In Wolfville, Tex enters a rodeo. Meanwhile, a stalled Eastern train carries Alice Marcum, the girl Tex decides he wants. Tex competes with an Easterner for the girl's attentions, but Tex, the "hare," loses to the Eastern tenderfoot, the "tortoise." Tex then concludes that he is not the marrying kind.

The fabled adventures of John Lewis Burckhardt, who dared to penetrate the forbidden interior of ancient Arabia to find the lost palace of Zenobia and the Biblical cities of Baalbek, Gerasa, and Petra. His adventures, based on his own journal, are depicted in the seething land in which they occurred. Because Burckhardt was considered an infidel by the Arab tribesmen, he traveled incognito and learned the various dialects of Arabia and studied their customs and ways of life in order to protect his own. Despite his strenuous efforts, he was attacked many times by desert nomads.

A post WWII German satire of the stupidity of a military culture so often associated with that country: An intellectual, civilian type totally unsuited for the army mentality somehow lands up playing the role, to the hilt, of a hero.

Edwin Drake, disowned by his wealthy father for lack of self-sufficiency, is unable to get a job and becomes a tramp. But after a prophetic vision, he discovers his better self and his regeneration begins. He obtains a job, quickly progressing to a key position. At the same time, Sarah Holmes is being taught to think positively by her friend, The Professor. Quite by accident, she meets Mrs. Drake, who takes a liking to her and treats her as her own daughter. One day Mrs. Drake is lamenting about her estranged son and shows Sarah a picture of Edwin. Sarah recognizes him as the young man who lives in her boardinghouse. She arranges for Mrs. Drake to be reunited with her now successful son, and eventually she becomes Mrs. Drake's daughter-in-law.

Released in the USA with English subtitles. Mihailo, the son of the village gunsmith, is seduced by the wife of an elderly tavern-keeper. When the husband discovers them together, the wife kills him with a knife handed her by the boy. He runs away and broods about the killing for a few years, and has no interest in women. Back home, his girlfriend, Anika, waits for his return. When he does, and does not take advantage of her encouragement, recalling his bad experience of years past, she reacts by becoming the town harlot. Her half-wit brother resents her love for Mihailo, and when he sees that they might get together, he kills his sister.

When an elderly couple is murdered, the police pick up the most likely suspect, a young loner. The authorities force a confession out of the suspect, who then insists that he had a pair of accomplices.

On the surface, the teenagers Birte and Helle have it all, as part of the better citizenship and the optimistic youth of the post-war era. However, both have challenges - especially with parents who seem petrified in old norms without the possibility of being able to understand what the young girls are going through.

A small-town district attorney's saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.

A sex craved serial murderer prowls the German autobahn while an inspector hunts him down.

An experimental short film of flashing images made by Stan Brakhage.

A traitor's disloyalty to an organized crime syndicate is uncovered and a violent showdown erupts as he is held prisoner by a dangerous outlaw who calls himself "The Sundance Kid". An intense battle for survival ensues in this action-packed psychological thriller.

A woman with a precarious past tries to hide it from her teenage son and change by falling in love with a man.

The crisis of conscience among the youth of post World War II Italy, with their new moral and cultural values, in opposition to the traditional spiritual values of a previous generation.

A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually falls in love with his neighbor's wife. When her husband goes on a business trip to Africa, the scientist also goes abroad to avoid temptation but finds himself sailing from Cairo aboard the same ship as his neighbor's wife, who is traveling to join her husband. The ship is wrecked when it collides with another vessel, and the two are marooned together at the edge of the jungle, with the woman suffering from amnesia and mistaking the scientist for her husband. About to kill himself to save the honor of his neighbors' marriage, the scientist is saved by the return of the woman's memory and by the subsequent arrival of her husband. Electing to remain in the jungle, the lonely scientist toasts the couple's happiness from afar.