Henry King

Against the counsel of his friends, psychiatrist Dick Diver marries Nicole Warren, a beautiful but unstable young woman from a moneyed family. ...

Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with ...

Toward the end of his life F. Scott Fitzgerald is writing for Hollywood studios to be able to afford the cost of an asylum for his wife. He is ...

Jim Douglass arrives in the small town of Rio Arriba in order to witness the hanging of the four men he believes murdered his wife. When the ...

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920’s France and Spain.

Billy Bigelow has been dead for 15 years. Now outside the pearly gates, he long ago waived his right to go back to Earth for a day. He has heard ...

When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O’Neill ...

A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China’s ...

Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an ...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

Five O. Henry stories, each separate. The primary one from the critic’s acclaim was „The Cop and the Anthem“. Soapy tells ...

A minister from the Deep South is assigned a new parish and moves with his wife to a town in Georgia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where he tends ...

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.

The fastest gun in the West tries to escape his reputation.

In the early days of daylight bombing raids over Germany, General Frank Savage must take command of a ‘hard luck’ bomber group. Much ...

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this ...

A state welfare agent persuades a Maine lobsterman to take a troubled orphan boy aboard.

Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced ...

A woman reminisces about her teenage years in the 1920s, when she fell in love with her teacher.

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New ...

In 1858 Lourdes, France, Bernadette, an adolescent peasant girl, has a vision of „a beautiful lady“ in the city dump. She never ...

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of ...

An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty’s Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.

Elderly schoolteacher Nora Trinell, waiting to meet presidential nominee Dewey Roberts, recalls him as her student back in 1916 and his relation ...

Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Country boy joins a circus in the 1840s and falls in love with the bare-back rider. Later he falls in love with another circus runaway.

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to ...

After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Classical violinist, Roger Grant disappoints his family and teacher when he organizes a jazz band, but he and the band become successful. Roger ...

Half-Indian girl brought up in a wealthy household is loved by the son of the house against his family’s wishes and loves another Indian ...