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- Three short stories, each focused on a man and a woman. The first is set in the 1940s, the other two in the 1920s. In "The Man in a Brooks Brothers Suit," a businessman of about 40 plies a younger Leftist women with liquor aboard a train. They spend the night together, and he decides he's in love with her; she plays along. In "Dusk Before Fireworks," Kit, a youthful flapper, arrives at Hoby's classy flat intent on an evening of passion, but a constantly-ringing telephone interrupts each embrace. In "Hills Like White Elephants," a couple traveling in Spain discuss her pregnancy: he wants things to stay as they are, she doesn't quite know what she wants.
- The lives of a number of the workers and executives in a Manhattan skyscraper are affected by the actions of a philandering and crooked company boss.
- Assigned to investigate a lawyer's murder, a detective finds that his chief suspect is his own secretary--who is also the woman he loves.
- A youngster taken to a jungle by his mother and her butler to avoid losing his custody to the father in a messy divorce, is now a teenager with curiosity about his past, strangers, and native girls...
- A travelogue looks at the exotic country of Morocco.
- Police investigating a string of train crashes discover that they were all caused by sabotage.
- Johnny, the son of a rich man, is an idling, good-for-nothing loafer who leads a wild, hectic life, flunks out of college, and is disinherited and made to leave home by his father, who has given up on him in despair. Johnny opens a gas-station in Arizona, where "Waffles," a girl from Georgia, takes him in hand and employs her own methods of reformation with astonishing and fruitful results. More comedy than drama, if the meller-drammer acting is overlooked. It was released in the UK as "The Girl From Georgia" in 1934.
- A look at the people of rural Guatemala, showcasing their daily activities of hunting, fishing, weaving clothes and dealing with a nearby volcano, which has erupted several times in the past, destroying villages and causing much death and destruction.
- A compilation of newsreel clips covering historic world events in the U.S. from the end of World War I until 1933.
- The ups and downs of a man living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra who has more wives than he can support.
- A brief narrated documentary on Native Americans and their society.