Why?

An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.

1942 Oscar nominated documentary about wartime Saint Pierre and Miquelon. Part of the Broadway Brevities series.

An exiled Italian prostitute shields her sister from a deep-sea diver on an island volcano.

A money-strapped Los Angeles businessman hopes to solve his financial woes by blackmailing his wife's married lover.

A doctor spends 24 hours in a clinic with a group of patients. Each character has his or her own story to tell, about their fathers, mothers, or spouses who don't understand them, and how they've turned instead to drugs.

A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly with her, promising all kinds of wealth for her favors. The caravan encounters a group of Jdean refugees fleeing from King Herod's orders to kill all male children. They are on their way to Egypt with a male child with them. The Merchant begins to ponder the reward that would be paid by the King and orders The Woman to seduce a Roman guard to enable the messenger to get away. When the King's soldiers show up, Verrus refuses to surrender the refugees. Then the sand hits the fan.

Two brothers, one wanted for murder, are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by nubile young women who have amassed a valuable cache of pearls.

A French-language documentary by Victor Stoloff