In einer Wüste nahe der mexikanischen Grenze werden Atomversuche durchgeführt, bei denen durch ein Versehen riesige Ameisen entstehen, die über die Erde herfallen und die Menschen fressen. Armee und Wissenschaftler versuchen die Monster zu bekämpfen …

Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.

Gerade aus der letzten Stadt wegen angeblicher Brandstiftung geworfen, kommt Ben Quick, ein junger Mann nach Frenchmans Bend, wo so ziemlich alles im Besitz der Familie Varner ist. Der allmächtigen Will stellt Quick in seinem Laden an, nicht zuletzt weil er sich Quick als gutes Beispiel für seinen eigenen wenig ehrgeizigen Sohn Jody und als möglichen Ehemann für seine Tochter Clara vorstellt. Ungeachtet der Wünsche seiner eigenen Familie ist dies der Nährboden für einen dramatischen, heißen Sommer...

Ein altes Ehepaar muss sich aufgrund des Verlustes des eigenen Heimes trennen, um bei ihren Kindern zu leben, die inzwischen selbst eigenen Familien haben. Doch die beiden erweisen sich eher als störend für den Familienalltag. Leo McCareys gilt als unterschätzes Meisterwerk .Kein Platz für Eltern (OT: Make Way for Tomorrow), von dem Orson Welles einmal bemerkte, dass es selbst Steine zum Weinen bringen könnte.

Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.

Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.

In December 1892, a silent mysterious and very private man, for whom a new house has just been built, arrives in the small town of Bridgewood to keep a promise.

When Decker's gang holds up a stage, henchman Lefty takes a lady's rings. Later lefty accidentally exposes the rings buying ammunition and Cheyenne sees them. When Lefty tries to shoot Cheyenne he is captured. Now Cheyenne wants the rest of the gang and their leader.

Peter Olsen, a young social outcast who lives alone on a rundown farm and raises vegetables for a living, finds his only consolation in liquor, though Dorcas Chatham, daughter of the general store owner, begs him to forego this indulgence. Returning from town, he finds a dog by the roadside, apparently injured by a car, and takes it home. Later, on a drunken spree, Peter is attacked by robbers, but the dog comes to his rescue and frightens the assailants away. Stirred by the unselfish devotion of his dog, Peter gradually regains his self-respect, and Dorcas falls in love with him and accepts his proposal, though she fears the dog. When Peter enters the dog in a show, another exhibitor proves to be its owner, and Peter is first parted from, then reunited with, "his" dog. Dorcas overcomes her fear and is united with Peter.

Lum and Abner work at a general store in Arkansas. There they get involved in some misadventures with the locals.

General store owners, through a series of contrivances, end up on the better side of a practical joke being played on them.

This 2015 documentary about the history behind the Sabinal Canyon in Texas. The story starts in the Hill Country where Cap. William Ware was given land for his years of service and after moving there started Waresville. After his death the town was moved about half a mile north and was called Montana but after a man was healed by swimming in the Sabinal river for a year the town was renamed Utopia. The movie also talks about town of Vanderpool as well as the Lost Maples state park.