對愛既期待又怕受傷害，對中年男子馬蒂來說，感受更為深刻。 馬蒂是義大利後裔，在紐約布魯克斯區狹窄的街道上，經營一家小肉鋪，由於馬蒂祂又矮又醜﹐已經年過中年，但總找不到結婚對象。 有一天﹐馬蒂的機會來了，在朋友家的舞會上﹐馬蒂邂逅一位姿色平平的中年女子克拉拉﹐是學校教師﹐過著單身獨居的生活。兩人在見面交談時發現頗為契合﹐從此開始接近。兩人抽空時便去咖啡館﹐或看電影。但馬蒂對感情一向沒有自信，自慚形穢﹐不敢冒然求婚。而克拉拉性格內向﹐不善於表達感情，使兩人的關係微妙又經常彼此試探，最後在眾親好友的牽線下﹐尤其是馬蒂母親使出渾身解數﹐馬蒂終於抱得嬌妻歸。

After the American Civil War, mercenaries travel to Mexico to fight in their revolution for money. The former soldier and gentleman Benjamin Trane meets the gunman and killer Joe Erin and his men, and together they are hired by the Emperor Maximillian and the Marquis Henri de Labordere to escort the Countess Marie Duvarre to the harbor of Vera Cruz.

Following the surrender of Geronimo, Massai, the last Apache warrior is captured and scheduled for transportation to a Florida reservation. On the way he manages to escape and heads for his homeland to win back his girl and settle down to grow crops. His pursuers have other ideas though.

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.

A frontiersman and his son fight to build a new home in Texas.