Donald MacBride

When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.

Dir. Billy Wilder · With Marilyn Monroe, Tom Ewell, Evelyn Keyes

Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.

Dir. Robert Siodmak · With Edmond O'Brien, Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner

Years after her ship disappeared, a presumably dead woman returns home. To her shock, she finds her husband has remarried.

Dir. Garson Kanin · With Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott

Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?

Dir. Alexander Hall · With Robert Montgomery, Evelyn Keyes, Claude Rains

A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.

Dir. Stuart Heisler · With Brian Donlevy, Veronica Lake, Alan Ladd