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An aging sportsman keeps hunting season alive through elaborate dinners, improbable anecdotes, and one coveted delicacy.
During the siege of Paris, two old fishing companions cross the French lines for one peaceful morning beside the Seine.
A stranded collector hatches an extinct giant bird on a lonely atoll and gains a companion that keeps growing.
Randolph Carter recounts the night his occult-minded friend descended into a hidden crypt with only a telephone line between them.
Two Klondike partners buy a handsome sled dog who refuses to pull and keeps finding them whenever they leave him behind.
To keep a promise, a Klondike traveler carries a friend's heavy bag through storms, rapids, and a mountain pass.
Two boys skip school in search of adventure and meet a stranger who unsettles their day.
After a drunken fall, a salesman’s friends try to guide him back toward the church.
On a bitter Christmas Eve, an out-of-work watchmaker hears a violin through the wall just as he loses hope.
Two old friends keep a twenty-year appointment, but the lives they built have carried them to opposite sides of the law.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
A plain waitress mistakes one impulsive kiss for her long-awaited entrance into the glamorous world of romance.
A shy paper-box worker arrives at her Saturday dance with a glamorous escort and suddenly becomes the center of attention.
A traveling swindler recruits a mountain hog thief, only to discover that even a comic partnership has its own ethics.
Two snowbound prospectors educate themselves with very different books, then put their new knowledge to work in a small Montana town.
In a Greenwich Village artists' colony, a gravely ill young painter ties her fate to the last leaf on a neighboring vine.
A grieving Irishman treats a palmist’s predictions as a treasure map and pursues the stranger meant to bring him luck.
Every Thanksgiving, a wealthy old man takes a homeless stranger to dinner, preserving a private tradition neither can bear to break.
Bertie's attempt to mend Freddie's broken engagement leaves him responsible for a stranger's child at the seaside.
Biffy has lost the woman he loves and is engaged to another. Bertie’s rescue plan takes them to a crowded exhibition.
After a Boat Race night arrest, Bertie poses as his jailed friend at a Cambridge house full of people he'd rather avoid.
Stranded on an asteroid with minutes of oxygen left, a patrolman and his camera-obsessed partner confront monsters that may exist only in the mind.
An aging prospector on a remote asteroid gives his work robot a personality and gains the companion he never expected.
