Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman.

The sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick.

When two male musicians witness a mob hit, they flee the state in an all-female band disguised as women, but further complications set in.

In Hawaii in 1941, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second-in-command are falling in love.

A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbours from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.