All the book-based movies and TV shows featuring Hugh Marlowe, ranked

Margo Channing is one of the biggest stars on Broadway. Eve tells the group gathered in Margo’s dressing room—Karen, Lloyd, Margo’s boyfriend, Bill Sampson, a director who is eight years her junior, and Margo’s maid Birdie —that she followed Margo’s last theatrical tour to New York City after seeing her perform in San Francisco.

While serving a life sentence at Alcatraz, Robert Stroud, a convicted murderer, nurses a sick bird that enters his cell back to health, eventually transforming into an internationally recognized expert in ornithology.

When a flying saucer lands in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Army quickly surrounds it. When he unexpectedly opens a small device, he is shot and wounded by a nervous soldier. The alien orders the robot, Gort, to desist. He explains that the now-broken device was a gift for the President of the United States that would have enabled him to study life on the other planets.

The plot unfolds around an American Bomber Group grappling with diminished morale and effectiveness following significant losses in the German skies. General Frank Savage, initially confined to a desk as a staff chief, is dispatched to the group after the removal of the Bomber Commander. Despite facing initial resistance, Savage eventually guides the pilots in rediscovering pride in their unit and inspires them to surpass the established standards of the Army Air Corps.