A charming drifter becomes sheriff in a rough and tumble mining town where lawmen don't last a month.

Story that spans more than 50 years in the lives of two men at the Peking Opera, friends since childhood, and the woman who comes between them. Also an absorbing drama of the period in Chinese history from the warlord era through the Cultural Revolution.

A group of 5 Anglican nuns attempt to found a hospital and school in the Himalayas. They are overcome by their own human frailties and native suspicions.

Meredith Willson's Broadway play is brought to the screen in this musical featuring Preston as Professor Harold Hill, a con artist whose schemes are unmasked by the lovely librarian, Marian (Jones).

Inspired by Clarke's epic book, the film moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence to the emergence of man as pure thought, somewhere in the future.