The Fifth Commandment for Health: Cleaning Mess Gear. Thou shalt carefully and faithfully wash thy mess gear both before and after meals. For verily if thou becomes negligent in this habit thy guts shall be like knots in a wet rope. Private McGillicuddy discovers what happens when you don't follow that commandment.
A Manhattan family's Christmas season turns topsy-turvy when 13-year-old Judy Graves mistakenly thinks her newly-arrived visiting uncle has just been released from prison.
After robbing and murdering his married lover and then making her death look like suicide, conniving philanderer Ronnie Mason relocates to Los Angeles.
A female hitchiker is taken in by a family after a horrible car accident. While she recovers, she begins to unravel a murder mystery involving the woman of the house.
A U. S. Marines dog is returned to his young owner in the small town of Monrovia at the end of WWII, but a grouchy neighbor believes the animal's military training makes him a threat to the community and files charges to have the dog destroyed.