A prisoner, recently released from the Confederacy's most infamous prison camp, is asked to meet a Union General who is a potential presidential candidate. He refuses because the General's error led to his incarceration.

A Lieutenant challenges a subordinate to a duel when he catches him playing cards. Many years pass and many events transpire between the two shots.

A hardware salesman is charged with a series of robberies and kidnappings he did not commit. The suspect matches his description exactly. He relies on a polygraph to get him off the hook.

A woman scorned has nightmares of killing her former beau in various ways. She is troubled when her former fiance continues to have close calls with his life that closely resemble her dreams.

In a Balkan country circa 1912, a good-natured professional swindler teams up with an unlikely female American painter to swindle the king who is a professional swindler in his own right. The king tries to outswindle them. The swindler and painter find they have more in common than they may have thought.

A stressed-out couple get in an auto accident while getting off the interstate. Thinking it's not very serious, they journey to the old-time town of Downville to get some gas. A mechanic examines their car and tells them the car needs major work and that they will be stuck in Downville for a few days. But when the mechanic takes way too long to fix their car, the man — who is a lawyer — starts thinking he should sue, which sets up a surprise ending.

A man is accused of murdering his mistress. At first, he is confident that he did not, but when she starts to call him in the night and haunt his dreams, doubts begin to arise in his own mind. His wife is steadfast in her defense of him.

A former revolutionary of a Central American country escapes the rising dictatorship and settles in America where be becomes a college professor. But his revolutionary roots call out to him. . .

A police detective assumes that it is just routine when he is asked to complete a report on the hit and run death of a wealthy socialite. Instead, he finds murder. More troubling still, the wealthy socialite was his ex-girlfriend. His intuitive wife helps him solve the case.

A governess signs on with a wealthy but eccentric couple to school their children. The husband is paranoid and carries a gun at all times. The wife is domineering and often accuses the help of stealing jewelry.