Dick Sargent

A devoutly Calvinist businessman from Michigan ventures into California's adult entertainment industry, where he desperately searches for his runaway teenage daughter. Jake VanDorn is a businessman from the American heartland who shares strong Calvinist convictions with most of his countrymen. When his teenage daughter goes missing from her church youth convention, VanDorn hires a private investigator to find her, and the investigator spots the girl in a cheap X-rated movie. VanDorn decides to bring her back personally and during the quest he becomes familiar with the pornographic underworld. —Dragan Antulov <dragan.antulov@altbbs.fido.hr> A few days after seeing his only daughter, quiet teenage Kristen, off on her youth group's trip to California, Grand Rapids businessman and strict Calvinist Jake VanDorn receives the worst phone call a father could ever get: Mysteriously, his beloved Kristen has disappeared. As the police seem unable to help, desperate Jake hires private detective Andy Mast to trace his daughter. Instead, the investigator returns with an 8mm hardcore porn movie in which the missing minor is performing. Jake has no choice but to delve deeply into South California's obscure underworld of prostitution to bring her back. But who knows where she is? —Nick Riganas

A rich businessman and a young woman are attracted to each other, but he only wants an affair while she wants to save herself for marriage. Cathy Timberlake is an old-fashioned country girl who meets the man of her dreams, Philip Shayne, after his Rolls Royce splashes her with mud on her way to a job interview. Philip is a romantic businessman who is taken by Cathy's honest heart. There's one problem: he's not interested in marriage, and she has never thought of anything else. —Kelly On a rainy day, currently-unemployed Cathy Timberlake is furious when a passing limousine, driving through a puddle, splashes her, muddying her coat and dress. She is even more furious when the limousine fails to stop, although she knows the limo's passenger saw her get splashed. She changes her tune when she meets that passenger: dashing, wealthy businessman Philip Shayne. Cathy is immediately attracted to him and he to her. However, ladies' man Philip is much more experienced than she, and she is unprepared for his lavish and elaborate proposal--that she accompany him immediately to Bermuda, Paris, and Monte Carlo--and its connotation that it hold no strings. Cathy turns to her streetwise roommate, Connie Emerson, for advice. As Philip and Cathy's whirlwind relationship progresses, Cathy's hesitance to "go all the way" with Philip always leads to frustration for him. Despite Philip and Cathy being unable to make a full connection, Philip's business associate Roger believes that Cathy is just what Philip needs in his life, as he has never needed to work at making a conquest. Although Cathy really does want to be with Philip and he wants to be with her, can they get over these initial obstacles? —Huggo While heading out to collect her unemployment paycheck and then to attend a job interview, naive Cathy Timberlake gets her coat mud-splashed by the Rolls Royce of millionaire businessman Philip Shayne. He sees her going to have lunch from his office and sends his financial advisor Roger to give her some money to compensate for her loss. The offer offends Cathy and she goes to Philip's office with the intention of throwing the money on his face. However, when she sees the handsome Philip, she immediately falls in love with him. They date and Cathy expects that Philip will propose--but he has no such intention. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

During World War II, a commander finds himself stuck with a decrepit (and pink) submarine, a con man executive officer, and a group of army nurses. A submarine newly commissioned is damaged in the opening days of WW II. A captain, looking for a command insists he can get it to a dockyard and captain it. Going slowly to this site, they find a stranded group of Army nurses and must take them aboard. How bad can it get? Trying to get a primer coat on the sub, they have to mix white and red in order to have enough. When forced to flee the dock during an air attack, they find themselves with the world's only Pink submarine, still with 5 women in the tight quarters of a submarine. —John Vogel <jlvogel@comcast.net> The Philippines, December 1941. Lt. Commander Matt Sherman is the captain of USS Sea Tiger, a submarine. While in harbour she is damaged by a Japanese air raid, and is close to being written off as sunk. However the crew manage to refloat her and repair her as best they can. Sherman acquires a supply officer, Lt (j.g.) Nick Holden, a staff officer with no discernible naval experience or talents, except one - he is a master of scavenging parts and supplies. The submarine sets out for Australia for repairs. On the way they stop at a US -held island only to find it deserted, but for five nurses. Things are about to get very complicated. —grantss December, 1941. While docked in The Philippines in preparation for its first wartime order to sink or destroy all enemy fleet, the submarine USS Sea Tiger sustains major damage in a Japanese air raid. Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman, its first and only captain, in lamenting the fact that the Sea Tiger has never seen active battle in its one year of service, is able to convince Capt. J.B. Henderson, rather than sending it to the junk yard, to let his crew make the minor repairs required for it to become at least seaworthy so that they can make the two thousand mile voyage to Darwin, the closest full service naval yard, where all the necessary repairs can be done properly in order for it to be sent back into commission. One problem is that these minor repairs necessarily need to be accomplished within two weeks. Another problem is by the time the decision is made, many of the crew have been reassigned leaving Sherman with a skeleton crew. And a third seemingly just as big a problem is that Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Nicholas Holden is assigned to the crew, he generally attired in dress whites or non-regulation designer clothes, he whose only role in the war has been to make his own life and that of other senior officers and their wives fun and comfortable far away from any danger. Holden is aware that this assignment is outside his comfort zone, but he still wants to play his part working to his strengths of understanding how to operate outside "regulation" so that he can move onto his next more appropriate assignment once they reach Darwin whatever that comfortable assignment may be. Beyond the issue of the sub's seaworthiness or lack thereof with these band-aid repairs and the perils of the war still raging, they face further issues in the seeming incompatibility of male submarine life with an infusion of the feminine in more ways than one en route to Darwin. —Huggo