Paul Dubov

Two widowed people fall in love and marry, unprepared for the hostile reactions of their children. Abby McClure, a widow with three sons, and Jake Iverson, a widower with a teenage daughter, get fixed up. They start dating and decide to get married. They're not prepared for the hostile reactions from their children, especially Jake's daughter Stacey, who wants to be the lady of the house, and Abby's oldest son Flip, who hates Jake. —Daniel Bubbeo <dbubbeo@cmp.com> Since the death of her husband, Abby McClure has had to be mother, father, and breadwinner--taking over operation of the family lumber store business--to her three sons. Her sister, Maxine Scott, has tried to be matchmaker for Abby, much to her exasperation as she would rather not associate with the men eligible to her. But she changes her mind when Maxine reminds her of a casual acquaintance: widowed chemical engineer Jake Iverson, whom she has not seen or thought about in years. Based on some unfortunate situations and misunderstandings, Abby and Jake's new-found relationship does not start off well. When a serious courtship does begin, their respective children--specifically Abby's eldest, late teen Flip McClure, and Jake's only offspring, late-teen Stacey Iverson--are their biggest obstacles, as they don't want their respective roles of male and female household head replaced. When Abby and Jake eventually get married, another pressure is how they will live while both their too-small houses wait to be sold. Can their marriage survive all these issues? —Huggo

When a recently fired policeman falls in love with a French prostitute in Paris, he doesn't want her to be with other men, so he creates an alter-ego who will become her only customer. Naive, by-the-book French police officer Nestor Patou is transferred to the Red Light district. Upon witnessing what must be a brothel, he calls the station, organizes a raid, and transports all the "ladies" to the jail. Unfortunately, this disrupts the well-organized system of the police and the pimps' union, not to mention inadvertently netting his station superior at the brothel. Fired, he goes to a bar to drink, is befriended by Irma, beats up her pimp, and finds he is that he is her pimp now. He does not like the thought of his girl seeing other men, so he comes up with a plan. —Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com> Disgraced former police officer Nestor Patou falls for beautiful Parisian prostitute Irma La Douce. Though Nestor becomes Irma's pimp, he can't stand the idea of her being with clients, so he devises a way to keep her all to himself. This scheme leads to plenty of trouble, though, and soon Nestor is forced to avoid his old law-enforcement peers in an attempt to stay with Irma and out of jail. —Jwelch5742 In the vibrant Les Halles food-market, at the bustling red-light district of rue Casanova, business is booming for delicate Parisian streetwalker Irma. Infatuated with her, zealous but penniless former police officer Nestor Patou will soon find himself dragged into an unknown world when he accepts Irma's generous invitation to move into her apartment. Little by little--as the young gendarme learns the tricks of the trade, first by becoming Irma's procurer, and then, by becoming the king of the block's pimps--an unexpected love affair begins--however, Nestor's justifiable jealousy gets the best of him. Now, Irma thinks that Nestor is cheating on her. To what extremes must Nestor go to prove his love for sweet Irma? —Nick Riganas A policeman, Nestor, falls in love with a prostitute, Irma, but doesn't want her seeing other men. So he creates an alter-ego, a wealthy Englishman, Lord X, who will be her only customer. Seems like a solid enough plan...to him. What could possibly go wrong? —grantss

An engineer, a psychologist and several other disparate types take part in an experiment to see if people can live for extended periods of time in a city built under the ocean.

Ma Barker and her four sons terrorize the 1930s South and Midwest with a string of kidnappings, robberies and murders, and even get to work with such famous criminals as John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson. From dust-bowl days in Oklahoma to an opulent Florida hideout under siege, Ma Barker (Lurene Tuttle of "Psycho"), leads her sons astray while maintaining a consultation sideline for the likes of John Dillinger, Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis, Baby Face Nelson and Machine Gun Kelly. —alfiehitchie

Two detectives seek a stripper's killer in the Japanese quarter of Los Angeles, but a love triangle threatens their friendship. Classic, hard-to-find Sam Fuller pic is intriguing noir about two detective partners, one caucasian and one Japanese, who try to solve a complicated murder case. Unfortunately, trouble arises when along the way, both of them fall in love with the key witness! —Mark Toscano <fiddybop@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Friends and roommates Charlie Bancroft and Joe Kojaku, who fought side by side during the Korean War, are now partnered homicide detectives with the LAPD, Charlie a sergeant, with Joe studying for the sergeant's exam. Their next case is of murdered burlesque queen Sugar Torch. She was shot in the middle of the street trying to evade the unknown gunman, who was lying in wait for her in her dressing room. Charlie and Joe have little to go on, believing the case surrounds the new unknown man in her life and/or the new act on which she was working. Joe will delve into the Japanese community - he US born of Japanese ancestry - as that new act had a geisha/samurai warrior theme. In Charlie following another lead, student artist Christine Downs is brought into the case as someone who may be able to identify that mystery man in Sugar's life, he the leading suspect. This position places Christine's life in jeopardy if the suspect, if he is indeed the murderer, knows that she can identify him. In the process of protecting her, Charlie falls in love with her, and making the proclamation that he can see himself marrying her, Joe too falls in love with her, he not wanting to act on his feelings in his and Charlie's friendship. Regardless, these feelings by both men for Christine complicate the investigation and threaten their friendship as race enters the discussion for the first time in it previously having been colorblind. —Huggo When a masked killer shoots Sugar Torch, a Los Angeles stripper, in the neck, homicide detectives Charlie Bancroft and Joe Kojaku, who happen to be roommates, investigate. A variety of clues, including a painting with a bullet hole in it, lead them to some interesting characters in L.A.'s Little Tokyo and to attractive artist Chris Downs. As the case builds to a climax, Charlie and Joe's partnership is threatened by an interracial love triangle... —Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>