Uptick

When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.

A darkly comic tale of 2 longtime friends facing their difficult late 20s when career, health, hair loss and the need to find a life partner move sharply to the fore. On this ordinary evening, while Ed and Al are watching their team the Knicks on TV, one of them reveals a secret that will change the way they look at each other forever.

Television adaptation of George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber's play depicting the lives of struggling Broadway actresses living in a boarding house for women.

The soldier Sjur brings home Dagmar, a city girl, with whom he is engaged to be married. Sjur's old girlfriend hates this and finds Dagmar flirting with others. One day Dagmar is offered money to leave Sjur.