THUNDER BAY: In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Having finessed financing from a big oil company, formerly penniless Steve and his partner Johnny are in business...and getting interested in shrimp boat captain Rigaud's two lovely daughters.

THE FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX: Robert Aldrich's screen adaptation of Elleston Trevor's novel. After their plane crashes in the middle of the Sahara Desert, the pilot (James Stewart) and navigator (Richard Attenborough) do their best to keep order among the survivors, a group of oil-men not used to the hardships of the desert. Whilst struggling to survive, the group of men also have to find a way back to civilisation and manage to design and build a new plane from the wreckage of the old one.

BANDOLERO!: Mace Bishop masquerades as a hangman in order to save his outlaw brother from the gallows, runs to Mexico chased by the sheriff's posse and fights against Mexican bandits.