Ricky wants and tries throughout the series to go straight but old habits die hard. A young sailor on shore leave takes up residence in a bar where his brother is having an affair with the owner's wife. But the owner lusts after the sailor, whose sudden sexual awakening leads to tragedy. This art house from cult director Rainer Werner Fassbinder stars Brad Davis, Franco Nero and Jeanne Moreau. Meg Tilly and Anne Pitoniak star in Norman Jewison's critically acclaimed drama.
Suspicion arises when a young nun's baby dies.
The police think it might be murder, Mother Superior wants the girl left alone and only the psychiatrist on the case tries to help her. A veteran gambler teaches a broke young man the ropes and stands by him through trouble. But blackmail threatens to destroy their friendship. In contemporary New York, a Holocaust survivor, still grieving at the recent death of his wife, seems intent on sinking his foundering publishing company by issuing a ruinously costly 4-volume study of Nazi medical experiments, rather than the pop novel that might save the firm. This precipitates a battle for control with his three grown children, who also own company shares.