The first U.S. mission to Venus crash-lands off the coast of Sicily, unknowingly bringing back a mysterious reptilian creature that rapidly grows to a monstrous size.
A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from quitting and remarrying, using an exclusive interview with a death row convict as an enticement to buy himself some time to win her back.