Big Steve Halloway, gambler and proprietor of New York's Horseshoe Cabaret, is in desperate need of money. He arranges for his fellow bookies, especially Sorrowful Jones, to each pay him $1,000 for his racehorse, Dream Prince, to lose. With all bets being placed at the window, Sorrowful encounters a gambler, having lost $500, wanting to place his bet but unable to come up with $20. Instead, he places his little girl, Marthy Jane, as security, or in bookie's terms a "marker". "Marky", as she comes to be known, winds up under the care of Sorrowful Jones and his lady friend, singer Bangles Carson.
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise t...
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patric...
When ten-year-old Lewis is suddenly orphaned, he is sent to live with his Uncle Jonathan in a creaky...
An orphan boy with dreams of finding a family and fame as a cricketer, finds a bat with magical powe...
Young Native American man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling ...
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends ...
Ji-so, a young girl who doesn't have a house because of her bankrupted dad. In order to get money to...
An unusual explorer named Gum and his kindly niece adopt three orphans -- Pauline, Petrova and Posy ...
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in ...
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over thei...
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting thei...
Villainous Gru lives up to his reputation as a despicable, deplorable and downright unlikable guy wh...
A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with...
Danny has been in the army for 4 years, yet all he thinks about is Brooklyn and how great it is. Whe...
Nala live a seemingly harmonious family. The father always prayed for his family to remain healthy a...
Annie is back! Along with her friends Molly, Hannah, her dog Sandy, and her wealthy father Oliver Wa...
A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling ...
After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded ...
When her father enlists to fight for the British in WWI, young Sara Crewe goes to New York to attend...
Things seem pretty bad for a young girl living a "hard-knock life" in an orphanage. Fed up with the ...