An abridged version of the misfortunes that plague a prominent New England family because of greed and a two-hundred-year-old curse.

In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

Under the Paris Opera House lives a disfigured musical genius who uses music to win the love of a beautiful opera singer.

Humans battle evil aliens to save Earth and its people from certain doom when the Martians land in England.