A passenger aircraft crashes in the mid-Pacific and some of the survivors reach an island inhabited only by an American, Jim Taylor, with his Chinese servant, Ping. He declines to help them, telling them to build their own shelter and gather their own food. The reason why he wants to remain undisturbed, we learn, is…

The Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for so long, no one remembers the reason the feud started in the first place. One stormy night in 1810, family patriarch John McKay and his rival James Canfield kill each other. After the tragic death of her husband, John’s wife decides her son Willie will not…

Two people—a middle-aged stock broker and a young widow—are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they’ve both fled the state with secrets. Neither knows of the other’s situation, and they both turn to each other for help. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original…

Are we losing our ability to tackle problems using logic and reason? Evidence suggests the answer to that question is a thunderous “Yes!” Let’s consider just one example. Since Inauguration Day, our government is creating programs that will cost more trillions of dollars than the trillions we’ve already spent. Troops remain stationed in Washington D.C….