In small town Alaska, a news reporter recruits his ex-girlfriend - a Greenpeace volunteer - on a campaign to save a family of gray whales trapped by rapidly forming ice in the Arctic Circle.

An intelligence officer is recalled from retirement when there are signs that one of the top-ranking officers of the British Secret Intelligence Service is a Soviet mole.

A silent movie star loses his career to the rise of "talkies," and his lover, a rising movie star, saves him from alcoholism and poverty by encouraging him to make a comeback as a dancer.