
September 10, 1940 · 85 years old

Two unlikely prospector partners share the same wife in a California gold rush mining town.

The story of the friendship between the New York Mammoths major-league baseball team's worldly-wise pitcher Henry "Author" Wiggen and half-wit catcher Bruce Pearson as they cope with Bruce's terminal illness during a baseball season.

A teenage girl befriends a suspected high school slasher.

Three teenagers leave Los Angeles and drive north to Alaska, wind up robbing a pipeline and taking one of the employees hostage.