- A large company tries to streamline the retirement process by compressing the entire operation into six minutes. . . . without inviting guests to the party. Using an effective juxtaposition of objective and subjective camera angels, Howard in Particular examines the strange and obsessive nightmares of one such retiree …
- Philip Marlowe gets involved when limp-wristed and snidely Leslie Murdock steals a rare doubloon from his mother to give to a newsreel photographer in exchange for film that is being used for blackmail purposes. Marlowe's involvement has him encounter a girl who goes into hysterics when touched by a man; a husband-kill…