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- When Angie finds herself with no money and terminally ill, a teenage runaway, Ruby, enters her life. The two form an unlikely bond as Angie teaches her to write a song to deal with the past.
- A young, impoverished German woman named Hanna (Maria von Tasnady) gives her infant up for adoption and emigrates to American to live with her husband. When her husband commits suicide, Hanna returns to Germany and works her way into becoming the live-in maid and nurse to her child being raised by an orchestra conductor and his wife.
- A mysterious murder involves a violinist (Maysa), but the police officer (Seleem) manages to decipher the crime. The movie studies the female inter-sibling undercurrent competition, when for example they approach one man for his love.
- Three Chords From The Truth focuses on a fictional country television network, giving viewers a unique and satirical look at the cutthroat, youth-oriented music business through the eyes of the new head of the network: a 40-something woman who is looking for love in all the wrong places. Overly confident success junkie Helena Delaney is given a second chance at success, running a TV network already populated with a dysfunctional staff of characters. It's a dream job, if she had a clue about country music. Which she doesn't. Helena thinks Big and Rich are, well... adjectives. Headhunted by her old lover and new boss Ellis Dukes, Helena is to rejuvenate the station that was left in shambles by their recently -- and literally -- committed ex-network head. Losing ground as she pushes into her 40s, Helena fights to stay ahead of the game, in love, life and work, mildly failing but often landing on her designer stilettos, a little worse for wear. Helena is determined to succeed, to bring the Network's numbers through the roof in the New Country boom, to gain respect from her employees and maybe to finally find true love. And the odds are against her.
- A young man takes a job assisting a mysterious man in an experiment of a lifetime.
- A musician falls in love with the daughter of a count, who he had killed in a duel over his wife.
- A man with PTSD discovers an abandoned saxophone. And just as the instrument helps him cope, the owner appears on his doorstep.
- Against prejudice, the beautiful daughter of Cyprus' most prominent industrialist falls for a humble fisherman; but, fate has a cruel future in store for her. Now, they all need a miracle. Can the poor lad from Cyprus save his beloved?
- Carl Danmitz, a poor but talented violinist, engages a room in an obscure boarding house and pursues his studies. Gretchen Bleeker resides across the street, and through the open window where she is wont to sit, hears the sweet strains of his violin. One day while Gretchen is listening, she knocks over a plant. The musician hastens out, picks up the flower, and thus they meet and go for a stroll. Carl receives an offer to play at a society benefit for charity. He is overjoyed at the chance. His happiness is of short duration, for he realizes that he has not the proper clothing to appear at the benefit. Gretchen has been hoarding her money, and offers to make a sacrifice for his sake. She gives him her little savings of months and he is enabled to make a presentable appearance at his debut. His first public performance is an immediate success. He is invited to the homes of the wealthy. He forgets the young girl who was kind to him in his poverty and he meets and falls in love with Marie von Blumen, the daughter of the woman who first brought him out. Gretchen, pining for her lover, gradually wastes away in strength. On the eve of dying, she expresses a wish to see Carl once more and hear the sweet tones of his violin. Her mother seeks him not, finding him at the home of his fiancée, surrounded by admirers. She is persistent in her request to see him and is finally admitted. She implores him to come to her daughter. Marie grasps the situation and urges him to go to the bedside of the girl and he does so, accompanied by his fiancée. They find Gretchen dying. She holds out her arms to Carl and is taken to him, happy, supremely happy in the knowledge that he loves her and ignorant of his vows to Marie. It is all explained to Marie and she bids her lover make the girl his wife. A marriage ceremony is hastily performed and then Carl plays as he has never played before. Gretchen expires in an ecstasy of joy, to the strains of her favorite melody.
- An appreciation of Don Banks' score for Freddie Francis' 1964 Hammer thriller 'Nightmare' by David Huckvale, author of Hammer Film Scores and the Musical Avant-Garde.
- The interpretation of the poem, as set forth in the film, shows Father Josef seated at an organ in the chapel in the winter of his life. His ward comes to him with the information that the parent of his sweetheart is dying and wishes to see her united in marriage to him before his demise. Father Josef goes to the bedside and performs the ceremony and tells them that fifty years before he, himself, was about to be wed in this self-same room. The ceremony awakens a train of memories and, returning to the chapel, he sees in retrospection the long years he has lived since he entered on "The Trail of the Lost Chord." He sees himself in the long ago, a young musician and giving lessons on the pianoforte to Marie, the daughter of the old Spanish Grandee. He becomes lover and teacher at the same time, until Marie's father returns and. learning of the state of affairs, drives him from his home as a dreamer and idler. Filled with grief at the injustice of it all, he meets Father Superior of the Franciscan Order, who cheers him and infuses determination into him. The priest secures him a position in the orchards of a wealthy merchant and he toils until he possesses an orchard of his own. Then proving to Marie's father that he is not a dreamer, he secures her father's consent to the marriage. On the morning of his wedding day, seated at his pianoforte, in the glad rejoicing of his approaching happiness, he unconsciously strikes a combination of chords that sound like a "Grand Amen." He goes to Marie's home and the wedding party starts for the old Mission, but his happiness is destined not to be. Marie's horse throws her, and the frantic lover gathers her up in his arms and carries her to the home he has toiled years to gain. He sends for the Father Superior, but when the aged priest arrives, Marie is too near the borderland to respond to the marriage ceremony. The grief-stricken boy closes his home and goes out to seek happiness, and to do good. Starting on his journey he finds a family being evicted from their home. He brings happiness by giving them his home and again starts out on his errand of love. The grave of Marie is his shrine, and it is here the aged Father Superior finds him. Leading him gently to the chapel, the priest points out that here he will find the nearest approach to peace, until, in Nature's own time, he will join Marie in the Great Beyond. In the years that follow, he finds solace in deeds of mercy and charity. He is called by a dying mother to protect her boy from a drunken father. He raises the boy to reverence the church and hopes that he will also accept the Holy Orders, but the boy learns to love, and the priest, remembering his own sad life, gives his consent, and with it, the renunciation of his fondest and dearest hope. And now his mission is accomplished; the marriage is consummated and he returns to the chapel to ponder on the mystery of life. As he looks up the spirit of his lost love appears to convey his soul to its reward, and Father Josef at last has found his "Lost Chord."
- A clown's nose bares and reveals your soul. If you wear one, you understand pain.
- Olga, a writer, at a loss to bring her book to a fitting climax, goes for celestial inspiration into church, where she kneels and listens to the wonderful music of Gustave, the organist. She meets him as he leaves the church, and they are instinctively drawn to each other. As the days pass they become greatly attached, and Gustave finds Olga becoming a great inspiration to him. Her old lover returns, however, and the magnetic force of Vanome compels Olga to forsake Gustave. This so affects the young musician that he not only loses his masterful touch of the organ, but becomes broken down in health. Realizing that he is dying, his physician grants his request to be taken to the organ in the church, and there while vainly trying to recall the great strain his spirit leaves him.
- Harry Wilson lets his infatuation for Helen Dolores, demimonde, lead him to counterfeiting to satisfy her demands for the "good things" of life. He is caught and sent to prison for a long term. In the meantime his sister Edith, a baby when he began his prison term, is married to Stanley Griffin, a millionaire, and the happy couple is blessed with a child. Harry Wilson, broken, hopeless, and more wicked than when he was thrown in jail, comes out and looks desperately around for a means to live. His efforts are productive of naught but to throw him back again to the underworld. He breaks into a rich house, and comes face to face with his sister! Through a locket he has always carried, they discover their relationship, and a poignant desire for a cleaner, finer life possesses him. Edith promises to help him, and in the next few weeks makes frequent visits to him in his poor garret. Her visits are discovered by her husband, and she, wanting to shield her brother, can make no explanation. Her husband, inflamed with jealousy, confines her to her room, and puts an armed guard about his mansion. Harry, alarmed at his sister's absence, and knowing he'd be refused admittance through the front door, tries to break into the house to see her, and is shot by one of the guards. Then, in the meeting with Edith and her husband, comes a dramatic climax.
- Austin Sayre speaks with Austin, Texas' own Bill Carter about his 1985 debut album 'Stomping Grounds'. Carter tells stories behind some of the songs.
- Russell prepares for the audition of his dreams. However, his ex-wife is unable to pick up their daughter, Adaline. He is now forced to watch her while he performs. Unable to control Adaline she makes a mess in front of Russell's judges.
- A musician loves a married woman who becomes a nun and dies. Later he loves her daughter.
- Side-walk musician tries to learn the guitar but keeps hitting a false note at the end. This, however, becomes his trademark as he is launched into the role of rock superstar, only to return to his former friend who manages to teach him to play correctly.
- The passionate advocates of the 'Cigar Box Guitar Revolution', reveal how just three chords, played on their unique, DIY, instruments, hand-made from recycled materials, connect them to their truth.
- Centered in the 1930's Philharmonic Society, The Truth Behind The Chords is a compelling story of one young girl's journey to becoming the next Ludwig Beethoven of her time. 15 year old Elise Zadok is by far a new discovery. She along with violin accompanist Stephan Schiller must win their way into Julliard. To Elise's surprise composing is not her only struggle, as the chords reveal the hidden truth of her identity and unlocks the mystery surrounding her estranged father's death.