In 1850s Mexico, the beautiful owner of a silver mine is kidnapped by a bandit leader, who needs money to finance his revolt against the Emperor Maximilian.

Commercial artist and her fiancé go to Acapulco for a weekend, and she discovers that their engagement was a mistake. Lookie-here, Mr. Right just came along! (But he's got his own comical baggage.)

Trumpet-player in a club band falls for a streety young woman; she dumps him to become a kept woman... and his roommate the pianist is dealing weed... and...

Teto the altar boy turns his church into a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

Heaven Can Wait scenario; a young woman dies forty years ahead of schedule because her guardian angel made a mistake... so the divine powers that be put her back on earth in a new body.