District Attorney
The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.
Sheriff Jim Dixon
New ranch owner Frank Madden, half Indian but posing as white, arrives just as an all white jury finds the three white Shipley brothers who lynched three Indians innocent. There is soon trouble between Frank and the Shipleys who are using Frank's land to graze their cattle. When the brother of one of the Indian victims kills a Shipley, Frank is accused and put in jail. The Shipleys then organize a lynch mob and head for the jail.
Hugh Bentley
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Sgt. John 'Pop' Kelly Sr.
Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...
Stranton
Hodiak, Brian, Derek and Teal have just been released from prison. They return to Tomahawk Gap, now a ghost town, to retrieve the money that they stole and was buried by a partner somewhere in the town. While hunting, the Indians attack, and a life and death battle ensues.
Hugo McDermad
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
Chadwick - Football Coach
Francis the talking mule gets his owner in and out of trouble while he is taking basic training at West Point.
Pop O'Moyne
An Irish-American girl asks the saint to guide her family and save them from an alderman.
Lt. Dargen
A woman, distraught because of her recent miscarriage, accidentally injures a child in a hit-and-run accident, but she keeps the incident a secret. Overcome with guilt and remorse, she seeks out the child in the hospital and attempts to help him regain his speech, even though, if successful, it might mean he will implicate her for the crime.
Mobley
David Marshall Williams is sent to a prison farm where he works in the tool shop and eventually develops the precursor of the famous M-1 Carbine automatic rifle used in World War II.
Lieutenant Banks
An undercover officer tracks waterfront corruption from California to New Orleans and back.
Coach 'Preacher' Tennant
A talented high school football player encounters trouble in a college program.
Assistant District Attorney
The negligent owner of a tenement slum becomes romantically involved with one of the building's residents.