Jed Marlowe is a brilliant, scheming, unscrupulous criminal lawyer whose specialty is defending criminal he knows is guilty but gets them off through loop-holes or bribery. Then his daughter, misled by her father’s courtroom performance, but unaware of his back-room tactics, marries the killer her father has just unjustly save from the electric chair. What’s a poor father to do?
A Doctor's Diary is told through the eyes of Dr. Dan Norris (John Trent), resident physician in a private hospital. In his search for a cure for spinal meningitis, Norris recklessly runs roughshod over the feelings of his colleagues. The doctor's older, wiser supervisor, Dr. Clem Driscoll (George Bancroft), tries to curb Norris' impatience, pointing out that nothing takes place overnight. Angrily, Norris accuses Driscoll of malpractice and is forced to resign from the clinic -- just when a meningitis epidemic breaks out.
Charlie Mason y Rusty Fleming, una feliz pareja de periodistas de Chicago, deciden formalizar su relación casándose. Pero pronto llegarán los problemas incluyendo incendios, persecuciones policiales y secuestros.
A bitter widow and a grumpy widower find themselves stuck in a hotel that is cut off from the outside by a snowstorm. Although both have no intention of getting married again, they begin to fall for each other. Their children, however, are determined to see that the "romance" never gets off the ground and do everything they can to see that they are kept apart.
Considerado un estudiante prometedor de la mente criminal, la carrera como criminólogo de Roderick Raskolnikov (Peter Lorre) se ve puesta en peligro por la implacable pobreza de su familia. Con su madre, hermana y novia Sonya (Marian Marsh) muriéndose de hambre poco a poco, vende el reloj de su padre a la maliciosa dueña de una casa de empeños (la Sra. Patrick Campbell). Después de volver para robarla y asesinarla, Raskolnikov, seguro de que puede escapar a la detención, se ofrece voluntario para ayudar al inspector de Policía Porfiry (Edward Arnold) a resolver el crimen.
