Joe Harrison (Uncredited)
Willi Stark (Broderick Crawford), un hombre honrado y valiente, sufre una transformación el día que decide entrar en política y descubre que todo es juego sucio. Tras ser elegido gobernador, olvidando sus principios, lo primero que hace es apoderarse de la prensa y la radio. Convertido en un ser corrupto hará cuanto esté en su mano para permanecer en el poder.
Landlord
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
Judge (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Doctor Winters
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Dr. Campbell
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Dinner Companion (uncredited)
Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.
Eddie Griffith
Reportero Patsy Reynolds (Robin Raymond) y el fotógrafo Eddie Porter (Frank Jenks) se asignan a entrevistar a John Foster (Davison Clark), jefe de la Foundadtion Emmerson en relación con un dispositivo de escucha en el que la organización está trabajando. Foster acude al laboratorio para ver al profesor Reynolds (HB Warner), el verdadero inventor. Pronto se ven involucrados en varios tiroteos, un cadáver en su coche que aparece y desaparece varias veces, la pérdida de sus puestos de trabajo y varias personas que, o bien piensan que son asesinos o son candidatos a ser asesinados.
Small Town Man
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns from a trip. His solution to pass them off as his uncle and niece from Alaska doesn't work out very well.
Rotund Man (uncredited)
Un ambicioso compositor de musicales, dotado de un mal de ojo hipnótico, se ve mezclado en la promoción de un boxeador.
Mr. Norton (uncredited)
A casa de sus familiares, en el tranquilo pueblo de Santa Rosa, llega un día el encantador tío Charlie, un seductor criminal que viaja de Filadelfia a California y al que la justicia va pisando los talones. Su sobrina Charlie, a pesar de que no sabe nada de sus actividades, no tardará en sospechar que su tío es el misterioso asesino de viudas al que la policía anda buscando.
Forsythe
The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
Mr. Collins
Un matón llamado Raven (Cuervo en inglés) es contratado para que cometa un asesinato. Sin embargo, pronto se da cuenta de que su vida está en peligro, ya que alguien pretende tenderle una trampa.
Bill Coombs
Phoebe (Jean Arthur) transforma ella sola un triste almacén en lo que ahora se conoce como Tucson, en Arizona, el orgullo del Oeste americano. Allí construye su rancho, que pronto será el más grande del territorio. Recién llegado de la ciudad, Peter Muncie (William Holden) comienza a trabajar en la propiedad de Phoebe entablándose entre ellos una relación que culmina con planes de boda. Pero el éxito del negocio de Phoebe no tarda en generar envidias y se cruza en su camino Jefferson Carteret (Warren William), un vecino que planea estafar a Phoebe y asesinar a Peter el día de su boda.
Mr. Waters
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Emmy's Husband
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
McConnell
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
A husband believes that love will fade and all marriages go downhill over the years. His wife and two other couples plot to make him think that she is about to run off with another man. Faced with the possible loss of his wife, he realizes that he still loves her.
