Bobby Sherwood

주인공 조이 에반스는 입담과 가무 솜씨가 능수능란한 잘 생기고 젊은 쇼 비즈니스계의 완벽 남으로 전형적인 바람둥이 청년이다. 그는 늘 자신의 나이트클럽을 갖고자 하는 야망을 품고 있었는데 어느 날 일하고 있는 클럽에 찾아 온 부유한 유부녀 베라 심슨을 유혹하게 되면서 그의 꿈을 이루게 된다. 꿈꿔오던 클럽을 손에 쥐었지만 사랑과 인간애를 잃고 결국 클럽마저 손에서 떠나보내게 되면서 그는 처량하고 허무하게 시카고를 떠난다.

A photographer is choked to death just outside of where a college dance is being held. The body is discovered by Lee Watson, but promptly disappears, as it is being whisked from one point to another on the campus by a night watchman, who is an ex-convict.

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed for murder of guard.

Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.

Don Vincente is determined to make a success of himself and his band. He gets his break by performing at the Garden of the Moon, which is broadcast over the radio. The problem is that John Quinn is the club's ruthless, scheming manager who will do anything to keep Vincente under his thumb. John's assistant, Toni Blake, falls for Vincente, complicating the escalating war.