영국의 국왕 리처드는 십자군 순례 때문에 영국을 떠났는데 오스트리아에서 리오 폴드한테 잡혔다. 영국에서는 동생인 존이 지배를 하고 있어 노르망디 족과 색슨족간에 싸움이 일어났다. 노르망디 족은 리처드의 몸값이라고 하며 세금을 걷는다는 명목으로 모든 것을 약탈한다. 복종하지 않는 사람들은 고문 당하고 매맞고 때로는 죽기도 한다. 이런 불의를 못 참기에 로빈 훗은 셔우드 숲에 무법자들을 모아 돈 많은 사람들로부터 돈을 빼앗아 가난한 사람들에게 나누어준다. 존은 로빈을 죽일 궁리를 하고 있다. 그러다 리처드가 돌아온다. 리처드가 돌아왔다는 사실을 안 존은 비밀리에 리처드를 살해하라고 하는데…
The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.
Unscrupulous Chicago janitor Paul Kroll uses deceit to fund a return trip to his homeland of Sweden. There, via ongoing continuing deceit and manipulation, he gradually attains a monopoly on the matchstick market in several countries and becomes an influential international figure. Based on the true story of Ivar Kreuger.
Two destitute New Yorkers meet cute in Central Park and then separate and independently get tangled up with some gangsters only to be reunited again in the end.
An innocent, young, small town church organist is thrown out of her home, told she was adopted and that her mother was an evil woman. She follows a crush to the big-city and left fending for herself.
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
Scion of the once-rich Mitchell family, Herbert Wynn is found shot to death. Nurse Adams, bored by hospital routine, is recruited by the police to ferret out clues as she tends to Wynn's elderly aunt Julia. Jokingly given the 'rank' of Miss Pinkerson, after the famous detective agency, Adams probes into the mystery, but not before a second death.
