조니(Johnny: 마론 브란도 분)는 오토바이 족을 이끌고 다니는 두목이다. 그는 십여 명의 친구들과 함께 다니며 사고를 치곤 했다. 어느 작은 마을에 도착한 조니 일당은 맥주 내기를 하던 중 동료 크레이지(Crazy: 진 피터슨 분)가 부상을 당하는 사건을 계기로 이 마을에 머물게 된다. 조니는 이 마을 술집의 여종업원으로 있는 캐시(Kathie: 매리 머피 분)에게 끌리는 자신을 느끼고, 캐시 역시 전혀 속을 알 수 없는 이 부랑자에게 끌린다. 마을 사람들 사이에서는 당장 이 오토바이 족을 내쫓아야 한다는 의견이 일지만 우유부단하고 용기가 없는 해리(Harry Bleeker: 로버트 키스 분)는 양쪽의 눈치만 살핀다. 한편, 조니가 묵고 있는 마을에 한때 같은 오토바이 클럽 멤버로 있던 치노(Chino: 리 마빈 분) 일당이 찾아온다. 치노는 조니와 싸움을 벌이고 이 과정에서 이 마을의 과격분자로 알려져 있는 찰리와 싸움이 붙게 된다.
Pathfinder, a white man raised by the Mohican Indians, joins forces with the British army to avenge himself on the Mingo warriors and the French, who have brought death and pillage to his people. He takes on a mission to retrieve secret plans from within the French fort at St. Vicente.
When asked about the Ghost Riders song he sings, Gene Autry tells this legend: Gene is about to resign as an investigator for the county attorney and go into the cattle business with his pal Chuckawalla Jones but decides instead to help Anne Lawson clear her father, rancher Ralph Lawson, of a false murder charge. He looks for the three witnesses who can testify that Lawson shot only in self defense in killing a gambler, but the witnesses are terrorized by another gambler, town boss Rock McCleary, who shoots witness Pop Roberts Morgan. Fatally wounded, Pop gives Gene the information needed to clear Lawson, then dies crying the "Ghost Riders" are coming for him. Gene then heads for a showdown with McCleary.
The Hansen School for Air Hostesses, operated by Celia Hansen, welcomes a new group of students; a librarian named Ruth Jackson; Lorraine Carter, a nurse; and Jennifer White, whose husband was an aviator killed in World War II. Ruth meets a smart-alec pilot, Dennis Hogan, but complications arise as Lorraine also has an interest in him. Jennifer meets a war-buddy of her husband, Fred MacCoy. All three women, with each other's help, makes it through to graduation day.
A film director, in bad standing with his studio, tries to turn a local carnival dancer into a "French" movie star and pass her off as his big new discovery
Jim Smiley has a frog that can jump further than anyone else's frog, and Jim becomes obsessed with entering the frog in all of the local jumping-frog contests, not realizing that his obsession is about to cost him his marriage.
