Narrator
The detective story plays out over shadows.
Policeman
Marine veteran Johnny Christopher meets and is immediately drawn to beautiful Evelyn Smith one day on the beach. Evelyn's new job as secretary to a U.S. senator in California soon brings unexpected intrigue and trouble for her and Johnny. The machinations of a sinister group of Nazi spies lead to mysteries and mistaken identities, and the two soon find themselves framed for murder!
Reporter (uncredited)
2차 세계대전 말기 미국에서 나치 첩자 한 명이 징역형을 언도받는다. 아버지의 활동에는 전혀 관여하지 않았던 그 첩자의 딸인 엘리샤는 방탕한 생활을 보내고 있다. 어느날 데블린이라고 자신을 밝힌 정부 기관원이 그녀에게 접근해 정부의 극비 임무를 수행해 줄 것을 부탁한다. 그녀는 그 부탁을 받아들이고 두 사람은 함께 리오로 떠난다. 그런데 두 사람은 사랑에 빠진다. 그러나 데블린은 그녀가 플레이걸이었다는 사실이 마음에 걸려 그녀와 일정한 거리를 유지한다. 엘리샤의 임무는 아버지의 옛 동료인 세바스찬에게 접근하는 것이다. 세비스찬은 브라질로 피신해 있는 유명한 나치들에게 자신의 집을 은신처로 제공하고 있다. 그녀는 세바스천과 접촉하는 데 성공해 곧 그의 집을 정기적으로 드나들 수 있게 된다. 세바스천은 그녀를 사랑하게 되고 결국 청혼을 한다. 그녀는 데블린이 세바스천과의 결혼에 반대하길 원했으나 그러지 않자 그 청혼을 받아들인다. 이때 그녀는 데블린으로부터 세바스천이 항상 휴대하고 다니는 지하 포도주 저장실의 열쇠를 손에 넣으라는 지령을 받게되는데...
Private detective Johnny Fletcher and his sidekick Sam Cragg skip out on their rented room, but when they sneak back to retrieve their luggage, they discover a dead body on the bed, holding a gold coin in its hand. Fletcher is told by a coin collector that the piece is an old and valuable Spanish coin, but Fletcher soon begins to suspect that the man is himself involved in the murder. Fletcher's investigation leads to he and Sam getting caught up in a murder and gold smuggling scheme.
Yerkes (uncredited)
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
Detective
A young American soldier, with an honorable discharge, returns home from World War II to his bride, whom he married after a short courtship and has not seen for several years. The two come together with many trials and tribulations in trying to preserve their marriage in the post-war years.
Captain Burke
Sunset Carson is a wandering cavalier who rides into the Badlands. Hallie Wayne is bedeviled by bandits who've been raiding the livestock of her ranch.
Policeman (Uncredited)
After suffering a head injury during the Blitz, John Loder, a theatre actor comes to believe himself to be the Brighton Strangler, the murderer he was playing onstage.
Patrolman at Accident (uncredited)
A carnival showman tries to keep Japanese spies from sabotaging the Panama Canal.
Sheriff William H. Brewer
Just as Nevada wins $7000 in yellowback bills, Ben Ide takes his $7000 and heads out to buy mining equipment. Burridge has his man Powell kill Ide and retrieve the money and Nevada finds Ide just as the posse arrives. Found with the money Nevada is arrested and Burridge now gets Powell to incite the local citizens to lynch Nevada.
Shoes (uncredited)
In 1903, Doctor Huntington Bailey meets a friendly older lady during a train trip. She tells him that she is going to visit her brother Nick and his lovely young wife Allida. Once in New York, Bailey hears that his train companion suddenly died. Shortly afterward, he meets the strange couple and gets suspicious of Nick's treatment of his wife.
Producer
Students at the Davis School of the Theatre are assigned "Antigone" as their class play, but they conspire to do a swing musical instead.
