John Shay

베이비 제인 허드슨은 어린 시절 보드빌 쇼의 유명한 스타였지만 성장한 후에는 배우로서 재능을 인정받지 못한다. 대배우로 성공한 언니 블랜치의 그늘 아래서 술과 향락으로 매일을 보내고 있을 뿐이다. 그러던 어느 날 술 취한 제인과 블랜치가 함께 자동차에 타고 있다 사고가 난다. 블랜치는 다리를 다쳐 반신불수가 되고, 제인은 불만과 질시 속에서도 어쩔 수 없이 언니를 돌보며 살게 된다. 세월이 흐른 후, 블랜치는 알콜중독으로 편집증 상태가 된 제인을 병원으로 보내려 하는데, 이 사실을 안 제인은 온갖 수단으로 블랜치를 학대한다. 제인은 헌신적인 가정부 엘비라를 우발적으로 죽이게 되자 어찌할 바를 모르고 혼란에 빠진다.

브렌단 오말리는 과거의 연인이었던 벨 브페켄리지를 찾아 멕시코에 도착한다. 그런데 그녀는 한 술주정뱅이의 아내가 되어 살아가고 있다. 마침 벨의 남편은 텍사스로 소떼를 몰고 갈 계획을 세운 참이었다. 한편 보안관 다나 스트리블링은 브렌단을 처벌하기 위해 쫓아오고... 두 남자는 벨과 함께 긴 여정에 오른다.

A teenage boy panics and takes hostages when he thinks he's committed murder.

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of a child interferes with his free-wheeling lifestyle. Sorrowful must also evade crooked gangsters and indulge in a bit of horse-thieving.

After straight-arrow district attorney Joseph Foster says in frustration that he would sell his soul to bring down a local mob boss, a smooth-talking stranger named Nick Beal shows up with enough evidence to seal a conviction. When that success leads Foster to run for governor, Beal's unearthly hold on him turns the previously honest man corrupt, much to the displeasure of his wife and his steadfast minister.

An innocent man -- due to a case of mistaken identity -- is beaten. Once recovered, the stockbroker tries to find the actual intended target -- a gangster-- and warn him.

Around Christmas time, a woman tries to prove the innocence of her dancer husband jailed for a crime she just knows he didn't commit.

A fatally shot female gangleader recounts her sordid life of crime to a police officer just before she dies.

A feud between rival newspapermen Kruger (Bromberg) and McDonald (Guilfoyle) goes deadly when blackmailing McDonald ends up murdered and his corpse planted in the trunk of Kruger's car. Good guy Kruger attempts to hide McDonald's body, with the help of chauffeur Hogan (Jenks), to keep from being charged with murder. However, zany scenarios occur as the body just won't stay hidden, and keeps on popping up in multiple places where Kruger is located, leading to him hiding the body again and again while Kruger tries to find the real killer.

Prospector Henry Tolliver disappears and his son "Wild Bill" Tolliver comes looking for him.

U.S. Marshal Dave Upjohn arrives in Sundown to investigate reports of lawlessness.

On December 6, 1941, Captain Yamanada of the Japanese aircraft carrier "Hiranamu", orders full steam ahead for Pearl Harbor. His ship encounters and sinks an American yacht and the single survivor, Sue Curry, is rescued by an American submarine, the "Sea Serpent", commanded by Commander Chris Warren. He hears her story and attempts to radio a warning to Pearl Harbor. Yamanada, hearing the signals, orders the airlines jammed, and then sends his son into the air to sink the sub. The attack fails, after the sub makes a crash dive, but they fail in their warning attempts. The next morning, December 7th, the men on the sub hear the story of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and devise a desperate plan to sink the Japanese carrier by letting the carrier know their position. The carrier comes in search of the submarine.