Joe Harrison (Uncredited)
O filme conta a história de ascensão e queda de um político rebelde do interior que começa exigindo reformas e justiça social, mas acaba embriagado pelo próprio poder. O roteiro é uma adaptação do romance de Robert Penn Warren, publicado em 1946, e pelo qual o autor recebeu o Prémio Pulitzer de Literatura.
Landlord
The story of an ex-sea captain who uses devious means to make his salvage company a success. Based on Longfellow's famous poem.
Judge (uncredited)
A judge flees the pressures of professional and family life for a job as a short-order cook.
Doctor Winters
A former GI gets his old job back working for a bookie after returning from serving in the military. Unfortunately, he loses the $20,000 he was supposed to deliver to gambling and a con artist. His attempts to get the money back leads to bigger problems including a murder plot.
Dr. Campbell
WWI flyer Eddie Rickenbaker remembers his life which brought him from a car salesman, race driver and pilot in WWI, to an important person in the early years of civil airline service, after his plane crashed in the South Pacific in late 1942.
Dinner Companion (uncredited)
Two playwrights and a former burlesque queen travel to Louisiana to research a musical they're planning on a local Southern hero.
Eddie Griffith
Reporter Patsy Reynolds and photographer Eddie Porter are assigned to interview John Foster, head of the Emmerson Foundation regarding a listening device the organization is working on. Foster evades them and they to the lab to see Professor Reynolds, the real inventor. Soon, they are involved in several shootings, blueprints that change hands several times, a corpse in their car that appears and disappears a few times, the loss of their jobs and several people who either think they are killers or candidates for being killed.
Small Town Man
Linda Wadsworth rebels against her millionaire grandfather, J. H. Wadsworth, and runs away from home. Unknown to Mr. Wadsworth, she gets a job at one of his many five-and-ten-cents stores as a clerk.
Suffering from a hangover, Errol finds himself with a hobo and a fan dancer left over as guests of the previous night's party, when his wife returns from a trip. His solution to pass them off as his uncle and niece from Alaska doesn't work out very well.
Rotund Man (uncredited)
Comedy about a bandleader with hypnotic powers.
Mr. Norton (uncredited)
O Tio Charlie vai visitar seus parentes na cidadezinha de Santa Rosa. Mas sua sobrinha, também chamada de Charlie, começa a suspeitar de que ele é o famoso Assassino de Viúvas Alegre, um criminoso que está sendo procurado pela polícia e fugiu da Filadélfia para a Califórnia.
Forsythe
The Weaver family buys some farmland in California, but the headmaster of a nearby boys school doesn't want them as neighbors, and before long the boys at the school are causing trouble for the Weavers.
Mr. Collins
Sadistic killer-for-hire Philip Raven becomes enraged when his latest job is paid off in marked bills. Vowing to track down his double-crossing boss, nightclub executive Gates, Raven sits beside Gates' lovely new employee, Ellen, on a train out of town. Although Ellen is engaged to marry the police lieutenant who's hunting down Raven, she decides to try and set the misguided hit man straight as he hides from the cops and plots his revenge.
Bill Coombs
Durante a década de 1860, Tucson, uma mulher pioneira luta para ter sucesso nos negócios de frete e gado enquanto corre o risco nas mãos de empresários locais corruptos e violentos e indignados indianos.
Mr. Waters
A broke playboy signs on to help a young beauty save her ailing bus line.
Emmy's Husband
A runaway heiress hides in a doctor's trailer for a rollicking trip to San Francisco.
McConnell
The Weavers are share-croppers who confront their landlord with their tale of woe only to find he is in money trouble too. He also has a wastrel son and a socialite wife who wants a divorce. He begs the Weavers to trade places with him and fix things up.
A husband believes that love will fade and all marriages go downhill over the years. His wife and two other couples plot to make him think that she is about to run off with another man. Faced with the possible loss of his wife, he realizes that he still loves her.