Chuck, Second Mover
Молодая супружеская пара снимает квартиру в мрачном полуподвальном помещении в квартале Гринвич-Виллидж, надеясь что это обеспечит мужу-писателю нужную атмосферу для создания новой книги. Их соседи оказываются весьма загадочными и неприятными личностями. Зловещая атмосфера дома оказывается весьма подходящей для их первоначального замысла, но вскоре они сталкиваются с реальной тайной, обнаружив в своей квартире труп, и решают начать собственное расследование...
Window Cleaner
A New York radio personality travels to the small town of Fernville to oversee a contest to identify retired safecracker Jimmy Valentine, believed to be living there under an assumed name. The close-knit town of upstanding citizens is understandably upset by this venture, all the moreso when some of its citizens begin to be murdered. The radio personality and the local newspaper's young daughter collaborate on solving the murders while revealing Valentine, who has become one of the suspects.
Camera Shop Owner
A lawman infiltrates a gang of racketeers.
Stagehand
A pair of slick Broadway producers con a wealthy cowboy into backing their show.
Storekeeper Pat
Overland mail riders Jack Mason and his pal, Porchy, learn that an Indian uprising is imminent because one of the tribe has been murdered by a gang of outlaws. The primary town of the mail route is also being used as a hideout and base of operations for a gang of counterfeiters led by Joe Polini. Jack and an undercover federal agent, Duke Evans, round up the counterfeiters and turn Polini over to the Indian Chief as the killer of the brave.
Gym Trainer (uncredited)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's daughter Nancy intercepts a real story assignment. She "covers" the inquest of the death of a woman who was poisoned. Nancy doesn't think the young woman accused of the crime is guilty and corrals her neighbor Ted into searching for a vital piece of evidence and stumbles onto the identity of the real killer.
Photographer
A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.
Jeremiah Boggs
The operators of a bankrupt carnival sideshow hope to restore their fallen fortunes by staging a fake 'public wedding' in the mouth of their unprofitable giant whale. But the intended 'bridegroom' absconds with the proceeds, arranging a substitute. The bride, Flip Lane (Jane Wyman), much to her surprise, finds herself really married to a handsome stranger, whose career as an artist she decides to manage, much to his dismay.
Dopey Andrews
A lawman poses as an outlaw, steals $10,000 from a cattle thief, then promises to return the money if he can join the gang--while finding a way to expose them.
When Buster Keaton goes to work as an assistant to a carnival magician, the results turn out to be less than magical.
Jimmie
Newlywed Harry Gribbon brings his wife home to meet his country family which includes their perspective choice for a daughter-in-law.
Hobby
Story of the trials and tribulations of a German who emigrates to the US during the Great Depression.
