A man learns that he is suspected of murdering his wife, whom he now claims never existed.
Dick Powell portrays the owner of a swank restaurant which offers gambling. Trouble arises when a beautiful woman patron insists that she is about to be murdered.
After quarrelling with a woman a man loses his hat and winds up being accused of her murder.
An actor named Paul is out on an evening stroll when he sees a young woman attempting to jump off a bridge. After a struggle, he discovers her name is Amy and she is homeless. Paul believes $5 could mean the difference between decency & despair so he pays for Amy to stay in a hotel for the night, agreeing to meet her the next day. Amy is nowhere to be found when Paul returns. He worries and begins the search for this mysterious woman.
A fugitive from the police returns to his hometown after a 15-year absence.
A doctor caring for natives on a tropical island is dismissed by the bully owner of the island who discovered a discrepancy in his medical past. Suddenly, the owner is struck with acute appendicitis and the just-fired doctor is called to perform emergency surgery.
An incurably ill child's desire to see his father brings about a great transformation in the character of a knavish officer.
A young middleweight boxer finds at the height of his career that his championship fight has been fixed.
On a train returning from India, William Langford meets a man who is carrying 75,000 English pounds in his briefcase. Murder becomes a possibility when the man and his money suddenly disappear.
A famous marshal of Dodge City sets out in search of the murderous Sonoma Kid and runs into a tragedy of the desert.
A wife finally goes to the doctor about her hearing loss and returns home in time to hear her husband plot her death.
Theater-goers are surprised to see actor Victor Sherman at the play, considering what happened a year earlier. As the play proceeds, the man in the box imagines himself playing each of the characters in the drama being performed onstage.
A young boy fights to win his foster mother’s love.
After separating from his wife, a wealthy clubman is about to marry a much young woman -- whereupon his mirror image walks out on him in disgust.
A sea captain en route to the Orient discovers that a time bomb has been planted on his ship.
Five people, one a murder, are trapped on a subway.
A psychiatrist listens to his female patients go on about their troubles. As they talk, he imagines himself within each of their stories.
A bank employee mails a letter to his boss and goes on a frantic chase to get the letter back from the post office before it gets delivered.
Past haunts politician running for Senator.
Burt Stroude is a virtual shoe-in to be nominate to the U.S. Senate. His future is threatened when an incident from his past comes to the public's attention.