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- During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
- The undercover cop Rocky Thorpe infiltrates a crime syndicate being run by the incarcerated mob boss John Franklin. Franklin conducts his business via a short-wave radio concealed in his cell. One day Franklin is caught and placed in solitary confinement. Thorpe, Franklin's physical double, takes his place. Soon changes in the gang's activities are subtly made. Thorpe orders the mob to keep careful records of their activities, to gather enough evidence to convict them all. Trouble ensues when Franklin escapes from jail.
- It's bad enough that Clarice Kendall Andrews, Paula's irresponsible sister, comes home from celebrating Mardi Gras and drunkenly mentions that she got married during the festivities. What's worse is the fact that Paula knows that Clarice is still married to an equally irresponsible gigolo. Paula learns that the man Clarice married, Stephen Cormack, has skipped the country and his lawyer, thinking that Paula is Clarice, offers the older woman $5000 to annul the marriage. Paula's lawyer convinces her to pretend she's Cormack's husband until he can get Clarice's marriage annulled. Paula moves into Cormack's house and discovers he has two teen-aged children who consider her a gold-digger after their father's fortune. Meanwhile, Clarice's husband refuses to have their marriage annulled and tries to blackmail Paula into giving him to $10,000 for his silence.
- The story of Sam Houston, hero of the Texas revolution, statesman, and first president of the Republic of Texas.
- Gangsters take control of a record company and use toughguy tactics on unwilling performers.
- Runyonesque crooks on the lam hide out on blind man's pastoral farm and decide to go straight.
- A fur trader guides a writer and her animals to safety in the Yukon territory when wolves are about to attack.
- Keith Neville and Dan Casey, two small-time stage actors, are traveling by bus back to New York City, and have an overnight stay in a small town. They take a room in a local hotel and a murder is committed in an adjoining room to Keith. The latter hears the gunfire, goes to investigate, and is there when the local police arrive. He and Casey are both held on suspicion of murder and jailed. While a local policeman is going through their luggage at the hotel, he discovers a letter of introduction, in Keith's suitcase, that reads: "It is requested that all official courtesy be extended to Mr. Geoffrey Desmond, Chief Inspector of the Criminal Investigation Department of the London Matropolitan Police, during his journey on a dangerous secret mission." The letter is a stage-prop from the play the two actors had just performed in, but the Police Chief thinks it is real and releases them from jail, and Keith decides to stay on and help the local bobbies solve the murder. He has a vested interest in doing so as Julie Graham, a girl he met on the bus-trip, is the daughter of the a man the District Attorney has now charged with the crime, and Keith stays to help her clear her father of the charges.
- Young Englishman inherits ranch which he wants to sell, but Gene's gonna turn him into a real westerner instead..
- Federal Agent Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog are sent to Mexico to prevent foreign powers from gaining control of Mexican oil refineries and fomenting revolution among the Mexican people. Gene falls in love with Senorita Dolores but finds he must leave for the island of Palermo, where her uncle, Don Diego, is being prevented from transporting his cattle to market by the foreign agents, who have co-opted Dolores' brother Andreo into joining them. While trying to load cattle by sea into a waiting cargo ship Gene and his men are attacked by Andreo and his revolutionaries, with fatal results.
- At the New York branch of Mammoth Studios, motion picture animator Linda Fay and her boss, Bob Adams, search for a singing voice for their star cartoon, "Paddy the Pig." Linda holds auditions in her apartment, but a neighbor, disturbed by the noise, calls the police. Officers Jimmy Duffy and Joe Nash answer the call and sell Linda tickets to the policeman's ball after cautioning her to keep the noise down. As Jimmy ushers one of the singers out, he instructs him on how to sing. Linda hears his beautiful voice and eagerly awaits the ball. Linda, Bob, their pianist Sidney and secretary, Mabel Dunne, attend the ball and agree after Jimmy sings that he has the voice they need. The others then convince Linda to hire Jimmy without telling him that he is supplying the voice of a pig, but instead, letting him think that he will be a real actor. Two weeks pass as Jimmy records Paddy's songs, and he and Linda rapidly fall in love. Bob is jealous because he also loves Linda, but he realizes that there is little he can do and therefore signs Jimmy to a contract. Thrilled with the contract, Jimmy informs his family that he is quitting the police force. His parents are dismayed by his proclamation and also by his interest in Linda, whom they are afraid is too upper class for Jimmy, but their son's enthusiasm wins them over. Jimmy and Linda marry on the day of the cartoon's sneak preview, and Linda does not get a chance to tell Jimmy the truth before he sees it. All of Jimmy's family and police friends are there, and their laughter upon hearing his voice coming from the mouth of a pig wounds Jimmy to the core. That night, Joe finds Jimmy after he has gotten drunk and takes him to Linda's apartment. The next day, Jimmy bitterly accuses Linda of marrying him so that he would not break his contract, and soon after, he returns to the force. Determined to win back Jimmy, Linda moves in with his family. Jimmy counters by volunteering to work the night shift, thereby turning their schedules upside down. Bob convinces Linda to work at the studio while Jimmy is patrolling his beat, and as a week goes by, the Duffy family becomes suspicious as Linda is brought home by Bob early each morning. Meanwhile, Jimmy's cartoon is a hit and demand for a sequel grows. One afternoon, Jimmy, Linda and the family attend the policeman's picnic, and Jimmy is pleasantly surprised by the acclaim of young Paddy fans when they discover who Jimmy is. Jimmy promises Linda that they will make a fresh start, but late that night when Bob is rushing Linda home, Jimmy stops Bob's speeding car and sees his wife. Jimmy jumps to conclusions and punches Bob, after which Linda calls off their reconciliation. The next day, Jimmy's sister Trudy attempts to play peacemaker, and she sees a cartoon baby Linda has drawn with the caption "James Duffy, Jr. as I imagine him." Trudy is interviewed by reporters after she leaves Linda's apartment, and she leaks the news that Linda is pregnant. Jimmy sees the story in the newspaper and rushes to the studio, where Linda is previewing a cartoon about Paddy and his children. Jimmy is delighted that Paddy is a father, and he embraces Linda as she confirms that he is to be one too.
- In this touching tale, an elderly British woman saves up enough money to visit her son in the U.S. She believes that he is doing well, but he is actually a prisoner in San Quentin.
- Ranch owner Sandra, fresh from animal husbandry school, brings a flock of sheep into cattle country. The local ranchers don't like it, and ranch foreman Gene must deal with it.
- Bank teller Jimmy Caldwell and his fiance, Ruth Holden, grow weary of struggling to make ends meet and decide to rob Jimmy's bank. The selfish young couple agree that even if they spend ten years in prison, it will not matter because they will have the money when they are released. During what appears to be a normal transaction, Jimmy gives Ruth $100,000 that he has taken from the vault, and after they hide the money in a music box, which they mail to Ruth's Uncle Billy for safekeeping, they turn themselves in. Mike Roberts, a detective for the bank's insurance company, tries to convince them to lighten their sentence by returning the money, but they consider the money rightfully theirs and refuse. The judge hearing their case is dismayed by their lack of repentance, and sentences them to one-to-ten years without parole. Jimmy and Ruth are then sent to separate prisons, but communicate by notes. Jimmy's tough cellmate, Blackie Clayton, tries to find out where the money is hidden, but Jimmy gives him misleading information. Sometime later, Roberts arranges for Jimmy and Ruth's paroles and attaches special stipulations that he hopes will make them go straight. The couple are paroled under the conditions that they have no civil rights and cannot marry for eight years. They are crushed by the conditions, but will not give in when Roberts tells them they will be free if they return the money. They try to retrieve the music box from Uncle Billy, but they discover that he has died and that his possessions are to be auctioned. They go to the auction, where they are outbid by auction aficionado Victor J. Holbrook, after which they go to Holbrook's apartment and explain that they need the box. Holbrook tells them he has already sent the box to his aunt, Martha Foster, and when Ruth and Jimmy return to their boardinghouse, they find Blackie waiting for them. He orders them to cut him in on the stolen money, but when Roberts appears, Blackie sneaks out after stealing their money and car. Jimmy and Ruth hop a train to Sunnydale, where Martha lives, and although they are detained by sheriff Ira Foster, Martha's husband, until they show their parole papers, they find Martha's guest farm, check in and locate the music box. After dinner, Roberts, alerted by Ira, shows up to warn Jimmy and Ruth that Blackie is close on their trail. Later that night, Blackie threatens Ruth that he will kill Jimmy unless she gives him the money. Jimmy and Ruth attempt to elude Blackie, but he soon catches up with them and fights with Jimmy. Ruth knocks Blackie out with the music box, after which Roberts appears on the scene. The beleaguered young couple give Roberts the money and determine to live an honest life, in which they will earn their happiness instead of stealing it.
- Following a small town's aircraft plant closure amid sabotage, a young man stands accused of the crime. The young man's father comes to his rescue and starts an investigation of his own to clear his son.
- A fight to keep cavalry horses from being replaced by tanks culminates in a great race between machine and beast.
- Agent Pete Garland (Phil Regan) is fired by society singer Monica Barrett (Louise Henry) after he got her a new radio contract, because she thinks her lawyer friend Teddy Leeds (Monroe Ownsley) fits in better with her social status. To get even, Pete wants to make an unknown singer into a star. He finds Ruth Allison (Francrs Langhord), drives her hard through rehearsals and makes her a star. But she is worried about her past, something she hasn't told Pete: She's an ex-convict and jumped bail in order to keep her partners in crime out of it. Further she's in love with Pete, but feels that he's still carrying a torch for Monica. When Monica's popularity is decreasing, Pete is able to get Ruth a stint on the program, the result is Monica is fired and Ruth get her job, but Monica takes revenge by revealing Ruth's past. Ruth considers it is best for her to disappear before being arrested, but she has become a star in public opinion. Will she get Pete or will she go to prison again ?
- In a city election, one of the candidates, Clifford Farrow, has a criminal background and is backed by crime boss Melvin Sutter. Sutter doesn't hesitate to escalate the violence in the face of any resistance.
- A millionaire with a crumbling personal life comes up with an idea on how he can disappear, start a new life without anyone knowing who he is and be able to take all his money with him.
- Jeffrey Clavering is hired in London by The Great Eastern Oil Corporation to go to Paris to prevent unscrupulous industrialist Nikolai Kamarov from gaining control of their oil fields and turning them over to a foreign power.
- A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster.
- Dr. Lawrence Baxter, working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose a number of fraudulent patient medicines, with his bitterest attacks being aimed at Kennedy Radium Products the manufacturer of a tonic called 'Radium Rejuvenating Tablets," which Baxter claims is a slow cause of death. This leads the manufacturer to try every means to defeat and discredit the young doctor.
- Trapeze artist Kay Rogers marries aerial-act member Charles Jerome, who immediately become jealous of fellow-trapeze artist Bob McAvoy, and sets out to kill him through a series of staged accidents including setting him up for a tiger mauling that goes awry and gets circus-performer Gloria instead. Members of the famed Escalante Family doubled the three leads.
- Ronnie is a child prodigy who enjoys playing the violin, and his relatives and agent want to exploit his talents so as to make more money off of him. Fed up with their intentions, Ronnie decides to take off on his own for a bit.
- A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates, the prison's only doctor falls sick, there are only three nurses to administer vaccines and take care of stricken patients--and a group of prisoners is planning to use the chaos as a cover for a mass escape.
- Josephine Bonney, the mayor of Bonneyville and a former schoolteacher, is besieged by town citizens demanding action when a gang of ruthless racketeers establishes a "Merchants' Protective Association" and roughs up any who do not join. The drive to recall Jo is led by attorney Fred Morgan, a would-be candidate for her job, who is actually the boss of the racketeers, assisted by businessman Daniel J. Roman. Jo assures her constituents that she is sending for a man who can control the situation, after which she secretly hires Pete Braddock, a former pupil who has retained affectionate feelings for her in spite of his own decline into gangsterism. Despite her sister Lydia's distrust of Pete, Jo is certain that he can go straight and clean up the town from which he ran away fifteen years ago. Jo introduces Pete to police chief Dave Evans as John Wilson, a special investigator from Chicago. Jo insists that Pete stay at her house, and he quickly becomes enamored of her lovely niece Sally, who knows his true identity as the town's former bad boy. The night of his arrival, Pete and Sally visit one of the gambling joints run by the racketeers, and Pete captures the two thugs sent to kill him after he wins big at the tables. The next day, the thugs give Pete the addresses of the town's other gambling establishments, and soon Pete has smashed the gambling ring. Jo holds another town meeting and introduces Pete as John Wilson, and the town cheers him. Pete then visits Roman, whom he warns to get out of town. While they are talking, Morgan enters the office and, before he sees Pete, reveals that he is head of the gang. Pete tells Morgan that he also must leave town, but quickly changes his tune when Morgan and Roman offer him a large bribe. Pete agrees to accept $25,000 over a four-week period in exchange for his silence, and he aids them in making their protective society legitimate by publishing a magazine in which merchants are forced to advertise. Two weeks pass as Pete and the racketeers rake in money, until Jo collapses on her birthday, which Pete had forgotten for the first time in fifteen years. Pete is grief-stricken over Jo's illness, and her and Sally's absolute faith in him prompts him to inform Roman and Morgan that the deal is off. Roman laughingly tells Pete that he is in too deep, and threatens to tell Jo about the bribes if he does not leave town. Ashamed and discouraged, Pete leaves town, and Morgan demands Jo's recall. At a town meeting, Jo wearily tells the citizens that she will offer no defense and is about to resign, when a bloodied Pete arrives, bearing a beaten Roman and the ledgers that will convict the racketeers. Pete reveals Morgan's leadership of the gang, and the crowd cheers Pete and Jo. After Lydia agrees to marry Dave, and Sally embraces Pete, Jo cheerfully admits that she had no idea Pete was temporarily in with the gang.
- Rustlers using modern technology (airplanes, shortwave radios, refrigerated trucks) are Gene's target.
- A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
- The story of a criminal who flees with his son only to find themselves trapped in a snowstorm with a school bus full of children.
- An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.
- An English diplomat's (Phillips Holmes) girlfriend (Mae Clarke) tags along as he takes a coded message to Geneva.
- Joe Higgins' wife gets the job meant for him, so he stays home to do the housework.
- Gene runs into opposition from a bunch of ranchers when the U.S. army send him to buy up land for bombing maneuvers.
- An ordinary working class seamstress who is mistaken as a rich patron of the arts. When she's asked to back a new show she plays along with the charade, hoping that she can become the production's leading lady.
- In British India a local rajah, a British ally, is dying and his subordinates plan to drive out the British once he's gone. A newly married British officer is dispatched to ensure that doesn't happen.
- An ex-prizefighter returns to the ring to help his father-in-law who has money problems. Based on Lucian Cary's novel "The Duke Comes Back."
- Peyton Wells (Ben Lyon) rescues Judy Jones (Joan Marsh) from a very dull young man, at a sedate party given for her by her multi-millionaire grandfather Silas P. Jones (Purnell Pratt.) Judy refuses to accompany Peyton on a slumming trip to a cheap dance hall, and Peyton dances with several of the dowagers and tells them that Silas is practically dying of scarlet fever. The guests hastily depart and Joan joins Peyton at the Dreamland Dance Hall. She is mistaken by Jimmy Cassidy (Edward J. Nugent) as one of the hostesses and decides to dance with him as a lark. One thing follows another and Judy gets disinherited and takes a job at the dance hall through Jimmy and his friend Mabel(Isabel Jewell.) Jimmy confides to Judy his ambition to become a dance instructor over the radio and Judy decides to help him but can't get the needed financial backing. She gets Peyton to front the money, promising him she will reconsider his offer of marriage if Jimmy's plan fails. The dance school of the air proves to be a flop because of Silas Jones, who threatens to withdraw his large advertising account unless the dance school is taken off.
- Janes Forbes (Barrie) decides to help amnesiac Jack Doe (Pryor) to find the details of his true identity. She doesn't tell anyone she is leaving, which causes her worried father to hire a detective to find the pair. Trouble ensues when a minor gangster with his own night club becomes involved.
- A woman doctor is divided between the dedication to her profession and the much needed attention to her husband and daughter. This will cause a serious crises when the husband is left for an emergency on their wedding anniversary, as he had planned something special for a celebration.
- In Victorian-era USA, a horse-jockey becomes a scapegoat in the nefarious schemes of a group of small-time criminals.
- "Spinner" McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by "Pop" Hussey from being condemned. "Spinner's" recklessness, combined with the efforts of others who have a vested interest in seeing the field closed, make it a hard task to accomplish, but famous-flyer Colonel Roscoe Turner is on hand to help.
- "Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves which operates along the borders and coast-lines, on the lookout for smugglers. Carter Meade, whose father is the Colonel in charge of the patrol, has a terror of firing guns and his father insists he conquer this fear. Tommy sends him out on patrol, on orders from Washington D. C., to stop any unfamiliar aircraft. Carter challenges an unmarked amphibian plane, which opens fire on him. Carter, afraid to shoot, bails out as his plane is shot down. Carter is missing, and Tommy and Skeeter are searching for him and the mysterious airplane.
- A Reverend tries to help a youth who has moved to a small town ,where he is ostracized for frequenting a waitress, he is later accused of murdering her when he tries to see an apparently more wholesome girl instead.
- In London at the turn of the century, Gaston du Nerac is due to marry his fiancee, Joanna. When her father finds himself in financial trouble, Gaston reluctantly accepts help from a rival - on condition that he never sees Joanna again.
- Gene is the foreman at the ranch owned by wealthy rodeo owner Maureen. She will lose her rodeo contract unless sales improve.
- In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
- When Cash Darwin is released from prison after serving five years for racketeering, he vows revenge on Charles Putnam, the crusading owner of the Clarion , the newspaper that obtained the evidence to convict him. While Cash is traveling to the Clarion building, Putnam is visited by reporter Jim Parker, who is working undercover as a member of Mike Reardon's gang in order to expose Reardon's deals with corrupt city officials. Reardon, who is infuriated by Putnam's campaign against him, orders his men to rough up the Clarion 's street vendors. Cash arrives at the Clarion building as one such raid is occurring and he aides a young boy, Tommy Blake, who is being attacked. Tommy is impressed with Cash's quick fists and thanks him. Cash then goes to Putnam's office and threatens him with a gun, after which Putnam advises him to turn on the radio so that no one will hear the fatal shot. Cash acquiesces to Putnam's request for a last meal, and the pair go to a restaurant with Cash's pal, T-Bone. There, Reardon's henchman, Kinsella, misinterprets Cash's sitting with Putnam and warns him not to take sides in the war by helping out Putnam. Cash is further aggravated by police who question him about carrying a gun, but Putnam alibis him by saying that Cash works for him. Cash's gratitude does not dissuade him from his revenge, however, and he realizes that the best way to ruin Putnam is to destroy his beloved newspaper. Putnam offers Cash the job for real, and he accepts. As time passes, Cash and Tommy become pals, and Cash hires a bunch of toughs to protect the Clarion vendors. The paper pays the men one hundred dollars a week, eighty of which Cash pockets for himself and T-Bone. Cash takes Tommy in after the dog he gave the boy gets him kicked out of his lodgings, and he does his best to become a real father. At the same time, he makes a deal with Reardon to destroy the Clarion from the inside, even though he tells T-Bone that he is going straight. Cash reveals Jim's identity to Reardon, thereby sealing the reporter's fate. When Cash returns home, he discovers that Tommy has found out about his grafting money from the paper, and the boy bitterly denounces him. After Tommy storms out, Cash plants a bomb in the Clarion 's new printing presses, then goes to Putnam's house for dinner. There, Putnam gives him a photo showing him being threatened with a gun by Cash in his office, which was taken when Cash turned on the radio as Putnam suggested. Cash realizes that Putnam is a square shooter, because he could have used the photo to have Cash re-incarcerated, and he rushes to stop the bomb. Reardon's men have arrived first, however, and have wounded Tommy while starting a fire. Cash takes Tommy to the hospital, settles with Reardon and Kinsella in a fistfight, then returns to the Clarion . After learning of Jim's death, Putnam enters the blaze to retrieve the evidence Jim collected, and his life is saved by Cash. Cash then disables the bomb but is caught in the fire. Later, Reardon's gang is arrested, and Putnam assures Tommy that Cash died a true hero.
- A gypsy settlement in a small kingdom is on land believed to contain oil reserves. The kingdom's prime minister plots to overthrow the king--whose mistress is a beautiful gypsy girl--and seize power, and the oil fields, for himself.
- On the day schoolteacher Agatha Stanton, who is called "Old Lady Ironsides" by her pupils, expects to be selected as the new principal of her school, she and her roommate, fellow teacher Prudence Matthews, must retrieve Geraldine "Jerry" Karns, one of Agatha's favorite students, from jail after she has stolen a pair of roller skates. Agatha and Prudence, with Jerry in tow, arrive at the school, and shortly after, Agatha is crushed to find out that Bruce Arnold, a newcomer, has been given the job. Bruce suggests that Agatha should retire, saying that she is too old and inflexible. The other teachers, including new teacher Ellen Southard, a former student of Agatha, are upset about Bruce's appointment, but Agatha vows to keep teaching as she has always done. Some time later, Jerry is stealing some canned food when her classmate, Elliot "Wet Mouth" Braxton, bumps into her and is mistaken for the thief by store owner Nicky Zackorackus. Elliot is captured, but Jerry confesses and explains that she needed the food for her troubled family. Ellen convinces Bruce to help Jerry by telling him that she was also a troublemaker as a youngster, and was saved from a disreputable life by Agatha's attentions. Agatha convinces Sergeant Abbot, also a former pupil, not to arrest Jerry, while Prudence asks school janitor Guili, a friend of Zackorackus, to dissuade the store owner from pressing charges. Everything is settled satisfactorily, and all seems well until one afternoon, as the children are playing in the street after school, a speeding truck injures Jerry after she bravely pushes another child out of its way. Agatha and Prudence organize the local mothers into blockading the street so that the children can play safely, and despite initial interference from the police, the street is designated as a school play area. Later, on the night before a big exam, Elliot is stealing the answers to the test questions when he overhears Bruce and Ellen, who have fallen in love, teasing each other about her terrible past. Elliot falls as he climbs through a transom while trying to escape, and is found by Agatha and Prudence. He tells them that he saw Bruce and Ellen kissing, and misinterprets their joking to mean that Bruce cannot marry Ellen because of her past. Agatha slaps the boy for slandering the couple, then apologizes. Elliot returns home, where his mother becomes hysterical when she sees his injuries from the fall. He lies to her, telling her that Agatha abused him, so she will not know that he was trying to cheat. Mrs. Braxton presses charges against Agatha, and she is temporarily suspended from duty until her hearing before the school board. Agatha refuses to defend herself, but a few hours before the hearing, her loyal students ask prominent community members, such as banker Philip Pierpont, actress Ethel Harriman and boxing champion Max Handler, to attend the hearing and defend their former teacher. Their pleas on behalf of Agatha convince Elliot to tell the board that he was stealing the papers and lied about Bruce and Ellen in order to cover up. The case is dismissed, and Bruce and Ellen, who are to be married, are the first to congratulate Agatha.
- Lady lawyer Portia Merryman (Frieda Inescourt) defends woebegone Elizabeth Manners (Heather Angel), who is on trial for shooting her lover Earle Condon (Neil Hamilton).