A dirty bomb has decimated New York City's financial district and reduced midtown to a post-apocalyptic nightmare. The neighborhood known as Slime City has been evacuated, except for the homeless, and in the ruins of a soup kitchen four squatters discover a supply of food that transforms them into hideous slimy creatures (like Zachary), driven to murder. Meanwhile, a greedy developer who has set his sights on Slime City hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the creatures.
In this drama based on Rian James' novel, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. plays a sophisticated Broadway gossip columnist. He finds himself smitten with Broadway starlet Frances Dee.
Bill McAllister is a quick talking nephew of a rich uncle who has a shipping business, and to which he lives off of as a young man by charging most of his expenses ....he only has a single dollar saved in his sleeve. Bill meets and falls for a young lady named Hazel who is the daughter of a large apple baron...and although Hazel thinks she is in love with a Dr. Jenkins, Bill convinces Dr.
Phillip Browning, convinced that the mysterious deaths of ten of his colleagues is the result of a mummy's curse, hopes to avoid the fate of the others by returning King Pharatime's treasures to his tomb. Ditch diggers Stanley Wright and Aloysius C. Whittaker answer a newspaper advertisement to join Browning's Egyptian expedition.
Joe is assigned to protect Don Salvatore who is about to leave Italy for the United States. Don Salvatore has a number of enemies but Joe is supported by a new friend, the courageous mariner Margherito. But even the efforts of both of them are eventually not sufficient to keep Don Salvatore alive.
Andy Shrub (played by Peters) is a struggling actor who seems to be typecast as "the goofy best friend'" but wants to be a leading man. At a birthday party, he wishes that he looked like John Stamos before blowing out the candles on his cake. He suddenly understands that he always seems to be Stamos when he is captured on camera or in a video.
The disreputable mayor of the small town of Foaming at the Mouth gambles the civic accounts and wins a bombed-out local theatre. He steals the rights to a new play which he stages in an attempt to save the financial situation. However, local drama students he has cheated turn up and try to ruin the show.
A husband mocks his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she starts to neglect him, he decides to retaliate by taking the stage himself.
Christabel "Christy" Sloane is a legal secretary in San Francisco who desires finer things but is in desperate financial straits. She laments to her coworker Patsy that she needs to marry a millionaire. Christy's boss sends her to Los Angeles to inform Peter Ulysses Lockwood of an inheritance of 28 million pesos ($2 million) that a deceased uncle has bequeathed him and to obtain the necessary legal documents.
Jack and Leo have visited a small town in Vermont for seven consecutive years for outdoor sports and to court the same woman Vera. Upon their return for an eighth year, both are shocked at the news that she has married another man. They attempt to forget about her by getting drunk but end up reminiscing about all the whimsical memories they had with her.
Mistakenly identified as representatives of B.O. Pictures' publicity department, the Stooges, initially enlisted as exterminators, are assigned the responsibility of staging a contrived kidnapping to enhance the studio's publicity campaign featuring the emerging actress, Dolly Devore. However, their plan is intercepted by two gangsters who perpetrate a genuine abduction of Devore from her hotel room.
Charlie, a resident in a boarding house, is the favorite of his landlord's wife. His fellow male boarders are jealous of the situation and dislike Charlie because of it. They arrange to frighten him with a dummy.
The opening shot is of a shoe lying in the gutter. It belongs to a man who is leaning against a parked car drinking a carton of milk. After a moment, the owner of the car then angrily tells him to stop.
Working on the assembly line at the Todd toy manufacturing company, Jane Rogers makes a mistake and is called before company general manager Lee Stevens, a man she has admired from afar. Lee's secretary is fired, at the request of his sweetheart Alice, daughter of factory owner T. J.
Private detective Bill Reardon is awakened one morning by his dizzy wife Sally, who cannot remember what the string tied to her finger is supposed to remind her of. While discussing the unfortunate financial condition of their private detective agency during breakfast, he is called by Mr. Stone (his only client).
Brothers Luke (Ben Mendelsohn) and Boady (Mark Little) become conflicted after Boady goes on the run from the law, and Luke has an affair with a Greek woman (Mary Coustas) while taking care of a rich elderly woman (Sheila Florance) who could be their financial way out.
In Austria a struggling actress borrows the fancy clothes and car from her film set, and goes to stay in a luxury hotel under the name "Countess of Monte Cristo".
In the spring of 1945 in San Francisco, United States Navy lieutenant Dudley Briggs is promised a two-week furlough and a promotion by his ship's captain if he can acquire a bottle of French champagne by the next morning to be used in launching of the U.S.S. Vengeance, the Navy's newest aircraft carrier. Dudley heads to a liquor store and finds the last magnum of French champagne in the city—champagne having become rare during the war.
Jerry Miles and Mike Strager co-host a radio mystery series, "Crime of the Week," with young Ellen Brent writing their scripts. What she writes about the kidnapping of millionaire John Saunders by someone called "The Cobra" is suspiciously close to the facts of the case. It turns out that the radio station's owner, Latimer Marsh (Lionel Atwill), is the Cobra, assisted in his diabolical crimes by Stone (Bela Lugosi), his sadistic butler.
Radio producer John Guedel is panicked and dumbfounded when his popular radio show Humbug is immediately taken off the air for making fun of the legal profession. Given a deadline to produce a replacement, Gudel contacts his writer girlfriend Corey Sullivan to help him but Corey has another client, Leroy Brinker seeking a radio show for himself. The two come across a radio show put on in a small town called People Are Funny that mixes bizarre challenges to contestants with musical entertainment.
Michael (Whaley) and Stacey (Torres) are co-workers who can barely get along at the office. When Michael is suddenly thrust out of his home, the two are unexpectedly forced to become roommates. Though neither is particularly happy about the situation, they eventually learn to like each other, to the point where an undeniable attraction forms.
