A man appears to be being tricked, by his wife's lover, out of a valuable piece of land in Canada which contains lucrative silver deposits. Both the potential villains begin to have second thoughts when they gradually come to suspect that their intended victim, having since changed his name, is in fact a notorious killer from Canada. Eventually it transpires he was not the murderer, but is only using it as a trick to push his wife and her lover to reveal their deception out of fear.
Gloria Dell arrives in a western town looking for a man she's been corresponding with who has sent her an engagement ring, but learns he's a bigamist. A jeweler overpays Gloria for the ring, then lies that she robbed his store. The money's found on Gloria and she is placed under arrest.
Respectable wife Ruth Martyn attempts to conceal her secret past as a criminal from neighbours and from her husband Chris. However, when a neighbour is burgled and Ruth mysteriously disappears, she becomes the police's prime suspect. Husband Chris searches the city for Ruth, in hopes of proving her innocence.
Corporal Rod Webb must solve the deaths that happen on the trail of payroll messengers in Canada’s north woods. and he decides to act as courier for the next shipment himself. The corporal is helped by his dog Chinook.
New-York-bound hitchhiker Jenny (Borg) is accidentally struck by a car. The driver, art dealer Max Ducane (Arnt), offers to take her into his home until she can resume traveling. Later, Ducane's wife is murdered and Jenny determines to find the killer.
Roddy Burch is first mate on a cargo and passenger ship, captained by his father. He saves Sonia, a dancer in a South American café, from a bogus charge of murder by arranging for her to become a stowaway. The captain discovers her, but allows her to stay by working as a cook.
Actress Elsie Manning is engaged to Horace Baker, but has also been in a romantic relationship with James Nichols who has named her as the beneficiary in his will. Not knowing about her engagement, Nichols asks his wife for a divorce and is refused. Nichols dies in Manning's apartment after she tells him she's engaged to Baker.
A treasury department agent goes undercover to infiltrate a gang who have kidnapped an employee of the department and are forcing him to produce counterfeit notes.
As described in a film magazine, The Llano Kid, after killing a Mexican in Texas, flees to Buennas Tierras, South America. The American counsel, seeking to rob an aristocratic Spanish family whose son disappeared years ago, schemes to use the Kid as a fence by having him pose as the lost son. The Kid is received royally by the family and for the first time he experiences love.
Ex-dancer Doris Stevens kills a moneylender who is pressing her for settlement of her debt and threatening to tell her respectable businessman husband. Chris Jensen, who also owes money (for a ring he gave to his fiancée, who ran off with it) sees her there but does not report her. After she leaves, he burns pages from the moneylender's ledger which listed his debt.
The plot was that Dr. Eric Godfrey, a New York City scientist, and his assistants were searching for a cure for spondylosis deformans in children. A miner in Arizona sent one of his assistants a bone with the same deformity that was probably from an animal in the Pleistocene Epoch, about 50,000 years ago.
When reporter Sally Bryant chases a major scoop, she is captured by concert pianist Stephen Garrett, who says he will murder her within the next five days. He forces her to send daily reports of her ordeal to her newspaper. The typeface of the reports gives a clue to the police, who reach Garrett's house in time to prevent him from strangling Sally.
A Navy Lieutenant on shore leave and his wife of one year can't find a hotel room to enjoy their first night alone since they eloped a year earlier. An oddly dressed women in the lobby gives up her room in "an act of charity". The Navy Lieutenant then has his white uniform stolen while he is in the steam bath: and is given a civilian suit by the house dick.
The story revolves around a spirited girl Muna raised by her grandmother; who is the last surviving member in the family. Muna's desire to give a better life to herself and her grandmother in the land of milk and honey leads to shady characters that will change the trajectory.
