An inventor is working on his latest creation, a new form of television monitor and camera, but is struggling to complete his invention due to lack of funds. His monetary problems are compounded by an aggressive bill collector looking for payments, and competition from a rival scientist. When organized crime figures are added to the mix, the desperation level rises for our intrepid inventor.
Georgina Allerton is a chronic daydreamer debutante and is in love with Jim Lucas. But Jim is going to marry Georgina’s sister, Miriam. During the wedding ceremony, Georgina daydreams about Jim stopping the wedding to marry her.
Nineteen year old Jared arrives in Los Angeles from a small town in Georgia seeking a different life. When he arrives in L.A., he rents a room in a youth hostel that's furnished with bunk beds and already has one occupant, a male prostitute who needs to use their room to have sex with his clients some times. Jared of course doesn't like this arrangement but it's all he has at the moment.
George and Virginia Mason, a couple from Illinois, are aboard an airliner headed for their second honeymoon in Hawaii. When the plane develops serious engine trouble, George, believing that he is about to die, confesses to Virginia that had an affair with her best friend Jane Richards. Virginia envisions several potential revenge scenarios, casting herself as various famous women of history.
Big Love tells the story of Adil, a young man who is so passionate about his dreams and chasing them squarely, and Adina, an independent lady who is also really focused on making ends meet at a graduate trainee camp. The two soon begin to fall in love and start building a relationship together, which later becomes threatened by Adina's fears and a secret.
Drue Van Allen, the daughter of an American general, is in love with communist graduate student Leonard Arner. When Leonard is ejected from a college campus for speaking to the students, a newspaper photographer takes a picture of him in Drue's car and prints it on the front page. When Drue ignores her father’s advice, he tricks her into boarding an airplane bound for Mexico, supposedly to see her aunt Betty off, then locks her in.
Private investigator Lance O'Leary suffers a nervous breakdown from being unable to solve a case and his doctor has him hospitalized for rest. It just happens to be the same place where his lady friend, Sara Keate, is the head nurse. The first night there a murder takes place as wealthy Mr.
Katie is a 25-year-old virgin living in Los Angeles who wants to save herself for the ideal man. As time passes, however, she becomes convinced the ideal man does not exist. Katie is good friends with Ben, who is crazy about her and wants to move their relationship from friendship to romance; she does not feel the same way about him, however.
Similola Smart-Cole is frustrated at her son Sunmi's sloth and apathy despite her repeated warnings. After he is arrested for supposedly breaking into his mother's property, Sunmi is stunned to discover that his family, friends, and acquaintances have denied him, and is banned from returning to the family home. Abandoned in the streets, he takes to begging until Todowede—a cynical bread hawker who had previously warded off the Smart-Cole's security guard Isky's advances—recognises him.
Howard Young is a coast guardsman who has been on shore duty for three years despite his efforts to be sent into action. His nearest approach to sea duty was on a harbor-moored life raft for 21 days as part of an experiment with a new type of vitamin gum for the government. He meets Christine Bradley, a SPAR, sent to take over his communications job and, by things he leaves unsaid, she thinks his life-raft experience was the result of a ship-wreck at sea.
Buck Rankin is a shady carnival promoter who falls in love with Helen and decides to go straight and sell the carnival. However, a fight over a con game causes a melee at the carnival, during which Rankin accidentally kills a man. He is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Mrs Baring, a businesswoman and patron of classical music, has arranged for celebrated Eastern Bloc musician Spolenski to play in a series of concerts in Britain. However, she is aware that she is on the brink of bankruptcy and the Spolenski tour offers a final chance to save her finances. Johnny Burns, an aspiring singer is hanging around a music shop he frequents when he spots Mrs.
Irish American, Tom Murphy, is the first in his family to go to Ireland. His family sees this as an opportunity to marry "his own kind" so he must choose between his family's expectations and what his heart really wants.
thumb|thumbtime=15|Seven Days Leave (1930) A young Canadian soldier is wounded while fighting in World War I. While recovering from his wounds in London, a YMCA worker tells him that a Scottish widow without a son believes that he is in fact her son. To comfort the widow, the soldier agrees to pretend to be her Scottish son.
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.
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.