Ignored by his alcoholic parents, Jimmy Wilson starts hanging around with some shady characters. After falling in love with a lounge singer, Jimmy tries to impress her by doing jobs for her shady boss. After one of these jobs goes bad, Jimmy ends up on the run. Eventually, he must confront the truth, his past, and his parents. The judge cites parental neglect in the case of a teenager (John Miljan) charged with murder.

Gambling boat operator Jenny Blake throws over her gambler beau Jack Morgan in order to marry into high society.

A bucolic lawyer takes on big-city corruption, setting out to prove that an above-suspicion politician is actually a crook - all while falling in love with the politician's daughter.

A widow confesses she murdered her husband and kills two more people before her stepdaughter and an attorney prove her wrong.

A young woman falls in love and marries, but withholds from her husband information about her family.

The host of a whodunit radio show finds himself involved in his own mystery when he awakens to find a woman with a knife in her back in his bedroom.

A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.

A mailman leads PO-men to a pistol-packing stamp thief and her gang.

A female reporter goes undercover to investigate the series of mysterious disappearances of young women, who were all linked to a local drama school.

A newspaper reporter uncovers a killer when he makes contact with the names listed in a dead man's address book.