Georges Metaxa

Pour protéger sa carrière de danseur, les amis de Lucky Garnett l'empèchent de se marier avec Margaret Watson en lui volant son pantalon. Arrivé à son mariage après que les invités sont rentrés chez eux, il parvient à se réconcilier avec son futur beau-père, le juge Watson, à condition qu'il aille à New York faire fortune et ne revienne qu'avec 25 000$. Accompagné de Pop, il se rend donc à New York, sans un sou en poche (il avait parié qu'il parviendrait à se marier). Il fait la rencontre de Penny Carroll, qui enseigne la danse. Pour la conquérir, il joue et gagne jusqu'au moment où il approche de la somme fatidique...

Un Néerlandais auteur de romans policiers, Leyden, enquête sur la vie d'un individu aux multiples facettes, espion, escroc et criminel international, Dimitrios, qui vient de disparaître. Il rencontre des gens l'ayant connu qui évoquent sa carrière mouvementée. Une des victimes de Dimitrios, Peters, révèle à Leyden que Dimitrios a mis en scène sa mort pour vivre tranquille. Peters se sert de Leyden pour faire chanter Dimitrios, lequel tente d'assassiner ses adversaires. Dimitrios et Peters s'entretuent.

Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.

An American woman visits a small South American town where she quickly falls for a charming lieutenant.

Society girl becomes a social secretary when her father dies penniless. From a story by Charles Brackett.

A radio salesman gets knocked out by a golf ball and dreams he's in the desert where he sells radios to sheiks.

A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

Marianne Jannetier, a well-to-do Parisian, engaged to Andre Benoit, a high-ranking government official, flees the city when the goose-stepping Nazi storm-troopers arrive. When her mother dies on the road to Bordeaux as a result of Nazi bombing, she returns to Paris and joins the underground movement. Nicholas Jordan, an American member of the RAF, stranded in Paris after the evacuation is also working with the Paris underground. Marianne kills her former fiancée, a pro-Nazi informant, for the traitorous state papers he is carrying, and she and Jordan try to flee over a French seaport...

A Ankara, pendant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale, un agent américain, tente d'empêcher une alliance entre la Turquie et l'Allemagne.

Millionaire Sam Winston is an unhappy man. His wife Constance lives a gay life, devoting all her time to parties; his daughter Gloria is in one scandal after another, changing husbands as often as her moods, and son Jerry spends his time getting drunk and chasing women. Sam hires gangster Johnny April to bump him off but Johnny, liking the old man, defers the killing and sets about making the family appreciate Sam.

When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set things right. He is aided by a cabaret singer, while placating a jealous wife.

A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.