Bob Montgomery

Well respected local good guy, "Feet" Samuels finds himself heavily in debt due to an uncharacteristic gambling binge. Feet decides the only way to settle the bill is by selling his body to an ambitious doctor who agrees to allow him one last month to live life to the fullest, then kill himself.

Managing Editor Brad Bradshaw refuses to run a story linking the disappearance of Frank Canfield with embezzlement of the bank. He considers Frank a straight shooter and he goes easy on the story. Every other paper goes with the story that Frank took the money and Brad is demoted, by the publisher, to the Heartthrob column - writing advice to the lovelorn. After feeling sorry for himself for two months, he takes the column seriously and makes it the talk of the town. But Brad still wants his old job back so he will have to find Canfield and the missing money.

An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.

Alors qu'un luxueux paquebot traverse l'océan Atlantique, le public est mis au courant des déboires de plusieurs de ses passagers. Edmund Lowe dirige le casting dans le rôle de Monty Greer, un joueur suave qui tombe amoureux de Judy, la fille du broyeur d'objectifs immigré Rudolph Kramer. En essayant de récupérer des titres de valeur volés au banquier Henry Graham, Greer se retrouve au milieu d'une féroce fusillade dans la salle des machines du navire. Pendant ce temps, Graham, qui a trompé sa femme Kay avec la danseuse sexy Sigrid Carline, est assassiné par une personne ou des inconnus.

G-Man Jeff Crane poses as a crook to infiltrate the notorious Purple Gang, a band of hoodlums which preys upon other hoodlums. Orchestrating the jailbreak of the gang's leader, Crane joins him in a Dillinger-like flight across the country.

Newspaperman Bill Bradford becomes a special agent for the tax service trying to end the career of racketeer Nick Carston. Julie Gardner is Carston's bookkeeper. Bradford enters Carston's organization and Julie cooperates with him to land Carston in jail. An informer squeals on them. Julie is kidnapped by Carston's henchmen as she is about to testify

Owen, a small time bookie, decides to open an insurance business as it involves lesser risk. His first client is Colonel Youngblood who insures his daughter, Marilyn, against marriage.