Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.

Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City’s boardwalk. Even with the band of his friend, struggling musician Gene Krupa, playing on the sidewalk…

A groom-to-be contracts syphilis and wrestles with the consequences of his diagnosis.

Roscoe the Rainmaker is invited to California (with sidekick “Billy”) to relieve a terrible dry spell and to save the community from an unscrupulous businessman who stands to profit from…

Eccentric tycoon Jasper Whyte hosts a dinner at his mansion and announces that he will divide his money and give each guest a million dollars before the stroke of midnight….

A college football team recruits a tough convict.

A ranch manager falls in love with a banker’s daughter, but after a quarrel with the girl’s parents, flee across the border into Mexico.

New York schoolmarm Hildegarde Withers assists a detective when a body of unscrupulous stockbroker Gerald Parker suddenly appears in the penguin tank at the aquarium.

A gentleman thief charms a Viennese baron’s wife and also conducts a daring daylight robbery of a jeweller’s shop.