Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he’s being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.

Just before the Civil War (but after the South has seceded), Southern saboteurs try to prevent railroad construction from crossing Kansas to the frontier; army captain Nelson is sent out…

House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the…